Au Bord Du Ruisseau

Composed by Julien Painot, the original score of upcoming feature film “Le nez dans le ruisseau” is completed. By french director Christophe Chevalier, the picture unveils an unlikely friendship between an old man and a ten year old child. For this dramatic and emotional movie, Julien choose to combine simple piano motives with a full string orchestra. The piano is used in particular to evoke childhood while the string orchestra takes the music to a more emotional level. The full score, minimalist and sensitive brings depth and emotion to the film.

In “Thème du Ruisseau”, we hear an evolving string melody singing above a simple piano ostinato. Imitating the stream of the water, these few piano notes, repeating over and over, recall the context of the film: the river. Then, strings play the melody, first with the violins and later with the cellos. With this music, Julien mixes two conflicting aspects together, the endless repetition of the piano and the evolving texture of the strings with multiple melody lines. It resonates in the film as a metaphor of time passing by as life evolves.

“Lettre D'adieu” is a very beautiful and emotional piece for strings. Composed with a three notes motive, the five voices of the string orchestra (first and second violins, violas, cellos and basses) are playing at different rhythms, which creates a feeling of a never ending melody."Contemplation" is a piece for strings only. Starting with the main theme, it evolves with variations and counterpoint in a very subtle way.

“Solitude" starts as a minimalist chamber music piece. Julien makes a very particular uses of silences and fermatas in this piece. By letting the notes ring by themselves, it creates an atmosphere of simplicity where every note possess a central role. In the film, it describes the loneliness of an old man, wandering in his apartment all day long. In *Romance" we hear a piece in the genre of a slow waltz. One of the only piece in a Major tone, it brings a different color to the score. In the film, the music is played while Tom, a lonely child, is sleeping peacefully in a forest, close from a small river.

"Poême des rêveries" is a chamber music piece for piano and solo cello. The piece is written to accompany a recitation of a Jean-jacques Rousseau's poem. The piano is arpeggiating the harmony, revealing intense colors, while the cello sings the melody throughout the piece.

"Au bord du Ruisseau" starts with the main theme in the violas, soloing. It segues with solo violin in the high register with a layer of tremolo strings. After a swell of the entire orchestra, a middle part of the piece contrasts with a minimalist piano soloing with dissonants chords on a layer of tremolo strings. "Le long du Ruisseau" is the opening title of the film. It is composed with the same motives, but arranged differently.

"Ce Que Le No" is a solo piano piece. It is an arrangement of a traditional song from Geneva. The melody is from the middle ages, Julien composed the accompaniment. This song is a celebration of a victory won by the people of Geneva in the year 1602. It is song in a dialect of old french every year to commemorate the battle.