2012 - the bristophone - ostrich
2012 - New Voices - Public Voices
2011 and 2012 - after Bestué and Vives
2010 to 2014 - The trilogy for cello and free ensemble
2010 - My piece with something like hope in the end
2009 - Opus 40 centimetres
2007 - Aus den Sieben Tagen - Oben und Unten
2005 - Soirée 69 et play stations

2006 à 2012 - Various smaller improvised forms
2006 à 2012 - Smaller improvised forms with illustration and/or animation

duets

catalogue of compositions (and its sonic examples)

Workshops, installations and other stuff (workshops, installations and other stuff)

Workshops

André Navarra was regularly repeating that "any idiot can be a cellist". This comment is also true for performance art. Thus it happens to me, once in a while, to propose performance art trainings and workshops for amateurs, teenagers, children and mentally disabledd people (with the association Cap Loisir in Geneva).

The main goal is to always find the best performance that can be achieved with the tools that the attendees master, or that they could, in the given moment, learn to master. Indeed, it is less about creating an amateur product (a bad imitation of what a professional would produce) and more about finding which artistic speech a specific individual could produce depending on his skills, in order to get a "perfect" result. One has therefore to imagine the workshop and the performance according to the ability of each individual, by finding the artistic pearl (or by inventing it…) residing in every person, without demagogy and without compromise, but with a lot of work and self-will.

As for the professional artist, the amateur performance can (and in my opinion must) be the occasion to "sublimate one's nevrosis" (Sigmund Freud); express the inexpressible, dare what "real life" does not allow him/her, and reverse reality. I have worked twice (my piece with something like hope in the end and until love happens) with teenagers on intimacy and body contact, two rather taboo subjects at this age, with children on the organisation of usually forbidden sounds (mouth farts, screams, in the extra-cellists, Play Station 1, and are you done making noise?!), with disabled people on self-sufficiency and care-giving (when they are more used to receive care), and so on.


Extract of the workshop perfotherapy at the théâtre du Grütli in January 2008. The attendee/patient: Daniel. The perfotherapists: Lucie Eidenbenz, Virginie Lièvre and Christophe Schweizer. The boss of it all: Brice Catherin.


The Extra-cellistes,
by Baladi

The port-folio of Ma Pièce Avec Comme Un Espoir A La Fin
by Patrick Marmy

The port-folio of the Extra-cellistes
by Pascal Montjovent

The poster of My piece with something like hope in the end
by Ibn Al Rabin

The port-folio of "la soirée 69 et
play station" by Fabio Visone.

Poster for the "2ème festival de labos d'impro"
by Peggy Adam.

Brice Catherin conducting
Baladi's "N'importe quoi qu'il en soit"
by Fanny Dalle-Rive.

A poster
by Abstien Gachet.

A poster
by Abstien Gachet.

A poster
by Abstien Gachet.

A poster
by Yannis Macchia.

A poster
by Yannis Macchia.

A poster
by Abstien Gachet.

A nice article
from the 24H.


Installations

As any other sad and normal contemporary artist, I too make installations, which are moreover sonic. They are always "live contemporary music generators", in other words machines that allow every man jack to compose and instantly play contemporary music.

The Play Station Portable (or PSP) is to be played with a traditional PlayStation controller and is to be heard with headphones, which allow one to compose in all intimacy. On the other hand, GTA (for Gaming TransAt) is to be played sitting on one of my prepared deck-chairs (with built-in speakers), with a video game steering wheel and pedals.

The recordings here below of the PSP are supposed to be listened to with headphones in order to get the binaural effect. But in the end you can do it the way you want.

Le 23rd of March 2007 at the Conservatory of Basel :
The composer's version.
Anne's version.
Anne's second version.
Luke's version.

Between May to June 2007 au Lapin Vert in Lausanne :
Thomas's version.
Rachel's version.
Brigitte's version.
Gilles's version.
Caca's version.
ddd's version.

Between thé 20th and the 22nd of September 2007 at the festival acouphène in Genève (selection over more than 51 parties) :
Navin's version.
bb's version.
jhg's version.
Simon's version.
Chechilia's version.
fewf's version.
Michael's version (22 minutes!).
Gigot's version.

Between September 2007 and May 2008 at the théâtre du Grütli in Geneva:
Gaël's version.
dorothea_enter_your_name's version.
pack_mann's version.
Lola's version.
Niki's version (ma favourite so far).
Suzanne's version.
Chrisssstina's version.
Josef2's version.
Fabio's version.
Heike's version.


The poster of GTA
by Franz Galo.

The electronic part of
"Gaming TransAt" (GTA).


Other stuff

Here, one can randomly find: performances, interviews, a spectacular animation about me and a song dedicated to me by a fan.


A performance simply called Θα σαλπάρουμε αύριο for craftsmen, ducks, microphonists, and live electronic.


An interview by Lancy TV. (Michael Jackson has NEVER been interviewed by Lancy TV.)


A second interview by Lancy TV.


A third interview by Lancy TV.


To paint this strikingly realistic portrait of my humble person as the artistic director of the Car de Thon, I called upon a whole bunch of artists that Hollywood is jealous of: Fabio Visone (photo), Baladi (illustrations) and someone (animation).

Interview for Dare-Dare (radio Espace 2) on the 13th of June 2008.

This is "Brice", the first song ever written for and about me by a fan, who also sings it: Delphine Digonnet.

(portrait by Rachel Kolly d'Alba)