2013
for stereo tape

violin: Fiona Monbet

All the sounds in this piece come from one hour-long recording session of mostly improvisation from Fiona, with a few guidelines from me. 

I then chopped the result drastically, manipulated the sounds to a lesser or greater extent and re-assembled them to create the piece, an exploration of violin-playing beyond what can be notated in a score, and of the fine line between the 'real' and the 'unreal'..

if nomen boat

2013
for orchestra
 
Performed by Sinfonia d'Amici 
Conductor Harry Ogg

Inspired by the poem of the same name by Rainer Maria Rilke (Das Buch der Bilder, 1902):

Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder, 
die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält; 
du schaust: und von dir scheiden sich die Länder, 
ein himmelfahrendes und eins, das fällt; 

und lassen dich, zu keinem ganz gehörend, 
nicht ganz so dunkel wie das Haus, das schweigt, 
nicht ganz so sicher Ewiges beschwörend 
wie das, was Stern wird jede Nacht und steigt - 

und lassen dir (unsäglich zu entwirrn) 
dein Leben bang und riesenhaft und reifend, 
so dass es, bald begrenzt und bald begreifend, 
abwechselnd Stein in dir wird und Gestirn.

Abend

early ghost opera demo, dec 2014

spoken voice: Fiona Mikel

are you capable (demo)

2016

Extract from Les Constellations - Une Théorie, devised opera on a libretto by Antoine Thiollier, conceived in collaboration with the theatre company L'Éventuel Hérisson Bleu, produced by Miroirs Étendus and co-produced by Lille Opera.

Performed by Marianne Croux (soprano), Josephine Stephenson (electric guitar), Fiona Monbet (violin), Antoine Cambruzzi (clarinet), Romain Louveau (piano), Marion Bordessoulles (voiceover)


Watch the live video teaser of this extract: https://vimeo.com/191270350

Les Constellations - Une Théorie: Je voudrais dormir

2018
for solo guitar

Performed by Laura Snowden, Crypt on the Green, 30.01.2018

Enero

2019
for 9 instruments

Extracts from the first performance, London Sinfonietta conducted by Jonathan Berman, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 17.01.2019

Shuffle(extracts)

2012
for solo cello

Performed by Anne Chauveau

Inspired by Phoebe Theodora's photograph 'One summer in London'

In an attempt to express the flow of thought in the mind of someone recalling a series of events, the ordering of certain musical fragments in this piece is left to the performer.

Josephine Stephenson

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