Décompositions 1 et 2

Recorded at the CND 18 March 2003

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where. And I cannot say how long, for that is to place it in time. T.S. Eliot in Burnt Norton, Four Quartets

“’Décompositions 1 et 2′ are two ‘small forms’, trios presented successively within the same stage set. These two pieces, even though composed separately, ended up forming just one unit and representing for me the outcome of a reflection on the perception of time.

If ‘Décompositions 1′ takes the footprint as the starting point for its work, and might be seen as the experience of an ever-elusive reasoning, ‘Décompositions 2′ explores the idea of a process of infinite ramifications, in a progression which is endless in itself.”

Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh 

Updating : March 2010