Ensemble Aleph

Dominique Clément - clarinette
Jean-Charles François - percussion
Sylvie Drouin – piano 
Noëmi Schindler - violon
Christophe Roy - violoncelle
Michel Pozmanter - Direction

Création, 8 Février 2015 "Les dimanche de création par l'Ensemble Aleph". Théâtre de l'aquarium. 

Kallfü (2015)

El Sabor De Los Colores

Disolverse - English Version

ALEGORÍA I (1992)
Live recording of the Danish premiere at the OpenDays Festival 2025.
Double bass: Ivan Medvedev.

ALEGORÍA I (1992)

YEMAYÁ-OLOKUN (2023.Rev.2024)
Live recording of the premiere of the revised version, at the OpenDays Festival 2025, DK.
Double bass: Ivan Medvedev; Piano: Maria Eshpai.
Picture: Louise Hansen.

YEMAYÁ-OLOKUN (2023.Rev.2024)

…De Bord d'Attaque…
for saxophone, accordion and live electronics
Performed by Olivier Duverger, saxophone & Léna François-Poulet, accordion
World premiere recorded on April 22, 2025 at Radio France https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/creation-mondiale-l-integrale/de-bord-d-attaque-de-javier-munoz-bravo-diffusion-integrale-7865012

With the creation of Javier Muñoz Bravo, we navigate between entomology, music, and poetry. The title of his suite …De Bord d’Attaque… refers to a concept from aerodynamics, describing the phenomenon that occurs when an insect beats its wings. At the leading edge (“bord d’attaque”) of the wing, an air vortex is formed.

This natural phenomenon is poetically translated into music, drawing a parallel with the use of breath and air in the saxophone and accordion. Alongside this, the electronic part sometimes acts as an orchestral extension of the instruments, transforming and reshaping their sounds in real time. At other moments, it becomes an autonomous element, creating sonic universes, atmospheres, and virtual textures in harmony—or in counterpoint—with the instruments.

Electronics also take on the role of a “virtual brain” that actively participates in the “flight of insects” within this work, through a probabilistic system based on a database of hundreds of saxophone and accordion sounds, which the machine selects and unfolds throughout the piece.

…De Bord d’Attaque… explores, in a metaphorical way, five specific aspects of insect flight, linked together in a continuous form:

+Chrysalide (fragment 1): an inner sound-image of life and development inside the chrysalis, before becoming a butterfly. Muffled low sounds, grainy electronic textures, and the narrow breaths of saxophone and accordion create a sense of waiting and tension.
+Mue imaginale (fragment 2): the final stage of metamorphosis in insects such as butterflies or beetles, when they pass from chrysalis to adulthood, the imago.
+Deux cerveaux (fragment 3): inspired by the insect nervous system. The two musicians embody the dual brains necessary for the survival of a small insect, each bringing an essential dimension to its emergence and evolution. Electronics, as a third brain, generate a virtual world in constant interaction with the others.
+Turbulence (fragment 4): the complex dynamics of insect flight in an unstable environment. Each turbulence is absorbed and integrated, like a living sonic ecosystem in perpetual reinvention. Nothing is fixed, everything is in motion.
+De bord d’attaque (fragment 5): the suite closes with a condensed form of the previous fragments, zooming in on the leading-edge vortex—an essential aerodynamic phenomenon for many flying insects. Unlike birds, which generally flap their wings up and down, insects perform a more complex and dynamic motion: their wings converge and project rapidly in multiple directions. This motion generates greater lift and allows them to maneuver with remarkable agility.

Sound engineering team: Kevin Delcourt, Inès De Bruyn
Artistic direction: Cyprien Matheu
Coordination: Enzo Barsottini

...De Bord_d'Attaque...

Lí Ban

FANTAISIE-IMPROMPTU (2018-2022.Rev. 2024)
live recording of a rehearsal. 2025
accordion: Adam Ørvad

FANTAISIE-IMPROMPTU (2018-2022.Rev. 2024)

Lights of years past (2007)
(Six Haiku for soprano and guitar)
Lyrics: BASHO
I. Ligths of years past
II. Yellow rose
III. In the garden
IV. The divine glass
V. Moonlit
VI. Soldiers’ dreams
Live recording of the premiere, on July 16, 2007, at the Vendsyssel Festival, DK.
performed by: Soprano: Maria Juul Bennedbæk/Guitar: Mikkel Andersen

LIGHTS OF YEARS PAST (2007)

Lights of years past (excerpts) III-V(2007)
(Six Haiku for soprano and guitar)
Lyrics: BASHO
III. In the garden
IV. The divine glass
V. Moonlit
Live recording of the premiere, on July 16, 2007, at the Vendsyssel Festival, DK.
performed by: Soprano: Maria Juul Bennedbæk/Guitar: Mikkel Andersen

LIGHTS OF YEARS PAST excerpts(III-V)

BO du film Ginko, femmes vie liberté. création originale. Hervé Mazaury.
chant soprano: Marie Laure Frinzi., enregistrée à l'église de Brigueuil (16)

Kallfü (2015)

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