Francois Bayle

The familiar generates the strange.
These rolls, these hums, these sudden rushes; this song, these peaceful circlings; these sudden outbursts, these returns to quiescence – what do they remind us of?
This piece’s trajectory could also be a representation of the dramatic unfolding of a day - of a life - from sunrise (climate 1) to night-time (landscape 4) via restless encounters, transitions (1 to 3) that announce the drama climaxing in landscape 3, before reaching its denouement in climate 4… A whole concrete ‘story’.

The subterranean properties inherent to listening gently shift our ideas…

Francois Bayle
First performance: 19 March 1979 – Grand Auditorium of Radio-France,

• 1 Tremblement de terre très doux
• 2 Toupie dans le ciel