Paysage nº 10 : Paysage d’errance (2005-2009)
for 4 MIDI pianos or sampled piano, spatialized in quadraphony, 6’36”
translation of the title: Landscape of wandering
Paysage d’errance, Landscape of wandering,
is the tenth piece of a cycle dedicated to keyboards: piano, harpsichord, player piano, MIDI piano and sampled piano. This Paysage
is built on another piece, Paysage d’amertume, fifth of the same cycle, wholy
included but hardly identifiable. Like a kind of harmonic orchestration, Paysage d’errance explores nine points of the space
(through the quadraphonic system) in which four layers of pitches are distributed: the two layers of Paysage d’amertume (individual pitches and chords),
one layer of harmonic complement and one layer of ornamentation in movement.
The concept of errance, wandering, is more related to the idea, maybe a little romantic, of wandering knight than to the more modern one of wandering dog…
