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MUSIQUE CONCRÈTE
Nicolas Bernier
PRODUCTION
2009
LENGTH
40’
PRESENTATION
Surround sound installation
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DESCRIPTION
silence.musique is an essay on silence. I am in a quiet room and the silence is noisy. I decide to play with it because it refuses to assume its primary role. I improvise it, using it as a building block. I record it, manipulate it, dilate it, amplify it. Sometimes I choke it, sometimes I listen to it. The piano enters as resonance and fills the room with a sound fog, dense with silence. This is my first encounter with this other. If I broke the ice, if I broke the silence, it is only to better find it again in a subsequentely. / / / silence.musique was created between August 1st to september 30th, 2009 in the composer’s studio and at the Banff Centre. Thanks to Nina and Zimoun at Leerraum[], Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, Banff Center and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.The project is available on leerraum[] www.leerraum.ch
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