About Jazz Harmonica players’ intellectual masturbation If you play jazz harmonica for more than 20 years as I do, one really forgets about all the difficulties that one had to overcome. Of course I went through (and still go) through many difficult moments. I remember me smashing a...

The beauty of unpredictability. On how simple things turn into complex systems. And on how simple complex systems are. About the relationship between order and chaos. About one fact that is inevitable and the driving force behind diversity: unpredictability.

My inspiration to play and compose music comes from philosophy, physics, mathematics, computation, visual modern arts and the lives of special and ordinary people. The things that make me wonder make my music sound wonderful. Here an example of a documentary that for me is full of new ideas to...

Interesting how the art world works (a BBC documentary that turns out to be a commercial for British art) … but somehow I like the body of work of Jenny Saville a lot.  

Glenn Gould’s performance is part of our message to space! Here the wonderful portrait written, directed, and narrated by Vincent Tovell and Eric Till. No longer available on tape nor DVD. If it is, please let me...

I’ll share my immense passion for the music of Mahler for my whole life I guess. Here a really deep, most painstakingly detailed but also approachable attempt to decipher the inner dynamics of a complex work of this great work of art, the 3rd symphone. Mahler’s music deserves it....