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Human Games, Villains Games
Commissioned by Jean Claude Gengembre

for 5 Timpani and 2 Large plastic bricks.

This story is not just about children's games, but also history, of psychology, literature, Latin speaking, feet, of hands, word games and musical games ...
A small piece for timpani that requires the performer to invest in the stage, both in terms of voice and with its timpani.
The game modes are numerous, but quite flexible and humor must predominate, this is one of the springs of this little text. The speed indications are also flexible, but the proportions must be kept. The performer must be comfortable in his instrumental and verbal playing and the voice / instrument balance is very important.
In the first part, le "cleaning" is at the center of the musician's verbal and instrumental concerns (wash one's hands, clean the skins of the Timpani with Legos, an innocent ... with dirty hands ...).
Follows a period more oriented towards psychology "counter" (Ego ... or lego in Latin which means "say", the one who chooses his words, read...), where the musician will reuse a short time, plastic bricks like "transitional objects", replacing chopsticks, so dear to the classical percussionist, replaying the second musical phrase (with an insert of the septuolet of the first musical phrase), gradually slowing down until the end.

The playing areas are completely free (except when indicated, for example measure 45) and this music is a space of freedom for the musician who will wish to seize it to make it his own.

duration : 7 minutes
Google machine translation: Original story of the work