Stephan Dunkelman (B), born 1956, studied Electmacoustic Music (1989) and Music History (1990) at the Conservatory of Music of Brussels. Journalist for the French electroacoustic magazine "Les Cahiers de I'ACME". His works include "Signallures" (1991) and "Rituellipses" (1993).

"Rituellipses" is a music of "sounds in movement" made by and for dance. The sonic objects made of fragments of concrete or instrumental musical patterns are pulled along as if by centrifugal force. They follow each other in continous rotational movements which only silence can interrupt.

"Where the trajectory of sound oscillates in a swinging movement representing the physical laws of attraction" (D. Besson). These studies of trajectory combinations are developed in short movements alternately lively, calm, restrained or uninhibited. An equilibrium is achieved when the whole appears to be multipliable, complete but open. The memory of two film scenes ("The Sacrifice" by A. Tarkovski and "The Sun even at Night" by the Taviani brothers) have been with me throughout the creation of this work. They were about the relationships which each of us can have with a tree, an object of archaic worship which, like stone, seems to carry the traces of a lost wisdom. It is these impressions which feed the spirit of the piece.

The basic material is percussion (metal, wood, pvc), voice (adolescent, woman, man), blowing in blowpipes, whistling and "chapman stick" guitar playing.