For 17 musicians.
Live recording of the premiere in the CIRMMT Music Multimedia Room, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), in April 2021.
McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble
Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor

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It is nothing but water slipping through my fingers (2020)

For flute, Bb clarinet, oboe, bassoon, trumpet in C, horn in F, trombone, tuba, harp and piano.
Live recording of the premiere at the Centquatre-Paris (France), for the IRCAM Manifeste Festival, in July 2022.
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Jean Deroyer, conductor

Tracing in Vastness (2022)

For flute, clarinet, trombone, electric guitar, percussion, keyboard, violin and cello.
Live recording at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center for the IntAct 2023 festival, in December 2023.
Tacet(i) Ensemble
Pisol Manatchinapisit, conductor
Patumwan Piensub, flute
Christhatai Paksamai, clarinet
Siravith Kongbandalsuk, trombone
Noppakorn Auesirinucroch, electric guitar
Kerksakul Jaree, keyboard
Kantapong Rakbankerd, percussion
Saksilpa Srisukson, violin
Kantika Comenaphatt, cello

Flou, flash, lucide (2022)

For stereo fixed media.
Premiered at the St. Jax church in Montreal (Canada) in December 2023.
Jonas Regnier, diffusion

Cartographie du Silence

Cartographie du Silence (2023)

For solo soprano saxophone and wind orchestra.
Live recording of the premiere at McGill University, Montreal (Canada), in February 2024.
Kirby Leitz, solo soprano saxophone
McGill Wind Orchestra
Danielle Gaudry, conductor

Faint Fleeting Motions (2024)

For saxophone quartet.
Live recording of the premiere in the CIRMMT Music Multimedia Room, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), in May 2024.
Quatuor Quasar
Marie-Chantal Leclair, soprano saxophone
Mathieu Leclair, alto saxophone
André Leroux, tenor saxophone
Jean-Marc Bouchard, baritone saxophone

En s'effaçant (2024)

For trumpet in Bb and live electronics (7.1 surround).
Premiered at the Édifice Wilder, Montreal (Canada), for the Vivier InterUniversitaire 2025 Concert, in January 2025.
Christopher Keach, trumpet in Bb
Jonas Regnier, diffusion

Wistful Fragments [Binaural Reduction] (2024)

For violin, percussion, trombone, bass clarinet and live electronics.
Premiered in the CIRMMT Music Multimedia Room, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), in April 2025.

This piece was written in the context of the CORE research-creation seminar (Composer-Performer Orchestration Research Ensemble) organized by the ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration Project) at McGill University in 2024/2025.

CORE ensemble 2024/2025
Olena Kaspersky, violin
Joseph Chang, percussion
Erynne McPhee, trombone
Ostap Kuchmiy, bass clarinet
Jeremy Ho, conductor
Jonas Regnier, diffusion

Sound recording team: Martha de Francisco, Rebecca Lee, Antonio Gaitan Madrigan

Pedagogical team: Stephen McAdams, Louis-Michel Tougas, Andrés Gutierrez Martinez, Joshua Rosner, Charles-Éric Fontaine

Que le vent sonne les échos du paysage (2025)

For stereo fixed media.
Premiered in Toulouse (France) in March 2018.
Jonas Regnier, diffusion

Entropie

Entropie (2018)

For alto saxophone and live electronics (7.1 surround).
Premiered at McGill University, Montreal (Canada), for the Ircam Forum Hors les murs, in February 2021.
Tommy Davis, alto saxophone
Quentin Lauvray, diffusion

Compulsion-Spirale [Stereo Reduction] (2020)

For flute, clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, piano and cello.
Live recording of the premiere at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center for the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, in December 2020.
Tacet(i) ensemble
Piyawat Louilarpprasert, conductor

...For the thickness of the rain brings a fading mist (2020)

Jonas Regnier (b.1995) is a French composer and researcher currently based in Montreal. Their research and artistic interests focus on music cognition and psychology, and more specifically the ways to direct listeners’ attention with timbre, space and musical discourse.

Jonas Regnier obtained an Organ performance diploma, an instrumental composition diploma and an electroacoustic composition diploma at the Conservatoire of Music of Toulouse (France) in 2018. At the same time, they obtained their Bachelor of Arts degree in Musicology at the Sorbonne University (Paris). In 2018, they received a Scholarship to attend a Master of Music in Composition at McGill University under the supervision of Philippe Leroux. They are now pursuing a PhD in Composition at McGill University under the supervision of Philippe Leroux, Robert Hasegawa, and Stephen McAdams.

Jonas Regnier

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