Erwan Keravec

*2024 stock* It's quite unusual for me to take on an existing piece. Since I've been interested in contemporary music, I've devoted myself to commissioning new pieces. This time, it's a bit different. I wanted to extend the ringers' quartet into a form reminiscent of a bagad. In C (1964) consists of 53 ordered patterns. The musicians repeat them freely and move on to the next. Terry Riley simply explains that each musician must be neither too far behind nor too far ahead of the others. This great freedom given to the performer ties in with my desire for a solo ensemble.

For In C // 20 Sonneurs, I imagined a circle made up of 20 individual stands. There is no longer any fixed orientation. Each spectator chooses what catches his or her attention. I was rather reluctant to record this performance. How do you recreate the feeling of this circle on record? We opted for a stereo reduction that could be listened to on any audio system. We recorded in a circle under live conditions, so that the musicians were in their usual playing situation. Then we reduced it to stereo. This record is not completely what we play in the circle. Nevertheless, it presents a singular interpretation of In C as a jubilant playground.