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Chamber music

A garden

Chamber music, 1998

Duration: 18′, for wind quintet
Ground – Lili Marlene – Huitzilopochtli – Chrysanthemum Aradjanii – Microcosmos
Commissioned by Ictus

  •  A garden: Haradjani-Microcosmos (4+5)

Attrition

Chamber music, 1991

Duration: 17′, for string octet (double quartet)
To Isabelle Lamouline

Autoportrait en expirs (physionomie du souffle)

Chamber music, 2021

Self-portrait in exhalation (physiognomy of the breath)
Duration: 15′; string quartet.

Bestiaire révolu (bygone bestiary)

Chamber music, 2021

Duration 21′; for two baroque violins, viola da gamba and harpsichord. Texts (in French) by the composer.
– Mardi 3 août 2049, au jardin (Tuesday August 3, 2049, in the garden)
– L’ornithorynque (Platypus)
– La saveur du Dodo (The flavor of the Dodo)
– La panthère nébuleuse de Taiwan (Taiwan clouded leopard)
– Journal du loup (Wolf Diary)

Commissioned by the Festivals of Wallonia 2021

Bryce

Chamber music, 1998

Duration: 13′, for clarinet quintet (clarinet and string quartet)
Commissioned by the Oxalys ensemble, with the support of the Ministry of French Community, Belgium – department of Classical Music

  •  Bryce, JM Charlier+Danel string quartet

Citations et vers de plume

Chamber music, 2016

Detachable aphorisms with versatile instrumental geometry
(… tout brûle dans l’heure fauve…) (Mallarmé): fl, ob, cl, pno, string trio and improviser ad lib., 2’30
(… car tu fis de mon âme une feuille qui tremble…) (Valéry): violin and piano, 4′
(… le soir meurt aussi, mes sœurs…) (Maeterlinck) Exploration au bourdon: fl, cl, perc, pno, string trio, 6′
(… un désir furieux de panteler sur des coussins de chair…) (Huysmans): fl, ob, Bcl, pno, string trio, 3’30
(… je suis en toi le secret changement…) (Valéry): fl, eh, cl, string trio, 5′

Décalcomanie de Reich et Ligeti (avec Piazzolla en surimpression)

Chamber music, 2005

Duration: 7′, for alto saxophone and piano
Commissioned by the Adolphe Sax Society for the Saxophone Competition in Dinant, Belgium, as the compulsory work for their semi-finals 2006
To Philippe Leblanc

Disobedience

Chamber music, 2014

Duration 4’35”, for flute, clarinet, el-guitar, el-bass, drums and keyboard
To Robert Fripp. Order of Ictus Ensemble for “This is not a pop song”.

Dolcissimo

Chamber music, 2014

Duration: 5′, for quartet of trombones
Dolcissimo has been premiered in Liège by Open Slide Quartet on April 24th, 2014.
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Direction générale de la Culture, Service de la Musique

In 2011, every 4”…

Chamber music, 2011

Duration: 9′, for 1 instrument player (percussions)
Commissioned by Musiques Nouvelles for Ars Musica 2011

Insomnia

Chamber music, 1996

Duration: 10′, for violin and cello

Les désordres de Herr Zœbius

Chamber music, 2003

Duration: 30′, for string quartet
Inselbergs de Goundam – Une matrice booléenne pour le docteur Atlan – Les étranges attracteurs du professeur Baumol – Chant magnétique
Commissioned by the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, with the support of the Ministry of French Community, Belgium – department of Classical Music

  •  Inselberg de Goundam (Danel Quartet)
  •  Matrice boléenne pour le docteur Atlan (Danel Quartet)
  •  Les étranges attracteurs du professeur Baumol (Danel Quartet)
  •  Chant magnétique (Danel Quartet)

Melencholia Si…

Chamber music, 1998

Duration: 40′, for two pianos and percussions
Particules du jour – Umherliegende Objecten – …in un instante ridivenute nebbia… – Cast a cold eye…

Neurosuite

Chamber music, 1998

Duration: 12′, for piano trio (violin, cello and piano)
Sala d’attesa ed Arance – Accorgimenti contro la notte – Incoronazione, elettrochoc

Nuages vus du ciel

Chamber music, 2009

Duration: 6′, for string trio and keyboard (piano, celesta or digital piano)
With the support of the Ministry of French Community, Belgium – department of Classical Music. To Séverine Ballon.

Pictogrammes

Chamber music, 2004

Variable duration, didactic pieces of free instrumentation
(rewind) – (nuage très gris) – (exit) – …

Street Music for plugged viola

Chamber music, 2009

Duration: 20-40′, for viola and electronics
To Vincent Royer

Sufi Letter: H(à’) (Tombeau de Jonathan Harvey)

Chamber music, 2013

Duration: 15′, for oboe, harp, piano and string trio
Commissioned by festival Ars Musica 2013. Sufi Letter: H(à’) (Tombeau de Jonatan Harvey) has been commissioned by Ars Musica 2013. It is dedicated to Tarquin Billiet.

Sufi Letter: Kh(à’) (Skif)

Chamber music, 2012

Duration: 17′, for string quartet and electronics
Commissioned by Transit Festival (Leuven), with the support of French-speaking Community of Belgium – department of classical music

Sufi Letter: Z1(Zà’) (Undertows)

Chamber music, 2003

Duration: 13′, for viola, piano and electronics
With the support of the Ministry of French Community, Belgium – department of Classical Music, and the CRFMW

Sufi Letter: Z3(Dhàl) (Walls)

Chamber music, 2007

Duration: 11′, for trombone and electronics
Commissioned by Ars Musica in cooperation with the CRFMW. To Alain Pire.

Trois chants pour mieux voir…

Chamber music, 2013

Duration: 25′, for cello and prepared piano
[Three songs for a better view…] … par en-dessous  – … derrière le mur – … en dedans. … from below (To Emilie Girard-Charest and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven) – … behind the wall – … inside (To Sara Picavet and Benjamin Glorieux)

 

Trois petites conciliations

Chamber music, 2013

Duration: 7′, for free instrumental formation. Petite conciliation nº1: for two instrumental lines – petite conciliation nº2: for three instrumental lines – petite conciliation nº3: for four instrumental lines.
Petites conciliations nº 1 et 2 has been premiered on October 20th, 2013, in Théâtre du Parc (Brussels), by Kristien Ceuppens (oboe and english horn), Emre Gültekin (saz), Yassir Bousselam (cello) and Jean-Luc Fafchamps (piano)

Wooden Mind

Chamber music, 2011

Duration: 22′, for 7 timbilas of Mozambique
Commissioned by the Drumming ensemble, with the support of the Ministry of French Community, Belgium – department of Classical Music

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    A new CD of my quartets is published by Cypres. Quatuor MP4 (Claire Bourdet, Margaret Hermant, Pierre Heneaux, Merryl Havard), Jean-Luc Fafchamps (Fender Rhodes), Centre …

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