Olivier Toulemonde

Olivier Toulemonde is a French sound artist and improviser born in 1972 and based in Besançon. His artistic work is organised around the perception, circulation and spatial projection of sound.

Originally trained as a saxophonist, he turned towards electroacoustic music and free improvisation in the mid-1990s. He performs with amplified acoustic objects, stretched wires and springs, and contact microphones, and also creates sound installations, radio pieces and interdisciplinary performances.

His practice connects attentive listening with the physical behaviour of resonant objects and the acoustic properties of a performance space.