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It is inside our deepest convictions that we meet our true weakness. Just like a parody of ourselves.

	« De velours et d’acier » is an acousmatic piece that has its origins in my taste for rock music.  Its title, « Of velvet and steel » in French, is, by its many level of interpretations, a brief representation of the whole piece. The beginning of this project resides in the multitrack recording of a metalcore band by an acousmatic composer. Rapidly, the harsh guitars, screaming voices and tight drums convinced me of the immense acousmatic potential of all this material.

Thanks to Untold for the original material.

De velours et d'acier

Nuit noire, Nuit grise

Octobre

Demo for the interactice installation titled Forbidden Readings in collaboration with Lucie Bélanger.

Forbidden Readings Demo

A split second that lengthens, separating two heart beats by an eternity.

The piece, composed intermittently between September 2011 and February 2012, presents a sound environment combining sonic materials extracted from a thunderstorm and a delayed electric guitar. The main inspiration of the piece lies in the beautiful recordings of thunder and rain made a particularly reverberant courtyard of Berlin. The beauty of the roaring thunder and natural rhythms created by the raindrops have convinced me of the musical potential of these materials. Quickly, I found that these recordings completed well an electric guitar improvisation I had previously done in studio. The guitar playing melodic lines was processed by an analog stereo delay before being amplified by two separate amplifiers set with a high gain. Then, after the decision was made to use these guitar materials, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay improvised with the electric bass on top of it. An anodyne discussion between me and my neighbours, captured while recording the thunder, also fits among the important sonic materials of the piece.

Comme Si La Foudre Pouvait Durer

Damn Him ! How Various He Is !

Braitannia Ruled By Honour

Dominic Thibault is an electronic musician. As a solo artist, he composes post-acousmatic music. Live, he improvises with his DIY software instruments. He is involved in a noise duo named Tout Croche, runs the small label The Silent Howl and enjoys playing music with friends Sylvain Pohu, Ryoko Akama, and Girilal Baars amongst others. He is a studio geek, a modular synth player, a music coder and an improviser interested in the performance possibilities of technology in the studio and live.

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