I have not published any new song in the “Rock, jazz,etc.” section since August 2007 but it does not mean that I nowadays only compose experimental music (a.k.a contemporary music or even contemporary western classical music, I guess we will never know). Despite its title and the fact that it is the sequel of the PodcastOpera, Die KiezOper was composed as a movie soundtrack with rock, jazz, bollywood, turbo-folk and hip-hop elements in it rather than classical music.

I therefore have posted an excerpt of it called “Am Kottbusser Tor” in the “Rock, jazz,etc.” section so you can hear what I mean. Feel free to visit www.KiezOper.de to watch the whole project.

My last work to date is a trio for clarinet, guitar and keys instrument called “L’imposteur” (The impostor) and the première will happen tonight at 10 p.m in the Gallerie Der Kunst within the frame of the “Magistrale 2008” in Berlin. The version performed tonight is a special arrangement for clarinet, guitar and live electronic.

A great thank you to Jaime Mcgill (clarinet), Mathieu Dagorn (conducting and electronic) and Nina Korolewski (management of the whole event) for everything.

Hello everybody,

it has been a few months since the last time I updated my blog and the moment has come to remedy the situation. The first thing is that I had to take it really easy because of a tendinitis and could hardly play the guitar. It didn’t stop me from composing music -“Musique florale et animale” was premièred in June and can be listened to in the section “experimental music”- and my hand allowed me to do a recording session for the soundtrack of the last picture of Tobias Wiemann in July.

Beside that, here is a great piece of news: the organist François-Henri Houbart has agreed to play a piece of mine at the Christmas concert of the church of La Madeleine in Paris.

In the future, I shall update my page more often…

The PodcastOpera has now a sequel which was premiered on the 19th of april in the FSK-Kino in Berlin. “Die Kreuzberger Kiezoper” is more of a movie soundtrack and has less to do with contemporary music but remains a piece of experimental music and mixes very different influences.

Like “Die PodcastOper”, “Die Kreuzberger Kiezoper” can be watched online and even be downloaded for free at www.kiezoper.de.

The Project is sponsored by the European Social Fund and the Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (Germany).

“L’épître fatidique” is a piece for organ and bass voices whose composition has been influenced by the principles of Ars Nova and the Book of James. The première will occur on the 20th of March at 8 p.m in tmp.deluxe where the piece can be heard as a sound installation until the 31th of March.

tmp.deluxe
ateliergebäude
potsdamer str. 98
10785 berlin

See you there !

p.s: for those who don’t live in Berlin, you can still make it by clicking on the “experimental music” section where the piece will be uploaded after the première.

A composition of mine has been selected by Trace Label for their second collections of Phono-photographies, i.d an artwork made of the association of a photograph and a music composition. The picture is from Jérémie Zimmerman.

You can see and hear it by clicking on the picture.

I will perform a new composition for guitar and tape called “Le tromblon persécuté” during the 5th Magistrale Kulturnacht on the 14th and the 15th of september at an exhibit called “Potential Flow”. I am the music director of the event as well.

For more informations, click on the picture below.

here is a second song co-produced by Rellüm. It is all about electronic sounds, heavy guitars and experiments. Enjoy!

Hello everybody,

last week, i finally did what i should have done since long ago: a massive update of the contents of this website. For instance, the biography is up to date and the gallery doesn’t exist anymore.

But the big thing is that the “Contemporary Music” section – which was poorly furnished regarding my activities in this field – now features a lot more compositions, included “Inner Sea” and “Dessau” whose première occurred a few weeks ago.

As good as new!