- Abstractive extensive studies
- Three situation studies
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Three measurement studies
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Greenwich House, 1957
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At every instant, seeing reason to believe as much, and not being able to satisfy himself of the contrary, he should conceive himself to be so.
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Timecode studies
- Postproductions
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[number of performers-date-abbreviated venue name]
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Edgar Varèse and the Jazzmen
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Piano Reductions
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Luftlinien
about
I am a Swiss composer currently based in Basel. My artistic practice lies between music, art and theory. Recent projects of mine have been presented in several European countries and include composed and improvised performances, ensemble pieces, video works, concert interventions, a multi-media installation and recently also a book of text scores.
In my recent work I have tried to not only think about the notion and history of music but also to think with and through it in order to make works that function as models of different realities while being "about" or "from" reflections on musical phenomena.
I believe that beauty can be found in the rigorous cohesion between thought and action and I aim to apply this to my musical practice as much as possible. This hopefully results in works in which theory and practice are in deep interaction and cannot be dissociated.
contact:
belfiore.raphael@gmail.com
2022 – 2025 : Certificate in Art and Curatorial Practice at The New Centre for Research & Practice
2022 – 2025 : B.A. in Music Performance (Voice) with Marcel Boone at the Hochschule für Musik Basel
2019 – 2022 : M.A. in Music Composition with Isabel Mundry at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste; Minor subject: Composition with Johannes Kreidler at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.
2015 – 2019: B.A. in humanities (musicology, philosophy and art history), Geneva University.
2016 – 2019: auditor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève (harmony, counterpoint, analysis, orchestration and ear-training).
2016 – 2019: student at the CPMDT Geneva in composition, electronic music, piano, voice and improvisation.
selections, scholarships and grants
2024: Research Grant 2025 from the City of Basel (topic: diagrammatic thinking and its musical applications)
2024: International Young Composers Academy : Emerging Artist Program
2022: Phoenix Satellite 2022/2023, Ensemble Phoenix Basel
2022: Partial Scolarship for a Certificate in Art and Curatorial Practice at The New Centre for Research and Practice
2022: Grants from the Memento foundation and the Graf-Fonds for the printing of the text-score book Contents
2022 – 23: Protonwerk N°12: true participation, Ensemble Proton, Bern
2021 – 22: Scholarship Fondation Nicati-De Luze
2021: International Young Composers Academy: Full Scholarship
2020: IGNM Zürich’s "Fast Forward" call for projects
lectures and writings
“To Be Free, One Must Play Against the Devices, A Philosophical Analysis Of Dick Raaymakers’ “Intona: Dodici Manieri Di Far Tacere Un Microfono”, Article published in eContact 21.2
Interview of Hannes Seidl on his and Daniel Kötter’s radio play STADT [LAND FLUSS] for recordedness.org.
Program notes for Ensemble Contrechamps' concert "Infrarouge", February 2020
Redaction of labels for the exhibition "Video Archivia" in Geneva during the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement 2018.
Lecture "4'33'' de John Cage, une musique au-delà du son ?" at the Lausanne University, May 2018
Program notes for Ensemble Contrechamps' concert "Gelidi Mostri", December 2017
Review for Ensemble Contrechamps' concert "By the way" in Dissonance No 141.
Lecture "Problèmes contemporains pour une définition intensionnelle de la musique" at the Lausanne University, March 2017
visited festivals (+ collaborating ensembles and people met)
International Young Composers Academy 2024 (Loco), with JACK Quartet, Oscar Bianchi, Farzia Fallah and George Lewis
IMPULS 2023 (Graz), with Bernhard Lang (”Expect the Unexpected: The Writing Game”) and Dmitri Kourliandski
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2022, Next Generation Program
IMPULS 2021 (Graz), with PPCM Ensemble + Peter Ablinger + Dimitrios Polisoidis (”Konzeptmusik”) and Klaus Lang
International Young Composers Academy 2021 (Lugano/Online), with ICTUS ensemble, Mauro Lanza, Oscar Bianchi and Juste Janulyte
Forum Wallis 2019 (Leuk) with Ums n'Jip, Zafraan Ensemble and Fabian Panisello
Mixtur 2019 (Barcelona) with Aleph Gitarrenquartet and Michael Obst
Ferienkürse für neue Musik Darmstadt 2018 with Marko Ciciliani, Milica Djordjevic, Martin Iddon, Isabel Mundry and Rebecca Saunders.
Ferienkürse für neue Musik Darmstadt 2016 (electronic ateliers) with Sebastian Berweck, Susanne Kirchmayr, Hanno Leichtmann, Philipp Sollman and Mario De Vega