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Rooted in the creative context of France’s wide-ranging ecosystem of sound creation, One & Only, the work from Oliver Tree, occupies a space that resists the narrow genre categorizations that structure most mainstream musical output, fitting into the open, inclusive framework of Music/Other that makes space for works that do not align with standard genre definitions. This classification is not an afterthought, but a deliberate recognition that the sound cannot be slotted into any pre-existing set of sonic, scene-specific, or formal tropes that would tie it to a specific community or audience defined by their loyalty to a single genre. For creators who choose to work outside the constraints of established genres, the context of France’s support for unconventional sound practices provides a foundation to bring works like One & Only to audiences, without the pressure to conform to unwritten rules about what a sound work should include or how it should be structured to find an audience.
