Sous le regard d’un soleil noir is the history of a shipwreck: the hallucinated derivation across an obsessional landscape where the note B natural is the obsessed character, the tonic axis that binds together the eight sections. A veritable ostinato, ‘Invention on one note’: the memory of Wozzeck stands out, the symbol of a man who, according to Jacques Drillon, « drowns himself in the lake because he has arrived at the point of social and interior inexistence from which there is no possible return. »

The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The texts are borrowed from the French translations of the three books The Politics of Experience, Knots, and – especially – The Divided Self.

Sous le regard d’un soleil noir

1. Pareil a un voyager perdu

2. Engloutissement

3. Arete! Arete! Elle me tue

4. Implosion

5. Le moi divisé

6. Citadelle intérieure

7. Pétrification

8. Le message quand vient le soir