The Unknown Island
Musical tale, for instrumental ensemble, electroacoustic media and narrator
«The unknown island» is a musical project based on a text by José Saramago («The Tale of the Unknown Island»), with mixed music and narrator.
About an hour and a quarter, this work tells a fable: it is the story of a man who is going to see the king to ask for a ship with which he wants to go in search of an unknown island. (Read more)
Candy Bits: The Integration Challenge
Instrumental Ensemble and Electroacoustic means
Candy Bits : The Integration Challenge is a project of composition of several littles pieces using acoustic instruments and electroacoustic means. The main goal is to integrate, through highly experimental work, two ostensibly opposing musical approaches: that of sound research and that of tonal polyphony. On one hand, this experience relies on the academic achievements of western music, particularly in terms of counterpoint; on the other hand, on the digital sound techniques widening the musical syntax towards micro-time. (Read More)
A fine day in 1913
Sound Installation
“A fine day 1913” is a sound installation project. It reacts musically to certain weather conditions, in real time, in a given place. More specifically, the installation only sounds when the meteorological data set (wind, humidity, temperature, atmospheric pressure, etc.) corresponds to ordinary people call “a fine day”. The idea of this installation is inspired by the first paragraph of Volume 1 of “The man without qualities, Robert Musil” (Read more)
Silence exist, mostly when there is no noise
Sound Installation
Le compositeur John Cage est devenu mondialement célèbre grâce à sa composition pour piano seul, intitulée 4’33”, dans laquelle un pianiste reste en silence, sans jouer, pendant la durée qui indique le titre. A croire certains musicologues, 4’33” c’est le « tube » le plus populaire de toute la musique contemporaine. Avec cette pièce, Cage cherchait à faire écouter tous les sons environnants, si petits soient-ils, et à montrer que le son est partout, ou plus exactement que, comme il aimait répéter, «il n’y a pas de le silence» (No Such Thing as Silence). Cela lui a permis d’exploiter un l’univers sonore jusqu’à son époque ignoré par la pratique musicale, donnant par la suite une ramification d’expressions musicales sans conteste très riche.
Cependant, la thèse selon laquelle le silence n’existe pas, ne va pas sans poser quelques difficultés insurmontables à la compréhension commune. (Read More)