Olivier Toulemonde
Inframince / Immensity
Inframince / Immensity spotlights two pairs of improvisers at the root of Berlin’s experimental scene. “Inframince” finds Michael Thieke and Olivier Toulemonde submerged in analog exploration: Thieke’s clarinet curls and pulses in slowarcs, sometimes phrased, sometimes breathy and indefinite, while Toulemonde’s acoustic objects - whisks, plates, springs, marbles - flicker between percussion and mechanical sound, never quite settling into simple gesture. The deliberate pacing of their forty-three…
Pie and Mash
A duo improvisation between French trombonist Mathias Forge and Brussels-based improviser Olivier Toulemonde, recorded live in Sheffield in January 2010, with and without audience. Pie'n'mash – its title playfully referencing the traditional London working-class dish – documents the meeting of two remarkable musicians who were relative unknowns at the time but who have since been recognized as significant voices within post-reductionist improvisation.
Forge, a virtuosic young trombonist, demonst…