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Born Brive, France, 1954; soprano saxophone.
Michel Doneda 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,
Joêlle Léandre, Phil Wachsman, 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' (Lê
Quan, Regef, Michel Doneda) and Open Paper Tree (with Paul Rogers, doublebass).
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 it's own
CD label - Poil - whose first release was Eclipses by Michel Doneda and
Jean Pallandre.
DISCOGRAPHY
(total 48, beginning in 1985) below from 2002
No Stranger to Air, From Between trio,
Sprout and Flora 1, 2006
Breath on the floor, Alessandro Bosetti/Michel
Doneda, absinth Records 007, 2005
Solo las planques Solo, Sillón
1, 2004
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk
from between, Doneda/Wright/Nakatani,
soseditions 801, 2004
Improvised music from Japan 2004, One
track by Une chance pour l'ombre on compilation CD, Improvised Music from
Japan IMJ-304, 2003
Une chance pour l'ombre, Kazue Sawai/Michel
Doneda/Kazuo Imai/Lê Quan Ninh/Tetsu
Saitoh Victo 094, 2003
Real time satellite data, No Spaghetti
Edition,
SOFA 513, 2003
Placés dans l'air, Bosetti/Doneda/Rainey,
Potlatch P 103, 2002
Musiqueaction #03, Duo with Martine
Altenburger on compilation CD, Vand'Oeuvre VD0 0224, 2002
The difference between a fish, Doneda/Leimgruber/Rowe,
Potlatch P 302, 2001/2002
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