• « le déchirèrent, chantant encore, et çà et là ... »
{Tombeau de Pier Paolo Pasolini} , Commande de l'Ensemble ICTUS et du festival Ars Musica.
Pour 7 instrumentistes, bandes, electronics.
Pour 3 groupes sur 3 scenes. ( 18' ) (23 Mars 2014)
* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - Sept 2017)
• « A woman bathing in a stream », Commande du festival Ars Musica (Haptomai I, II, III, FULL) ( 21 ' ) /
pour 7 instrumentistes, bandes and real-time electronics.
Performed and created by Ensemble 21 (22 Nov 2014).
* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - Sept 2017)
• « Le Miroir (for Pierrot Rewrite) », Commande du festival Ars Musica. Musique pour 6 instrumentistes
( 2' 30) {miniature} (30 Nov 2014).
• « κλείστε τα μάτια »
( Kl . ei . s . te . ta . m . a . ti . a )
Long cycle en trois parties, pour "18" musiciens and "things".
Based on recorded rehearsal's material, with various instrumental ensembles and my written musical pieces, from this last years (on private recorded archives-mozaik never released), decomposed, recomposed, just a fragment, a movement, a note, a massive part, a shadow, sand, luciole(s) ///////// ----------------> About "our" Greece and Arab world latter-day, since and till today.
Part I et II (Studio version, ≈ 45 ').
* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - Sept 2017)
• « Apicale {Solo} » /// with Stéphane Ginsburgh,
musique pour 1 instrumentiste
(Piano, Keys-electronics), transducers et bandes ( ≈ 23 ' ) Résidence à la Maison de la création Bruxelles, Mai 2016. (Commande de S.Ginsburgh). Création mondiale 30 avril 2017, (Festival N.B.T + Sonar), Les Brigittines, Bruxelles.
* will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa (2018)
• « κλείστε τα μάτια »
( Kl . ei . s . te . ta . m . a . ti . a ) - {Part III - Le gouffre à l'étambot, la célérité de la rampe}
for the studio version.
With the beautiful collaboration/interpretation of
André-Marc Delcourt on various flûte(s) (contrabasse, alto and things...)
* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - Sept 2017)
• « Hiera picra Hellébores » {Studio version}
(Guitares électriques, audio-devices, electronics, prepared objects, bow) performed by Nina Garcia (Mariachi) and Catherine Guesde. Composed and made out of cells fragment and blocks (live & studio).
A studio version for the "Hiera picra Hellébores" ‘s Mvnt I & II,
based on various bow movements and prepared objects.
* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - Sept 2017)
• « Hiera picra Hellébores » {Solo}
(Guitare électrique, audio-devices, electronics, pedal-boards). Commissioned by Tom Pauwels,
will be created and performed by Tom Pauwels (& Ictus).
Création mondiale 02 Mai 2017, Nuits du Beaux Tas, Bruxelles, et 24 Juin 2017, Gand, Handelsbeurs Concertzaal (Ictus).
• « Apicale {Augmented} » /// with Ensemble Fractales, musique pour 6 instrumentistes, transducers, électroniques temps-réel et bandes ( ≈ 16 ' ) ( ≈ Sept 2018 ) (Commande de l'Ensemble Fractales).
• « Hiera picra Hellébores / Collection 2011-2016 » About instrumental pieces from this last five years. Written instrumental and electronics works, with various ensembles.
(≈ 120 ' / Double CD) / for Sub Rosa
----> ! GRAB A COPY HERE !
• « A (1,M) - A (6,R) - B (4,E) - le rayon, la blanc m'a ridé. la lumière blanc m'a ridé »
Writing, words, and narrated voice by Julien Boutonnier
according to the book «M.E.R.E».
(for voices, percussions, electric-guitars, Ensemble, real-time electronics, & tapes). Composed and made out of cells fragment and blocks (live & studio).
With wonderful guests : Breathtaking fragments of breathes from André-Marc Delcourt. Fragments of sung voices from Patricia Capdevielle.
--------> Julien Boutonnier's Balises website
• « HIERA PICRA HELLÉBORES » {Solo} {Studio}
{Solo electric-guitar}
Written and Scored for Tom Pauwels
(Commissioned, created, and performed by Tom Pauwels).
For a Contra-Naturam upcoming production
(ICTUS/SUB ROSA music label, 2018/19).
Recording : Alex Fostier at HAL Studio Bruxelles,
13 Nov 2017.
• « Regarde les colonnes » {Solo}
for Grand piano & Electronics
Commissioned, created, and performed by Caterina Roberti,
at the 13ème Concours international de piano d'Orléans,
11 Mars 2018, france.
Excerpt-Trailer here ! ----> H E R E
* will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa (2018) (accompanied by the piece "Apicale")
• « Unfinished Altar {JEIN, PIERROT, My Own Private Creatures} »
for 5 voices, Ensemble, spoken voice, & Electronics (Written & studio version).
Composed and made out of cells fragment and blocks (live & studio). With the pristine and haunted spoken-voice of Bernard Sberro and his gorgeous recording session for and from Yehuda Amichai’s Love poems «Now in the Storm»
( עכשו ברעש )
TRAILER HERE ! ------> H E R E
Surrounded by a merged work ("installation")
between Iris Terdjiman's paintings and Guiraud's sonic-threads, for the Blooming Festival, Pergola, Italy, 22/23 june 2018. Soon more info . . .
* will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa (2018)
• « UNFINISHED ALTAR - for 5 voices & electronics »
for 5 voices & electronics
Commissioned by Ensemble Tarentule,
residency from 18 to 21 of june 2018,
for a recording-session and a concert at the end.
Paroisse de Saint Saturnin à Champigny-sur-Marne (XII th century). Composed after Iris Terdjiman's maps cycle "DAS GEWIRR". UNFINISHED ALTAR is related to "DAS GEWIRR III", lyrics come from words chosen from this map, into the mirror, with various phonems for each musician.
. . . and composed towards "who knows" 's ALTAMIRA-film-sequence (grotte d'Altamira).
"Das Gewirr" from Iris Terdjiman's work ----> HERE (Das Gewirr III ).
EXCERPT TRAILER recording ---------> H E R E !
• « UNFINISHDEW ORTHOTHENA - For 10 voices, electronics, and an endless trip »
for 10 voices, real-time electronic(s), tape(s)
• • • • • • • • • • > Special dedication for and towards Iris Terdjiman.
Based on 10 recorded voices live, by Tarentule Ensemble,
in Champigny-sur-Marne, in June 2018.
And based on recorded fragments, field, in Athens, april 2018, street, and in the Cathédrale de l’Annonciation, Mitropoleos, Athina, Καθεδρικός Ναος Ευαγγελισμού της Θεοτόκου, into the night, during the easter celebration (Pascha).
AUDIO FULL TRACK --------> H E R E !
• « UNFINISHED ALTAR {per Voci (cantate, narrate), Ensemble, ed Elettronici tempi-reale} »
(Double-Vinyl 33 rpm project, in progress.
on SUB ROSA music label, beginning 2019)
with :
G E S U A L D O
C A R D E W
G U I R A U D
with wonderful guests :
Bernard Sberro
Julien Boutonnier
Tarentule Ensemble
Iris Terdjiman
and many others, soon, more info . .
AUDIO EXCERPTS --------> H E R E !
• " DAS GEWIRR and UNFINISHED ALTAR,
Espace Senghor, 12 janvier 2019 "
A new deep sonic-project, commissioned by Espace Senghor and Céline Rallet, Brussels,
a "carte blanche" night for Christophe Guiraud,
after Iris Terdjiman's maps cycle "DAS GEWIRR",
4 maps 4 pieces of music, musicians hidden behind the maps, with 4 podiums around the audience, in a lovely place (Espace Senghor) . . . All instruments and electronics gear will be amplified. With two electronics pieces with narrator (Julien Boutonnier (excerpt--> Here), and Bernard Sberro), and two new ensemble-instrumental pieces, {world premières}, by LAPS Ensemble { for 8 musicians, electronics, and the composer. Two new versions of "Unfinished Altar & Unfinishdew Orthothena" },
called "UNFINISHED ALTAR (#1 Kutra Bégulma / #2 Unfinishdew Orthothena)"
• « Kleiste ta Matia III » (Concert-version for 5 musicians)
Kleiste ta Matia III, concert-version for 5 musicians, audio-devices, and real-time electronics.
Commissioned by LES NUITS DU BEAU TAS festival (Bruxelles), Mai 2019.
With the breath-taking performer André-Marc Delcourt (Contra-basse flute traversière), 1 bass-flute, and strings-trio.
Soon, more info.
