D’après Solaris de Stanislas Lem.
Cette pièce évoque différentes géographies et écosystèmes observées sur une planète lointaine.  A travers un jeu de textures, de résonances et de son ciselés se dévoilent la faune, la flore, ainsi que les émanations étranges, gazeuses d’un environnement en métamorphose.

Commande GMEM Marseille/FRAC Sud pour l'exposition Solaris, 2023 
en version multiphonique pour 5 haut-parleurs et 4 transducteurs.

AURAE

Pelagic Dreamscape (2023) - WDR Sinfonieorchester

City Diaries
Bruno Bernard 2024
(english)
"City Diaries" is a refection on our city lives, a daily imaginary journey that invites us to
introspection. Te world of sound that surrounds us is experienced in a unique way by
each and every one of us, yet we all share it.
Each stroll is unique, each moment unique.
It's up to us to make these situations our own, to build our own dream cosmology.
Considering the creative power of what surrounds us as a tool for inner construction, as
poetry, is a response to our materialistic lives and can help us better apprehend the
modern world.
True to Gaston Bachelard, the aim here is to give free rein to daydreaming, while at the
same time giving full artistic expression to the noise of our times, an essential concept
developed by Luigi Russolo.
City Diaries was composed from sounds collected at night in my city (Chalon sur
Saône), which gave rise to an imaginary vocabulary for this acousmatic piece.
Our sound context is a refection of our times, and it's up to us to seize it and, like
modern alchemists, appropriate one of the last things that is free - noise - and transform
it into a work of art. Fortunately, it's one of the last things we have free access to.
Binaural format 24B/48Khz
(français)
« City Diaries » est une réfexion autour de nos vies citadines, un parcours imaginaire
quotidien qui nous invite à l'introspection. L'univers sonore qui nous entoure, à la fois
ressenti de manière unique par chacun d'entre nous, nous est pourtant commun, nous
l'avons en partage.
Chaque déambulation est singulière, chaque moment est unique.
C'est à nous de nous approprier ces situations afn de construire une cosmologie onirique
qui nous soit propre.
Envisager la puissance créative de ce qui nous entoure comme un outil de construction
intérieure, une poésie, est une réponse à nos vies matérialistes et peut nous aider à mieux
appréhender le monde moderne.
Fidèle à Gaston Bachelard, il s'agit ici de laisser libre cours à la rêverie et en même temps
donner toute son importance artistique au bruit de notre époque, concept essentiel
développé par Luigi Russolo.
City Diaries a été composé à partir de sons collectés de nuit dans ma ville (Chalon sur
Saône) qui ont donné naissance à un vocabulaire imaginaire permettant de construire
cette pièce acousmatique.
Notre contexte sonore est le refet de notre époque, à nous de nous en emparer pour, tels
des alchimistes modernes, s'approprier une des dernières choses qui soit gratuite -le
bruit- et le transformer en oeuvre artistique. C'est heureusement une des dernière chose
qui soit nous accessible librement.
Format binaural 24B/48Khz

3.Walking

This is a stereo mix of an 8-channel work. This composition utilizes several significant aural illusions to provide the structural underpinnings. Specifically, the work incorporates both Shepard Tones (endless glissandi) and Risset Rhythms (endless accelerando/ritardando) that are featured prominently in several large sections of the work. 

Illusory Lines Stereo Mix

https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/le-journal-de-19h
20.10.17 de 16:30

Franceinter

electronic improvisation (excerpt) 

Nicolas Canot : Max/MSP programming / FX 
Alex Derouet : modular synth 

recorded at SNPP studio - Reims 
November 12th 2017 

cover : Nicolas Canot
credits
released November 22, 2017

DIMENTZIA

I have often thought of myself as a collector, or perhaps more accurately a hoarder, of sounds. These sounds come from a number of sources including household items, children’s toys, musical instruments, and environmental recordings. The act of manipulating these sounds and placing them in a musical context is a process that relies both on compositional strategies and software tools that I have developed. This work represents one possible result when left to my own devices.

When Left To His Own Devices

Generative Soundscapes (2018) [excerpt]

“Stati d’Ansia”, that means “Anxiety Moods” in English, is a study about the dramatic value of the human voice in musical discourse, experimenting with sounds and gestures of the ‘cello.

A female voice recites a poem titled “C1” by Nanni Balestrini, main figure of the Italian Neo-Avant-Grade poetry, who recently passed away in 2019. “C1” was written with an algorithmic system as the result of assembling multiple texts, and has different levels of interpretation.

The formal structure oscillates around the intelligibility level of the voice, the words are deconstructed, in articulation with the cello that moves in the opposite direction replacing the missing and unintelligible words.

Stati d'Ansia - C1 _ Binaural Version

I have long admired the poetry of Robert Gregory, having set one of his poems for voice and fixed media and having been captivated by his work on many occasions. His poetry has provided inspiration for my own work, finding its way into not only my work titles but also into the conceptual foundation of a number of my compositions. When I heard that he had passed away, I spent some time reviewing his work and revisited a recording I had made of Bob reading several of his poems in the early 1990s when we both lived in Miami, Florida. One of the three works I had recorded, and sometimes wind from the south, provided an ideal poem for me to set in memoriam. This text-sound composition is based on Bob's inimitable voice and strives to capture some of his fanciful imagination and lively spirit.

and sometimes wind from the south

Bruno Bernard
Compositeur - Artiste sonore acousmatique et musique electronique.
Elève de Christine Groult, Camille Roy, Dan Lustgarten, Nicolas Vérin, il s’intéresse tout particulièrement aux environnements sonores, à la complémentarité entre image/son/spectacle vivant, Bruno Bernard milite également à la prise de conscience de l'importance du phénomène sonore par l'écoute active et la poésie qui s'en dégage.
Bruno Bernard a été sélectionné et nominé en 2002 au 29ème concours de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustique de Bourges.
Performer, il se produit régulièrement au sein de divers projets, ainsi que dans diverses collaborations interdisciplinaires et en solo.

3.Walking

noubba

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