mathieu corajod

Music, body, technology – between score and stage, text and gesture, public and scenic spaces, each work is created out of a unique configuration.

approach

I am a Swiss-French composer and director born in 1989. I conceive each work as an artistic experience that challenges conventions, awakens the senses, creates connections and raises questions. I work with instruments, voice, body, space and technology. My creations take many forms, ranging from musical pieces (instrumental, vocal, electronic) to choreographic, theatrical or poetic productions, conceived from the outset in relation to sound. Driven by a desire to deepen the interdisciplinary nature of my work, I founded the Compagnie Mixt Forma in 2020.
I am equally attached to the concert format and to a broader practice of composition. Any element of the creative context can become a parameter of the work, which is often written for a specific venue, performers or audience. The collaborative and inclusive dimension plays a central role in this process. It influences not only the way the works are constructed, but also the way they are perceived and shared.

main projects

In 2023, with the show Laquelle se passe ailleurs, the Compagnie Mixt Forma performs at the Grande Salle du Centre Pompidou during the Manifeste Festival in Paris. In 2022, I write and direct my first opera, Rendez-vous près du feu, commissioned by the Opéra national de Lorraine and the Musica festival, a veritable laboratory for outdoor lyrical creation, reaching out to city dwellers. In 2019, my final piece for the Ircam Cursus, Ça va bien avec comment tu vis, marked a turning point in the way I fuse music, technology, contemporary dance and poetry.

Commissioned works by musicians and orchestras such as the Ensemble Divertimento, the Ensemble Adapter, the Ensemble Interface, the Ensemble soyuz21 and the Bern Chamber Orchestra allow me to take on new challenges that nourish my musical research, while focusing on a sensitive approach to listening and the emotion produced by all the facets of the work.

In 2021, I co-founded the composers’ collective CUE Creative/Union/Expérience with Giulia Lorusso and Giovanni Montianni in an effort to combine different skills, methods and knowledge. Since 2021, I have begun composing the Cahiers électroacoustiques cycle, a set of didactic works for various instruments and electroacoustic tape, which express the essence of my musical ideas in a simple form.

grants

As a freelance artist, I have been fortunate to receive support from several organisations, such as the Nicati-de Luze Foundation and the artistic commissions of the Canton of Bern (Atelier à la Cité internationale des arts) and the Aargauer Kuratorium (Werkbeitrag). Together with Pierre Lison, I am also a laureate of the dance commission for emerging choreographers of the Beaumarchais-SACD association. My participation in numerous residency programmes (Abbaye de Royaumont, ICST, etc.) and calls for projects (IMD Darmstadt, Livorno Music Festival, Merge up!, etc.) throughout my artistic development has also contributed to enriching my practice.

education

I trained in composition, experiemental musical theatre, computer music and musicology. My studies at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB), the University of Bern and IRCAM (Cursus 18-19) allowed me to meet many different and inspiring personalities, including Xavier Dayer, Christian Henking, Daniel Weissberg, Françoise Rivalland, Jennifer Walshe, Pierre Sublet, Thierry de Mey and Simone Conforti. As a doctoral student at the University of Geneva as part of the HKB’s ‘Schreiben mit Stimmen’ research project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), I am currently working on my thesis on the verbal compositions of composer and linguist Hans Wüthrich under the supervision of Nicolas Donin and Michael Harenberg.