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On the dune where the exhausted sand sighs, two lounging bodies meet, snuggle, mingle and hope for each other, in the vast sleeping sun. A sort of loving struggle, a leapfrog, an erotic and spiritual hide-and-seek, an astral orbe, a chase to trap the mayfly (the beauty will be convulsive). Women’s bodies that are white as a dune, like the moon, hourglasses, stones that roll in the trough of a wave, in a cold spell, forever. One, two roses, a rise of the two. Circus and choreography, wheels and acrobatics, this short work has the gait of ‘Tancrede and Clorinda’, an erotic duel (tomorrow morning at 6 o’clock on the dune) and gnostic. And it makes us think of the palpable and simple virtuosity of Bartók’s duets, but without any reference to folklore. Have we not now penetrated into the universe of a full and ideal science-fiction?
[Jérôme Nylon]

• Requested by Gérard Bourgogne & Xavier Chabot
• First audition on 2 April 1988, Church Saint-Martin de Oullins (France) by Jean-Luc Lhoste & Claire Levasseur
• Premiered on 27 May 1989, Hall Gérard Philipe in Villeurbanne (France) by Pierre-Yves Artaud & Sophie Dufeutrelle

With his morphological and expressive approach to sound, Denis Dufour works on pieces in a state of constant renewal, on ideas that are specific to each piece. The resultant work is like a large fresco in which no themes sound alike, one goes through varied and breathtaking soundscapes, appreciating the sheer imagination though the consistency of his style. By deliberately but effortlessly having his music open to all sounds, Denis Dufour’s approach is that of liberty, independence and diligence. His craftsmanship, very French, is exquisite and mastered; every second of sound is enveloped by a supra-conscious ear, so that his work contains no trace of automatic tools.

Find his complete works at Maison ONA —nearly 200 instrumental, vocal, mixed music and electroacoustic works released successively.