For clarinet and fixed sounds in 5.1
Duration: Circa 12 minutes 30
Commissioned by the French State and CNCM La Muse en Circuit
for Philippe Berrod
Premiered in the monographic concert on 11th June 2002 in Carré Sylvia Monfort in the frame of the programming of “La Muse en Circuit” −Festival Extension du domaine de la note.
Audio file:
Philippe Berrod, clarinette
Recorded for the CD Sainte Nitouche et ses satellites. Transaural Version
Forking Paths (Urbana 19)
For soprano, saxophone and electronics
To Claude Delangle
Commissioned by Société Selmer
This work is part of the Urbana Cycle (25 works from the solo electronics to the orchestra which have in common the relationship with the town, the urban space).
The work follows a multitude of paths regarding the relative time or a parallel time, which is also present in the almost homonym Borge’s «El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan » [“The Garden of Forking Paths”].
In a technical point of view, this work is historically the first conceived and realized entirely in a surround system (in 5.1). The whole electronic material was recorded and processed in a multichannel system.
Divided into five large sections of circa 2 minutes, the piece explores the different faces of the coexistence, the player’s time and a multitude of sounds as an echo more or less near the main instrument. There are many layers of pre-recorded saxophones (the soprano but also the alto, baryton and the Tubax) which really are counterpoints or counter-words. But there is also a microtonal piano, the air of a bicycle pump, horses, planes, and many other parallel universes.
From the protagonist’s role of the player, the audience will be led to discover the multiple paths of the discourse, between an active hearing and a contemplative distance.
Luis Naón
Senderos… que bifurcan
Géraud Étillard, saxophone
Version Transaural du disque « Sainte Nitouche et ses satellites ».
La Muse en circuit
* Editions Gérard Billaudot, collection Vincent David.
[ Urbana Cycle ]
[ Solo instrument / with or without electronics ]
For a double (or divided) orchestra and electronics.
Commissioned by the State with a pedagogical purpose.
Premiered by Seine-Saint-Denis Jeune Philharmonique on 1st April 2003.
The original name for his work is a junction of Double Urbana (U 17 – CROSS AND FICTIONS) and an electroacoustic extension.
For diatonic bandoneon and orchestra.
Recorded 30th May 2004 in Radio France Maison for the emission of “Alla Breve” of France Musique.
Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio France
directed by Kiryl Karabits, soloist bandoneon Per Arne Glorvigen.
Duration: circa 12 minutes.
Dedicated to Per Argen Glorvigen and Rut Schereiner “criollos de pura cepa” (full-blooded creoles)
This piece, as opposed to what might be thought, does not have any elements from a classical overture. Continue reading Oberture Urbana (2004) (Urbana 5)
Lascaux Urbana (2004)
For multichannel support (5.1)
The musical part of Lascaux Urbana, originally composed for multichannel equipment is a commission by the State of the French Culture and Communication Ministry.
Premiered at Musiques Inventives d’Annecy, Bonlieu Scène Nationale on Nov. the 3d 2004.
Three pieces for 4 timbales.
for Guillaume Lantonnet and Jean Geoffroy
Cette œuvre est en filiation directe avec Obertura Urbana, concerto pour bandonéon et orchestre (Urbana 4) dont j’ai extrait la partie de timbale du premier mouvement. Celle-ci, devenue la première de ces trois pièces, a été le point de départ d’un nouveau travail.
Continue reading Three pieces for 4 timbales. (2007) (Urbana 5b)
For flute, clarinet, cello, harp, percussion, fixed sounds and video.
Commissioned by Laborintus ensemble with the support of SACEM.
Lascaux Expérience is a true net inside the net of the 24+1 composition-cycle: Urbana. The project has its origins in 1997. Continue reading Lascaux expérience (2005-2007) (Urbana 2.b)
For an instrument and electronic.
Commissioned by the IRCAM – Centre Georges Pompidou.
Caprices 1 & 2 for violin and live electronics.
Caprices 3 & 4 for bass clarinet and live electronics.
Caprices 5 & 6 for percussion and live electronics.
For Soprano, Mezzosoprano, 2 clarinets, horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass and electronic.
Commissioned by the State of France for the Ensemble Itinéraire.
Circa 27 minutes.
Fermata is the last piece of the Urbana cycle, which officially started in 1998 and that includes prior works. The oldest, “Más allá del rojo” is from 1991. The cycle has 25 pieces (24+1) which range from electroacoustics and soloist with electronics to chamber music, chamber opera, monodrama and orchestra.
Portraits Crachés (Urbana 13) (2013)
Faithful (scratched) Portraits
For acordeon, 2 percussions, fixed sound and video projection.
Drawings by Abel Robino, video by Diego Pittaluga.
Based on texts by Yves Pages
Commissioned by INA-GRM. Released in Radio France on 11 May 2013.
Images by Abel Robino and Diego Pittaluga.
Prière d’insérer ces sans dialogue fixe, omis de la première heure, caractères jamais imprimés, pseudo-pseudos, prépilonnés d’office, dyslexiques sexuels, oisifs inter-cérébraux, incompossibles mutuels, fausses notes en bas de page,… sociétaires du pestacle, personnages en fin de droits, , petites natures mortes au travail, sculpteurs sans statut…
