christophe guiraud
Hiera picra Hellébores (Collection 2011-2016)
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SR436
2CD digipack + 20 page booklet
Christophe Guiraud uses old instruments such as the Hotteterre flute, the viola da gamba or the viola bass, combining them with electronics.
Born in Toulouse (south of France) mid-seventies, he lives between Brussels and Paris. His early works come from alternative rock, free jazz and harsh noise (Tellemake, 2 records on Angström Records). His more recent pieces mixed the beauty of the polyphonies of Ars Nova (XIVè century) and noise. This nonesuch hybridation creates a music easily recognizable, at the same time harmonious and deeply intense.
Christophe Guiraud composes for a few important ensembles and performers like Ictus, Ensemble 21, Sturm und Klang, Kwartludium, Musiques Nouvelles, Fractales, Stephane Ginsburgh, Tom Pauwels. Regularly invited at festivals Sonar, Le printemps de Septembre, Loop, Nuits du Beau Tas and Ars musica...
"Writing sounds and carving time. Merging living beings and numbers. When organic breath suggests the power of signs. When the primitive is reached through the refinement of a writing process. When polyphony is subtle and archaic. And gentleness is wild. Throughout secrecy, deep in secrecy."