for string quartet and electronics
Commissioned by F. and J-P Billarant for the Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik 2021.
Recorded by Ircam (Paris, Centre Pompidou), mixed by Music Unit.

First performance : April 23th 2021, Paris (FR)
Diotima quartet.

Des Mondes Possibles - string quartet & electronics (2021)

Lossless

Rane Moore, Matt Gold, and Steven Gosling from Talea Ensemble performing OK Fantastic! March 2022

OK Fantastic!

Single Red Flower
I: a few warbles for the little dead
II: the big alive, feeling small
completed July 2022

Performed November 20 2022 by Standing Wave at St. George the Martyr, Toronto, ON. Part of "Ex Machina" presented by New Music Concerts.

ABOUT
“single Red flower” was written shortly before, during, and after the death of my two rats Parsley and Sage. They were my pandemic companions, providing much love and friendship during two awful years of lockdown in a small Toronto basement apartment. The two movements are threaded with residual emotion from their passing. 

Having never dealt with losing my own pet before – let alone two in quick succession - I was mystified, touched, and overwhelmed with the rituals of their little deaths: laying them in the cage for their cagemates to process their death; picking out a flower pot, soil, and seeds in which to bury them; and laying them to rest in a backyard rental in which we would soon be leaving. Only one plant bloomed from the planter, a beautiful red flower of a species I have never seen before. 

While I often try to keep my emotions out of my music, this piece inadvertently became strange, small, and ritualistic, reflecting these experiences. Little, quiet sounds are brought to the forefront and amplified to fill the space in the same way that little things can fill our hearts beyond bearing.

single Red flower (sextet)

Apprendere dal fango, d'après Volodine 

Acousmatic, stereo version

Apprendere dal fango

Premiered by Schallfeld ensemble at Klangspuren Composers Lab
September 2023 Schwaz, Austria

Conductor-Pierre-André Valade

CHRYSALIS for ensemble (2023)

Grain | Stream
for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists & electronics

Première:
October 22nd, 2023 - Donaueschinger Musiktage 

Performers:
Yarn/Wire
Russell Greenberg, Sae Hashimoto (Percussion)
Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer (Klavier)

The idea of stream recalled in the title and central in the piece has been inspired by Anselm Kiefer’s painting Alchemie consists of two canvases showing a dry desert-like landscape connected by a balance. A rainfall of salt and sunflower seeds falling down from the balance’s dishes. 
That’s a strong symbol of a possible new life re-growing from the desert landscape which is directly connected with the art of alchemy transforming lead into gold.


On the other hand streams of grains (especially salt) are traditionally associated with purification rituals of mind and spirit.
Driven by the strong symbolic meaning of this canvas and the message of hope that it conveys to me, I imagined a sound-world made of grains and streams which arise from silence and saturate space and time until leading the perception to an in-between dimension where temporal references are loosen.

Grain I Stream

Friends and Strangers [20 instruments]

Grossman Ensemble, conducted by Ben Bolter
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, December 7, 2018

Simple Fuel (2018) for large ensemble

Création mondiale le 18 Juin 2019, Festival MANIFESTE (Ircam Centre Pompidou), Le Centquatre, PARIS

Nicolas Arsenijevic, Saxophone

Florent Caron Darras & Simone Conforti, Réalisation informatique IRCAM

Arnaud de la Celle, Ingénieur du Son

Remerciements

Thierry de Mey, Simone Conforti, Mikhail Malt, Jean Lochard, Marco Liuni, Grégoire Lorieux

Technotope - for baritone saxophone & 16 channels electronics - IRCAM (2019)

I Sing the Body Electric (2020)
by Claudia Jane Scroccaro
Florentin Ginot, double bass
Claudia Jane Scroccaro, live electronics
Arnaud De la Celle, sound engineer
Mikhail Malt, Encadrement Pédagogique

Recorded the 1st of July 2020 in the Grand Salle du Centre Pompidou
Manifeste Festival 2020 - IRCAM, Paris

I sing the body electric (2020) for Double Bass and Electronics - Florentin Ginot

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Sasha J. Blondeau

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