EX ABRUPTO 
Sortie de résidence - teaser (recording excerpts). 
Résidence pour la préparation, et la mise en place de la pièce EX ABRUPTO, composée par C.Guiraud, à La Maison des Musiques, Bruxelles, juin 2024. 
Composée pour le Trio Erämaa. 


Erämaa Trio is : 
Akiko OKAWA . Viola 
Cédric DE BRUYCKER . Bass & Contrabass clarinets 
Quentin MEURISSE . E-keyboards 
Christophe GUIRAUD . Electronics


Video teaser version (HD available), here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_mSoymyTEM
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EX ABRUPTO - Sortie de résidence (june 2024) - recording excerpts (with Erämaa Trio)

MENACE 
for Ensemble & electronics
• PREMIERE • 
Performed and premiered by Ensemble21, 
at La Tricoterie Brussels, for Festival Mosaïques 2024 (first edition), 
16 june 2024.

MENACE is about ecology, where the Ars subtilior blends with electronic materials made of field recordings and oscillator articulations. 
Spectral writing, therefore, serves as a “binder” to various sonic and textural phenomena. 
This piece acts as an organic mass almost imitating the event that causes various varieties of flora to grow and flower. In a certain wild gesture, organic movements and hallucinations emerge to the surface, mirages, blurs, and sharpness burst forth. Like a world, henceforth, that could almost never come back.

Ensemble21 is : 
Anne Davids . Bass flute 
Benjamin Maneyrol . Bass clarinet 
Aymeric De Villoutreys . Violin
Anne-Gabrielle Lia-Aragnouet . Cello
Quentin Meurisse . Piano + e-keyboard 
Christophe Guiraud . Electronics

Marc Collet . Direction 
Kaja Farsky & Benjamin Maneyrol . Organisation/production 

Composed by Christophe Guiraud. 
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by C.Guiraud for ©UNEARTH Laboratory.
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Same recording on YT (HD available) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBuAlMA5KAU 

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MENACE - Full PREMIERE - (Ensemble21/Festival Mosaïques, june 2024) Ensemble & electronics

CONSEGUENZA (studio teaser) for String trio & electronics
Commissioned by UNEARTH, and written for George Van Dam, Victor Guaita, & Simon Lenski​.
Duration - 30 '
Will be premiered in 2025.

Writing for strings has always been incredibly gripping, transcendent, for my body/heart, something “beyond” reveals itself, tears apart the real state of things, of matter, but amplifies the expressive state of this utopia (write for strings), transparent and on the verge of disappearing. Such a clear and impregnable message. To seek a kind of offering towards an unknown territory, and thus bring it back to reality. The sound power of these instruments will always surpass time.

"... and hearts still beating." 

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* Ce Trio à cordes a été spécialement écrit pour
George van Dam, Victor Guaita, et Simon Lenski.​

More info and details › https://www.cguiraud.com/conseguenza 
Video teaser (HD available) › https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=135p7FxtBjg
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CONSEGUENZA for String trio & electronics - studio teaser - 2025 (with Van Dam, Guaita, Lenski)

Le Tombeau de Pasolini, Vol II - Premiere 
Cᴏsɪ̀ sғᴏɢʟɪᴀɪ ᴜɴᴀ ᴠᴀɴᴀ ʀᴏsᴀ

Performed and premiered by Nemø ensemble & Kevin Hendrickx  
at de Koer, may 11th, 2025, Ghent, Belgium 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Pasolini's death 1975/2025 
{ end of Pasolini cycle }

• Vol II (duration 31’ )  
Cᴏsɪ̀ sғᴏɢʟɪᴀɪ ᴜɴᴀ ᴠᴀɴᴀ ʀᴏsᴀ 
" 𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑖̀ 𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑖 𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑎, 𝑙𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎̀, 
𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑙𝑖 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑢𝑖 𝑚𝑖 𝑠𝑖 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑎 𝑑'𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑜 
𝑐ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎 𝑛𝑒̀ 𝑝𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 "

 (7 musicians & electronics)
Nemø ensemble :

Bass flute - Francisco Rojas Huertas
Bass clarinet - Freya Bovijn
Violin - Hugo Ranilla de Castro
Viola - Esther Coorevits
Violoncello - Eugénie Defraigne
Electric guitar - Pieter-Jan Vercammen
E-keyboard(s) - Bert De Rycke
Percussions - Wim Pelgrims (only Vol III)

Electronics  - Christophe Guiraud 
Direction - Kevin Hendrickx

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Le Tombeau de P.P.Pasolini was composed 
between 2014 and 2023. 
Le Tombeau de P.P.Pasolini was composed 
in three pieces for ensemble and electronics, 
three independent volumes. 

This cycle was initiated in 2014 with the 
commission of the first Vol (Vol I) by 
Brussels based Ictus ensemble, for a show 
focusing on the Ars subtilior. 

On a late afternoon in March (2022), 
accompanied by loved ones, we went to Ostia, 
to the place of the tragic end, the one 
that says everything, without saying anything, 
at the place where today stands a 
kind of stele/tombeau in memory of the 
immense visionary poet.  

As a result, Vol II and III were composed between 
September 2022 and March 2023, and premiered 
on May 2025.
These two volumes were written for an identical 
formation to the first one : 7 or 8 musicians 
and electronics. 
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* Painting and detail paintings by ©Iris Terdjiman.
* The photos that appear were taken during the concert on May 11, 2025. 
And were made by © de Koer / Joseph Khoury.

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With support from stad Gent/cultuur Gent!

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Produced by © Nemø ensemble.
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Christophe Guiraud for © UNEARTH Laboratory. 

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TOMBEAU de PASOLINI Vol II - PREMIERE - Nemø ensemble & Kevin Hendrickx (May 2025)

Le Tombeau de Pasolini, Vol III - Premiere 
IO SO I NOMI [end of Pasolini cycle]

Performed and premiered by Nemø ensemble & Kevin Hendrickx  
at de Koer, may 11th, 2025, Ghent, Belgium 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Pasolini's death 1975/2025 
{ end of Pasolini cycle }

• Vol III (duration 31’ )  
IO SO I NOMI [end of Pasolini cycle]
".. 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜 - 𝑑𝑎 𝑐𝑢𝑖 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎, 𝑙'𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑎, 
𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜 𝑖𝑙 𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑜 "

 (8 musicians & electronics)
Nemø ensemble :

Bass flute - Francisco Rojas Huertas
Bass clarinet - Freya Bovijn
Violin - Hugo Ranilla de Castro
Viola - Esther Coorevits
Violoncello - Eugénie Defraigne
Electric guitar - Pieter-Jan Vercammen
E-keyboard(s) - Bert De Rycke
Percussions - Wim Pelgrims (only Vol III)

Electronics  - Christophe Guiraud 
Direction - Kevin Hendrickx

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Le Tombeau de P.P.Pasolini was composed 
between 2014 and 2023. 
Le Tombeau de P.P.Pasolini was composed 
in three pieces for ensemble and electronics, 
three independent volumes. 

This cycle was initiated in 2014 with the 
commission of the first Vol (Vol I) by 
Brussels based Ictus ensemble, for a show 
focusing on the Ars subtilior. 

On a late afternoon in March (2022), 
accompanied by loved ones, we went to Ostia, 
to the place of the tragic end, the one 
that says everything, without saying anything, 
at the place where today stands a 
kind of stele/tombeau in memory of the 
immense visionary poet.  

As a result, Vol II and III were composed between 
September 2022 and March 2023, and premiered 
on May 2025.
These two volumes were written for an identical 
formation to the first one : 7 or 8 musicians 
and electronics. 
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* Painting and detail paintings by ©Iris Terdjiman.
* The photos that appear were taken during the concert on May 11, 2025. 
And were made by © de Koer / Joseph Khoury.

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With support from stad Gent/cultuur Gent!

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Produced by © Nemø ensemble.
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Christophe Guiraud for © UNEARTH Laboratory. 

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TOMBEAU de PASOLINI Vol III - PREMIERE - Nemø ensemble & Kevin Hendrickx (May 2025)

A composer and sound artist, Christophe Guiraud is dedicated to the realms of contemporary music and sound art. His primary goal is to delve into the crossroads of electronic, generative, and written music.

Ars Subtilior and Noise music serve as the dual muses for Christophe Guiraud, akin to two rivers seamlessly woven into a composition of profound strength. The French composer acts as a bridge, connecting the pinnacle of scholarly music with the avant-garde aspects of noise. 

Born in Toulouse in the mid-seventies, he later establishes himself in Brussels, transforming it into the nexus of his continuous creative journey. Presently, he is actively engaged and has collaborated for several years with a multitude of European ensembles and musicians, including Ensemble 21, Ictus Ensemble, PHØNIX16 collective, Tom Pauwels, Arçon de Nièze, Benjamin Glorieux, Nemø ensemble, among others.

His latest compositions delicately blend instrumental timbre and sound hybridization, shrouding this alchemy in a certain secrecy. Here, more than anywhere else, Christophe Guiraud's recent works initiate a dialogue across eras, traversing from the polyphony of Ars Nova to Spectralism, all the while incorporating his noise heritage. Firmly unbound by historical constraints, the concluding pieces presented here unfold in a quivering stasis. The ensemble of these pieces brings coherence across a diverse array of musicians hailing from various places, traditions, and ensembles—everything intricately interwoven towards a particularly striking culmination.

A large part of his composition material can be found here >>> 
https://unearthlaboratory.bandcamp.com/ 

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