Year
2015
Duration
13 min
Category
Chamber
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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
