Exploring the Sounds of the Desert's Silence

A far cry away from some of his earlier mischievous musical proposals, Yom presents his most introspective project, which was originally a commission by the Festival d’Île-de-France, on the theme of diasporas. The clarinettist has thus plunged into the mythical Exodus of the Jewish people guided by Moses out of Egypt.

The silence of the title could allude to the silence of the desert where they erred for forty years: an initiatory episode conducive to self discovery and synonym with a form of wisdom, yet also a chaotic moment copiously detailed in the Book of the Exodus, peppered with deaths, revolts and divine messages from the Seven Plagues of Egypt to the Seven Commandments. Full of twists and turns, the account related in the Old Testament focuses on the two first years of this formidable odyssey. The thirty years that followed were those of a doomed generation condemned to never reach the Promise Land in their lifetime, of a people punished for not trusting their guide. A people in fear, confronted with the silence of God and left to its own devices in a hostile environment.

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