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Les arbres
Urban9,
Nicolas Bernier
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Nostalgia is the background against which “Les arbres” explores the theme of childhood, of those landscapes that reveal monsters and elves, landscapes that free us and close us in, that scare us, that bluster, pour, thunder, rain and storm on us.
“Les arbres” is part of a collaborative process with visual artist Urban9. He created visuals inspired from the soundtrack while I used his images as a springboard to invent musical landscapes. The compositional work for the fixed images offered a very different challenge from composing for moving pictures. I endeavored to imbue the works with narrative, to give a temporal dimension to these moments without time.
“Les arbres” is part of a collaborative process with visual artist Urban9. He created visuals inspired from the soundtrack while I used his images as a springboard to invent musical landscapes. The compositional work for the fixed images offered a very different challenge from composing for moving pictures. I endeavored to imbue the works with narrative, to give a temporal dimension to these moments without time.
The performance version was made possible with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Nicolas Bernier (FR). Initially coming from popular music, his works easily flow between musique concrete, live electronics, installations, art video, dance, theatre and cinema. In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain constant: the balance between the cerebral/sensual and between the natural/processed. He his the founder of the sound art microorganism "Ekumen" and the art director of "Reseaux", a major Canadian electroacoustic concert producer. http://www.ekumen.com.
Urban9 (CA) is a visual artist, web designer and illustrator. The mingling of digital and traditional technologies, often combined to a pure, linear atmospheric music, gives a nostalgic timelessness to his work. http://urban9.com
Urban9 (CA) is a visual artist, web designer and illustrator. The mingling of digital and traditional technologies, often combined to a pure, linear atmospheric music, gives a nostalgic timelessness to his work. http://urban9.com