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Christophe GUIRAUD is a contemporary composer and sound artist who combines scored pieces for acoustic instruments, electronically generated sound, field recordings, realtime and fixed media. Currently works and has been collaborating since several years with numerous European ensembles and musicians such as Ensemble 21, Sturm und Klang, Ryan/Mitchell/Zeitlin/Blunt quartet, Ensemble La Grive, Ensemble Ictus, Ensemble Tarentule, Phønix 16 Ensemble, Laps Ensemble, Julien Boutonnier, Benjamin Glorieux, Tom Pauwels and André-Marc Delcourt. His music has been performed at Ars Musica festival (Bruxelles) and is released on Sub Rosa music label.




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"Pour que les Coeurs mûrissent cet été"

• { Aria II / Aria I } •


Commissioned, created, and beautifully performed by

GAME Ensemble (Ictus's school)


• Nuits du Beau Tas festival, Brussels, 4 may 2019 •



* πάλιν δρόμος / Palindrome

* Composing process based on palindromic patterns.

Palindromic musical Arias for 6 musicians



GAME is Gent Advanced Master Ensemble


MORE INFO HERE <<< FULL AUDIO TRACK HERE <<<

"Copper roll's folds, copper roll's awed, wrinkled thoughts"


* * * Live Electronics performance premiere * * *


created & performed by


Timo Kreuser : Prepared-Turntables and full audio-devices Christophe Guiraud : Laptop and full audio-devices


This live-fragment was extracted from a 40' set recorded live.


NBT festival, le Lac, Brussels, 4 may 2019



* * * Première rencontre, soon more info..............

* * * Beautiful project going on ..........




AUDIO EXCERPT HERE <<<

KUTRA BÉGULMA • UNFINISHED ALTAR

{ per Voci, Ensemble, ed Elettronici tempi-reale }


Double-Vinyl 33 rpm, and download/cd project, in progress,

on SUB ROSA music label • (≈ June 2019)


with wonderful guests :

Tarentule Ensemble (Paris)

Phønix 16 Ensemble (Berlin)

Laps Ensemble (Brussels)

Julien Boutonnier (Toulouse)

Bernard Sberro (Tel Aviv)

Pauline Claes (Brussels)

Jessica Constable (London)

Iris Terdjiman (Napoli)


* Will be released around june 2019 *


Soon, more info . . .


MORE INFO & DETAILS HERE <<< AUDIO EXCERPTS HERE <<<

" Harness on the left nail keeps wrinkling : I'll give you 21 21 21 • {Rouleau de cuivre VI/VII} "


(COMPLETED / mastered version)


• A star-spangled phenomenon, undeniably, dedicated to

Scott Walker, passed away.



for Electronics (emulator Cords synthesis), guitar(s), string quintet, voices.

Composed and made out of cells fragment and blocks (live & studio).


* Electronics, acoustic/electric guitar(s), voices : C. Guiraud.

* String quintet : "Stravaggio" second thema, Ensemble La Grive

* KTM II's song thema : C.Guiraud.


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019


FULL AUDIO TRACK HERE <<<

" K . APICALLIS ARCANø { Rouleau de cuivre V } "


Dedicated to Mark David Hollis, Guy-Marc Hinant,

and Iris Terdjiman


* With the overwhelmed Edgar Hilsenrath's voice (hebrew/yiddish narrator) from radio documentary of Christine Lecerf, realized by Franck Lilin.

* Piano + electronics Score "Apicale", commissioned, created, and performed by Stéphane Ginsburgh, 04/2017, les Brigittines, Bruxelles.

* Ensemble La Grive's matter (strings/winds/electronics) (created, performed, and recorded by Ensemble La Grive)


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019



FULL AUDIO TRACK HERE <<<

« Pour que les Coeurs mûrissent cet été »

(Kleiste ta Matia III's Concert-version for 6 musicians)

* { Premiere } *

for 6 musicians, audio-devices, and real-time electronics. Commissioned by LES NUITS DU BEAU TAS festival (Bruxelles),

4 Mai 2019, Le Lac.

With the breathtaking performers :

André-Marc Delcourt ----> Doublebass flute /

G.A.M.E ensemble (Ictus school) ----> Bassflute & Strings trio / C.Guiraud ----> Electronics fixed & realtime.

Open concert with an astonishing electronics duo ---->

Timo Kreuser & C.Guiraud


more info HERE <<<

" SUB ROSA Festival, 23 Fev 2019, BRASS, Bruxelles "

Invited, honored, will be there for an electronics live and the issue of my next double-vinyl "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar", will be surrounded by the Iris Terdjiman's Marvels ------------------> two giant polyptychs (13 paintings total). Will be a fantastic night.


AUDIO FULL HERE <<<

" Hiera picra Hellébores, Solo Electric-guitar,

Open Ear festival, BBC Radio 3, London, 19 janv 2019, by Tom Pauwels"

Hiera picra Hellébores will be performed for the BBC 3 by the great Tom Pauwels ! at Open Ear festival, Old street, London,

19 janv 2019.

The concert will be recorded and broadcast later on BBC Radio 3. (Studio version, will be issued on Contra-Naturam collection ----> ICTUS/SUB ROSA ≈ sept 2019)


AUDIO EXCERPT STUDIO HERE <<<

" K . Fauvarquø {Rouleau de cuivre II} (for Electronics and Ensemble) In memoriam Sébastien Fauvarque " {Sébastien passed away ten years ago, his beautiful spirit remains} Studio version with : Emulator processor (E-IV vintage sampler) electronics, 2 bass-flutes, strings trio, and Jessica Constable for the voce.

* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019



AUDIO FULL TRACK HERE <<<

" DAS GEWIRR +/- UNFINISHED ALTAR, Espace Senghor, 12 janvier 2019 "

A new deep sonic-project, commissioned by Espace Senghor, 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 and doublebass-flute (Julien Boutonnier & André-Marc Delcourt) and two new ensemble-instrumental pieces, *{world premières}*,

by LAPS Ensemble for 9 musicians and electronics, with the pristine mezzo-voce Pauline Claes.

* "UNFINISHED ALTAR (#1 Kutra Bégulma / #2 Unfinishdew Orthothena)" was commissioned by Espace Senghor, Brussels.


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019


AUDIO EXCERPTS HERE <<<

" #9 KUTRA BÉGULMA Songs Talea I, II, & III "


Performed, created, and recorded by the rare and beautiful

PHøNIX 16 Ensemble


for Voci Trio & Electronics

S / Mz / T


Recorded by Michael Havenstein


{ Fuori dal tempo, canzone d'amore, stella del sonno }


• AUDIO EXCERPT Talea I & II & more info --------> H E R E


• AUDIO EXCERPT Talea III --------> H E R E


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019


AUDIO EXCERPTS HERE <<<

" K . Mørodian {Rouleau de cuivre I} (for electronics and ensemble) - Miniatu{r}e "

Based on LAPS Ensemble's Tapes, for an upcoming creation with 9 musicians and electronics on stage, janv 2019 (Espace Senghor Bruxelles ----> DAS GEWIRR +/- UNFINISHED ALTAR)

Studio version with : 7 Emulator filters (E-IV vintage samplers. Cords section), Electric guitar, Bass-clarinet, Strings-trio, Mezzo voce, Electronics real-time on instruments, and tapes.


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019


FULL AUDIO TRACK HERE <<<

« UNFINISHDEW ORTHOTHENA {Rouleau de cuivre III} - For Electronics, 10 voices, and 5 strings »

{Completed and full version} • • • • • • • • • • >

Special dedication for and towards Iris Terdjiman.


Based on

10 recorded voices live, by Tarentule Ensemble, in Champigny-sur-Marne, in June 2018.

Strings quintet by Ensemble La Grive.

Emulator processor (E-IV) real-time and fixed electronics.

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).


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019



FULL AUDIO TRACK HERE <<<

« UNFINISHED ALTAR - for 5 voices & electronics »

for 5 voices & electronics

Commissioned, created, & performed by Ensemble Tarentule


Residency from 18 to 21 of june 2018.

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 ----> H E R E

(Das Gewirr III ).


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019


AUDIO EXCERPT HERE <<<

« Unfinished Altar {Jein, pierrot, my own private creatures} »

• Towards Bernard Sberro

• Dedicated \spe.sjal de.di.kas\ to Iris Terdjiman • • • • • • •

• Deep thoughts Guy Marc Hinant


for 5 voices, Ensemble, spoken voice, & electronics. 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 ) in hebrew version.

* Strings quintet sessions, winds sessions, percussions, voices choir, from Ensemble La Grive and Ensemble 21.

* «Le Miroir», commissioned by Ars musica’s «Pierrot rewrite», created & performed by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles (new version with electronics) (Voice by Pauline Claes).

* Electronics, guitars, from C.Guiraud.


* Will be issued on "Kutra Bégulma • Unfinished Altar"

(double-vinyl / download / cd)

for Sub Rosa music label ≈ may 2019



FULL AUDIO TRACK HERE <<<

« HIERA PICRA HELLÉBORES »


{Solo} {Studio} {Solo electric-guitar}

(Electric-guitar 7 strings, audio-devices, electronics, pedal-boards)


Written and Scored for Tom Pauwels

Commissioned, created, performed, and recorded by

Tom Pauwels


For a Contra-Naturam upcoming production

(ICTUS/SUB ROSA music label, ≈ sept 2019).


Recording : Alex Fostier at HAL Studio Bruxelles, 13 Nov 2017.


STUDIO AUDIO EXCERPT HERE <<<

« le déchirèrent, chantant encore, et çà et là ... »


{ Tombeau de Pier Paolo Pasolini }


Commande de l'Ensemble ICTUS et du festival Ars Musica.


(The ensemble was split into three groups performing on three different stages around the audience)


"le déchirèrent, chantant encore, et çà et là dispersèrent ses membres pleins d'harmonie"

{ Tombeau de Pier Paolo Pasolini }


Pour 7 instrumentistes, bandes, electronics.

( 18' ) (23 Mars 2014)


A night around an Ars Subtilior program, lengthy, will unfold in a single curve on four sets, according to the rules of echo.

With medieval works, modern works, and new piece, commissioned by the Ictus ensemble.

With, fortunately, musicians-interpreters from Wien : Beauté Parfaite



* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016 ")


AUDIO FULL TRACK HERE <<<

" Gerd van Looy ( Ictus ) —

The Observer as Part of the Experience

( A self portrait by Klangforum Wien ) "


{..."Ictus as an ensemble performing recently composed music, acts in the shadow of the classical music scene. Today however, we find ourselves in a situation where the modes of production prevailing in this sector are increasingly in conflict with our artistic ambitions. The given infrastructure, the related economy, the political and artistic agenda of the venues we work with, often hinder our need for an alternative work process that can result in unpredictable formats, carefully tuned communication, and/or a particular way the public can engage." ...}

(published on 4. December 2018)


Thank you very much Gerd ! for quoting me in this very clever and interesting interview by the Klangforum Wien.


Klangforum's full portrait here <<<