Portraits of Women is a succession of short moments, made up in alternation, of pieces on sound support and of instrumental pieces, among which 5 songs. The pieces on sound support are portraits of Spanish women resulting from the acoustic piece L’Escalier des Aveugles (the staircase of the Blinds), and the 5 songs are composed on words of women (texts of Colette Fellous). The whole represents a broad multilingual poem which lasts 1:20′.

Portraits de Femmes is written for a singer, 5 musicians and memorized sounds.

Here how the concert composed:

1 – L’Escalier des Aveugles       memorized sounds             3 ‘ 50

2 – Song 1 “The Eyes”                  voice and instruments        7 ‘ 30

3 – Interlude Izatkun                   memorized sounds              0’ 52

4 – Interlude of instruments        instruments                        2 ‘ 00

5 – El corpe inglès                         memorized sounds             4 ‘ 54

6 – Song 2 “The Hands”             voice and instruments        6 ‘ 00

7 – interior Laura                          memorized sounds             0 ‘ 45

8 – Development of instruments        instruments                3 ‘ 00

9 – Homage to Lorca                     memorized sounds             2 ‘ 13

10 – Song 3 “The Breasts”          voice and instruments        5 ‘ 00

11 – Izatkun and the apple           memorized sounds             3 ‘ 43

12 – Divertissement of instruments 1          instruments       1 ‘ 00

13 – Gloria Interference               memorized sounds             0 ‘ 34

14 – Divertissement of instruments 2           instruments      2 ‘ 00

15 – Without knowing why          memorized sounds             3 ‘ 48

16 – Introduction of instruments             instruments            1 ‘ 30

17 – Nada                                         memorized sounds             2 ‘ 50

18 – Song 4 “the Sex”                   voice and instruments        6 ‘ 30

19 – Madrid km zero                     memorized sounds             4 ‘ 53

20 – Interruption of instruments                   instrument       2 ‘ 00

21 – the news of the staircase          memorized sounds         1 ‘ 50

22 – Song 5 “Let us sing into the silences Or story of a not very simple couple »                                                                     voice and instruments        10 ‘ 00

In connection with Portraits de femmes

This concert is composed of two in time and space imbricated works.

L’escalier des aveugles, assemblage of electroacoustic pieces spread in the space of the room, and Chansons pour le corps, suite of songs with instrumental interludes which come from the stage.

Each part of L’escalier des aveugles is a small comedy that puts in scene a young woman and a place. Kind of news in which a sound photographer tries to make the portrait of a woman who would be at the same time guide, interpret and actress. Each place is different and the whole of this news weave a kind of description of the town of Madrid, where all the elements were recorded.

Chansons pour le corps are made of two elements. A tape that is a kind of symphony of interviews of women, who speak about the body, and a score for instruments and song, composed starting from texts of Colette Fellous.

Song-opera or labyrinth perhaps, or Lieder-Melody or sung Melodrama or Oratorio-Ditty or Aria, so many things pass through a labyrinth. A passage is probably done in several directions. The body, would be this only the hands, or if they indicate or if they feel, are indeed a labyrinth.

These songs say eyes, hands and remainder of the body, their simplicity and their complexity.

Alternation between L’escalier des aveugles and les Chansons pour le corps makes a curious mixture of genres, places and languages. Thus is manufactured with the passage of time, a voyage through femininity.