Bailly: D’une etincelle

Mael Bailly's music undoubtedly bears the imprint, rather than the weight, of his composer mentor Gerard Pesson,

for the elder Bailly is gifted with a wellknown

benevolence and generosity. A respectful distance from a heritage that

has been accepted and fulfilled, and a singular and facetious imagination, encourage emancipation. Mael Bailly's musical

style is already clear. Numerous works are emerging, with instrumentations and styles as eclectic as they are surprising.

Mael Bailly is resolutely of his time. He is one of those who develop a form of living discourse that offers at

every moment many possible paths towards his own future. (Brian Ferneyhough) The musical flow is leaping, bouncing,

stomping, boiling. The sound textures whirl around in a wide spectrum of fumaroles of colours, both finely chiselled

and sometimes melting like magma. In this game of hands or sonic hopscotch, as Mael Bailly himself calls it, the

sounds develop, continue and imitate each other in a rhythmic whirlwind that is at times relentlessly robotic and at

other times endowed with a suspenseful elasticity that gives the discourse a new dimension. At other times, they are

endowed with a suspenseful elasticity that gives the discourse the singular impression of hesitating, especially when

it evolves in an open form. The improvising spirit is often lurking in the shadows.