Dedicated to Max Bonnay

Created in Tianjin (China) on July 18, 2001

Duration : 8' - François Dhalmann Editions

The French word accore means abrupt, steep and is said of a coast or a reef plunging vertically into a suddenly deep sea. This word refers to the cutting of the shore, the cutting of skins as well as the tearing of the bark from the trunk of a tree.

Once again, my music calls for travel through a non-linear, sinuous musical form, made of returns on itself, folds, breaks, progressive or rapid changes, but also the opposite of flat calms, a sort of suspended time and ever fleeting horizon lines.

Like all my works for solo instrument, this one is made up of multiple well-differentiated character motifs. Virtuosity, flexibility, suppleness - like improvised music - fantasy, imagination and humor are called upon as much as emotion, tenderness and skin-deep sensitivity.

The form of the work is then like a series of associations of ideas where each of the motifs refer to each other, thus creating subtle correspondences between them.

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