January 16th, 2012 — just created a new page for Ishtar, my new work. The piece is not completed yet, but to make you wait a bit longer, I added to the webpage a PDF of drafts made for the first movement of Ishtar.
Esquisses d'Ishtar, mvt I, p. 4.
If you listen to the work premiere by Louis-Philippe Bonin and the Paramirabo Ensemble on March 24th (8:00pm, Café l'Artère), you will notice that much material in the drafts won't be heard in the work. Why? Well, a composer rewrites his passages a lot while composing. And it happens that he removes passages to replace them by better ones, even if the first passages were good! Most of the time, I rewrite a passage so it can fit better with adjacent sections.
All this work is not lost, though. Even if it is sometimes disheartening to go through this whole process [...FULL ARTICLE]
January 15th, 2012 — You may have already noticed it: I made some small changes to the site recently.
I added a link to my Youtube channel. For the time being, there are only a few videos of my works, but I plan to add more videos in the next few months from the audio recordings already available on this site.
I opened a professional Facebook page and included a widget linked to this page on this site. This is a new way to join most of my friends and relatives and a good part of the general public.
I added my biography, mon resume and press review in “About” section.. If you are looking for them, look in there. It is common among websites to include these sections in “About”. Now I can free some space to add more menu options coming in a near future, like a photo section. (Have you noticed there is no photo on this site? It is time to change that!)
You will have the chance to hear many of my works put in context by me and the hosts. If you are not available to hear it live, no problem. You can listen back to the show on their website until one month after broadcast.
November 25th, 2011 — I just received from Mylène Lapierre and Benoît Côté of Théâtre des faux-plis the official program and press release from Cowansville's BD migratoires Festival, where excerpts from Bungalopolis will be screened to celebrate Jean-Paul Eid, our famous comic artist... and librettist.
