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NJ is a piece written especially for my dear friend Nelson Javet. The whole work is composed thanks to processes of encryption of information specific to the musician. The melody of a song that he has composed is used as a cantus firmus and a "soggetto cavato" is modeled after his name.
The piece, composed of long tremolo notes on several strings, is very difficult to play (if not impossible to execute perfectly). It is thus the interpreter in his own physicality that appears during the performance of the work. The sum of the flaws of the execution are, so to speak, unique to him and express him as much as the conceptual components of the composition.
This listening to imperfection is facilitated by the use of slightly delayed guitar amplification placed at a different point in the performance space. The tremolos then merge even more into a single sonic thread while the punctual events are reinforced.

Premiere at the Studio D'Agostini in Geneva on the 02.06.2019
Nelson Javet, guitar / Raphaël Belfiore, electronics

(The image is a photograph of my home studio at the time of the composition)

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released June 2, 2019

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Raphaël Belfiore Zürich, Switzerland

Aspiring composer and sound/multimedia artist born in Geneva in 1995.
Projects in various formats: instrumental pieces, with and without electronics, sound and multimedia installations, videos, performances, verbal scores and interventions.
Based in Zurich; studied composition, musicology, art history and philosophy in Geneva. Currently studying composition in Zurich and Basel. ... more

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