François-Bernard Mâche's universe is wonderful. L'estuaire du temps", perhaps his most accomplished creation, pushes open the door to our dreams.Sounds of great waves, sounds of heavy weather, great irrepressible movements of onomatopoeia, and yet, we don't get scared; The sound texture is clear and sublime: like a sparkling puppeteer, François-Bernard Mâche favors candor over fright.

The ancestral percussive accents suggest a certain filiation with Martin Saint-Pierre and his "Global vibration". Seemingly random, François-Bernard Mâche's rhythms testify to an accomplished vision of the articulation between movement and instant, atmosphere and brevity. The percussionist's ear delights in the purity of his sonorities.

                       Hugo Catherine, Sefronia, music reviews 2.3.2007, about 
                              CD Radio-France « Densité 21 », Naïve 0000, 2006

...at the opening concert of Musica, at the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg, a work by François-Bernard Mâche, l'Estuaire du Temps. The estuary being the place where the river flows into the sea, it is a question of time and eternity. This seasoned musician uses the resources of the sampler, an electro-acoustic machine that immediately provides any imaginable sounds or noises, both natural and synthetic. By dint of
blowing the wind or lapping up the sea, the composer forgets that he also has a complete orchestra, ready to serve (the Radio-France orchestra, conducted by Elgar Howarth). He eventually realises this and gives us a magnificent crescendo that proves that  the day Mâche stops resisting his patronymic, he'll be offering us sumptuous sonic mush. We promise to gorge ourselves on it.

                                                                (blog online sept. 1993)