Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère & Pierre Roullier - Tide (2020) [Official Digital Download]

There is always a good reason to record an album: to conjure up the evanescence of a concert and leave behind a more permanent trace, albeit one that represents only an instant; to draw up a provisional assessment; to make an inventory. For Aurélien Dumont, this could more aptly be described as the inventory of one place, so much is this programme linked to his Roman stay at the Medici Villa in 2017-18. This recording represents the state of play in one place or, better yet, the state linked to one place: a state of receptive creativity worthy of a new work and reworking two prior pieces. Each different in nature – one vocal, one instrumental, one with video ad libitum – they are all nonetheless strikingly homogeneous stylistically. Perhaps this judgement is the imprint of a place which was able to yield an ‘ambulatory state' in which the composer took on the revised version of Flaques de miettes (2008 & 2018), with its partially open structure. Pierre Roullier and the musicians of 2e2m have chosen to start with the last four of the ten short movements that make up this ensemble piece, then to follow it up immediately with movements one through six. As he loosens the structure, the composer limits the material, emphasising his propensity towards composing from ‘objects.’ These little ‘bricks’ of material also constitute bubbles of potential narrative, which can be activated when related to one another. …

TRACKLIST

1. Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère & Pierre Roullier - Flaques de miettes
2. Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère & Pierre Roullier - Âpre bryone
3. Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère & Pierre Roullier - Baïnes: I. Mascaret
4. Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère & Pierre Roullier - Baïnes: II. Hong Kong
5. Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère & Pierre Roullier - Baïnes: III. Blink
6. Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère & Pierre Roullier - Baïnes: IV. Jupiter



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