Since the autumn of 1999, I've undertaken the composition of a new series of works entitled 'Exploitation des concepts'. It's about using the concepts that I've experimented with throughout all my life as a composer, in every possible way. It concerns writing for instruments as much as for electroacoustic, video, multimedia installations, new technologies, etc.

I'm going to tell you a story. Arriving at my workshop one day, I noticed that a leak was making its way across the ceiling and the ...