Through the in-depth exploration of improvisational practices, the ONCEIM musicians have developed a rich and unique panel of know-how. It's as if each musician were one tool within a toolbox, all at the service of the project being undertaken. Without necessarily knowing where we are going, we go, we meet each other, we overlap, we manufacture, we shape, we listen, we listen to each other and we produce, together. The potential for serendipity is also ever-present and we aim to seize it and extract all its radiance.
These discoveries only go to enrich the Onceim sound and sensory palette. ONCEIM focuses on exploring contemporary research of sound creation, including a self-invented 'plastique du sonore' plastic sound approach, and collective and innovative practices of free improvisation. Each musician has a major creative role within the ensemble, built on his singular virtuosity and original musical vocabulary, as if each musician were one tool within a toolbox, and all at the service of the project being undertaken.
ONCEIM operates without necessarily knowing where its musicians go, meet each other, overlap, manufacture, shape, listen, listen to each other and create, together. Laminaire is the sixth album of this ensemble and features three improvised pieces recorded between and , each of these pieces searches for unchartered and challenging sonic territory.
The first piece, the minute "Gorges Gard", was recorded at Eglise Saint-Merry in Paris, in October and suggested reductionist and sparse dynamics and only occasionally and briefly gravitate towards sonic storms that use the whole ensemble's sonic palette.
This piece tends to blur the sense of time and reflect the ensemble's ever-present potential for serendipity and the discovered benefits from such an approach. The second, short piece "A la Muse" was recorded at La Muse en Circuit in Alfortville in January , and it introduces a mysterious tension to the minimalist, austere aesthetics of ONCEIM, ornamented by sudden, industrial-like percussive sounds. The last, title piece is part of a cycle of pieces by this name and was recorded live at all Eglise Saint-Merry in Paris in April It refers to a laminar flow, which in physical terms concerns the process whereby layers of fluid slide on top of each other.
