Musique originale de Gilles Monfort

Ensemble à cordes enregistré par Fame's Studio Orchestra, Skopje.

Prise de son : Dragisa Stojanov
Opérateur Protools : Arber Curri
Chef d'orchestre : Oleg Kondratenko
1er violon : Anna Kondratenko

Synthétiseurs, bāwū et mixage : Gilles Monfort

Le sommeil de Jade

Le Sommeil De Jade (Jonathan Boissinot) — Scène De La Nuit

Andante in A minor for String Orchestra, no. 53

Adagio grazioso in A for String Orchestra, no. 36

Triumphant Return

Upbeat and cinematic, this short orchestral track is built on layered string textures and bright thematic writing. It’s a musical homecoming — perfect for celebratory endings, closing scenes, or narrative victories.

🎧 Finale 2008
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Triumphant Return

DASEIN for String Orchestra

This is an orchestral remaster of Megalovania, with a royal twist.

ClassiLovania

Off Center

beast from water

The third movement of my contemporary-classical piece, "seavoda", a piece dedicated to the five layers of the ocean.

At the midnight zone, no sunlight can reach this far down in the ocean. Consequently, the piece takes a dark turn into solemness, enigma, terror and melancholy.

The overlapping of string notes (similar to sunlight) return, this time with less shimmer and more languidness. Piano is almost nonexistent in the movement aside from a few muted staccato pulses that enter and dissipate. Panicked descending violin tremolos burst into the space as fear from deep darkness settles in.

Soft, haunting harmonics from the lower strings represent the bioluminescence that many underwater species depend on to navigate the midnight zone. Finally, a somber melody emanates from this moment to express how far we are from the familiar and the sheer vastness of this void.

Darren Creech - piano
Lorenzo Guggenheim - strings conductor
Sam Bisson - music contractor

Recorded at Noble Street Studios (strings) and The Orange Lounge (piano) in Toronto. Engineered by Spencer Sunshine. Mixed and mastered by Gabriel Gutiérrez Arellano at Grayson Music Group. Album cover artwork by Jack Stewart.

This project was made possible by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

seavoda - iii. midnight

The fifth and final movement of my classical-contemporary piece, seavoda, dedicated to the five layers of the ocean.

In the deep sea trenches, hadal is the last layer of the ocean, where the Earth’s tectonic plates crush against each other. This is signified by the rumbling tremolo swells from the low strings at the beginning of the movement. It is very hard for any life to survive in this part of the world, yet miraculously, it is not impossible. Solo piano enters and dedicates a solemn yet warm melody to these isolated slivers of existence. However, instead of maintaining a pulse like in abyssal, it is time to take that minuscule light from within and push on. Piano turns into ascending blocks of chords over growing string tremolos. Instead of sitting in darkness and allowing it to take over, the music is determined to hold onto hope and fight through the trenches. Whatever obstacle materializes, we must move ahead.

Darren Creech - piano
Lorenzo Guggenheim - strings conductor
Sam Bisson - music contractor

Recorded at Noble Street Studios (strings) and The Orange Lounge (piano) in Toronto. Engineered by Spencer Sunshine. Mixed and mastered by Gabriel Gutiérrez Arellano at Grayson Music Group. Album cover artwork by Jack Stewart.

This project was made possible by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

seavoda - v. hadal

The fourth movement from my classical contemporary piece, seavoda, dedicated to the four layers of the ocean.

Very few forms of life survive in this level of the ocean due to the freezing temperatures, extreme pressure, and absolute darkness. The ending of “midnight”’s sinister and desolate tone carries into the beginning of this movement. Daunting sounds and static fill the space. However, instead of continuing this descent into madness and isolation, the piano returns in a steady minimal pace (acting almost like a heartbeat) along with cautiously growing muted strings. This movement is meant to channel calm and light from within the darkness. The expanding swells of trilled strings against the steady piano pulse signify warmth and calm taking control in fear and chaos. This is what abyssal strives to give the listener before the final movement.

Darren Creech - piano
Lorenzo Guggenheim - strings conductor
Sam Bisson - music contractor

Recorded at Noble Street Studios (strings) and The Orange Lounge (piano) in Toronto. Engineered by Spencer Sunshine. Mixed and mastered by Gabriel Gutiérrez Arellano at Grayson Music Group. Album cover artwork by Jack Stewart.

This project was made possible by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

seavoda - iv. abyssal

The second movement of my classical contemporary piece, seavoda, dedicated to the five layers of the ocean.

Between light and darkness, there is twilight. While significantly more absent of sunlight as we move deeper in the ocean, the twilight zone contains a treasure of activity due to the extra depth of protection from exploitative fishing practices and other man-made damage. This is reflected in the music by the piano’s briskly minimalist motif that propels the movement forward. As the strings and synths enter, the piano continues as a rhythmic engine while the cellos carry a soaring melody.

Out of all the movements, twilight is the most inspired by melodically-driven film scores, particularly those of composer James Horner. It represents beauty, vibrancy, and imagination… all the wonder we absorb when we see clusters of colourful ocean life. After one last emotional push near the end, violins play overlapping descending glisses that get lower and lower as we sink into darkness and uncertainty.

Darren Creech - piano
Lorenzo Guggenheim - strings conductor
Sam Bisson - music contractor

Recorded at Noble Street Studios (strings) and The Orange Lounge (piano) in Toronto. Engineered by Spencer Sunshine. Mixed and mastered by Gabriel Gutiérrez Arellano at Grayson Music Group. Album cover artwork by Jack Stewart.

This project was made possible by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

seavoda - ii. twilight

Composer, sound artist, field recordist, multi-instrumentalist and singer.

My work is diverse and expressed through many different genres, media and projects: live performances (electronic music, jazz, rock, classical, early music, free improvisation, vocal polyphony, North Indian classical music...), electroacoustic compositions, phonography, music scores and soundtracks for films, dance and theater plays.

My gurus: 
Floris Nico Bunink (jazz piano)
Jean-Claude Ledoux (natural sciences)
Thierry Thibault and Arnaud Boukhitine (tuba)
Ustads Sayeeduddin Dagar and Wasifuddin Dagar (North Indian ‘dhrupad’ singing)
Allan Wright (singing technique)

As part of bands or under my own name, I performed in many different venues and festivals in more than 20 countries around the world, from Vietnam to Chile, Australia to Costa Rica....

Recent highlights include sound creations commissioned by Festival “En chair et en son” (Paris, 2016), “World sacred music festival of Fès” (Morocco, 2017), "Un autre Orient" (carte blanche to festival "Les Orientales", in "Lieu Unique", Nantes, 2017), "Each morning of the world" (2018 and 2019, web releases), and for the show "Baul & Alpona" with Parvathy Baul (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2019). 
In 2024, I have been awarded the prizes for the best original score and the best sound design in the “French Duck Film Festival” (Paris, Fr.), and the prize for the best original score in the festival “Feel the reel” (Glasgow, UK), for my work in the film “Sleeping Jade”, directed by Jonathan Boissinot.

Worked with Simha Arom, Ugo Boscain, Mico Nissim, Parvathy Baul, Ludwin Bernaténé, Gyohei Zaitsu, Christiane Bopp, Alain Weber, Julie Mondor, Marc Niess, Theater Titanick, Ulik, Fanfare Le SNOB, Ramzi Aburedwan, François Ribac, Solène Cerutti, Moon Pallas, Coup d'Marron, François Morel, and many more...

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Undergraduate student at Colorado State University graduating in 2026.

i'm a composer for film, tv and the concert hall.

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