Tristan Murail

Instead of considering the Piano as a percussion instrument (hammers hitting strings) Territoires De l'Oubli emphasises a different idiomatic characteristic of the instrument: a group of strings whose...

Liber fulguralis is a 'joint creation' with musical and visual components developed simultaneously by Tristan Murail and Hervé Bailly-Basin.Inspired by the ancient oracle's art of interpreting lightni...

The title Attracteurs étranges ('Strange Attractors') alludes to that new universe of mathematics, the 'chaotic' world where one regroups fractals, the study of turbulence or population evolution. Cer...

Unanswered questions shares the solo flute from Ethers, but the sober, intimist character inferred by its intention - in other times, the piece would have been entitled Tombeau de Dominique Troncin -...

Le Fou à pattes bleues (The Blue-Footed Booby)

[...] (Les Sept paroles) benefits from the most recent developments in vocal synthesis. Instead of computer intervention during the concert, an extensive collection of samples elaborated by the compos...

It was with Le Partage des Eaux that I began studying highly complex sounds - noisy sounds, natural sounds. This exploration continued in a more systematic way with Bois Flotté (sea sounds, the sounds...

In the mind of a composer, the concept of method is pivotal. At the beginning of this work, an opening figure provides the initial presentation of musical material that will, after a pause, be taken u...

To begin with: a desire for lightness, flexibility, versatility, the preoccupation with avoiding grandiloquence and rhetorical effects as much as possible.Few violent and forthright contours, but rath...

It is at once a continuation of Murail's previous explorations and a radically new departure. Whereas most of his previous music relied essentially on continuous transformation of the material, Time a...

Sables returns to certain preoccupations addressed in Altitude 8000, and takes them further: an absence of punctual events (no percussive sounds), extreme continuity (no silence, aside from the beginn...

Contes cruels for two electric guitars and orchestra is not a double concerto per se: the guitars are stealthy intruders within the orchestra and give the cruel tales an unusual colour. The second gui...