Address as a composer Pascal Dusapin not obvious. Bach, again, we could talk him joy. Debussy, fauns. Bartok, folk songs. Heard him … But there is almost thirty years old, his mournful strings gnashing still resonate with us …
And yet. If the music world is mobilizing to celebrate its 60th anniversary, it is actually one of the most played abroad authors, this is well worth go listen more closely. On YouTube, for example. And there, in shock. Between its large anthracite crash, Dusapin injects streams of dark colors, slips breaths and fine metal son, and then puts the gum along cliffs copper sprung to his night. In short, you to tears, you ax eardrums, but lets you damn living. One could almost speak of her joy.
As powerful as prolix, sad former child born in 1955 in Nancy, recognized heir of Varese and Xenakis, confronts all genres, from solo concerto, chamber music the piece for large orchestra. To Penthesilea, his seventh opera, created last March in Brussels, unanimously praised by the critics. Conversing with a musician of this caliber, one of those who write for orchestras and the most sublime voice, can be intimidating. Indeed, it does not claim to anything. We would simply give the feeling of things.
“It is not possible, he warns. It is impudent, perhaps, but if people knew what terror it is, if those who love you most could grasp the horror that there in this work, no communication would be possible. I’m pretending. ”
He assembles sounds, vibrates air
We must therefore begin with the concrete. Weighing the manuscript of Penthesilea to experience the weight of two years of work. Put your finger in the wound. Attempting to approach the central reactor of the man who admits that he has no experience of life other than music and compares his work to that of a bricklayer He notes agglomerates, assembles sounds, vibrates air . As the architect sees the house at the end of his work, he will have to wait the creation of his work by the orchestra to check his intuitions.
“It’s the same with film photography [his other passion]: You compose a construction You know that the image is in black and white You anticipate….” Drawing in space an explanation, says Pascal Dusapin and fun. Wondering how to organize a smash? It’s very easy: “We must have slept well, did not drink, sit comfortably, alone and in good health.” He added: “.. But at some point, I stop the power It’s more polite” Scholarly Translation: “I’m caught between a scream and stop.” Concrete illustration: “Penthesilea, among his dogs, realizes she has devoured him she loved When she sees the horror of his crime, then I lower the sound..”
The day of the Brussels design, Penthesilea, howling soul muzzled, the reward him well off his voice, so Darth Vader … This appalling story, designed in 1808 by the German Heinrich von Kleist, Dusapin the door in him for over thirty years. In fact the exemplary faith of the edition in which José Corti, fifteen years earlier, he had already highlighted in black and red elements of the book that he wrote, but much later.
The voice is clear about the twisted humor and the bright look of intelligence. Nothing exists except the pleasure of the moment. What he has on the white walls? What books on the shelves? We’ll know later, when you open your eyes to the cave where the composer is an island, a place where he can listen to music “at full speed” and to 3 am without disturbing anyone. Tour back, he finally found his boy after three months of absence. His craft the height, but there is too much.
“To surpass the sadness”
For now, Pascal Dusapin evokes singers Kathleen Ferrier, Maria Callas, Billie Holiday … Beings aside from. Humanities came from nowhere. Natascha Petrinsky, for example. It was enough for him to see that she alone could embody the terrible Penthesilea. And to tell the path to two, which she considered unable to interpret certain passages, which accompanied him, reassured and finally brought as unwittingly overcome dizziness and take the plunge. All not. “Because she deeply understand what led me to write as I had done.” He added that the first orchestra rehearsal is like an accordion that must be made, and if the musician sees that you hesitate, you lose respect. So it is not the chick.
Time has passed like a flash. But one question remains: why so much sadness? “I try to go after that feeling, the only one with whom you can not cheat. I’m drawn down. I struggle, but the world is. I listen. That’s why I feel so close to Beckett. ” On the wall, the photo of the writer, thoughtful. Stravinsky later. Some of his photographs in black and white. Pascal Dusapin seems happy. The Gay Science is also his favorite book.
Khôra from 21 to 30 May in Laval, Le Mans, Nantes and Angers.
Disputatio , French premiere on June 8, the Philharmonie de Paris (XIX).
Penthesilea , French creation on 26, 28 and 30 September in Strasbourg. On October 17 in Mulhouse.
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