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.
OCCAM HEXA V, the latest Radigue & Robinson co-signed work was premiered at the November Music – FAQ Festival in Den Bosch, Holland by the excellent Ensemble Klang. It was a beautiful experience exploring new timbres and ways of listening with these wonderful musicians.
Jürg Frey’s beautiful I listened to the Wind Again is now available from the Louth Contemporary Music Society https://www.louthcms.org
Hélène Fauchère – soprano, Carol Robinson – clarinet, Nathalie Chabot – violin, Garth Knox – viola, Agnès Vesterman – cello, Sylvain Lemêtre – percussion
“Frey’s quotation heavy text teases out phantom melodic accents from within the meticulous linearity and sends the music into the sublime.” Peter Margasak
Fairplay, a collective of creative female musicians, had the interesting idea of making an album of interactive compositions called INCLUSIVES. I was one of the principal composers and invited Violaine Lochu and Elise Dabrowski to join me on the project. They each added their own inspiration to my original composition, resulting in three new pieces.
https://fairplaynetwork.bandcamp.com/track/carol-robinson-back-into-the-gaping-again-ness
