Festival Archipel 2019, Genève - notice de Pentamerone (Boo)

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Pentamerone is a seventeenth-century fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. The name of the Pentamerone comes from Greek πέντε [pénte], 'five', and ἡ μέρα [hêméra], 'day'. It is structured around a fantastic frame story, in which fifty stories are related over the course of five days, in analogy with the ten-day structure of the much earlier Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio This piece was first composed for broadcast program Création mondiale - Alla breve of Radio France. From Monday to Friday, 2 min of a movement is broadcasted, accompanied by a musician interview. The title was dedicated to this concept of Alla breve: 5 movements in 5 days with Pentamerone in mind. Today it is possible to listen to these five

days in one stroke. Each movement is part of a musical idea of its own. My work focused on producing new tones through four strings. Violin, Viola and Cello have more or less the same color, but with these three instruments I wanted to create a specific sound that cannot be easily determined. For this reason, my first job was to imagine a sound that could be a color, a texture, or a sound from another instrument such as a percussion, whistle, etc. Once the theme of a movement decided, I sought an unordinary sound with the materials available. I invite you to listen to the piece by listening to the sounds, and to imagine that it is a quartet that produces them all.

Dahae Boo

Pentamerone (2018) #10’ — première suisse
pour quatuor à cordes

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