Pavana Electricæ was especially composed for the program of the Silhouettes Contemporaines album. The piece is born from an idea to use the material of the Pavana Lachrimæ by Jan
Pieterszoon Sweelinck (itself taken from Flow my tears by John Dowland), to distort it, to confront it with our modernity and with the other pieces of the album. The structure is preserved (four parts), but nothing in the original piece is recognisable.
The piece starts with a modern pop rythm that reminds us the connection of the Pavana to dance. This rythm gets into the piece and influences the second part of the composition. In the third part, the intervals used simultaneously by the guitar and the accordion are fourths, seventh or ninth, that are a tension in the Renaissance, but that are never resolved here. In this part, I wanted to create a sound ambiguity: the sound of the two instruments is blended, so that is difficult to know who is playing what. Each bend of the guitar keeps the same interval, so we change our perception of the tension and lose that of time. At this point it sounds more and more electric, like the performers are fading behind. The piece ends with electric noises which seem to be auto-generated. Their duration and characteristics are the result of the previous events.
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