Tu n'y trouveras que du vent II - for trio of gagaku instruments (2008) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2012-11-03T03:36:45Z Yoshiaki Onishi Tu n'y trouveras que du vent II (2008) for trio of gagaku instruments Hitomi Nakamura, hichiriki Takeshi Sasamoto, ryûteki Remi Miura, shô February 12, 2009 The title "Tu n'y trouveras que du vent" (There you will only find the wind) is taken from the text entitled Le Courtisan Grotesque (The Grotesque Courtier), written by an esoteric seventeenth-century French writer, Adrien de Montluc. This text is known as Joan Miró crerated a series of illustrations to be accompanied to the text in 1974. The text is written in old French, and it is very difficult to fully understand it as there are a lot of word plays and symbolisms, something that must have triggered Miró's interest because of his proclivity towards surrealism that seems to go side-by-side with the sixteenth-century text. At what is presumably the ending portion of the text, de Montluc depicts the end of life of this "courtisan": C'y gist un courtisan grotesque un fantosme godelures que fils du mensonge décevant il vesquit sans corps & sans ame passant regarde sous la lame Tu n'y trouveras que du vent There lies the grotesque courtier a dandy phantom, a son of the disappointing lie he lived without body and without soul Passer-by, look below the blade There you will only find the wind Genre Contemporary Classical
