2. Cycle: Les Princesses / The Princesses, 8. For dancing, All the compositions

The Princesses

Événement Chorégraphique et Musical

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C’est avec un grand plaisir que je participe à ce projet artistique. En effet, l’ambition de ce spectacle, au-delà de la découverte d’un nouvel espace, le théâtre de Poitiers, destiné à la diffusion artistique en général, est la réunion d’un ensemble marquant la création chorégraphique depuis les années 80.

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1. Cycle: Urbana, 5. Solo instrument /with or without electronics

Clairière (2002) (Urbana 14)

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 

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1. Cycle: Urbana, 5. Solo instrument /with or without electronics

Senderos…que bifurcan (2002-03) (Urbana 19)

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.

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Oberture Urbana (2004) (Urbana 5)

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)

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1. Cycle: Urbana, 5. Solo instrument /with or without electronics, All the compositions

Three pieces for 4 timbales. (2007) (Urbana 5b)

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.

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