For tuba (and bass trombone), percussion and electroacoustic device.

Commissioned by the Interface ensemble

Déclives premiered in June, 1992 at the Chapelle Auguste Perret, Arcueil by Gérard Buquet and Daniel Ciampollini.

For Gérard Buquet and Daniel Ciampollini.

Duration: circa 18 minutes.

At the beginning of this work, I thought about relating two series of short pieces. The first one, a new version of a former Déclives, rewritten for baritone saxophone and percussion. The idea was to make it have a dialogue with Alto Voltango for vibraphone and alto saxophone.

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(Five musical poems)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and electronics – circa 15 min.

Commissioned by the MIXTUR Festival for ensemble Diagonal

The very first version of Ka was written for clarinet, horn, violin, cello, percussion and two synthesizers in real time. This new version, the third, is a transcription for flutes, clarinet, violin and cello. The percussion and the synthesizers have been reorganized in fixed electronic sequences. The four acoustic instruments are processed in real time. In the original version the five acoustic instruments were amplified, in this new version the treatments are in precise relation with a time line and are evolved all over the 5 parts of the piece, they are a kind of small orchestra in a strong relationship with the electronic part.

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Five musical poems
For flute, 2 saxophones, clarinette, percussion and electronics.

Commissioned by CIP (International Percussion Centre) for the Hic et Nunc ensemble

The first version of Ka was written for clarinet, French horn, violin, cello, percussion, and two live synthesisers. This new version, transcribed only for wind instruments and percussion, takes up period electronics without retouches or additions.

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KA, “five musical poems” (1993-94) 
For clarinet, horn, violin, cello, percussion, and two synthesisers.

Commissioned by the French Government.
Premiere in February, 1995 by Ensemble TM+,
directed by Laurent Cuniot.

Duration: 22 minutes.

There is no recording of this version.

There are three versions of KA:

KA (93-94) (7.A)
Ka II (2007) (7.B) for flute, clarinet, two saxophones, percussion, and electronic.
Ka III (2015) (7.C) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and electronic.

During the period of creation of this piece I had in mind the idea of a relationship which always seems present, the relationship between music and other forms of art. The secret hope was that these pieces could inspire five poems (true poems, with words), five frames, one film. I know that this hope is born out of solitude and isolation.

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For a trio of clarinets and a trio of strings

Commissioned by TM+ ensemble

The different motivations for the composition of Sextuor « . », together with the languages used to put them into practice (languages that may appear, at first sight, antinomic or whimsical), are materialised as a sort of auditory journey that becomes the play itself. In this journey the ideas take precedence without the stages or states being fully shown. What matters is that from an old memory (either true or false), a new piece can emerge. Continue reading Sextuor « . » (1994-95) (Urbana 25) →

For a mezzo-soprano and piano.

Five songs based on texts by C.E.Feiling

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For accordion, percussion and live dispositive.

Commissioned by IRCAM and the Centre Georges Pompidou

Urbana. Adj.     relating to the city. Plural noun

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For octet: Flute, Clarinet, Bandoneon, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Double bass.

Commissioned by the Orchestra of Paris.

In memory of my father.

Urbana cycle is, in its essence, related with the city, the polis.

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For string quartet.
Editions Gérard Billaudot, for rent.

Commissioned by the Quatuor Liger.

Reading by the Quatuor Liger in the Robino-Naón Exposition – Nantes, May 2001.
Prize “Luis de Narváez” de la Caja de Granada. Premiered in Granada on 2nd April 2002. By Orpheus Quartet.

Circa 17 min.

By its extremely coded essence, the first and almost instantaneously visual image that appears when one sees a string quartet is four musicians playing chamber music. The weight this tradition carries is always heavy in the case of string instruments; in this traditional value scale, the quartet represents the highest and richest musical forms that have given place to outstanding pages in the occidental musical history.

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