Dreams amongst hers (2022)
CHAMBER 9:30
INSTRUMENTATION
voice, percussion, violin,
Dreams amongst hers began its life as Any bed but one's, a short trio written in 2017 for the Voix Nouvelles Academy. In 2022, it was revised and extended as part of a commission for Renaud Capuçon’s "Nouveaux Horizons" festival. It received its world premiere by soprano Marie-Laure Garnier, violinist Shuichi Okada, and percussionist Emmanuel Jacquet.
In her poem Drowned Man, Fiona Sampson paints two people, together, asleep. Their small movements - the turning (of the back), the crossing (of the legs), the throwing (of an arm) - are echoes of their worlds: at once connected and disparate.
In “Dreams amongst hers”, the singer and violinist share an intimate space of listening. It is a study of invented, non-semantic phonemes and consonants, as they become imbued with meaning.
Listen to the live recording from the premiere on France Musique here.
“Notre coup de cœur est pour la compositrice Sivan Eldar et sa pièce pour soprano, violon et percussions dont émane une poétique du son et du silence, où, comme chez Sciarrino, chaque événement « palpite dans le vide »”
“... un double jeu sur le rêve et le son... un dialogue intensément poétique entre la voix de Marie-Laure Garnier et le violon de Shuichi Okada, vrais « personnages » accompagnés par Emmanuel Jacquet aux percussions.”
World Premiere
Grand Théâtre d'Aix-en-Provence, Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, Festival "Nouveaux Horizons", 3 novembre 2022.
