Mémoire
Voices and fragrances coming up while remembering. Perhaps it is nostalgia of the childhood, which was evoked by these voices…
… the whispering of my mother’s prayer … the radio of my father … the noises of our small street in Aleppo …
This piece uses acoustic voices exclusively, which were recorded on location, or in the studio.
Hommage
This work deals with aspects of inner fear and the consequent search for inner peace.
Départ
Starting point of this composition is an Arabic text which I wrote in 2004, and had translated in four languages (German, French, Norwegian, Japanese). The sound and rhythmic qualities of these languages made me drift while composing. The polyphony is accompanied by the remembered noises of my childhood. This work is a first approach towards the sound of language.