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Various works with various Ensembles



HIERA PICRA HELLéBORES - Tom Pauwels - (concert premiere excerpt)




Nuits du Beau Tas festival
Café Central, Bruxelles, 2 mai 2017



HIERA PICRA HELLÉBORES - Performed, created, commissioned by Tom Pauwels (Ictus)
(concert premiere, excerpt)



{ S o l o }

for Electric Guitar
 7 strings

audio-devices, tapes, real-time electronics


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{ baritone tune }
T.circa ≈ 27 à la noire
≈ 18'


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• { about the Black bile }




• { play soft or loud }





*** Thank You so much Tom Pauwels for this tremendous performance.


Thank You so much Les Nuits du Beau Tas, Café Central, and wonderful people.




{Intensely crude recording. Raw version}



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tour dates :

24.06.2017, Gand, Handelsbeurs Concertzaal (Ictus)
• More info HERE ---------> I C T U S E V E



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A P I C A L E -
STÉPHANE GINSBURGH - (concert premiere excerpt)




Nuits du Beau Tas festival, Sonar production, Les Brigittines, Bruxelles, 30 avril 2017





A P I C A L E - Performed, created, commissioned by Stéphane GiINSBURGH
(concert premiere, excerpt)



for Piano,
keyboard,
tapes & real-time electronics





The performance systems using transducers and objects devices to extend and amplify resonances of acoustic instruments. Piano’s body as speaker.







(no usual loudspeakers)







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*** Thank You so much Stéphane Ginsburgh for this stunning performance.



Thank You so much Les Nuits du Beau Tas, Sonar, Les Brigittines, and wonderful people.



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Le piace i lembi della ferita e si avvicini -
Part I (a) - EXCERPT demo - Cycle for children




{studio version}



Masks and claws, saliva of sun's pieces, forgetfulness creatures, without amnesia none



• Cycle for children (but they may not have to be there ?)
In the sonorous body of the child(hood), and his fiercely animal imaginary


{in progress, more info soon}





{ . . . "Mon enfance posée à peine sur la nuit
De papiers enflammés et mêler cette soie
A la rousse splendeur qu'un grand marlou déploie
Du vent calme et lointain qui de son corps s'enfuit.
Pourtant la biche est prise à son piège de feuille
Dans l'aurore elle éveille un adieu transparent
Qui traverse ton œil ton cristal et s'éprend
D'une larme tombée dans la mer qui l'accueille." . . . }
J.G





(PART I = for 3 male voices, percussions, guitar,

real-time electronics, & tapes)


The performance systems using transducers and objects devices to extend and amplify resonances of acoustic instruments. The bodies of percussion and objects as loudspeakers.


Voices, guitar, & percussions use various real-time audio devices





Studio version written, performed, & recorded
by Christophe Guiraud

(Voce-Corale, Percussions, Guitar, Nagra-IV-S, etc..)






Le piace i lembi della ferita e si avvicini -
Part I (b) - EXCERPT demo - Cycle for children



{studio version}




Masks and claws, saliva of sun's pieces, forgetfulness creatures, without amnesia none



• Cycle for children (but they may not have to be there ?)
In the sonorous body of the child(hood), and his fiercely animal imaginary


{in progress, more info soon}




{ . . . "Mon enfance posée à peine sur la nuit
De papiers enflammés et mêler cette soie
A la rousse splendeur qu'un grand marlou déploie
Du vent calme et lointain qui de son corps s'enfuit.
Pourtant la biche est prise à son piège de feuille
Dans l'aurore elle éveille un adieu transparent
Qui traverse ton œil ton cristal et s'éprend
D'une larme tombée dans la mer qui l'accueille." . . . }
J.G




(PART I (b) = for 3 male voices, percussions/keyboards, guitar, strings, real-time electronics, & tapes)



The performance systems using transducers and objects devices to extend and amplify resonances of acoustic instruments. The bodies of percussion and objects as loudspeakers.


Voices, guitar, & percussions use various real-time audio devices




Studio version written, performed, & recorded
by Christophe Guiraud (Voce-Corale, Percussions, Guitar, Nagra-IV-S, etc..)



• with strings from Ensemble La Grive,
• with threaded filaments guitar from Catherine Guesde.

• with otherworldly breathes from André-Marc Delcourt.







κλείστε τα μάτια / Kleiste ta matia -
Le gouffre à l'étambot, la célérité de la rampe - Part III



(Mastered CD version)
* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.


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(with the breathtaking performance of André-Marc Delcourt)


with special and wonderful guests


Based on a written flutes trio. Created and performed by André-Marc Delcourt. On double-bass, alto, and piccolo instruments.


• Strings (quintet) parts from Ensemble La Grive (2012 recorded sessions).


• Spoken voices, Rimbaud ("une saison en enfer" and "illuminations" excerpts) in Latvian (Letton) language,

by Ruta Liepina and Nicolas Auzanneau (Extraits des Illuminations traduits vers le letton par Gita Grīnberga.

Éditions Atēna, Riga 2005).


• Catherine Guesde's rare and beautiful filamentous drones guitars.


• Lodz's "yerushalayim shel zahav" version.


• Michael Grébil 's cister-bowed short fragments.



The piece is a musical sculpture made out of cells fragment and blocks.


For score and realtime audio processing.



{Studio version}

composed between october and november 2016




* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)





Hiera picra Hellébores - ((for Electric guitar(s))) {Studio version} Mvnt I & II - Garcia/Guesde





(Mastered CD version)
* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.

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Mvnt I & II
{Studio version}

• play soft or loud •


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About the black bile


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* Studio version, performed by Catherine Guesde (m{{o}}on) and myself {from 00:00 to 03:41}
and performed by Nina Garcia (Mariachi) and Catherine Guesde { from 03:42 to 09:00}


With her beautiful guitars, pedals, various objects, & bow.

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
(pure, looped, & processed in real time) + electronics




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The final piece (3 movements) will be created and performed in a solo version
by Tom Pauwels (& Ictus). Commissioned by Tom Pauwels


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{ S o l o }

for Electric Guitar

7 strings


tour dates :

02.05.2017, Bruxelles, Nuits du Beaux tas

25.06.2017, Gand, Handelsbeurs Concertzaal (Ictus)
............ ( MORE INFO COMING SOON ---------> )



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{ baritone tune }
T.circa ≈ 27 à la noire
≈ 18'


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* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)




le déchirèrent, chantant encore, et çà et là... -
{ Tombeau de P.P.Pasolini } ICTUS/GUIRAUD



• Audio EXCERPT •
(Mastered CD version)
* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.

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Commissioned, Performed, and Created by ICTUS ensemble
(& Beauté Parfaite from Wien)


"le déchirèrent, chantant encore, et çà et là
dispersèrent ses membres pleins d'harmonie"
{ Tombeau de Pier Paolo Pasolini }


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


Musique pour 7 instrumentistes


Various amplified instruments approach


for the event LiquidRoom V SUBTILIOR



fl / Basse fl : Chrissy Dimitriou (I)
Alto/Bass recorder : Thomas List (BP)
Paetzold recorder : Eva Reiter (BP)
Vl : George Van Dam (I)
Vla : Jeroen Robbrecht (I)
Vcl : Geert De Briève (I)
Keys-electronics, Celesta, tapes : Jean-Luc Plouvier (I)



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 two new pieces, commissioned by the Ictus ensemble.
With, fortunately, musicians-interpreters from Wien : Beauté Parfaite.



Live-Concert at the 23/03/14 Kaaitheater Brussels.



* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)



κλείστε τα μάτια / Kleiste ta matia - Odysseus, Kissed Skin - Part II



(towards and about 130 people)



• Audio EXCERPT •
(Mastered CD version)
* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.

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"κλείστε τα μάτια / Kl ei s te ta m a ti a - Odysseus, Kissed Skin - PART II "
(towards and about 130 people)


About "our" Greece and Arab world latter-day,
(since and till today).
O X I


Long cycle in three parts.
 Based on recorded rehearsal's material, with various instrumental ensembles and my written musical pieces, from this last 5 years (on private recorded archives-mozaik never released).


The piece is a musical sculpture made out of cells fragment and blocks.
For score and realtime audio processing.


With special and wonderful guests.


{Studio version}
composed between august and december 2015



Christophe Guiraud : Composition(s), Cello's, Voices, Chorus, Citharra, Flash, Guitars, etc..


Special moved thanks to,
• Abdul Rahman and Paula Kembora, narrator Voci about Iliad, classical-Arabic and ancient-Greek
• Benjamin Glorieux 's smoldering and sensitive Cello playing
• Matthias Boss 's harsh and emotional Violin playing
• Manfred Langhoff's reading-voce about Homère's Odysseus (recorded session by Caspar Langhoff)
• Christian Vasseur's prepared acoustic guitar recorded session {pretty much everywhere into the piece, in little various fragments, the Gong-and-rubbed acoustic guitar}.



Quotations/Citations :
Carlo Gesualdo’s extact / Tenebrae factae sunt (Vème mvnt)
Luigi Nono ’s short strings (viola/cello) fragment-sentence

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* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)




Fibra Origo - ENSEMBLE TRESSES/GUIRAUD - {392 HZ}



for 3 flûtes Hotteterre and 1 Viole-de-Gamba




• Audio EXCERPT •
(Mastered CD version)
* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.

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fibra Origo - pour 3 flûtes Hotteterre et 1 basse de Viole
(2011)


"Ensemble TRESSES" (determinate and Open-form) for flutes Hotteterre, modern-flûte and flûte-basse, Viole de Gambe, and electronics


Amplified Instruments.
{392 hz}



Ensemble Tresses is :

Laure Stehlin, Dominique Leroy, Pascale Simon : flûtes Hotteterre
(& modern C, G, Basse)
Anne Bernard : Basse-de-Viole



Commissioned, performed, and created by the Ensemble Tresses, March 2012, Brussels.

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* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)



Fosses à Oiseaux - part 11 "Anses portées, tectoniques, caudales"
La grive/guiraud




• Audio EXCERPT •
(Mastered CD version)

* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.

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Fosses à Oiseaux - part 11 - Anses portées, tectoniques, caudales
(2011)


for 9 musicians, electronics and tapes



Laure Stehlin : Flûte moderne, flûte Hotteterre, flûte Alto/basse

Frédéric Piérard : Cor de basset, clarinette si-b, la

Emmanuel Suys : Clarinette basse, si-b, la

Nathalie Huby : Violon

Michael Scoriels : Violon

Sébastien Taminiau : Violon/Contrebasse

Hélène Blesch : Violoncelle


Gabriel Laufer : Direction, percussions


Christophe Guiraud : Composition / électroacoustique, percussions



Commissioned, performed, and created by the Ensemble La Grive,
June 2012, Brussels.




* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)



SHALE / SCHISTE
Goldsmiths university London



Ryan / Mitchell / Zeitlin / Blunt Quartet




• Audio EXCERPT •
(Mastered CD version)

* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.

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Shale/Schiste - Goldsmiths University London
(2012)



"Hollow out the earth for find the sky again,
through the stones, and by the bark of stones"
Shale as a sedimented sheet of rock or stone, and Schiste (the individual stone) bearing the traces of erosion and the impact of water as both phenomena and, to my mind, bearing the traces of past sound, like a primitive sound recording. 
In this way the present piece builds up a dialogue between individual sounds and sheets of sound, as well as present (live) and past (pre-recorded) sound interactions.


3 elements are the meaning of the piece :
 sounds-instruments, sounds tapes, and graphical-background-traces (score's background), each have a "sonic time independence",
 merged into a sort of a nodal point as the event.



David Ryan, Ian Mitchell : Clarinets
Alison Blunt, Joe Zeitlin : Violin and Cello


Christophe Guiraud : electronics


(Direction : David Ryan)



Commissioned, performed, and created by the Ryan / Mitchell / Zeitlin / Blunt Quartet at the Goldsmiths University of London,

20 Oct 2013 (and Kettle's yard Cambridge, 2012).




* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)



κλείστε τα μάτια / Kleiste ta matia - Thaumasia Quadrangle - PART I



• Audio EXCERPT •
(Mastered CD version)
* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, beginning 2017.

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"κλείστε τα μάτια / Kl ei s te ta m a ti a - Thaumasia Quadrangle - PART I "



About "our" Greece and Arab world latter-day,
(since and till today).
O X I


Long cycle in three parts.
Based on recorded rehearsal's material, with various instrumental ensembles and my written musical pieces, from this last 5 years (on private recorded archives-mozaik never released).


The piece is a musical sculpture made out of cells fragment and blocks. For score and realtime audio processing.



With special and wonderful guests


{Studio version}
composed between august and december 2015


Christophe Guiraud : Composition(s), Cello's, Voices, Chorus, Citharra, Flash, Guitars, etc..



Special moved thanks to,
• M{{O}}ON Band (loved hiboux)'s "Étoile-fantôme" extract
• LEL's Ciné-concert extract with and for Sébastien Fauvarque, and into big loves towards his so creepy and elegant memories (the "smashed Square-GDZ ")
• Lodz's spoken-voce, foliage by her words (Pauline Nadrigny)
• Micha Grébil's bowed-Cister recorded beauty-comprovisation
• Christian Vasseur's prepared acoustic guitar recorded session {pretty much everywhere into the piece, in little various fragments}.
• the unknown man with his Tuba, in the middle of the summer
• the unknown shaman (and Florian Gerbaud), in the middle of a winter night (2014), on the street, scream and societal-procession, modern distress



* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - beginning 2017)