Piano

Vibrant Box (2021)

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 free Played on Arturia American Grey Road (...)

22 February 2021

Lost and found objects

Collective film (4’41s, 2014).

Abandoned on the ground, these objects wonder about their lives.

24 September 2014

Love dialogue

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 (...)

6 September 2017

To the reason

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2021).

Good reasons to be emotional.

15 February 2021

Inventing a castle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’32s, 2021).

And what if we played a game of inventing a castle inspired by trees?

9 March 2021

To Jean Dubuffet

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 (...)

15 December 2018

Rain

Notes ginned like rain. Instrumental, 2015, 2’27s. Composition and interpretation of Benoît Labourdette (piano and synthesizer).

21 February 2015

Straw fire

Instrumental music, 2019, 2’19s. Composition by Benoît Labourdette (prepared piano).

The soundboard of the piano which proposes a journey on rough dirt roads.

16 February 2019

Cry

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 (...)

5 September 2017

Third eye

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.

4 February 2021

Metal

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 (...)

5 September 2017

Exit From The Ground (2021)

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 “Exit (...)

10 May 2021

Article 10

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.”

17 April 2017

Railway Flora

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’13s, 2021).

As if life was reborn, in the heart of the mechanical world, love once again visible.

10 February 2021

Summer Camp (2016)

Music album

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). (...)

11 November 2016

Hope

Un film de Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2018).

To cling to pillars planted in the water for centuries, to hope.

30 August 2018

Faces

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’46s, 2014).

Memories, drawned on walls, faces.

9 November 2014

Pale

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 (...)

6 September 2017

The curved lounge

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.

12 February 2015

Prosopopoeia

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 (...)

3 February 2016

The line

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’06s, 2020).

Light is what gives existence.

5 June 2020

Mrs. Train (2021)

Musical album

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 reflected. (...)

13 May 2021

The eyes

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).

24 February 2021

Piano

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2015).

A frustrated desire since childhood, who finally seems to open.

24 November 2015

Metro meditation

A face in front of you, in your head. Instrumental music, 2017,6’52s. Composition by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and piano).

27 November 2017

At the time

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’31s, 2020).

The most beautiful memories can be without nostalgia, because life goes on.

25 April 2020

Compagnie Louise Moaty : teaser of the musical show “This is not a dream”

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.

1 June 2015

2 min

Voice, piano and video recital “Songs and dances of death”

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), Sylvie (...)

22 September 2018

1 min