Michel Doneda - sopranino, soprano saxophone
Olivier Toulemonde - amplified objects
Nicolas Desmarchelier - acoustic guitar
Recorded and Mixed by François Dietz, on April 3rd 2005 at CCAM studio, Vandouvre-les-Nancy, mastered by Olivier Toulemonde,
cover design by Nicolas Desmarchelier and Mirt from a post-card collage by Michel Doneda.
Limited edition of 350 copies
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Each three players from one musical corner: improvisation. Like Musica Genera, the likewise Polish label Monotype, is specialized in improvised music. This disc is by Michel Doneda (sopranino, soprano saxophone), Olivier Toulemonde (amplified objects) and Nicolas Desmarchelier (acoustic guitar). Its a recording from 2005, divided in seven parts. This is hardcore improvisation. Lots of objects are being rubbed, touched, scratched to form high end tones, shrieking sounds of objects in danger. This is music that requires ones full attention, even when there is hardly a single second of silence. All of the instruments are used as objects, rather than as instruments. The saxophone may still sound like a saxophone, but the guitar is a resonating body to produce sounds with. Definitely not easy listening, but one to make your hair stand up.
Frans de Waard [Vital Weekly, #711, 29.12.2009]
Sopranino and soprano (Doneda), amplified objects (Toulemonde) and acoustic guitar (Desmarchelier), from a performance at Vandoeuvre in 2005. I've only previously heard Doneda of this trio so I don't know what they do otherwise, but it was immediately interesting to hear how attuned they were to the saxophonist's harsh, whistling world. That dry, whooshing, sweeping sound is very much in evidence from the start and works well for a while. I find that it peters out a bit after a stretch, the musicians perhaps getting more active to compensate, probably not a good idea as the music drifts toward a more efi approach, i.e. a good amount of squabbling. Not bad, but it left me unsatisfied.
Brian Olewnick [Just Outside, 02.01.2010]
M. Doneda, soprano saxophone, born in 1954, comes from the French South-West. He is a self-taught musician.
In 1980 he founded in Toulouse a reed trio: HIC ET NUNC, a group that toured quite a lot in France, playing mostly improvised music. At the same
time he founded with musicians, dancers and actors a place called IREA (Institute for research and exchange between arts of improvisation).
In the following years, he participated in music projects with other artists Michel Doneda and he became a regular guest of the Chantenay-Villedieu festival.
Meeting other artists he developed a very personal approach with his music and his instrument in improvised music. During this period he played with Europeans musicians: Fred Van Hove, Phil Wachsmann, Max Eastley, Steve Beresford and Americans: John Zorn, Eliott Sharp, Elvin Jones
In 1985 he made his first record under his own name: TERRA (Nato record). At the same time he started playing regurlarly with Le Quan Ninh, Daunik Lazro, Benat Achiary, Martine Altenburger, Barre Phillips, Paul Rogers, Tetsu Saitoh, Kazue Sawai.
More recently he developed his work with Keith Rowe, Gunter Muller, Bhob Rainey, Giuseppe Ielasi and dancers as Masaki Iwana, Yukiko Nakamura, Valérie Métivier and poets, actors.
Since then, he has been very involved in the international improvised music scene, toured in Africa, Japan, Asia, USA, Canada, South America, Russia and with a lot of improvisers in Europe.
In 1992 he founded in Toulouse with musicians, actors, poets, dancers the association: La Flibuste.
As of today he recorded almost 50 records for European, Americans and Japanese labels.
Olivier Toulemonde lives and works in Brussels
Improvisation, Composition, Phonography
Plays acoustic objects and amplified springs
In 1993, he was a co-founder of "Collectif Ishtar" (in Bourg-en-Bresse) together with 20 other musicians and dancers. A year later, he joined "Collectif et Compagnie" (in Annecy), where he first started working with electro-acoustic music.
Improvisation:
He plays improvised music with acoustic objects or amplified springs. He works on listening, sound research and relationship between sound and space.
He has played in several festivals, such as Musique Action (Vandoeuvre), Densités (Fresne-en-Woëvre), Rencontres de musiques Spontanées (Rimouski - Canada), NPAI (Niort), LEM (Barcelona), Glasgow International festival, Re:Flux (Moncton - Canada), Festival des Musiques Innovatrices (St Etienne), Curva Minore (Palermo), Humanoise Congress (Wiesbaden), Sonorités (Montpellier), Musiques Libres (Besançon), Beta Project (Pau), Huis a/d Werf (Utrecht), Minim (Barcelona), Remor (Girona), Troubles (Brussels), Blurred Edges (Hamburg), Contemporaneamente (Lodi)...
Plays often with N. Desmarchelier, M. Doneda, C. Sehnaoui, M. Forge, A. Palier, J. Wright...
Nicolas Desmarchelier Born in 1972, live in Brittany
After a variety of studies and experiences including art (painting and drawing), punk music and jazz, he discovers the art of improvisation.
In 1993, he joined the 20 or so musicians and dancers of « Collectif Ishtar ».
Together, they stage several live performances around improvisation combining different genres and disciplines such as dance, video and poetry.
He has tried duos as well as being part of a bigger formation like the Big Bang and has played in many festivals including: Musique Action (Vandoeuvre les Nancy), Densités (Verdun), LEM festival (Barcelone), Instants Chavirés (Montreuil), le Horlieu (Lyon), l'Extrapool (Pays-Bas), la Malterie (Lille), Humanoise (Wiesbaden), Glasgow International of Visual Art, White Chapel, Londre, Musiques Libres (Besançon), European Art Festival, Hambourg …
He plays classical guitar and uses it like an acoustic object. During the performance, he goes with the sounds and moves around the space. The relationship in live between the audience, the space and the artist is the base of his play. He is living in Brittany since 2007.
Here, he founded the association SO with the dancer Yukiko Nakamura to develop the projects through the dance, music, art, film, etc...
Determined to experiment with music, he has had the pleasure to work with olivier Toulemonde, Michel Doneda, Jérôme Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, Seijiro Murayama, Ulrich Phillipp, Martine Altenburger, Carole Rieussec, Jean-Christophe Camps, Xavier Charles, Martin Klapper …
Collaborations with the different artists with the different disciplines : Yukiko Nakamura (dance), Kwiatkowski (dance), Laure Terrier (dance), Li Ping Ting (dance-action), Alexandra Vuillet (marionettes), Jean Marc Richon (theater-action), Bernard Dutheil (video), François Bidault (painting), Xavier Quérel (projector, film)...