This music is the fruit of a close collaboration I had with the Corean painter Ouhi Cha, on the interaction between painting and music.

In my work, Ouhi Cha wished to feature 4 different musical sources :
- Korean traditional music
- Richard Wagner’s Walkyrie and Twilight of the Gods excerpts, as well as Gustave Mahler’s the Song of the Earth excerpts
- my own music
- and sounds of nature.

Amongst these four different sources, I chosed some excerpts that I felt were the most appropriate to be integrated in the composition of a new general and consistent structure.

So this work, with a duration of 59 minutes, is constituted of a succession of 11 musical sections. Some of them have been completely composed, some others totally recomposed, others superimposed to musical fragments by very slow fade in – fade out, and others used without any modification.

While I composed this big musical fresco, I was continuously thinking of two ideas that would give another dimension at the connections « painting-music ».

 

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