Order from Radio France for the Masters, direction Sofi Jeannin, dedicatee

Created on 25 April 2013 at the CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt

Duration : env : 5' - Éditions François Dhalmann

The freeze frame or freeze frame is a cinematographic technique which consists in repeating the same image for a certain time giving the impression that the movement has frozen.

Paradoxically, this title seems to me to be perfectly suited to the choice of texts for this work : five haikus taken from the anthology The Hundred Poems, a choice of poems collected in the 13th century and a model of the genre for the centuries to come.

In Japanese culture, a haiku is an extremely brief little poem aimed at telling the evanescence of things. Calligraphed on a single vertical line, the haiku must give a notion of season and must include a caesura .

In order to write a work where the moving is opposed to the static, the multiplicity to the uniqueness, I chose poems where the breath / crash are opposed to the murmur / moon / autumn. The constant returns to the same poetic images make them real freeze frames, as are, in a way, haikus.

Musically, the form of the work links the five poems without interruption as if they were one. The same motifs/figures recur throughout, and participate in a flow of time which constantly returns to itself, as if frozen in its own internal movement.

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Its breath dries up the plants of autumn :

The mountain wind has the name " storm ".

The cascading torrents at the ford collide with the rocks

And divide but end up coming together, I thought...

The crashing of the waterfalls is long gone

Only a name remains, the course of which we hear murmuring.

In a tearing of the clouds that the autumn wind carries

The shape of the moon emerges, crying its light.

I turned my head the way the bird's call came from

And I only saw the dawn moon.