Nicolas Bernier’s “frequencies (a)”

frequencies (a) | nicolas bernier from Nicolas Bernier on Vimeo. Nicolas Bernier is premiering a new performative work using mechanically triggered tuning forks with light synchronisation. The work will kickoff on October 10 at Electric Fields Festival (Ottawa, Canada) while the European premiere will be launched on October 25-26 at Lab30 (Augburg, Germany) and October …

Futurónica 070

Episode 70 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, September 7th. The playlist of Futurónica 70 is: Quarz, Five Years on Cold Asphalt (2012, Five Years on Cold Asphalt, Crónica) Janek Schaefer, The Ghost Road (2010, “Asleep at …

“Five Years on Cold Asphalt” reviewed by Boomkat

‘Five Years on Cold Asphalt’ is a debut album by Alexandr Vatagin’s Quarz. Like his solo work on self-run labels Valeot Records and Liska Records, and in parallel to his membership of the Tupolev & Port Royal ensembles, the Viennese native uses electronic-affected cello and bass to create creaking electro-acoustic soundscapes rooted with a kinship …

New release: “Five Years on Cold Asphalt”, by Quarz

Quarz is a project created, ran and managed by Alexandr Vatagin, an Austrian musician also involved with the projects Tupolev and Port-Royal. Vatagin invited several musicians, and Quarz was chronologically joined by Nicolas Bernier, Stefan Németh (Radian, Lokai), Alexander Schubert (Sinebag) and Martin Siewert (Trapist, Heaven And). On “Five Years on Cold Asphalt” the collaborations …

Electric Spring 2012 in Huddersfield

This year’s edition of the Electric Spring festival in Huddersfield will include performances by Derek Holzer, Annette Vande Gorne, Evan Parker / Adam Linson, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s @c project, Nicolas Bernier, Peter Hölscher / Michael Rüsenberg, in what promise to be five days packed with excellent and demanding events curated by Monty Adkins …

“Travaux mécaniques” by Nicolas Bernier

Nicolas Bernier is launching a 5.1 musique concrète DVD on the empreintes DIGITALes label entitled “Travaux mécaniques” (Mechanical Works). Co-presented by AKOUSMA at Le Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, Concert is on February 9th, 2012, 20h. Two pieces from the disc will also be played at Electric Spring in Huddersfield (UK), opening for @C.

“strings.lines” reviewed by Liability

Alors que usure.paysage n’a pas fini de nous hanter, il n’est pas inutile de revenir sur un disque un peu plus ancien sorti l’année dernière sur Cronica (label ô combien connu et estimé en ces colonnes). Enregistré entre 2008 et 2010, Strings.Lines a été réalisé avec l’aide de Pierre-Yves Martel à la viol de gambe …