First rehearsals of my new piece Can You See with the extraordinary TrioPolycordes and the Ensemble vocal Sequenza 9.3 conducted by Catherine Simonpietri. It is part of a production called 50/50 Woodstock which features premieres and arrangements by Justina Repečkaitė, Fabien Cali, Claude Barthélémy and myself. The tour starts on March 9, 2023.
Thanks to Archipel Nocturne (Violaine Gestalder, Christelle Séry and Louis-Michel Marion), The Weather Pieces will soon include a trio inspired by snow. Source recordings were made in January at the CCAM in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, partner for this project. Blanc de Neige. The electronic part was conceived by Charles Bascou.
Matisse : Jazz was premiered at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. This hour-long piece for dancer – the extraordinary Youngdoo An – and bass clarinet with live electronics – played and written by me – was inspired by Matisse’s book of lithographs from 1947 and produced by Jiro Nemoto with support from the Sasakawa Foundation.
La Nuit blanche at the Philharmonie in Paris, was the perfect occasion to premiere L’illusion des étangs, my new piece for birbyne and string quartet. The wonderful Quatuor IMPACT played beautifully. It’s always a pleasure to work with them!
Thanks to the Fondation Cartier in Paris, a new OCCAM – Radigue & Robinson was born (OCCAM HEXA VI for clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, tuba and percussion) with Carol Robinson, Bertrand Gauguet, Nate Wooley, Robin Hayward and Enrico Malatesta
Nomadic Night The Listening Garden — OCCAM OCEAN by Eliane Radigue at the Fondation Cartier. Photo © Edouard Caupeil
Pitter-Patter, remembering the rain that was, my new piece for percussion and electronics, written for and premiered by the excellent Laurence Chave at Les Saisons Contemporaines in Vicq-sur-Breuilh. Charles Bascou, computer music design
Serge Teyssot-Gay and I recorded my piece GEORG at the GMEM studio in Marseille. A great experience that finished with a concert at MUCEM, in the Propagations Festival. Our engineer Christophe Hauser did a beautiful job of capturing the essence of the music. CD on the way…
This year, the theme of the 4020 Festival was rivers. I was commissioned to write a piece for viola and harp. Called Under the Bridge, are rapids that bend, it was premiered at the beautiful Brucknerhaus in Linz by Nurit Stark and Hélène Breschand. photo ©Festival 4020 / Reinhard Winkler
OCCAM Edition 4 has just been released! It includes very recent pieces from Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM OCEAN cycle: occam delta XIX, occam XXII, occam river XXII a co-production shiiin / ZKM
featuring Yannick Guédon – voice, Bertrand Gauguet – saxophone, Carol Robinson – birbyne and bass clarinet, Sebastien Schottke – sound engineer
This 6’ piece is a prelude for the larger 50/50 Woodstock project with ensembles Trio Polycordes / Sequenza 9.3 and composers Claude Barthelemy, Fabien Cali, Justina Repeckaïte and myself.
