LE PROCESSUS, for 15 players（1996）

I composed this piece for ensemble in 1996. This was a period when I felt I needed to confront from an entirely new perspective the topic of musical structure and the question of how I select and weave sounds together. In 1993 I composed a work for ensemble entitled La Pi?ce for graduation from the Paris Conservatoire. It involved merely the presentation of a single chord subject to linear compression. Making use of the methodology I acquired through work on this piece, the next step involved composition of Le Processus. As suggested by the title, this entailed a process of curvilinear transition of two chords, X and Y. These chords emerge in what superficially appears to be a discontinuous manner but is actually part of a linear process in which they are latently linked. This is an important work me in that it marked the start of my search for my own musical language.