« Déploration » for soprano, bass clarinet, cello and piano (2000)

Order of the Aleph set.

Created at the Dunois theater on December 8/9, 2000.

Duration: approx. 11'- 12'. Dhalmann Editions

Following the death of his father, Yves Charpentier, flautist and artistic director of the ensemble le concert impromptu, who has become a very close friend, replies to my letter of condolence; I am overwhelmed: the letter is a long reflection on friendship, the violence of life and death, the need to devote ourselves to what is essential to us, the difficulty of artistic creation today, the excessiveness, memory and oblivion, the weight of existence, the lack of courage in mourning, the lack of patience, music as comfort...

It took me a year to answer him in the only form that satisfies me: a postscript, a sort of silent apostrophe, an extension and amplification of the questions raised by the disappearance of his father.

I have retained from his letter five extracts sufficiently universal for each of us to find there the echo of his own experience. These were chosen and arranged according to a dramatic progression ranging from vehement and tumultuous almost to rage where the voice “ muette ” only sings phonemes, to a certain calm provided by the relief of pain, passing through a phase of hope followed by overwhelming despair.

Like the return to oneself that constitutes mourning, the form of the work constantly bends, folds up and closes in on itself.

SELECTED EXTRACTS

" For finally here is the omen, the inevitable announcement that is being fulfilled: proof of the incredible violence of life, proof that within it we cannot content ourselves with a vague stabling free, proof finally, that we must devote ourselves urgently and urgently to what resonates in us, what is essential and necessary for us. »

" Today I would like to free myself, not from my responsibilities which are very present to me, but rather from matter, from gravity to which the indispensable need for getting things done at work and in everyday life. Abstraction, here is a singular concept. »

« How to continue to write, live and be oneself ? »

“ Simply today, I believe that I lack, in the pain of the loss of my father, the courage to overcome this disappearance and the strength to move towards the accomplishment of things which are vital to me. »

" Knowing that I must absolutely resolve to soothe pain, dissolve absence, gives me, deep down, a certain serenity._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_»