Point D’Orgue

Histoires De Carres > Printemps-Ete 2012

The fermata or Point d'orgue suspends time, marking a silence or note whose scope and length expands into space and the listener. With its infinite breath, the organ best creates thissensation. Its size and power are both extraordinary and its history ancient. Three centuries Before Christ, Ctesibius of Alexandria, invented the hydraulis, the organ's forbearer. The design takes liberties. Here pipes, bellows and keyboards burst in a fantastic bouquet. Drawing inspiration from engravings of a 18th century treaty L'art du facteur d'orgues by Dom Bedos de Celles, beyond this sumptuous and mad composition Pierre Marie recalls the words of Lamartine "O'time, suspend your flight..."