CROQUIS (sketches)

Notice

A sketch generally has neither the complexity of line nor the subtlety of colour. Instead, it briefly notes the essence of an idea that could be developed in more elaborate pictorial compositions. He can, however, claim an advantage: the spontaneity of gesture, linked to improvisation, provided, of course, that it does not babble complacently. Melodic linearity suits him better than polyphony, which is more in need of clichés to invent a narrative. The twelve sketches in this collection are almost all marked by this linearity, which links notes and clusters, accents and silences, like so many thin or thick lines, but always fundamentally monophonic. This is undoubtedly a minor use of the piano, which has actually remained rather rare after the dazzling richness of the polyphony practised since the Romantic period. The score of these twelve sketches is a simple keepsake delivered to the public as a witness to a sobriety cure in times of pandemic.

Soirée, Interview, Forge, Couleurs, Ombres, Dunes, Songes, Minuit, Gouttelettes, Déclin, Robots, Aube (Evening, Interview, Forge, Colours, Shadows, Dunes, Dreams, Midnight, Droplets, Decline, Robots, Dawn) lend themselves without reticence to a different or only partial ordering.