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

Jacqueline Fontyn "Horizons" (1977) excerpt
Ensemble21 string quartet
Live @ Festival LOOP13 Brussels
19/10/2023 Le Senghor
Ensemble21
Violins : Aymeric de Villoutreys, Laurent Houque
Viola : Akiko Okawa
Cello : Merryl Havard



Recorded by Pierre Bartholomé (GreenField Studio)

Jacqueline Fontyn "Horizons" 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

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

Since 2002, le Forum de la Création Musicale is the official composers association of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, and is strong of more than 90 members. 
Le Forum holds two festivals : festival LOOP and Belgian Music Days; is giving a prize for young composers (prix André Souris) and is holding regular workshops and events.
Le Forum is ISCM Wallonia-Brussels section and a member of ECSA

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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home : www.cguiraud.com

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