Z1, from "Sufi Letters" (Jean-Luc Fafchamps)
Z1, from "Sufi Letters" (Jean-Luc Fafchamps)

JL Fafchamps is currently developping several long-term projects in which his taste for paradoxical constructions and his sense of synthesis are blossoming into mutually referential pieces. Since 2000, he is working on the development of a vast network of cycles – the _Sufi Letters_ – a manifesto for writing, stylistic openness as rhetoric and the use of analogue correspondences as the basis for a system.
The last part of his triptych for piano, _Back to_ ... was written as compulseray work for the semi-finals of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2010. His work has been the subject of five monographic recordings for Sub Rosa :
+ Attrition (1993),
+ Melencholia si… (2003),
+ KDGhZ2SA, a Six-letter Sufi Word (2012),
+ Back to… (2013)
+ and YZ3Z2Z1S2, a Five-letter Sufi Word.
A record of his music for small formations, _….lignes…_, has also been published by Fuga Libera (2009).
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... listen to the piece here (second track on the player)
... visit the Jean-Luc Fafchamps website
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