La grande vallée (1993/95), 20’41

“Master, where are you going? asked Squall.
To the Great Valley, said Dark Thickness.
Why?
The Great Valley is the place where one can pour without ever filling up
and draw from without ever using up.”
Chuang Tzu

Musical composition, design and sound production carried out at the INA grm Studios (Paris) in 1993/95

Original audio recordings in the Drôme and the Mont Ventoux areas

Voice: Hélène Bettencourt
Vocal occurrences: Frédéric Malenfer, Bruno Roche, Lionel Marchetti
Bass clarinet (for processing): Jean Andréo

Commissioned by INA grm and produced in its studios

Premiered during the Cycle Acousmatique/Maison de Radio France, INA grm (Paris) — 1996

Thanks: François Donato, Jérôme Nœtinger, William Pellier, Bruno Roche, Daniel Teruggi and Christian Zanési

Micro-climat (1989/90), 21’33

Micro-climat is the first movement of the Sirrus cycle (Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composed in 1989/90

Musical composition, sound design and production, audio recordings in 1989/90 at the CFMI studios in Lyon (Lumière University, Lyon 2)

Premiered at Cycle Acousmatique/Maison de Radio France, INA grm (Paris) — 1991

Special thanks to Xavier Garcia

“I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the 80s as, whilst composing Micro-climat, I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Monts du Forez discovering, through my eyes, body, breath, active observation and walk, that natural forms when constantly changing and yet swollen with a unity of matter (in this instance, water) open one up to a deep, fundamental breath and a clear field for the mind.
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