Achievements

Charles-Edouard Platel's current catalogue includes some forty works, to be heard in concert or with artists' exhibitions.

In 2007, he updated and published his essay "Imaginary Music" as a printed book, including many personal photographs illustrating the correspondence between sound and visuals. Free and unrestricted access to the book via the imagimuse.net website is maintained. It is visited daily by various French-speaking Internet users.

With this thread, he creates acoustic compositions: works to be played in concert halls or at home via a stereo audio system. 

He also creates music inspired by the work of artists and provides an atmosphere for the exhibition of their works. He has cooperated with painters Rui Prazeres, Srecko Boban and Gomès, plastic artists Beatrice Carré, Cecile Dachary, K-rol Cordier and Catherine Seznec, photographer Michel Di Maggio, sculptor Isabelle Garbil Fauve-Piot. He also composed several recreational, pedagogic or fun pieces and some videos based on music.

To date he has produced nine CD albums: IMAGIMUSE / 1 in 2008, IMAGIMUSE / 2 in 2009, IMAGIMUSE / 3 - Anachronistic poems in 2011, IMAGIMUSE / 4 - Unheard destinations in 2013,  MIGRATION in 2015, VIBRATION in 2016,  SABLES and SYMPHONIE LA FORET in 2017, and NAVIGATION in 2018.

His works are performed in public as spatialized electroacoustic concerts, including recently:

Some of the pieces in his repertoire have been remarked:

  • « Electric Narval », on the theme of Jules Verne, was selected as contribution for the 2005 IMEB "Open Work";
  • « Sawlogy » was selected within the same framework, on the theme of melancholy in 2007, then got the Honory Mention of the Musica Nova competition in December 2007;
  • the « Grand Soir » was also created in 2008 for the 'IMEB Open Work" , on the theme of Revolution;
  • "Wave surfing" was broadcast in January 2009 in the program "Electrain de Nuit" produced by the INA-GRM on France Vivace radio;
  • "Funerals", part 4 of the suite "Youmonte", was broadcast in May 2009 in the program "Electromania" produced by the INA-GRM on France Musique radio;
  • "Metamorphosonic", part 3 of the suite "Coincidence", was finalist of the Musica Nova competition in December 2009;
  • An excerpt of '"Untimed dreaming", part 2 of the suite "Coincidence", was also broadcast in the program "Electromania" in December 2009.
  • In October 2011, "Musicality of the senses", part 1 of "Acousmatic Transmutations ", is broadcast in "Electromania", and "Memories of an egg", part 1 of  "Anachronistics Poems", in the Radio Libertaire's program "Epsilonia", which received C.E. Platel in 2013 for a radio show presenting several of his works, sources of inspiration and research themes.
  • "Struggle", part 4 of the suite "Migration", was brodcast on November 2015 in the program "Electrain de nuit" produced by INA-GRM on France Musique radio. And through the Radio Libertaire's program "Epsilonia" the part 1 "Exode" was brodcast in March 2016 and the part 2 "In the ship's hold" in June 2017.
  • With Isabelle Garbil Fauve-Piot, sculptor, 1st prize in the 2018 competition organised by the Parisian gallery l'Achronique for two works combining sculpture and music: "Temporalité de l'être" and "Presque rien, presque tout".

  •  "Passages", part 2 of "Navigation", is broadcast by "Epsilonia" in January 2019.

 jonc