Many many thanks to everyone who came out these past weeks to support our concert tour "other side of my head"!
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After shows in Basel at @altiblaechi and in Nyon at the Salle des Marchandises, we completed the tour with a final stop in Krakow at the @cricoteka .
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I'm honored have had the chance to share the stage with impressive works from @annasowa__ and @raphaelbelfiore , and powerful performances from @zaca.maia , @yi_chen_tsai , and @aleksander.wnuk .
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Quelques photos de la deuxième étape de la tournée "other side of my head" à Nyon.
Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui étaient présents, attentifs et curieux !
Encore une fois le 17 mars à la Cricoteka à Cracovie.
First stop of the Other Side of My Head tour in Basel, @altiblaechi is over !
Thank you to everyone who came out, curious and engaged. It was a pleasure to share this moment with you.
Next stop: Nyon, this Saturday, March 7.
See you there !
Very excited to announce our joint project: three composers and three percussionists come together in duos for the premiere of three solo percussion works. Save the dates !
4 + 5 March / Basel
@altiblaechi
7 March / Nyon
Salle des Marchandises
17 March / Kraków
@cricoteka
graphic design: @tristan.bartolini
The 2026 edition of @sound_arguments starts soon. Over twenty sound makers, working across multiple fields and practices, will come together over the next four months in our programme. Let’s meet them!
Raphaël Belfiore @raphaelbelfiore is a composer whose music has been presented in several European countries in a wide range of formats, including instrumental works for soloists and ensembles, performances, multimedia pieces, installations, exhibitions, publications, and text- and graphic scores. At the core of his practice lies an interest in the relationship between music and thought, and in how music can be understood as a way of thinking in its own right. Rather than considering composition as the mere organization of sounds or as the implementation of ideas, his works seek to join both in a continuous gesture operating across multiple layers of a musical work. His recent interests focus on diagrams and diagrammatic thought as tools to organize mediations between the concrete and the abstract, and between theory and practice. Alongside his work as a composer, Raphaël Belfiore is active as a singer, writer, and teacher. With a background in philosophy and musicology, he studied composition and currently studies classical singing at the Hochschule für Music Basel, and is finishing a diploma at the New Center for Research and Practice. These parallel activities inform his artistic work as a whole and contribute to a transversal approach to music that encompasses composition, interpretation, critical reflection, writing, and pedagogy.
Picture: @m.j.photo.s
This post looks back at a post by @kalun_____ Kalun Leung on the 2025 Kranichstein Music Prize at Darmstadt (/p/DM-cvagRbzJ), taking it as a point of departure rather than an object of direct rebuttal.
Instead of responding to specific claims or institutional decisions, it steps back to reflect on some of the assumptions currently shaping debates around composer-performers, music-as-text, and music-as-performance.
In particular, it questions the tendency to oppose text and performance, or to treat the fusion of roles as a solution to inherited hierarchies, by examining the role of mediation and symbolic systems in composing, performing, and improvising.
The text does not seek to dismiss performance-based, collaborative, or context-specific practices, nor to defend score-centric models. Rather, it aims to clarify how different musical roles and practices remain structurally distinct, even when they are assumed by the same person, and how forms of textuality continue to operate across them.
Ultimately, the intention is to slow down some of the narratives of immediacy, authenticity, and horizontality that circulate in contemporary discourse, and to reopen a space for thinking about mediation, reflection, and transformation in musical practice.
(cover image: Henri Chopin - J'attends l'homme !, 1969)
J’ai la joie d’annoncer que j’ai reçu le Prix artistique de la Région de Nyon 2025.
Cette reconnaissance me touche particulièrement, venant de la région où j’ai grandi !
Un grand merci au jury, ainsi qu’à toutes celles et ceux qui soutiennent et accompagnent mon travail.
Une cérémonie aura lieu le 18 novembre à 19h00 au théâtre de Grand-Champs — au plaisir de vous y retrouver.
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I’m delighted to share that I’ve received the 2025 Artistic Prize of the Region of Nyon.
This recognition means a great deal to me, coming from the region where I grew up !
My heartfelt thanks to the jury, and to everyone who supports and accompanies my work.
A ceremony will take place on November 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the Théâtre de Grand-Champs — I’d be glad to see you there.
Photo : @m.j.photo.s
About the last weeks of my paleo-anthropo-platonico-gnostico-geometrico-artistic reading retreat in Egypt: The reading turned out to be more accidented than planned — a lot of André Leroi-Gourhan and Gilles Châtelet, the biography of Jean Cavaillès, a site-specific digression into the Gnostics of Alexandria, endless Robert Musil, a fascinating study on Paul Natorp’s interpretation of Platonic idealism, and Horst Bredekamp on Darwin’s diagrammatic practice. Along the way I also sketched out ideas for future pieces, and made friends with a few local creatures.
These weeks have been intense and very fruitful. Thanks to the city of Basel for making this possible.
A little post about the first two weeks of a six-week mathematico-diagrammatico-semiotico-categorico-musical reading retreat in Egypt, trying to focus as much as possible. Here are some moments from my parallel wanderings on land and texts — with company from Charles Sanders Peirce, Gilles Châtelet, Guerino Mazzola, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sybille Krämer, Frederik Stjernfelt, among others. Evenings have been with Robert Musil, whose pages (with qualities) turned out to be more relevant than expected. What it’s all for comes through a bit more in my recent essay for @postmusicpost
The next two weeks, I think I’ll focus on gestures with André Leroi-Gourhan, Vilém Flusser, and additional Gilles Châtelet.
I think I’m slowly reaching my reading cruising speed…
