Jose-Luis Campana

Noctal

Septette - Kammermusik
flute, clarinette, saxophone, violon, violoncelle, contrebasse et piano
Commissioned by The French State
Premiered March 14, 2005 at the Trianon in Paris (France) by the Ensemble 2e2m --- The title of this piece evokes the frenzy of free jazz and designates the different archetypes (virtuoso saxophone and clarinet runs, double bass solo, etc.) that appear and are the object of multiple distortions. Each of the models is in turn threatened then transformed by the overflowing of sound matter that alternates between transparency and roughness. The sound itself - which is, in a way, the main character of this work - enters into collision with these different figures, provoking their mutation. Out of this play of tensions comes a form by accumulation, an instrumental dramaturgy that perpetuates itself to the rhythm of the to-ings and to-ings between timbres, speed, sound energy and references that organise the musical discourse. This work was written for the musicians of the Ensemble 2e2m, to which it is dedicated. (Franck Bedrossian)