Samuel Barbier-Ficat is an artist and composer based in Paris, whose work intersects contemporary music, electronics and performance, as it explores the concept of the “ritual of presence” and the role of the composer within the concert experience. Drawing upon fractured orchestral routines and jagged rhythmic disruption, Curtain Music is his debut EP, with Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart lending stern vocals to the track “act iii”. samuelbarbierficat.bandcamp.com