Piano - Advanced
SKU:
PR.510077130
Pour
Piano. Composed by
Bertrand Dubedout.
Premiered during the
Festival Solistes aux
serres d'Auteuil at Paris
(France), by Finghin
Collins. Contemporary.
Full score. With Standard
notation. Duration 11
minutes, 35 seconds.
Gerard Billaudot Editeur
#510-07713. Published by
Gerard Billaudot Editeur
(PR.510077130).
ISBN
9790043087250.
In
Sanskrit, the word
Vrishti means rain and in
the Hindu context, the
work evokes (divine)
light falling on the
world like rain, the
influx of luminous
thoughts. Vrishti is a
manifestation of superior
consciousness in our
life, a spiritual
fullness. This piece is
based on a mantra to Siva
I once heard in Jaisalmer
(Rajasthan) in July 2008.
M. Rupendra Gopa Ji
allowed me to record his
vocal performance. The
in-depth study of this
mantra revealed important
factors (temporality,
rhymicity, intonation,
articulation, agogics)
that influenced my own
compositioin, showing
through the surface as a
far-off echo in filigree
or as a faint trace like
a thermal imprint or a
fossil light. For the
performer, the most
tangible traces of this
palimpsest-like process
are found in the constant
change between binary and
ternary meters, and in
the 27-strophe structure
that follows the original
design and proportions of
the original mantra.
--Bertrand Dubedout.