Making today’s vocals available to all audiences. Taking a playful approach to contemporary harmonies, whether in a broader key or frankly atonal. Moving from monody to double-choir, from whispering to shouting, from written imitation to collective improvisation – all this is possible in Les mouvements du cœur, and always to poems that are both mischievous and profound, where gravity never overshadows joy, where mingling with the audience is a delight…
Piece No. 10 from the original collection, Ce que la mer abandonne, was sung by a large number of choirs.
The celérifère, on the recording below, is a new work by the ensemble Territoires du souffle. The piece mixes 2 poems, and in a seemingly light tone, denounces the patriarchy still alive in our society.
Difficulty rating: very easy to moderate
Jean-Yves Léopold
Texts collected and put into a booklet by the composer.
French
Mixed choir
Duration, details of the form :
Approximately 30 to 40 minutes
Initial 10-part cycle: Laissez porter au vent, Tout file entre les doigts, Si tu veux mon avis, Les étoiles parmi les étoiles, Enfant paisible ô frère, Saché-je, Ouvre plus grand tes ailes, Il faut savoir s’y faire, Ta vie soit une flèche, Ce que la mer abandonne.
Some parts have been added over the years: Pour la douceur, Le célérifère, Tous les possibles, Amitié