The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The commission was given to the artist through a detective agency so he never knew who the commissioner was or saw the text he was supposed to illustrate. All he got was instructions for each drawing and he had to make the drawings accordingly. A typical instruction might beNocturnal landscape. Very starry sky with a thin crescent of moon. (No people.)orA rambler, arm raised and fingers outspread, dropping a pebble (still visible) down a well and seemingly straining to hear the sound of its splash. (No other people.)When Roussel put the drawings and text together, the ordinary everyday drawings took on a strangeness they might otherwise not have had if the artist had drawn with the text in front of him. It's the juxtaposition of both unknowns - text/drawings - that gives the final work its strange quality. / Ensemble Divers

Editée au cours de l'exercice 2011-2012 par les éditions Fertile Plaine, la partition qui a pour titre Colloque sentimental ( clarinette et saxophone alto ) du compositeur Trotoux Jean-Michel a été cataloguée sous la référence FP 1018 par l'éditeur. Cette oeuvre est écrite pour Ensemble Instrumental et Petit Orchestre. En 3 clics et quelques jours elle peut être chez vous. / Ensemble Divers / Partition