Etienne Hendrickx

Prélude
Cello and PianoDuration 06’
Composed for cello and piano, this prelude pays tribute to Olivier Messiaen by exploring several of his famous modes of music limited transposition. Ideal for an 8-year level of study, this piece will allow young cellists to progress in time management, sound work, and chamber music work with a pianist.

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Saxifrage
Alto Saxophone  and electronic background
Duration 8'
Saxifrages (from the Latin saxum, stone; frango, I break) are herbaceous perennials that grow in the cracks of old walls and, according to Victor Hugo, "love to gnaw the cement and dig their nails into the joints of stones" until they break the rock. This flower can be seen as a symbol of nature regaining its rights. Victor Hugo also sees it as an allegory of poetry, which feeds on the aridity of reality - shadow, misery and suffering - to grow.
The electronic tape suggests here a desolate landscape, crossed by distant vestiges of the thermo-industrial civilization. The saxophone proposes several thematic cells, which will try to develop in this hostile environment: some will be blocked in their progression; others, on the opposite, will circumvent the obstacles, will rush in the faults and will proliferate until making burst the mass of the reality.

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Saxifrage
Alto Saxophone  and electronic background
Duration 8'
Saxifrages (from the Latin saxum, stone; frango, I break) are herbaceous perennials that grow in the cracks of old walls and, according to Victor Hugo, "love to gnaw the cement and dig their nails into the joints of stones" until they break the rock. This flower can be seen as a symbol of nature regaining its rights. Victor Hugo also sees it as an allegory of poetry, which feeds on the aridity of reality - shadow, misery and suffering - to grow.
The electronic tape suggests here a desolate landscape, crossed by distant vestiges of the thermo-industrial civilization. The saxophone proposes several thematic cells, which will try to develop in this hostile environment: some will be blocked in their progression; others, on the opposite, will circumvent the obstacles, will rush in the faults and will proliferate until making burst the mass of the reality.

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Styx
MIDI Wind Instrument, Tam-Tam and Live ElectronicDurée 10’
Styx is a mixed work premiered in January 2019 under commission from the Festival Désordre (Brest, France) for saxophonist Stéphane Sordet. The solo part can be interpreted by a MIDI wind instrument (Ewi, Sylphyo or other) or by a soprano saxophone.The score opposes the violence and impulsiveness of the wind instrument, tirelessly exploring the same seven-note motif, to a much more global and meditative conception of time as the tam-tam. As for electronics, it offers reminiscences of the work, increasingly vague, evoking memory altered by time.

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Saxophone Soprano Stéphane Sordet, Percussions Etienne Hendrickx
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Styx
Soprano Saxophone, Tam-Tam and Live ElectronicDuration 10’
Styx is a mixed work premiered in January 2019 under commission from the Festival Désordre (Brest, France) for saxophonist Stéphane Sordet. The solo part can be interpreted by a MIDI wind instrument (Ewi, Sylphyo or other) or by a soprano saxophone.The score opposes the violence and impulsiveness of the wind instrument, tirelessly exploring the same seven-note motif, to a much more global and meditative conception of time as the tam-tam. As for electronics, it offers reminiscences of the work, increasingly vague, evoking memory altered by time.

Extrait Audio
Saxophone Soprano Stéphane Sordet, Percussions Etienne Hendrickx
Printed version, click here

Styx
MIDI Wind Instrument, Tam-Tam and Live ElectronicDurée 10’
Styx is a mixed work premiered in January 2019 under commission from the Festival Désordre (Brest, France) for saxophonist Stéphane Sordet. The solo part can be interpreted by a MIDI wind instrument (Ewi, Sylphyo or other) or by a soprano saxophone.The score opposes the violence and impulsiveness of the wind instrument, tirelessly exploring the same seven-note motif, to a much more global and meditative conception of time as the tam-tam. As for electronics, it offers reminiscences of the work, increasingly vague, evoking memory altered by time.

EXTRAIT AUDIO
Saxophone Soprano Stéphane Sordet, Percussions Etienne Hendrickx

Styx
Soprano Saxophone, Tam-Tam and Live ElectronicDuration 10’
Styx is a mixed work premiered in January 2019 under commission from the Festival Désordre (Brest, France) for saxophonist Stéphane Sordet. The solo part can be interpreted by a MIDI wind instrument (Ewi, Sylphyo or other) or by a soprano saxophone.The score opposes the violence and impulsiveness of the wind instrument, tirelessly exploring the same seven-note motif, to a much more global and meditative conception of time as the tam-tam. As for electronics, it offers reminiscences of the work, increasingly vague, evoking memory altered by time.

EXTRAIT AUDIO
Saxophone Soprano Stéphane Sordet, Percussions Etienne Hendrickx