Beside my initial concern to use the proper technique of violin with its multiple aspects (usual or new), Chakra tries to answer my own present musical preoccupations:

. processing of the harmonic mass considered as a unique object.

. progressive diversion by slow mutation of the compositional process.

. search of germs or musical cores containing within themselves a very strong energetic potential.

. extreme streching of the musical phrase (melodic aspect) with minute dividing of the internal texture, then symetrical or asymetrical return.

. writing in counterpoint with 2 voices, with internal dividing within each of them.

. specific work on the intensity, treated here as a noble musical and non-anecdotical parameter, with as a direct consequence an approach of the total independence of the performer’s 2 hands (dissociation pitch / intensity).

The general structure of this quartet is made of 3 large distinct parts. The first and third parts, very dense, each composed of three different sections, frame and conteract the second monolithic part, which is quiet and very meditative.

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