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Artist
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Nicolas Bernier
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
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Nicolas Bernier makes music to get close to. His first official CD is called Les arbres (arbres meaning «The Trees») and it’s one of the most exquisitely composed pieces of…
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Alexis Bellavance / Nicolas Bernier / Érick d’OrionNo Type NT 112The universes of Alexis Bellavance, Nicolas Bernier & Érick d’Orion are all radically different from one another: one exhibits a conceptual slant, the second is prone to work meticulously…
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
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“To make machine music so imperfect that it would become more human than human, so we can’t tap the beat on a metronome but instead feel it the way you…
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Saturday, August 12, 2006
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For their first No Type release, Milliseconde topographie (the duo of composers Nicolas Bernier and Delphine Measroch), presents two somber and moody tracks, balancing between delicate electronic textures and opulent…
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Biography
Nicolas Bernier is joyfully flowing from musique concrète to live electronics, post-rock, ambient, glitch, field recording, improvisation, performance, installation, art video while also working with dance, theatre and cinema. In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain constant: the balance between the cerebral and the sensual, and between organic sound sources and digital processing. The sound of Nicolas Bernier is somewhere between the old and the new. It is electronic music made from objects of the past: typewriters, old machines, tuning forks, soundscape memories, and, yes, musical instruments. It is made with a modern apparatus but feels like completely handmade. It is gently articulated textures alongside enormous masses.
His work has been of interest for Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), SONAR (Spain), Mutek (Québec), DotMov Festival (Japan) and Transmediale (Germany) and has been released on lovely labels such as Crónica (Portugal), Ahornfelder (Germany), leerraum (Switzerland), and Home Normal (UK).
He his currently a PhD candidat in sonic arts at the University of Huddersfield (UK) under the direction of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay and Mathew Adkins. He his a member of Perte de signal, a media arts research and development centre based in Montréal.
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