A major work in Francois Bayle's repertoire, Jeita ou murmure des eaux provides a journey and an immersion into a world of unleashed energies, with the Jeita cave serving both as a backdrop and a particle accelerator. Here, the cave indeed stands for the concrete source of the composer's inspiration as much as the mind space where metamorphoses occur. By combining such figurative spaces and immaterial sound projections, Francois Bayle evokes another subject, an inhabitant of the multiple and symbolic cave: the listening subject, who always reveals himself, implicitly, at the heart of Francois Bayle's musical concerns and the path he has always defended: the acousmatic approach. -Francois J. Bonnet, Paris, 2025