"Ex drummer of the electroacoustic duo Dubovnik, Mathieu Bec mixes improvised music, noise, jazz acceleration....listening Zorn or Cage.

His drum becomes a pretext to rubbed objects that tells a story. Sculpture of sound, atypical percussionist, he uses various objects and questions the moment by breaking the codes of our perceptions. Nutured by contemporary music, he develops a solo that goes from the lightest whisper to a telluric storm.With his raw animistic approach we forget the technique, we listen to the texture and the material. He takes sounds from everywhere to build moods beetween noise and silences or contemporary vibrations and he cooks us a big meal among the disturbing and oniric textures. Every recording is unique and one shot live taken. Work on the silence.... duration of course, but not on the slowness. A colony of small insects start polyrythmic dances while the master of ceremonies shout weird tunes. The Sacred overtakes clearly the basic solo of percussions towards a dark shamanic trance....unique experience !!!

Collaborations with musicians as Michel Doneda, Wade Matthews, Xavier Charles, Goh Lee Kwang, Pascal Battus, Claude Maheu, Patrice Soletti,Sebastien Bouhana,Pierre Diaz, Guillermo Torres, Noorg, L'instant donné, Marc Siffert, Laurent Avizou, Jean-Louis Costes, Jean-Marc Foussat, Cesario Fa,Makoto Sato, Guy-Frank Pellerin, Julien Palomo, Henry Herteman, Naoto Yamagishi, Gilles Dalbis, David Kiledjian, Sébastien Job, Henry Koek, Christophe Meulien...Duncan Pinhas, Lauren Rodz, Emmanuelle Stimbre, Vanessa Pettendorfer, Bruno Gussoni......Fujimoto Takami and the filmmaker Stephane Clovis..."

"Michel Doneda (F) 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 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 Lê 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."