1943 – 1st birth in Normandy ; sign : scorpio. It is still wartime and occupation. Deep sleep until the age of 13, then 2nd birth with Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony. Another space exists ; but it is impossible to study Music. I must wait again, and sleep...

1961 - poetry : Rimbaud, Eluard and the others...

1963 : 3rd birth (the real one) Paris, Saint Claude Street. Music is everywhere. Paths (ways ?) are open, « the wind starts blowing... »

1965 – Arielle : « time is brimming and lighting up. »

1966 – beginning of studies at the CNSM in Paris. Nose and head in the scores.

1972 – Messian omnipresent: the Maestro, the knowledge, the reference.

1973 – Far Eastern music, Zen, light, « the fruits of the Earth » ; and if God did not exist.

1977 – Villa Medicis, freedom ; the alchemy of the musical language.

1979 – return to Paris, the disillusions. We must always fight.