Music for Four Musicians

As its title indicates, it is not under the sign of Bartók, but under that of Reich that I composed this Music for Four Musicians for two percussions and two pianos. I had wanted to write for this original formation for a long time, when the Essor quartet called on me, at the beginning of the first lockdown (April 2020). The work is in three movements, which can be played independently. Playful, the first is a game of questions and answers that become more and more tightly packed. Noted "dreamy", the second is intended to be soaring, with its close-spaced canons. The third is the one that is most inspired by contemporary music, with its swaying hips and abrupt interruptions, as if the instrumentalists were having fun interrupting each other. The whole is a tribute to Steve Reich, without a literal quote, however. From this musical giant, I remember the spirit: the canons, the phase shifts, the taste for hyperconsonance, the attraction to keyboards and percussions with specific pitches.