Symphonie pour un cycliste... et autres aventures sonores
Symphony for a cyclist ...and other sound adventures

(broadcasted on Radio France: Electrain de Nuit)

Four different "sound adventures":
- To compose for the bicycle, in fact for the cycling
- To compose for a large ensemble of virtual instruments
- To compose using only sound from a big steel plate
- To compose with extremly high and extremly low sounds.

1 - Symphonie pour un cycliste - Symphony for a cyclist - [17'12]

I myself a cyclist and I wanted to illustrate here the sunday training of a cyclist.
A funny and caricatural sound assembly on this environment in the language so particular and where the fantasy (the myth) of the solitary effort, of the escaped "champion" is so present !

1st part: L'éveil du cycliste [3'14] - The cyclist awakening -
2nd part: Au commencement est le verbe [2'48] - At the beginning is the verb - Small explanations for people who are not cyclists (in french)
3rd part: L'échappée fantasmatique [11'19] - The fantastical breakaway -

2 - Ataraxie-25 for 25 virtual instruments [16'09]

Of the silence appears a chaotic and hesitating structure, evolving imperturbably towards a situation of balance "ataraxique".
Computer music for a large ensemble of virtual instruments.

3 - Inoxophonie for steel plate and computer

Electro-acoustic work using as unique sound source a big plate of steel which is scratched, banged, shaken, ...

4 - oXymore for piano, string bass, violin, synthesizer and computer

The music begins and end in the inaudible.
The idea here was to oppose extremly low and extremly high sounds, but beyond the acoustic possibilities of the instruments.

Note: This requires a very good audio system: the begining and the end are not very good in mp3 !

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