Solo works
Étude en blanc n°4 (2025)
part of "6 études en blanc"
Commissioned by ensemble Ars Nova
Instrumentation : méta-piano solo
(Meta-piano = hybrid system combining an electronic device with the acoustic structure of a traditional piano)
Dédication to Lise Baudouin
Performer : Lise Baudouin, méta-piano
Manuel Poletti et Martin Antiphon, computer music designers
Premiere : 26 march 2025
ElectroSession Festival, Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (France)
Approximative duration : 17 to 20 min.
Publisher : L'Octanphare
In this fourth Etude of the cycle, I wish to explore mutation in all its forms, both on the conceptual and structural level (changing the listener's perception of a time that expands or contracts) and of the musical material itself (pitches, timbre, gesture, energy, etc.). To do this, I used an innovative device developed during my research-creation PhD at CNSMDP and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris on piano writing and the notion of evidence (gestural, conceptual, perceptive), the Meta-piano, which allows to include electronic transformations in body of a traditional concert piano, using its soundboard as a diffuser and thus doing without loudspeakers. Similarly, a second digital keyboard is also integrated, as well as a whole intuitive control device by the pianist, thus multiplying his or her playing possibilities and controlling the electronic part in real time. (D.R.)
Etude en blanc n°2: Elégie (2021)
- Hommage à Ravel -
for piano
Dédication: Françoise Thinat and Andrew Zhou
Commissioned by the Fonds de dotation Galaxie-Y
Commercial recording : "Présences Lointaines vol.2"
by Andrew Zhou, label Fy-Solstice (2021)
Creation: January 12, 2022 - Salle Cortot, Paris
Andrew Zhou, piano
Duratio : 9'48
Publisher : BabelScores
Passacaille Mécanique (2022)
for flute
Commissioned by Gaëlle Belot and Festival EnsembleS
Dedication to Gaëlle Belot
Creation: September 9, 2022
Festival Ensembles 2022
Théâtre de l'Echangeur, Bagnolet (France)
Pierre Moraud, flute
Duration : 4'00 c.a.
Publisher: Editions Lemoine
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Etude en blanc n°1 - Heart Mechanics (2019)
for piano solo
Command by Ensemble Regards,
Création on December 6, 2019
by Didier Rotella (piano)
in Eglise luthérienne Saint-Marcel (Paris)
Duration : 14' c.a.
Publisher : Impronta - Edition UG
Heart Mechanics (2018)
for porcelain chime
Command by Florian Dombois, artist,
for his work "Inverse"
with the support of the city of Dresden
http://inverse-dresden.eu
Creation on October 28, 2018
by Richard Roebel (keyboard)
on the Glockenspiel vom Dresden Zwinger
in Dresden (Germany)
Publisher : Impronta - Edition UG
Duration : 18 minutes
Three Primitive Hymns (2008)
for violin
on poems by Victor Segalen
Dedication to Marie-Cécile Biron
Creation: March 2009 at the CRR de Paris
Saskia Lethiec, violin
Duration: 14 minutes
Three Preludes (2006/2007)
for piano
Dedication to Henri Dutilleux
(and dedication of n°2 to André Gorog)
Creations : n°1 at the Festival de Mont-Louis (2006),
n°3 at the CRR de Paris (2007)
and n°2 at the Ecole Normale de Paris Alfred Cortot (2012)
Piano, Didier Rotella
Durations : 6' - 4' - 8'
Second Sonata (2003/2004)
for piano solo
Création : december 2004 at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory
Piano, Didier Rotella
Duration : 16 min.
