Produced in 2010 as part of a season of concerts at the Grignan Temple in Marseilles, ‘Au commencement’ is an interior and meditative work composed from the mythical story of Genesis.

Flute-like sounds, wefts and landscapes in movement around a guitar. A creation of the world in seven days and therefore seven movements.

Based on the first and second chapters of the book of Genesis, the composition is based on the theological postulate of a creation of the world by separation.
Far from the creationist/evolutionist theories, what is important here is the nature of God’s action as described by the narrator of this biblical account. He presents us with the work of the Creator, who from a more or less indistinct block separates things and names them, thus giving them an identity, a function and a meaning. Does the artist not do the same? He who separates by making choices, cuts, sculpts… and then puts together to bring meaning.

In the same way as the seven symbolic days of the creation of the world, which in the text are marked by the phrase “there was an evening, and there was a morning: this was the first (…second, third, etc…) day”, the piece is composed of seven movements. The meaning of these movements is enhanced by the place they occupy within the overall construction, although they are independent and autonomous from a musical point of view.

These seven movements are generally the result of two voices of musical writing (or two blocks of several voices…), as the image of the two “entities” that appear each day through the separating action of the creator. Certain sound “entities” are identifiable from one movement to the next (guitar, voice, synthetic sounds), and therefore echo the “entities” that recur in the narrative (the expanse, the waters, the earth). They allow for both the enrichment of the creative process by bringing in new material and the continuation of the creative process.

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