Différentes Activités – Jean-Luc Rimey-Meille

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Différentes Activités – Jean-Luc Rimey-Meille

Concerto for string orchestra and percussion.

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The starting point for this piece is to blend various musical styles that are dear to me—such as jazz, works by certain 20th-century composers, and certain rock and jazz pieces (B. Bartók, S. Reich, F. Zappa, P. Metheny, J. Cage, King Crimson…), I wanted to give it a structure that wasn’t the traditional concerto form but that would allow for the convergence of various sound combinations.

The constitution of the orchestra is unusual (13 strings and 2 percussionists) and I had fun equipping the soloist’s instrumentarium, besides the vibraphone and the numerous drums and cymbals, with some sound objects not coming from the traditional percussion instruments (cans, salad bowl filled with water, calabashes, muffled gongs…).

This gives a particular result which sounds original but which corresponds well to the idea I had at the beginning of this type of meeting.

The piece is constructed in the overall form of 3 movements interspersed with small snare drum pieces played by the soloist that appeal to a certain form of derision sometimes found in modern musical theater.

The general style remains rather rhythmic and syncopated and the great difficulty lies in the setting up of all these somewhat satellite elements in order not to sink into an inventory of instrumental and sound possibilities.