Creation
07/11/2017 - Paris, Maison de Radio France, Auditorium - Final of the International Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition
Sponsor
Long-Thibaud-Crespin competition
Notice
Autumn Rhythm is a piece for violin and piano. Created in the fall of 2018, it is inspired by the work of the abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) and in particular his all-over n ° 30 "Autumn Rhythm" (1950).
By abandoning brushes and easels, Pollock revolutionized the art of painting with his "drippings". To achieve his allover series, he spreads the canvas on the floor and projects the paint on it by splashes, drips, droplets and intertwined threads. Thus, different strata and entanglements of lines are superimposed to form games of textures and create relief over the entire surface of an immense canvas (without ever favoring or forgetting any area). The all-over therefore have neither real beginning nor real end, the eye being "caught" inside the painting. In Autumn Rhythm, the black paint lines contrast with the brown, ocher and white spots; the alternation of these light and dark spots creates light effects; splashes overlap. It is at the same time this importance given to the texture, these overlays, the choice of tones, and these bundles of interwoven threads that give the canvas its pregnant and bewitching rhythm.
I imagine a whirlwind in the colors of autumn, like a forest from which rays of light try to pierce through the foliage. This is what inspired me for this work.
In one piece, it is designed as a window to the interior of the painting, as if we had been sucked into its guts. Violin and piano - inseparable - intermingle in different rhythmic and colored layers to create various textures. The playing modes used (sul tasto, flautando, pizzicati left hand and right hand, harmonics, piano pedal, etc.) have an important role in these layers of colors, in particular in order to bring out certain melodic patterns. From the first bars, the rhythm is pregnant and works on a "loop" repeated tirelessly. The movement never really stopping, it contributes to give a hypnotic and intoxicating sensation to this piece; the feeling of having plunged into the heart of this autumnal whirlpool bathed in light.
I take this note to thank the Long-Thibaud-Crespin competition and especially Renaud Capuçon for their confidence.
Camille Pepin
Brand reference number:
JJ2250
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