Estompe

Zad Moultaka has in his procession of obsession the erasure and the disappearance. Everything is a pretext for a form of reflection, or rather a form of reverie, on the substance, the deterioration, the fraying, the crumbling.
In Estompe the sound material is treated in successive layers, in the image, in the print, of the repeated passage of several sheets under the same press which one would not have replenished and until the ink empties. The print would repeat the pattern and its decay.
Between memory and oblivion, loss and traces, four passages like four memory screens. The sound images of the past survive transformed, nuanced to the smallest and the indestructible. The absence then saturates the dis-aggregated presence.

set
clarinet en sib and bass clarinet in sib, baritone and alto saxophone, trumpet in ut, percussion, harp, guitar, mandolin, accordion, cello, contrabass

percussions
1 vibraphone, 1 large marimba, 1  timpani 38″, 1 symphonic bass drum, 16 gongs (mid-ground chromatic from mi to sol all the treble cle), 1 high-pitched resonant metal, 1 cardboard or other random height, 1 bow, 1 brush for the bass drum, 1 cloth for the bass drum