#TICTAC

This #Tictac for piano and violin (2019) in five movements, with alternately fast and slow tempi, by turns rhythmic and melodic, places at its base the haunting movement of the clock pendulum, a structural element whose five movements offer multiple variations. The initial Tictac tictac sets out the main motif and immediately begins a first process of metamorphoses. The ticking gives rise to secondary motifs, as if the pendulum movement delivered different moods: by turns mischievous, lyrical, spirited, majestic, dreamy and finally dazzling. Within the continuum of rapid figurations of Mouvement stellaire, from which a lyrical theme emerges, the ticking manifests its presence in a diffuse way. An uninterrupted flow representing the whirling stars accompanies a passionate melody itself imbued with circular melodies. The movement fades away as it began, like the end and beginning of a loop. Entrechoc, a kind of scherzo, presents itself as a variation of the first movement, putting its elements back into circulation (the pizzicato writing in particular) and putting the ticking back in the foreground. The impressionistic Goutte de temps, the slow second movement, itself a vanishing point of Mouvement stellaire, entrusts the violin with a long cantilena underpinned by arpeggio figurations composed by the piano, which are in fact only a poetic and expressive variation of the basic ticking. The finale, Les Secondes dansent, offers a final metamorphosis of the ticking on offbeat and energetic rhythms. Gilles THIÉBLOT