Au delà du hasard (Beyond Chance) is a composition for three women's voices (SSA) and four instrumental groups, by the French composer Jean Barraqué, written in 1958–59.
The performers were Yvonne Loriod (piano), Ethel Semser, Marie-Thérèse Cahn, and Simone Codinas (vocalists), Hubert Rostaing (clarinet), the Jazz Groupe de Paris (musical director André Hodeir) and the Ensemble du Domaine Musical, all conducted by Pierre Boulez.
– c'est là seulement que tu manifestes la stabilité, l'objet et le nom d'une vérité terrestre, entr'unis, appelés à l'unité, pour qu'ils soient ton miroir.
The main text of the composition, written by Barraqué as a commentary on another citation from Broch, is in a style that recalls in places the techniques of French surrealism.
These chords, not chosen deliberately by the composer but engendered "automatically" by the method, gave Barraqué "serial permission to re-encounter elements of the tonal past, as figures in a dream".