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