Toy Music

Delicate minimalism with miniature instrumentation

Enter the tiny musical world of Pierre Bastien and Małe Instrumenty.  French composer and surrealist inventor Bastien has delighted audiences worldwide with his delicate, minimal music created from meccano and pocket trumpet.  Having built musical machinery since the 1970s, he has worked with artists as diverse as Robert Wyatt and Issey Miyake.  Małe Instrumenty is the perfect pairing; a captivating five piece orchestra of toys and small instruments from Wrocław, Poland.

“Bastien never lets the spell break. The way each new tune grows from the last is as pleasing as a rabbit from a hat, and it makes this musical machine add up to so much more than its wheezing, spinning - and very moving - parts” **** The Guardian (Fertilizer France)

///  "[Bastien] seems to give the machines humanity" The Guardian

/// "A surreal yet magical evening..." **** Telegraph (1st night of Toy Music UK Tour)

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