Volt

If we recognize that each composer tends to privilege one dimension of musical discourse of another (for example: timbre, harmony, or instrumental virtuosity) in his work and thus conjure up a « style », listening to the music of Alain Thibault is like listening to a game of rhythms but mostly a game of attacks. The constant and abrupt contrast between silence and the sound itself – cutting and incisive, percussive, vigorous and energetic, and resolutely urban – is here the central core from which the dynamic of the work develops.

Alain Thibault consciously rejects many positions of the so-called « contemporary » music as early as Varèse or Messiaen. And this is precisely what bothers those who like to clearly divide genres.

1. Concerto pour piano MIDI

2. Le soleil et l’acier

3-6. OUT

7. E.L.V.I.S. (Electro-lux vertige illimité synthétique)

8. Volt