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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 wellknownbenevolence and generosity. A respectful distance from a heritage thathas been accepted and fulfilled, and a singular and facetious imagination, encourage emancipation. Mael Bailly's musicalstyle 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 atevery 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 chiselledand sometimes melting like magma. In this game of hands or sonic hopscotch, as Mael Bailly himself calls it, thesounds develop, continue and imitate each other in a rhythmic whirlwind that is at times relentlessly robotic and atother times endowed with a suspenseful elasticity that gives the discourse a new dimension. At other times, they areendowed with a suspenseful elasticity that gives the discourse the singular impression of hesitating, especially whenit evolves in an open form. The improvising spirit is often lurking in the shadows.
