Composer · Artistic Researcher

Martin Loridan

Composition as a laboratory for breath, resonance and the transformation of acoustic instruments.

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Fig. 01 — String tension under light

2026

Introduction

Composition as a Space of Inquiry

Martin Loridan’s work brings together musical composition, artistic research and instrumental experimentation. Through collaboration with performers, researchers and instrument makers, he explores how breath, gesture, space and resonance can reshape relationships between musicians, acoustic instruments and electronics.

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Emergence of Speakings

2026 · Augmented flute, double bass and electronics

A dialogue between breath, bow activation, discreet electronics and two contrasting augmented instrumental bodies.

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Close detail of hands articulating an augmented flute

Emergence of Speakings

2026 · Augmented flute, double bass and electronics

A dialogue between breath, bow activation, discreet electronics and two contrasting augmented instrumental bodies.

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Close detail of piano wood grain surface

Feed the Monster

2023/2024 · Spatialised ensemble

Four musicians project sounds toward an augmented piano that absorbs, transforms and redistributes them as a living collective instrument.

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Reverberated Impacts

2022 · Percussionist, piano and Extended Pedal

The piano becomes a resonating landscape of strings, frame, soundboard, percussion and pedal-controlled reverberation.

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Research Projects

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Close detail of breath activating a flute mechanism

Souffle

Air and Breath as Compositional Material

A compositional language developed through friction, resonance, energy and the ambiguity between human and instrumental breath.

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Souffle

Air and Breath as Compositional Material

A compositional language developed through friction, resonance, energy and the ambiguity between human and instrumental breath.

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Extended Pedal

Rethinking the Body and Resonance of the Piano

An external mechanism allowing performers to move around the open piano while retaining direct control over its resonance.

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Close detail of piano strings and frame interior

Close detail of an instrument neck and frets with technical device

Organic Augmented Instruments

Non-Invasive Active Amplification

External and reversible systems allow electronic sound to emerge through the acoustic instrument’s own vibrating body.

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Research Projects

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Souffle

Air and Breath as Compositional Material

A compositional language developed through friction, resonance, energy and the ambiguity between human and instrumental breath.

Explore Souffle

Extended Pedal

Rethinking the Body and Resonance of the Piano

An external mechanism allowing performers to move around the open piano while retaining direct control over its resonance.

Explore the Extended Pedal

Organic Augmented Instruments

Non-Invasive Active Amplification

External and reversible systems allow electronic sound to emerge through the acoustic instrument’s own vibrating body.

Explore Organic Augmentation

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Reverberated Impacts

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March 2026

Emergence of Speakings — World Premiere, Ensemble ælta

Brussels

March 2026

Emergence of Speakings — World Premiere, Ensemble ælta

Brussels

June 2026

Feed the Monster — Festival Mosaïques

Leeds

September 2026

Extended Pedal — Research Seminar, Royal Conservatory of Brussels

Brussels

Current & Future

New Work

Vestiges du temps

New work for Ensemble Fractales extending cross-projection and organically integrated electronics to six instruments.

New Work

Emergence of Speakings

New work for augmented flute and double bass commissioned by Ensemble ælta.

Ongoing

Organic Augmented Instruments

Ongoing development of external and reversible active-amplification systems.

Restrained environmental portrait of Martin Loridan by a window

About

Martin Loridan is a French composer and artistic researcher based in Brussels. A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and holder of a PhD in Composition from the University of Leeds, he is Professor of Composition and Orchestration at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

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