For One

For One is a piece I wrote for myself: solo soprano, a small collection of resonant objects, and movement. It was made in Yann Robin’s composition workshop at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur in spring 2026 and lasts about ten minutes.

It is a silent-room piece. Most of it happens at the edge of hearing — bowl rims set singing and allowed to die, a single pitch held until the breath gives out, steps measured across the floor — and the audience is asked to listen as closely as the performer. The voice sings almost entirely on one note and its nearest neighbours; what changes is the position of the body, the object in the hand, and the distance from which the sound is offered.

The title is both a dedication and a count. It is a piece for one person to perform, and a piece about being one — the solitude that is not loneliness but a kind of concentration. It was premiered on 15 May 2026 at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.