{"id":575,"date":"2026-09-28T17:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/?post_type=fcd_rec_edit&#038;p=575"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:25:48","slug":"territoires-2026-en","status":"publish","type":"fcd_rec_edit","link":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/?fcd_rec_edit=territoires-2026-en","title":{"rendered":"territoires"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"rec-edit-page-body\">\n<h2>territoires <span class=\"rec-edit-year\">(2026)<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"rec-edit-lead\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rec-edit-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/themes\/florent-c-darras-theme\/assets\/rec-edit\/territoires-cover.png\" alt=\"territoires\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rec-edit-facts\">\n<p><strong>release<\/strong> 15 November 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>label<\/strong> lucilin records<\/p>\n<p><strong>works<\/strong> <button type=\"button\" data-rec-work-key=\"ecart\">\u00e9cart<\/button>, <button type=\"button\" data-rec-work-key=\"territoires-version-a-8\">territoires<\/button>, <button type=\"button\" data-rec-work-key=\"traversee\">travers\u00e9e<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Available on all streaming platforms, in stereo and DOLBY ATMOS (Spatial Audio), November 15th 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rec-edit-section\">\n<div class=\"rec-edit-gallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/territoires_presentation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1264\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/territoires_presentation-1.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/territoires_presentation-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/territoires_presentation-1-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/territoires_presentation-1-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1264px) 100vw, 1264px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rec-edit-section\">\n<p>Three pieces are brought together here to form three territories. Territories of creation and experimentation, of human encounters, and of time, in every sense of the word: these pieces are slices of musical time, engaging with time itself\u2014through rhythm and form\u2014but they also mark three distinct moments within a period of my life, three years separating the composition of each work. These territories are not, however, self-contained. They touch, and sometimes overlap, and it may be in the album\u2019s central piece, Territoires (2021), for eight musicians conducted here by Julien Leroy, that the essence of the other two can be found\u2014perhaps I should say that they surround it.<\/p>\n<p>The compositional principle behind Territoires stems from an observation I made in the field of biophony: a large number of animal sounds seem to follow an iterative logic, based on a process of micro-variation\u2014in timbre, frequency, dynamics, and time. I therefore sought to create a kind of soundscape music, made up of the heterorhythmic interplay of imaginary species\u2014or instrumental species\u2014shaped by a profound ambiguity between what passes and what endures.<\/p>\n<p>This sense of permanence is found both in repetition and in the idea of animated stasis, particularly in the string drone that seems to hold the entire first part of the piece in the hollow of a hand, or a valley. It was in Travers\u00e9e, in 2018, that I first ventured into this realm of fixed harmony, not without a connection to certain forms of electronic music. In the passage (in French: travers\u00e9e) from one territory to another, the initial fixed chord becomes the first object of transformation: it is a material that moves from the dry to the lyrical, then to the sharply piercing, and finally to resonant diffraction into silence.<\/p>\n<p>This silence between objects returns in the most recent piece, \u00c9cart (2024), which takes up the principle of quasi-isochrony deployed across several voices in Territoires, this time as though we were listening to a single singing species. Around the single principal iterative motif, a few insertions appear\u2014secondary motifs, comments, ornaments\u2014which seem to resist any conventional logic of development. The idea of the song of an imaginary bird gives this territory its almost fractured structure, like an ornamental form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rec-edit-author\">Florent C. Darras<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rec-edit-section\">\n<h3>tracks<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"rec-edit-tracks\">\n<li><button type=\"button\" data-rec-work-key=\"ecart\">\u00e9cart<\/button><\/li>\n<li><button type=\"button\" data-rec-work-key=\"territoires-version-a-8\">territoires<\/button><\/li>\n<li><button type=\"button\" data-rec-work-key=\"traversee\">travers\u00e9e<\/button><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rec-edit-section\">\n<h4 class=\"rec-edit-credits-heading\">United Instruments of Lucilin<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"rec-edit-credits\">\n<li>Andr\u00e9 Pons-Vald\u00e8s, violin<\/li>\n<li>Adya Khanna Fontenla, cello<\/li>\n<li>Sophie Deshayes, flute<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Marc Foltz, clarinet<\/li>\n<li>Olivier Sliepen, saxophone<\/li>\n<li>Andr\u00e9 Feydy, trumpet<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Serafini, trombone<\/li>\n<li>Frin Wolter, accordion<\/li>\n<li>Pascal Meyer, piano<\/li>\n<li>Galdric Subirana, percussion<\/li>\n<li>Julien Leroy, conductor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Recorded in 2024 at Unison Studios and Arsenal de Metz<br \/>\nRecording,Mixing: C\u00e9dric Fischer &#8211; Unison Studios<br \/>\nMastering:C\u00e9dric Fischer, Tom Gatti &#8211; Unison Studios<br \/>\nCover design &#8211; Marie Lavis<br \/>\nProduced by United Instruments of Lucilin<br \/>\n\u00a9 2026 United Instruments of Lucilin<br \/>\n\u00a9 Florent Caron Darras &amp; United Instruments of Lucilin<br \/>\nLucilin Records is a project of United Instruments of Lucilin<br \/>\nWith the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fcd_logosstreaming-1-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fcd_logosstreaming-1-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fcd_logosstreaming-1-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fcd_logosstreaming-1-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fcd_logosstreaming-1-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fcd_logosstreaming-1-1536x1030.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fcd_logosstreaming-1-2048x1373.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-575","fcd_rec_edit","type-fcd_rec_edit","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/fcd_rec_edit\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/fcd_rec_edit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/fcd_rec_edit"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/fcd_rec_edit\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/fcd_rec_edit\/575\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.florentcdarras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}