Grooves & Whispers (book 1)
a loose collection of piano pieces
for piano solo
(2020)
dur : ca. 05'30"
First performance : April 20, 2023
by Hayk Melikyan
at Crossroads Contemporary Music Days, Komitas Museum-Institute, Armenia -- Recital: 20th Century and Contemporary Music
• winner of the 1900+ calls for scores (2022)
Publisher : BabelScores
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Groove 1: Toccata
Groove 2: No, excuse MY Swing
Whisper 1: Like I heard you sing in the silence
Whisper 2: Tanka
About the recording :
Hayk Melikyan
Crossroads Contemporary Music Days 2023, Komitas Museum-Institute, Armenia
About the piece
French
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Grooves & Whispers est un recueil de pièces qui explore la dualité entre ce rythme dansant (qui est le groove) et la discrétion, la suggestion. Ce premier livre est une petite sélection des morceaux composés sporadiquement entre 2018 et 2020. C’est une sorte de carnet de route, où je notais des idées, comme des fragments d’un journal intime où on cherche à fixer le temps fugitif. Ce sont des pièces aussi bref que possible, des moments fugaces qui semblent sortir du néant puis s’évaporer, telle une particule quantique :
« Autant de fragments, autant de débuts, autant de plaisirs », disait Roland Barthes.
Les pièces peuvent se jouer seules ou ensembles, soit dans l’ordre proposé ou dans une autre.
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English
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Grooves & Whispers is a collection of pieces that explore the duality between this dancing rhythm we call groove and discretion, suggestion. This first book is a small selection of pieces composed sporadically between 2018 and 2020. It's a kind of road book, where I jotted down ideas, like fragments of a diary where we try to fix fleeting time. These pieces are as brief as possible, fugacious moments that seem to come out of nowhere and then evaporate, like a quantum particle: “So many fragments, so many beginnings, so many pleasures”, said Roland Barthes.
The pieces can be played alone or together, either in the proposed order or any other.​