Cursus 2018.19

The ten composers who followed this year’s Cursus program on composition and computer music at IRCAM presented their musical creations for soloist and electronics. Ten premieres performed by the musicians of the Conservatoire de Paris and the Haute École de musique de Genève.

Program (in French)

Cursus Concert, June 18 2019

  1. Au dessus du carrelage de givre by Louis Goldford, 18 June 2019
  2. Technotope by Florent Caron Darras (recorded at the Centquatre, 2019)
  3. Shh ... you’re in the tower I built you by Jialin Liu, 18 June 2019
  4. Unbound explorations by Konstantin Heuer, 18 June 2019
  5. Fascia by William Kuo, 18 June 2019
  6. Trame by Sergio Nuñez Meneses, 18 June 2019
  7. Rapides Diaprés for voice and electronics - by Adrien Trybucki (recorded at the Centquatre, 2019)
  8. Smoke-blackened paper by William Dougherty, 18 June 2019
  9. Nirvana by Francisco Uberto, 18 June 2019
  10. Ça va bien avec comment tu vis for 2 performers and electronics - by Mathieu Corajod (recorded at the Centquatre, 2019)

The 2018.19 Class

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Florent Caron Darras

Equally sensitive to spectral music as he is to electronic and traditional music (notably Iranian and Japanese music), Florent Caron Darras writes music that questions sonic models, harmony, ornaments, and attacks, inspired even in his titles by the rela…
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Mathieu Corajod

Mathieu Corajod is a composer of instrumental music, for musical theater and multimedia performances. Author of works performed by the Orchestre de chambre de Berne, the Adapter ensemble, the Interface ensemble, and the Makrokosmos ensemble, he has also …
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William Dougherty

William Dougherty is an American composer. His works have been performed internationally by ensembles including the Orchestre National de Lorraine (Metz), the Lemanic Modern Ensemble (Geneva), the London Chorus (London), Ensemble Phoenix (Basel), and Tal…
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Louis Goldford

Louis Goldford is a composer whose works often draw inspiration from auditory illusion, transcription, and psychoanalysis. Recent performances include those by the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Modelo62,
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Konstantin Heuer

Konstantin played bass guitar in noise rock bands when he was a teenager. He studied composition in Rostock, The Hague, and Stuttgart and afterwards lived in the Shangyuan Art District in Beijing. His artistic sensibilities were influenced by Marco Strop…
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William Kuo

William Kuo is a Canadian composer established in Vancouver. He constantly renews his listening and questions his influences by observing cultural frontiers and human relationships in light of the collective experience of art.
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Sergio Núñez Meneses

Sergio Núñez Meneses studied composition at the University of Chili. He also took classes at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology in the United States with a scholarship from the University of…
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Jialin Liu

Jialin Liu went to the Music Middle School Affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SMMS) at the age of 12 and studied composition, piano, and music theory with GUO Liang and LIU Dongmei. Since 2014 has been a Bachelor in composition at the Un…
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Adrien Trybucki

Adrien Trybucki is a composer of acoustic, mixed, and electronic music. The obsessive quality of his writing can be found in his first works and notably in Cinq Visions for orchestra; a piece that won the Île de créations award in 2014.
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Francisco Uberto

With a diploma in composition from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina, Francisco Uberto feels the need to explore the formal and discursive limits of contemporary music. His work has been supported by several presitigious fondations since 20…