Souffle, Esquisse. Chant pour un équinoxe

Souffle, Esquisse. Chant pour un équinoxe

Souffle, Esquisse. Chant pour un équinoxe

mezzo-soprano, violin, saxophone and percussion

mezzo-soprano, violin, saxophone and percussion

Black-and-white drawn portrait of a man, shown from the shoulders upward against a plain background.

Year

2015

Duration

13 min

Category

Chamber

After Saint-John Perse, poetic language becomes a chamber field of breath, consonant, resonance and changing instrumental colour.

After Saint-John Perse, poetic language becomes a chamber field of breath, consonant, resonance and changing instrumental colour.

After Saint-John Perse, poetic language becomes a chamber field of breath, consonant, resonance and changing instrumental colour.

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Programme Note

Souffle, Esquisse. Chant pour un équinoxe, after Saint-John Perse, places the mezzo-soprano within a chamber fabric of violin, saxophone and percussion. The voice moves between sung line, articulated consonant, whispered air and breath, while the instruments prolong, refract or oppose its timbral traces.

Rather than accompanying the text, the ensemble treats language as resonant material. Air, attack and colour circulate between vocal and instrumental bodies, maintaining a porous boundary between word, breath and sound.

From the Score

Voice, consonant and breath within the chamber texture
Vocal–instrumental resonance and changing colour

Score

Published by BabelScores.