nicolas bernier [ekumen.com]

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selected works

projects
sur fond blanc (2009)
Les arbres (2004-2008)
Tricycle DVD (2007)
objet abandonné en mer
... et retrouvé en forêt (2007-2009)
Ail et l'eau faille (2007)

perf + instal + in situ
La chambre des machines (2010)
boîte. (2008)
sub•a•quat•ic (2006)
Big Wheel (2006)
Poster music (2006)

musique croncrète
10 passages (2008)
Les chambres de l'atelier (2008)
Liaisons mécaniques (2007)
Writing Machine (2005)

live + diffusion   look at the dates

prizes and distinctions   look at the distinctions

press articles   read the articles

press photos   photo_.1 photo_.2 photo_.3

musique for dance/film/theater

dance/film/theater
UBU: Une fête pour Boris (theater, 2009)
Junction : On The Side Of The Road (theater, 2009)
UBU: Complexe de thénardier (theater, 2008)
O Vertigo: La chambre blanche (danse, 2008)
UBU: Othello (theater, 2007)
O Vertigo : étude #3 (dance, 2007)
Nicolas Roeg : Puffball (film, 2007)
Tony Chong : Revolver (dance, 2006)
O Vertigo : ANGELs (dance, 2006)

sub•a•quat•ic (2006) installation submersible

artists
music and images : Milliseconde Topographie [Bernier+Measroch]

• Pictures from the show:1 2 3 4 5 6
• listen to an audio excerpt! [mp3]

description / program note
sub•a•quat•ic is a sound installation proposing a special type of experience : the underwater listening. Submerged in water, it’s the entire body which perceives the music, the sound seeming as if coming directly from inside the skull. The aquatic world also perturbs and blurs the music. What the listener perceives becomes a difformed reality which can seem strangely faint and distant, as would do memories.

sub•a•quat•ic is a work on the dichotomy between two spaces, the inner and the outer world. Milliseconde Topographie has conceived two music works to inhabit each world and interact with each other. The subaquatic soundscape is built around slowness and melodies with the sounds of music boxes, toys and old cameras, objects reminiscent of the past and of the intimacy of lullabies. Above the water surface, the external soudscape, with its realistic aesthetic, appears more like the reflection of the concrete world.

The listener-swimmer choses its own journey, hovering at the surface where both spaces merge, or dives in one world to then re-emerge in the other.

Video

sub•a•quat•ic is produced by Réseaux and his creation was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. sub•a•quat•ic is using underwater speakers from Aqua Musique

performances
friday June 9: 20:30 - 23:30
saturday June 10: 19:00 - 22:30
piscine — centre sportif UQAM
1212, rue Sanguinet, Montreal