Blanc de Neige (for saxophone, electric guitar, double bass and electronics) was premiered by the wonderful Trio Archipel Nocturne at the Musique Action festival. It was very moving to learn that ours was the last concert of an incredible festival that presented innovative music for 38 years. The end of something extraordinary. Many thanks to the musicians, and to Olivier Perry and the CCAM team who made this monographic concert of my WEATHER PIECES possible.

I received a Commande de l’état (commission from the French Ministry of Culture) for Blanc de Neige, which is a great honor.

At long last, a little teaser from my piece GEORG with the exceptional Serge Teyssot-Gay.

• bass clarinet / voice
• electric guitar
• electronics

click here to see it

and here to see another one

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.

I had the honor of recieving a commission from the French Ministry of Culture (Command d’état) for Can You See.

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!

https://youtu.be/IP15mQJ2_gY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2mqte0FDfM

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