"A selection of 6 excerpts of Joel Merah's long piece "Music of wheel", for piano, cello, percussion/trombone, and electric guitar. The score of this composition inlcudes chance operations with dice, and improvisation skills are requested to perform it. The performances of this piece by 0 have last between 30 minutes and 2 hours. That's why it was decided to select excerpts for the Creative Sources record."-Ensemble 0

"... the project is based on the idea of generating, with each interpretation, different music resulting from the same score, each containing in itself sufficient essential elements so as to connect these individual interpretations. Although the score is not locked in a given and final written piece, it nevertheless proposes a basis for a well defined "takeoff". With this in mind, the four musicians are subjected to different playing strategies and each has at his disposal two tables or playing reservoires: a main table concerning the sounds, i.e., pitch, isolated notes or harmony, according to the instruments. In this first table, the performer has enormous freedom (duration of sounds, dynamics, approach to the instrument, effects, the possibility of changing instruments, etc.). The general style of interpretation must however remain soft. The second table, common to all performers, proposes a succession of predetermined silences during which the musician remains motionless. The execution of the piece is made following a course generated and determined by the tossing of the dice which decide and direct the musician towards the action of "silence" or the action of "sound". The musical result should be similar to a love experience with time, moment and sound... "-Joël Merah, from the liner notes