For tape alone
* 1998 *
Duration 5′
Soundcloud – YouTube – BANDCAMP
At the same time, a wager and a tribute to the 50 years since Pierre Schaeffer made his first explorations into the audio world.
This short piece is a meandering voyage through the electro-acoustic memory of this first half-century. Colours, snatches, fragments, themes and signals created by the composers of these 50 years have produced the exclusive sound material of this music.
Sur le CD Octandre N°2 
For tape alone
*1995*
Duration 20′ – short version 12′
commissionned by Ina-GRM ( see discography )
created in the auditorium Olivier Messian in Paris 18 mars 1995
In his compution to abreviate, the dictionnary tells us that L’estran (strand) is : the portion of the shore between the highest and the lowest tides. Every thing in this definition (portion – shore – between – the highest and the lowest) indicates the in-between, uncertainty , opposites, flesh or fish, land or sea, who knows ?
The word is ridiculously small for what it covers, as if it wonted to be very small in the face of what it actually reveals. Strange universe which never quite belongs to one element or another. Not belonging may not be blameless ?
Only poetry and music can give L’Estran its real meaning ; even the best dictionnary, apart from this brief definition which is somewhat strict, purely geographical, must need to use poetical metaphor.
