Olivier Brisson

"What is Normal Music?” That was the title I chose for an article some years ago and despite the fact that I was searching something else, it was difficult to find anything better to start these lines about “Horizon Capiton”; the new LP by French musician Olivier Brisson. Monsieur Brisson lives in Lille and has been involved not only with sound experimentation but also with psychiatry. The latter is not just a detail but an important fact here: this is a work about frames and boundaries. But who (or what) are inside/outside those frames? That’s not easy to say. The sound collage brings us to a continuous flow where everything seems mixed: “professionals” cataloguing “mental illness”, voices of “patients”, tape failures, suggestive music passages, anomalous noises, field recordings from everywhere and several rivers of sounds sailing together along with the listener. The trip is intense and compelling. Beautiful and terrifying. The horizon might be a cushion but it might be also something else. We’re culturally trained to believe that something is “normal” or not and we put a lot of effort in trying to make the world fit in those categories. But in the end who is “normal” enough to say what is “not normal”? This is what this record is about and Beware! Sound can easily brake barriers, even those you didn’t notice were present.

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Occasional musician, percussions and various instruments manipulator. Also occupied by its activities in the field of psychiatry or the animation of "Vert Pituite La Belle" association.
Olivier Brisson plays more or less irregularly with Pascal Comelade, My favorite Sideburns Orchestra or in solo after having crossed the path of Quentin Dubost, Toys'r'Noise, Erell Latimier, Julien Bancilhon or Sam Nolin ... He writes in Revue & Corrigée and actively supports crossover initiatives between experimental music and the field of mental disability through organizing concerts, projection or workshops and prepares the edition of a raw music collection.