Adrien Trybucki

Portfolio

Voyelles

0:00
/

General information

Nomenclature
  • soprano, flute, cello and piano on text by Arthur Rimbaud
Duration
  • approx. 7 minutes
Year
  • 2016
Text
  • Voyelles in Poésies
  • by Arthur Rimbaud
Commission
  • Toulouse Mélodie Française
Dedication
  • Gérard Duran
Score

Program note

« A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu » (“A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue”). Throughout his poem, Arthur Rimbaud enumerates the Voyelles (Vowels) one by one, carefully associated with colors, thus proposing a new chromatic perception of the alphabet of hues. Like letters and pigments, the sounds here scatter in a semblance of a music box, becoming in turn elements of a larger structure. A structure traversed and shaken from alpha to omega by « rire des lèvres belles » (“laughter of beautiful lips”), « vibrements divins » (“divine vibrations”) and « strideurs étranges » (“strange striders”), and which ultimately becomes the singular assembly of this myriad of objects set in motion.

Video recording

Voyelles
  • Clémentine Decouture soprano
  • Jean-Robert Gasciarino flute
  • Wilfredo Perez Alvarez cello
  • Anna Jbanova piano
  • recording of the concert on 18th Nov 2016 at Toulouse (France)

Public performance

18th Nov 2016

Toulouse ★ world premiere

20:00 Saint-Pierre des Cuisines auditorium
icon plus icon plus