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Olivier plays the trombone, which he has even taught, but also the electrified guitar, for which he seems to have forgotten everything he once learned. The only trace left of his likely classical training is his long, well-maintained fingernails. He occasionally ventures into the world of electroacoustic music as well.
He knows rock music well and has never turned his back on it, drawn by its youthful energy.
Olivier is a musician far wilder than his serious demeanor might suggest.
He seems to fear nothing—except perhaps being unjust to his peers, his audience, or forgetting the social class from which he comes.
This ethical respect applies as much to music—where he is a noteworthy improviser and a storyteller-composer with a unique voice—as to his theoretical exchanges, where the meticulous development of his lively, bubbling thoughts is matched only by the paradoxical madness and brilliance of his carefully controlled improvisations.
He is a reliable colleague, someone you can count on, who never loses his temper—or at least, no one alive today can recall him doing so.
At ARFI, he plays in La Marmite Infernale, Night of the Living Dead, Canto General, Bululú, La Bête à Sept Têtes, Les Parfums du Fil, Un Autre Kong, Les Incendiaires, and Le Fil et le Grain. In the past, he could be heard in Bomonstre, Babel Orkestra, M. Méliès, and Géo Smile.
He also plays in Marteau Matraque, Kill Your Idols, Le Bonheur, and Le Grand8.