Sibylline En Danger - Music

Michel Doneda Born Brive France 1954 Soprano Saxophone Has Been Involved With Music Since He Was 15 Years Old In The Harmonie Municipale And Through Playing In Several Dance Bands His First Instrument Was The Alto Saxophone. In 1980 In Toulouse He Created The Reeds Trio 'Hic Et Nunc' With Steve Robbins And Didier Masmalet And In Collaboration With Théâtre De L'Acte Began L'Institut De Recherches Et D'Echanges Artistiques I.R.E.A. Comprising Actors Poets And Musicians All Interested In The Possibilities Of Improvisation. At The Same Time He Played With The Musicians Of The Collective G.R.I.M. In Marseille As Well As The 'Tour De France' Organised By Louis Sclavis. There He Met The Singer Beñat Achiary With Whom He Has Continued His Musical Relationship To The Present Day. Exchanges And Meetings Increased Via The Festival Of Chantenay-Villedieu And The Nato Label Meetings With Fred Van Hove Raymond Boni Steve Beresford Tony Hymas Lol Coxhill Joëlle Léandre Phil Wachsmann John Zorn And Ravi Prasad Among Others. In 1986 Michel Doneda Worked With The 'Compagnie Du Hasard' And Toured Poland Spain South America And Hungary It Was From The Tour Of Poland That The Trio Of Daunik Lazro / Lê Quan Ninh / Michel Doneda Was Formed And They Have Since Given Concerts In Europe And Canada. Between 1986 And 1990 Doneda Formed A Trio With The Violinist Alexander Balanescu And Beñat Achiary And A Quartet 'Terra' With Achiary Lê Quan Ninh And Dominique Regef Hurdy-Gurdy . Also In This Period He Set Up 'Le Grand Huit' Improvisation Music-Theatre With The Actor Michel Mathieu And Lê Quan Ninh And The 'Diseurs De Musique' With The Poet Serge Pey Daunik Lazro And Lê Quan Premiered At Radio-France . Doneda's Work With Lê Quan Ninh Continues With The Trio 'Soc' Michel Doneda / Lê Quan Ninh / Dominique Regef And Open Paper Tree Michel Doneda / Paul Rogers / Lê Quan Ninh . In 1990 Doneda Created The Label Sonographica With Percussionist And Composer Alain Joule To Investigate The Possibilities Of Mixed Media Such As Music Painting And Literature The First Release On The Label Was Le Chameau D'Ispahan. The Association With Joule Has Continued Until The Present Incorporating A Radiophonic Creation 'Voyage Sonore' In Provence-Côte D'Azur With The Groupe De Musique Electroacoustique D'Albi G.M.E.A. Barre Philipps And The Movie-Director Robert Kramer And In 1995 Doneda And Joule Worked In A Trio Completed By Tetsu Saitoh Double Bass . His Work With Barre Philipps Is Similarly Long-Standing Incorporating A Trio At The Beginning Of The 1990s 'Voyage Sonore' A 1994 European Tour With Fifth Season Barre Philipps's Trio Plus Kazue Sawai Kotos Tetsu Saitoh Martin Schütz Cello And Hans Burgener Violin And 1995 Concerts In Calabra Italy In A Trio Completed By Sebi Tramontana Tb . Other Invovlements Have Included A 1993 Itinerant Trip In Gabon To Meet Local Musicians The Premiere Of The Trio Elliott Sharp / Jin Hi Kim / Michel Doneda At The Festival 'Musique Action' In Vandoeuvre-Lès-Nancy Dirty Leaves A Trio With Robert Dick Flutes And Steve Robbins Saxes Idiome 1238 With Dominique Répécaud El. G Olivier Paquotte El. B Daniel Koskowitz Dr Jacques Debout Recycled Records Fabrice Charles Tb Jean Pallandre Loud Speakers And Lê Quan Ninh And Quanta With Mari Kimura Violin Computer Jean Pallandre Tapes Vincent Geais Mélissons Marc Pichelin Analog Synthesizer And Lê Quan Ninh Percussion & Computer . Michel Doneda Is A Member Of The Association La Flibuste Engaged In The Organisation And Presentation Of Improvisation In Relation To Others Art Forms. The Members Of The Association La Flibuste Are Lê Quan Ninh Emmanuel Petit G Fabrice Charles Tb Ly Thanh Tiên Actor/dancer Isabelle Folliot Plastic Artist Vincent Geais Marc Pichelin And Jean Pallandre Electroacoustic Musicians Frédérique Baritaud Painter Béatrice Slasak Experimental Cinema Pascal Delhay Dancer Ronald Curchod Graphic Artist Painter Philippe Besse Mathematician Violin And Christian Monsarrat Video . Numerous Mixed Media Performances Have Been Organised Since 1994. Association La Flibuste Runs Its Own CD Label - Poil - Whose First Release Was Eclipses By Michel Doneda & Jean Pallandre. Later On Michel Doneda Collaborated With Among Others Alessandro Bosetti Bhob Rainey Hélène Breschand Gérald Zbinden Pierre-Olivier Boulant Urs Leimgruber Keith Rowe Serge Baghdassarians Boris Baltschun And Katsura Yamauchi. He Has Released Over 50 Albums On European Japanese And American Labels. read less