BenjaminManeyrol-Clarinets

Pilu is Indian evergreen raga, which uses all the chromatic notes, which all the notes have visitation rights. Pilu raga is performed late afternoon before sunset.

Mishra is a word from Sanskrit that means mixed, which allows tremendous scope for the artist to bring in melodic lines from other ragas. Mishra Pilu raga is full of devotion and piety by expressing the mesmerizing mix of emotions, which are an eternal source for human emotions: joy and sadness, longing, tenderness.

My intention was to create slow motion changes, which on the one hand are based on very strict patterns, and on the other hand – can hardly be noticeable.  

Pre-recorded electronic material is recorded
 by Emma Jane Lloyd. 

The work was commissioned by the “The Night With…” with support from Creative Scotland and PRS foundation in 2021/2022.

The work was performed by Emma Jane Lloyd (violin) at Summerhall, Newington, in Edinburgh on 4 April, 2022.

The work is dedicated to Emma Jane Lloyd.

Mishra Pilu

Claude Ledoux "Herunter" (2023) World Premiere
Ensemble21 dir. Marc Collet, solo bass clarinet Benjamin Maneyrol
Live @ festival LOOP13 Brussels
19/10/2023 Le Senghor
Ensemble21 
Violins  : Aymeric De Villoutreys, Laurent Houque
Viola : Akiko Okawa
Cello : Merryl Havard
Double Bass: Géry Cambier
Flutes : Anne Davids
French Horn : Dries Laureyssens
Percussions : Max Charue

Recorded by Pierre Bartholomé (GreenField Studio)

Claude Ledoux "Herunter" WorldPremiere Live

Denis Bosse "Pourparlers@Jack Sparrow" (2023) World Premiere
Ensemble21 dir. Max Charue, solo clarinets Benjamin Maneyrol
Live @ Festival LOOP13 Brussels
19/10/2023 Le Senghor
Ensemble21
Violins : Aymeric de Villoutreys, Laurent Houque
Viola : Akiko Okawa
Cello : Merryl Havard
Double Bass : Géry Cambier
Flutes : Anne Davids
French Horn : Dries Laureyssens
Percussions : Kaja Farszki

Recorded by Pierre Bartholomé (GreenField Studio)

Denis Bosse "Pourparlers@Jack Sparrow" WorldPremiere live

Sarah Wéry "Gourou.e" (2023) World Premiere
Ensemble21 dir. Marc Collet, solo bass clarinet & khen Benjamin Maneyrol
Live @ Festival LOOP13 Brussels
19/10/2023 Le Senghor
Ensemble21
Violin, talkbox and bird call Akiko Okawa
Violin and bird call Aymeric de Villoutreys
Viola and bird call Laurent Houque
Cello and bird call Merryl Havard
Double Bass Géry Cambier
Flutes Anne Davids
French Horn Dries Laureyssens
Percussions Max Charue
Electronics Sarah Wéry

Recorded by Pierre Bartholomé (GreenField Studio)
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Les flèches qui vous ont transpercé.e dévoilent la lumière en vous, derrière vous. Ces entailles vous confèrent une aura irradiante.

Les chefs-d'œuvre sont construits par le manque. Le plein est infécond et sombre. Les trous qui vous ont été infligés dentellent votre ombre.

Laissez la lumière vous traverser telle une icône. 

SOYEZ SURPUISSANT.E 

Ne comblez pas vos brèches, choyez-les. Soyez un vecteur de lumière.  Rejoignez les perforé.es, les amputé.es. 
Inondez vous de cette lucidité éblouissante.

Sarah Wéry

Sarah Wéry "Gourou.e" WorldPremiere live

In Sanskrit language, Azaya has many different meanings symbolizing various connotations, for example: point, will, thought, intention, meaning, property, fortune, fate, soul and etc.
The structure of Azaya is based on a textile weave, which was mapped from the predator drone engine.
The piece develops from the bumblebee sounds, followed by low rumbling sounds, which transform into longer and deeper glissando. Throughout the piece, dynamics grows from ppp to ff until motives weave into monolith soundscape. At the same
time, harmony and tonal range expands developing into tutti of frightening buzzing noise.
The work was commissioned by the Lithuanian contemporary music festival Muzikos Ruduo and Lithuanian Composers’ Union. The piece was premiered by saxophone quartet Quasar (Soprano saxophone – Marie-Chantal Leclair, Alto saxophone – Mathieu Leclair, Tenor Saxophone André Leroux, Barytone saxophone – Jean-Marc Bouchard) on 9 October, at Energy and Technology Museum, in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2024.
Video artist - Lukas Miceika.
The piece Azaya is dedicated to my daughter.

Azaya

Suites for chamber ensemble consisting of string trio, woodwinds, harp, marimba, and percussion

Suite for Chamber Ensemble No. 8

Kelvin snippet

First Performance, 8. February 2025, Theaterhaus Stuttgart
ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart

Fabrik Quartet:
Federico Ceppetelli, violin
Michi Stern, violin
Jacobo Díaz Robledillo, viola
Elena Cappelletti, cello

tremblement

The last movement of the Symphony for String Orchestra (2025).

Pawel Strzelecki: 4. Finale [Symphony for String Orchestra (2025)].

Proyecto  Laberinto 
 Andrea Escobar , flute; Rodrigo Evangelista, piano
Recording Engineer Gonzalo Manco 
Producer : Andrea Escobar /Proyecto Laberinto
Published by  Elektramusic

Esquisse-o-phrenia 2019/2022
I’ ve worked this piece as a transformation of other duo for flute and piano named “El reino del rêve” .
The continuous reworking of a set of gestures, rewritten again and again obsessively and the composition
of the tape part, were part of a process in which the polarities between sound forms seemed to be irreductible.
In one side the exploration of the instrumental energetic modalities , in the other side the search for a goal oriented syntax and the need of use harmonic to organise the musical space.

Esquisse-o-phrenia for flute , piano and electronics

Praxema (2021)



Flute:  Andrea Escobar 
Recording Engineer Gonzalo Manco
Producer Andrea Escobar
Published by Elekramusic



Praxema is a piece dedicated to the flutist Andrea Escobar. in which  I've  attempted to capture a series of idiosyncratic gestures that  she played in her energetic and expressive improvisations.
A praxeme is a unit of movement and in the case of this work,  I developed a series of written figures and in parallel a repertoire of similar sound objects 

The composition process grew from small units to macroform in a slow process of accumulation/disposal of materials.


Praxema , for flute and electronics

Nina Fukuoka - 13<x & x<11 (2015) for bass clarinet solo

bass clarinet - Benjamin Maneyrol
sound engineer - Krzysztof Sztekmiler

Recorded on the 6th of November 2016 in Łódź, Poland

13<x & x<11

Un Eco Di Soffio II for Clarinet (bass/Bb), prepared piano resonance-vibration (+  piano pedal extension) 

Performed by Benjamin Maneyrol

I 0:00  II 4:45  III 11:00  IV 16:30  V 22:05

Cette œuvre utilise un système de « pédale étendue ». Spécialement conçu, il permet au musicien de contrôler précisément l’action de la pédale de droite sur les côtés/autour du piano. La résonance sympathique est ici à la fois générée et contrôlée par un seul et même musicien. La vibration (des objets vibrateurs, créant des résonances riches, sont placés dans le piano et contrôlés à distance par un second musicien caché dans le public) crée un espace fait de "traces" sonores, autour de situations - tantôt musicales, tantôt théâtrales - qui exploitent différentes polarités résonantes à travers le souffle.

Un Eco Di Soffio II (2019) for Clarinet and Piano resonance

Martin Loridan is a composer and Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels.

His works are regularly performed in Europe and beyond by internationally renowned performers such as Claude Delangle, Rohan de Saram, the Arditti Quartet, the ensembles Klangforum Wien, Fractales, Mise-en. His work has been awarded prestigious international prizes, such as the Reinl Foundation Prize (Vienna), the André Jolivet Prize (Paris), the Vareler Prize (Berlin).

He graduated from the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) where he obtained four prizes in harmony, counterpoint, fugue and forms, and 20th/21st-century composition. He is currently completing a PhD at the University of Leeds, UK, thanks to prestigious academic grants and awards such as the Stanley Burton Research Scholarship and the Leeds Doctoral Scholarship. He is also the recipient of the Art Research Fund (Fonds de la recherche en Arts FRArt) by the National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium (FNRS).

His doctoral research is an investigation into air and breath (‘souffle’) as a composition material. His research has led him to the study of traditional music (Villa Salammbô residence with the support of the French Institute in Tunis) and the development of new instrumental hybridizations: extended pedal system renewing the possibilities of the piano; works for the Naylute, a new hybrid instrument between the Arabic Nay and the Western flute; application of electric guitar pedalboards systems to other instruments such as the accordion. In these different contexts, he could develop the main axes of his research: the 'tactility' of breath (souffle) and its double human and instrumental resonance; the porosity of air (as a sound material) and its development within orchestral forces and electronic expansions in amplified works.

His scores are published by BabelScores.

Benjamin Maneyrol  
Clarinetist specialized in new musics
Assistant director at Forum de la Création Musicale (belgian composer association), festival Loop and Belgian Music Days
Director of Festival Mosaïques
Based in Brussels - Belgium
Pictures by Isabelle Françaix

Un Eco Di Soffio II (2019) for Clarinet and Piano resonance

Martin Loridan

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