At the beginning of the 20th century, when Italian futurist Luigi Russolo began to include “noise” in musical composition, he made a box into a musical instrument. This box, the intonarumori, concealed mysterious mechanisms. A century later, “noise” is ever-present in music and my own instrument remains a box. Indeed, the computer is a closed container of enigmatic mechanisms. Contrary to the intonarumori, the box designed by my friend Alexandre Landry is open. The mechanisms are revealed and perhaps allow us to better understand the music created through the open box and the closed digital box. Thus, I will bring you into my “box” for a little while, to share with you the heart of its mechanisms.

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boîte. was realized between june 2008 and September 2008 in the personal studio of the composer.

Thanks to Érick d’Orion and Alexandre Landry.