Blackbird

Blackbird is a piece in two parts. The first is a prelude. The instrument is built gradually from the movement of a string distended to the point of being barely audible. Tuning the instrument has always been the function of the prelude. The second part makes the instrument sing a melody. This melody is not human. It is created by an animal. It is a blackbird's sing in slow motion so that the size of the animal is that of a human. We hear how a blackbird would sing on a human scale.

As the song is unrecognizable at this speed and in this range, the electroacoustic part will play the role to unveil step by step the source of these vocalizations by gradually accelerating, render him this song and its original speed. The key to the piece one discovers at the very end. [Thierry Blondeau]