Reculer pour mieux sauter

Patrick Giguère, musician, composer
instrumentation : flute (alto flute), Bb clarinet (bass clarinet), horn, trombone, bass drum, harp OR doublebass, violin, cello

duration : 6'30''

year of composition : 2015

about :

You reach the end of the road, in front of you a chasm, and you see a promising path on the other side. To reach it, you will need all the courage you have left. You take a step back, you launch and jump. While in the air, you are hit by a feeling of abandon, of heightened sensibility, of euphoria. This is how I felt, during the composing process and in my personal life, when I wrote this piece for the Birmingham Contemporary group in the winter of 2015. This work is the end of a creative cycle, but the beginning of a new one. It revisit gestures I used in previous work, but also launches a new step in my aesthetic evolution.



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