Musical album
Underlying dialogues in the face of the sea spray.Notes and sounds thrown like seeds, which matured during four to five years, to gradually gather, find each other and propose to germinate, to come out of the ground.Download the album (...)
Happy memories, slowed down by the late hour.Instrumental music, 2017, 2’21s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (piano).Improvisation carried out in private, September 6, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette production).
The ladder is not always easy to climb.Instrumental music, 2017, 1’45s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (piano).Improvisation carried out in private, September 5, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette production).
Un film de Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2018).
To cling to pillars planted in the water for centuries, to hope.
Nocturnal nostalgia which is imagined in the other, and which is born in itself.Instrumental Music, 2017, 4’40s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (piano).Improvisation carried out in private, September 5, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’25s, 2022).
Alignment with one’s nature may be much closer than we think.
Two voices exchange, respond, listen, not always, and sometimes are in unison.Instrumental Music, 2017, 2’12s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (piano).Improvisation carried out in private, September 6, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette production).
Piano, composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (1’34s, 2032).
Signing with our soul, as soon as our fingers touch an out-of-tune keyboard.
Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’46s, 2014).
Memories, drawned on walls, faces.
Notes ginned like rain.Instrumental, 2015, 2’27s. Composition and interpretation of Benoît Labourdette (piano and synthesizer).
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’31s, 2020).
The most beautiful memories can be without nostalgia, because life goes on.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’53s, 2021).
At the moment when everything tilts our third eye opens. And is discovered to us like an ultrasound of reality.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’00s, 2023).
Our two eyes see left-right with a gap, before-after with memory, front-back with their mobility; they create relief and depth.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’19s, 2018).
“I am absolutely convinced that anyone, without any special knowledge or skills, without having to look at I don’t know what so-called native dispositions, can devote themselves to art with every chance of success.” Jean Dubuffet
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, 2023).
When the future looks bleak, we turn to self-destruction.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’32s, 2021).
And what if we played a game of inventing a castle inspired by trees?
A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’35s, 2021).
Meditate, yes... but how to do it?
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2021).
Waiting for... who? Someone or yourself?
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2021).
Good reasons to be emotional.
Instrumental music, 2019, 2’19s. Composition by Benoît Labourdette (prepared piano).
The soundboard of the piano which proposes a journey on rough dirt roads.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’06s, 2020).
Light is what gives existence.
Collective film (4’41s, 2014).
Abandoned on the ground, these objects wonder about their lives.
Collective film (3’02s, 2015).
Hands of humans from all over the world are talking through their tattoos, to music in a building by Le Corbusier.
Music album
A fragile and nostalgic portable grand piano, played in everyday life, subways, trains, cabs, streetcars, offices and lounges, day and night.Download Benoît Labourdette’s album “Vibrant Box (2021)” for freePlayed on Arturia American Grey (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’54s, 2021).
“The harder you try to see - by staring strongly and trying not to blink - the more difficult it is to see where you are aiming.” (William Bates, “Perfect Sight Without Glasses,” 1920).
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’13s, 2021).
As if life was reborn, in the heart of the mechanical world, love once again visible.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2015).
A frustrated desire since childhood, who finally seems to open.
Set of nine instrumental tracks composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette. The summer camp, studious and festive time, a universe that brings to a playful music.Download the whole album “Summer Camp” for free. Hiha (3’37s). Riri (3’04s). (...)
A face in front of you, in your head.Instrumental music, 2017,6’52s. Composition by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and piano).
Composition for piano and tape recorder, by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).
What ebbs will flow back, like life reborn after destruction.Music from the film « Waves are water » (Benoît Labourdette, 4’14s, 2023).
A film by Benoît Labourdette (53s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Stéphane G.).
“No one shall be disturbed for his opinions, even religious ones, provided their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law.”
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’36s, 2015).
Making the musical video teaser of “This is not a dream” (Louise Moaty and Alexei Lubimov). Magic between production of live images and modern music.
Weaving together the elements of one’s own life, to elaborate a living matter.The piano that is left to resonate offers notes, melodies, rhythms and intensities to meet, creating pools of sound in which, at times, one can see oneself (...)
Piano improvisation (2’06s, 2023).
We run, we play, we laugh... and then we choose to switch off.
The artistic world of the “Prosopopoeia” exhibition evoked by music.Instrumental music, 2016, 9’35s (12 pieces). Compositions of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and records).I made a documentary about the exhibition « Prosopopoeia », the (...)
Recital by Karina Desbordes (soprano), Sylvie Lechevalier (piano) and Benoît Labourdette (video).
Eternal Russian melodies in a poetic visual universe drawn live on architecture thanks to video projection.On Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 8pm, at the Église écossaise de Paris (17 rue Bayard 75008 Paris), Karina Desbordes (soprano), (...)
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).