Raphaël Belfioredates
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projects

• Abstractive extensive studies
  
• Three situation studies
  
• Three measurement studies
  
• Contents (book / exhibition / performances)
  
• Greenwich House, 1957
  
• 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.
  
• Timecode studies
  
• Postproductions
• [number of performers-date-abbreviated venue name]
  
• Edgar Varèse and the Jazzmen
  
• Piano Reductions
  
• Luftlinien
  
• Means with the sound from their own ends / Ends as the sound from their own means

• Sub specie
  
• Seven instantiation studies
  
• NJ
  

live performances
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Contents (exhibition)
Multimedia exhibition from the text score book “Contents”

2024

Contents is a collection of musical text scores written daily over the span of exactly one year, between May 22nd 2020 and May 22nd 2021. Among the resulting 366 scores, some can be realized as music, sound and various other media while others are abstract sketches and spatial arrangements of typographic symbols.

The collection has previously been presented partially on several occasions, either as book prototype, a lecture-performance, a film or a public reading. On the occasion of the collection’s publication in book form, it was presented in a more exhaustive way in the Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof in Basel. It involved not only the scores themselves, but also their implementation in various forms such as audio or audiovisual works, prints and a multi-media installation.

Some of these scores were realised for the first presentation of the project in 2022 while others have been created specifically for the occasion. The initial choice of scores to be presented here has been made without trying to reduce the heterogenous collection to a single unified topic or narrative. It presents scores involving a variety of topics and strategies that somehow relate to each other through the notion of "content".

The exhibition comprised scores 65, 77, 86, 130 (paper) and 97 (four versions on large-format plastic sheets) were on display in printed form. The following scores were also shown as videos on screens and projections: 56, 61, 87, 125, 129, 174, 203, 263, 283, 283, 284, 304, 310, 327, 343 and 353.


The exhibition’ vernissage also included a concert by violist Frantz Loriot, in which he performed a selection of the book's “textual-graphic” scores. This was followed by a reading-performance on the collection by Raphaël Belfiore.

presentation: 20 - 24.03.2024 / Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel

concept, realisation: Raphaël Belfiore
exhibited works with: Canberk Duman, Frantz Loriot, Killian Perret-Gentil, Tatiana Timonina & Maxine Yolanda
technical and exhibition design support: Lea Pusch & Dakota Wayne
Technical support: Beat Burkhardt
poster + flyer design: Tristan Bartolini
Acknowledgements: Philippe Kocher, Micha Seidenberg & Theo Gada



exhibition leaflet

upcoming :                                                                                                           March 2026 / new piece for percussion with Zacarias Maia / Basel, Geneva, Krakow