Slinckx, Pierre International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Born in 1988, he is a composer based in Brussels. He studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire in Mons. He received the Prix Henri Pousseur (2014), Prix André Souris (2016), and was awarded an Octave de la Musique for his album M#1 (2020). He teaches music theory in ARTS2 (Belgium) and is one of the founders and curators of SMOG, a concert venue in Brussels focusing on new, alternative and experimental music. He mainly writes music blending live electronics and acoustic instruments in a chamber music approach but also enjoys composing for purely acoustic, unamplified ensembles. Belgian record label Cyprès recently released four monographic albums showing the scope of his work.

He develops his own digital electronic instruments, and is currently working on a cycle for electronics and a microtonal homemade glockenspiel he designed together with Spanish percussionist Ruben Orio. He recently created Le Chant du Monde with composer Alice Hebborn and scenographer Valentin Périlleux, a 50-minute concert where the musicians are playing inside a dead forest made of giant single-string instruments.

Selected works: LAPS#1 for piano, alto saxophone, bass clarinet and two laptops (2014), JN#1, duo for cello and laptop (2014), Église for large ensemble (2014), Anyway the wind blows for large ensemble (2015), Extérieur/Intérieur for piano and voice (2015), F#1 for piano (+ CasioSK1), cello, violin, flute (+ wah-wah in C) and clarinet (2015), C#1, duo for organ and laptop (2016), SK#2 for small orchestra (2016), M#1 for string quartet and laptop (2017–18), H#1|2|3|4 for piano, percussion (+Casio SK1), cello, viola, violin, e-guitar, flute, bass clarinet in B♭, contrabass clarinet in Bb and wah-wah set (2016–21), C#2, duo for organetto and laptop (2021–23), C#3, for organ four hands (2023), I#1,duo for microtonal glockenspiel and laptop (2024), Le chant du monde (vol. 2) for percussion, organetto, laptop and ancient ritual instruments(2025), F#2 for piano, toy piano (CCasio SA46 or similar), wah-wah in F, cello, violin, clarinet and flute (+ Casio SK1 and Casio CT390 orsimilar) (2025), IER#1, duo for cellos and laptop (2025), CG#29 for ensemble (2025).