Metro meditation

Waves are water

Composition for piano and tape recorder, by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).

What ebbs will flow back, like life reborn after destruction.Music from the film « Waves are water » (Benoît Labourdette, 4’14s, 2023).

Rain

Notes ginned like rain.Instrumental, 2015, 2’27s. Composition and interpretation of Benoît Labourdette (piano and synthesizer).

Small bicycle

Musique concrète, 2022, by Benoît Labourdette (1’57s).

Sometimes all the sounds seem far away, like a meditation.Music from the film « Small bicycle » (Benoît Labourdette, 1’57s, 2022).

Prosopopoeia

The artistic world of the “Prosopopoeia” exhibition evoked by music.Instrumental music, 2016, 9’35s (12 pieces). Compositions of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and records).I made a documentary about the exhibition « Prosopopoeia », the (…)

Laongo

Soft tocsin ballet.Instrumental, 2015, 3’19s . Composition of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers) .

46

Travel in resonance.Instrumental, 2016, 2’30s . Composition of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).

A seated man

Music based on real sounds and synthesizers (7’37s, 2022).

Walking naively, for the last time before death.

Reflection alone

Percussion music, by Benoît Labourdette (2’35s, 2022).

Like being at the bottom of a tunnel, when in fact we’re in the sky.Music from the film « Reflection alone » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’38s, 2022).

The true nature (thought 426)

Granular and concret music, by Benoît Labourdette (2’, 2023).

A path through the lumps of life.Music from the film « The true nature (thought 426) » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’, 2023).

Night ride

Musique concrète, 2015, by Benoît Labourdette (2’15s).

Layers of ambience are superimposed. To climb higher, or descend deeper.Music from the film « Night ride » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’36s, 2015).

Metro meditation

A face in front of you, in your head.Instrumental music, 2017,6’52s. Composition by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and piano).

Imaginary territory

Electronic birds fly in an imagined sky.Instrumental, 2014, 5’39s . Composition of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers) .

A tree in tears grows again

Piano improvisation (2’06s, 2023).

We run, we play, we laugh... and then we choose to switch off.

An adult tree

Synthesizer composition by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).

Music from the film « An adult tree » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’19s, 2022).

Hall 1

Instrumental music played on the Korg electribe 2 synthesizer (3’52s, 2023).

The filtered sine wave doesn’t filter our nostalgic emotions.Music from the film « Hall 1 » (Benoît Labourdette, 3’52s, 2023).

Fire (white monkey)

And sail the wave to the soul flying over forgotten tablecloths.Instrumental music, 2017,2’45s. Composition by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and samples of orchestras).

Sands hotel

Breaths in the desert.Instrumental, 2015. 5’45s . Composition and interpretation of Benoît Labourdette (various mexican flutes).

The kiss 1234567

Voices, muffled screams, emanating from the earth.Instrumental, 2013, 12’46s . Composition of Benoît Labourdette (samples and natural sounds).

Straw fire

Instrumental music, 2019, 2’19s. Composition by Benoît Labourdette (prepared piano).

The soundboard of the piano which proposes a journey on rough dirt roads.

Body

Rale dialogue.Vocal music, 2015, 3’36s . Composition and interpretation of Benoît abourdette (vocals and kazoo).

Disappearance

The traditional song flooded by the magnetic storm.Instrumental, 2016, 3’02s . Composition of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and recordings).

Sleeping in Paris

Instrumental music played on the Korg Zenology synthesizer (3’16s, 2023).

We try to clear our minds, to calm ourselves down, to face the drama. And then sometimes, even when we get carried away, our heart beats too fast.Music from the film « Sleeping in Paris » (Benoît Labourdette, 3’41s, 2023).

A butterfly at Picasso’s

A ghost flutters in his place of honor.Instrumental, 2016, 18’01s . Composition and interpretation of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Film co-directed by Alain Fleischer and Benoît Labourdette.

A fixed point (thought 383)

Music based on real sounds (2’15s, 2023).

To be dissatisfied with one’s lot, and to become the earth.