The first draft of this piece was a song for alt-voice, clarinet and piano, composed on a poem (with the same title) of the Belgian poet Marc Imberechts. An expanded version for quartet (without voice) was written later on the occasion of a concert in tribute of Jean-Louis Robert, a young belgian composer who died accidentally in 1979.

This music tries to transpose in musical structures the subtle play of language and the erotic references which were found in Marc Imberechts’s poem. As often in my works, the harmonic structure was completely determined by computer, allowing to create musical models of some natural sound transformations. Multiple references of acoustic distorsions therefore affect the elaboration of the musical discourse (from harmonic distorsions to timbre distorsions). The form is elaborated around the collapse of the music itself in a quasi-central point where three players have to whisper the poem over a long note holded by the clarinet.

This piece was prize winner at the UNESCO International Tribune in 1992.