Melting Crystals

The sound source is univocal, consisting of a tibetan bowl resonance hit or scrubbed in a circular way. No other sound is used.
The composition mode follows the trigonometric circle rule with four quadrants opposite  by pairs in an elementary way : 
- high-pitched quadrant and low-pitched quadrant.
- horizontal sounds quadrant and vertical sounds quadrant.
The input mode in the piece listening can be done at the beginning of each quadrant according to the required experiment of the listener, and the listening can also be done endless in a circular way. Each beginning quadrant is indicated by a sticker on the commentaries line.



CONVOLUTION 4

It was already open

All sounds recorded around Lac Carillon in Canada (August 2017) and edited in London (September 2017). 

'The Lake' was premiered on Resonance FM on 21/09/17.

With thanks to Ilia Rogatchevski for inspiration and support.

The Lake

looking for sounds to be "found". We live in an ambient world ready to create found sounds in patterns and occurrences reflecting our personality and experiences-

Cycle

The essence of « Collaps II » is a reflection about the environmental crisis using the voice exclusively.
It features the 16 haikus succession "Poubelle la Vie" written by an active poet in Lyon Catherine Thomas-Antérion and perform by 3 narrators. The drive is to keep this subtle text as understandable as possible, cadenced right away for an electro-acoustic music. Each reciter is individually recorded. The resulting sound recording is the only one used without any other natural or synthesis sources.

Acknowledgements to
Catherine Thomas-Antérion, poetess.
Chad Colson, reciter.
Vincent Ecrepont, reciter.
Sébastien Obrecht, reciter.

« Collaps II » veut donner toute son incarnation à la réflexion sur le sujet de la crise de l’environnement en utilisant exclusivement la voix.
Elle met en sons la série de 16 haïkus « Poubelle la Vie » écrite pour l’occasion par Catherine Thomas-Antérion, poétesse active à Lyon et déclamée par 3 récitants. Il y a une volonté de garder le plus intelligible possible ce texte subtile, ciselé et rythmé d’emblée pour une musique électro-acoustique.
Chaque récitant est enregistré individuellement. Le matériel sonore obtenu est le seul utilisé sans aucune autre source naturelle ou de synthèse.

Collaps 2

work for 8 channel.

The conception of this work is based on capturing the moment before of a catastrophe. Develop that instant, expand it into a fiction of multiple temporal and spatial folds. Sounds of explosions, crowds, whispers, alarms and machines are organized in a narrative as violent as dreamlike. A voice, sometimes human and sometimes robotic, emits numbers. At first, the numbers do not seem to be incisive, but little by little they introduce their semantic value that resignifies listening. The poetics, the gesture and the games of reliefs in perspective (profundity of the internal space )are fundamental concepts in my work.

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La concepción de esta obra se basa en capturar el instante anterior a una catástrofe.  Desarrollar ese instante, expandirlo en una ficción de múltiples pliegues temporales y espaciales. Sonidos de explosiones, multitudes, susurros, alarmas y máquinas se organizan en una narrativa tan violenta como ensoñada. Una voz, a veces humana y otras veces robótica, emite números, al principio, los números no parecen ser incisivos, pero poco a poco introducen su valor semántico que  resignfican  la escucha.  La poética , el gesto y  el espacio interno como perspectiva  en profundidad (relieve) son conceptos fundamentales en mi  trabajo.

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...is coming ( Stereo reduction)

DISCOURS DU RIEN

The Palace of Justice - Дворец Правосудия

Security cone, fluo light, hidden illustration, flowers, sound (Stereo, 6 min) / Illustration : Marina Gafurova / Sound : Mélia Roger 
QWAS exhibition ZHdK - December 2018

I live in front of the future Polizei and Justizzentrum of Zurich. I moved this summer and since this time, the sounds of the cranes rhythm my days. Since the beginning of winter, the bright light inside this empty building draw a large shadow in my room. The shadow of fear, the shadow of instability, the shadow of security and safety. Have you ever felt unsafe ?

That’s the question I asked to Marina, who lives with her two sons in Almaty, Kazakhstan. 

Have you ever felt insecure ? 

Marina sends me pictures of the grill which protect everyone windows. But in the streets, the pavement is full of holes, cause people are stealing the metal rolls that cover the canalisations. 
Last summer, a famous ice skater, Denis Ten, was murdered because he tried to stop two guys stealing his car’s mirrors. This drama affected all the country. 

The sounds you are hearing were taken in Zurich, at the closet place of the construction site of this future Palace of Justice you can come. They resonate in an ice-skate room. You can hear Marina’s boys laughing. They are safe at home. 

In the security cone, you can whisper your own misdeeds. But if you look inside, you will see one of Marina’s sketches of one street in Almaty.

QWAS - installation soundtrack

Pièce commandé par Radio France (Émission Alla breve d'Anne Montaron) - Composé pendant la résidence Ibermusicas  et le Festival DME - Lisboa Incomun.

Pianiste : Jean-Marie Cottet
Electronique: Daniel Cabanzo

Electronic Introspections_1 pour piano et dispositif électronique en temps réel

La Tène I was composed for the January 2020 menswear exhibition of Atelier Suppan, Paris.

Huysmans, René Baptist: La Tène I (2020)

got a doctorate of medicine .
He specialized in Neurology.
He participated in activities of basic research about  psychobiology of the adaptive behavior as researcher in the INSERM and experimented the first spectroscopys  by magnetic nuclear resonance.
Now, his activity is more clinical and particulary, he worked on the exploration of the peripheral nerves and the activity of muscles with graphic and sound digital treatment of their electric signals (electroneuromyography ). 
He joined the class of electroacoustic musique of Jean-Christophe Banaszak in 2004 in the national music academy of Troyes.
Concrete music, expressionist; from exclusively personal sounds; inspired by the daily reality . The use of plugging is voluntarily purified to obtain a timeless character.
Moreover he is following for several years, pianist's training particularly in the contemporary register.

Collaps 2

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