Creative Composition& Musical Exploration
Private lessons and creative mentoring with Stéphane Boussuge — online and in Vienna.
Develop your musical ideas, explore new creative approaches and build a practice that reflects your artistic vision.
From contemporary composition and harmony to algorithmic processes, sound synthesis and personal creative tools, each lesson is shaped around your interests, experience and goals.
Choose what brings you here
These are complementary entry points rather than six separate courses: they help you recognise your own need. Sessions are personalised, can combine several areas, and the tools are chosen together.
Creative Composition & Harmony
Develop your musical language through harmony, rhythm, texture, form and instrumental writing.
We work from your own material — a chord, a gesture, a texture, a sketch — and examine how it can be developed, transformed and organised into a coherent piece.
Algorithmic & Generative Composition
Explore processes, transformations and systems that generate and develop musical material.
The aim is not to let a system decide for you, but to build processes you can hear, evaluate and steer.
Opusmodus & Musical Programming
Learn Opusmodus, deepen your practice and develop personal functions or tools, with guidance adapted to your experience.
A central speciality of the workshop, and a complete field of study for those who come for it.
Sound Synthesis & Sound Design
Explore the creation and transformation of sound, including Csound and other approaches suited to your project.
Sound can be part of the compositional thinking itself: instruments, textures and spaces designed for the music you are writing.
Personal Creative Environments
Design tools, frameworks and workflows around your own musical ideas, with AI-assisted development when appropriate.
Your musical vision and artistic decisions remain at the centre; AI can help design, write, test and refine the code.
Project Mentoring
Receive individual support for a composition, a sonic project, a generative system or another personal creative project.
Regular sessions across the span of a project: clarifying ideas, evaluating results and keeping the work moving.
Within Personal Creative Environments, possible projects include:
- A personal library of compositional functions
- A generative system based on your own musical ideas
- Tools for exploring harmony, rhythm, counterpoint or orchestration
- A framework for organising sections and large-scale musical form
- A custom Csound instrument and sound-synthesis environment
- A workflow connecting composition, notation, playback and sound
- An AI-assisted workflow for developing and maintaining your musical tools
Format: individual lessons, ongoing mentoring or a project-based collaboration — custom quote depending on the scope and the work involved.
Opusmodus in depth
Opusmodus remains a central speciality of this workshop and a complete field of study in its own right. If you come specifically for it, the work can go well beyond the basics: personal functions, Common Lisp, advanced generative processes and a workflow designed around the way you compose.
It is also one tool among others. You do not need to use Opusmodus to work with me.
- Getting started through practical musical experiments, with no programming background required
- Writing personal functions and tools in Common Lisp
- Transforming motifs, rhythms and harmonic material with processes and generative systems
- Evaluating results musically and moving from code to score and sound
- Deepening an existing practice: extending, refactoring and maintaining your own library
Areas we can explore
These are possible directions, not a fixed curriculum. Sessions are adapted to the needs of each student.
Online worldwide
Lessons take place online, wherever you are based.
In person in Vienna
Location arranged individually for each lesson.
Lessons in English or French
Choose the language that suits you best.
Lesson formats and prices
All prices are in euros. Card payment is handled securely at the time of booking.
Introductory conversation
20 minutes
A short conversation to discuss your interests, goals and the most suitable way to work together.
Individual lesson
60 minutes
A personalised lesson adapted to your level, interests and musical projects.
Extended session
90 minutes
More time for in-depth work on a musical question, technical challenge or personal project.
Four-lesson programme
4 × 60 minutes
A series of four individual lessons organised around your goals.
Project mentoring
Tailored
Tailored support for a composition, generative system or substantial creative project.
Custom creative environment
Tailored
Guidance or development work for a personal composition system, workflow or set of tools.
Group and institutional workshops
Tailored
Workshops for schools, conservatoires, universities and other organisations.
Lesson fees cover the scheduled teaching time. Extensive preparation, detailed analysis or programming work between sessions can be discussed separately. For in-person lessons, any travel or studio costs will be agreed in advance.
Frequently asked questions
Get in touch
Tell me a little about your musical interests and what you would like to work on. A free introductory conversation of 20 minutes is the easiest way to begin.