Offering an intimate space for reflection on how the new sonic environments and the new aural conditions are changing during the pandemic, Il Tempo Sospeso is a radio artwork/ sound installation that reflects the city’s urban soundscape of Den Haag. Many considerations led me to the conception of this composition. These are mainly sociological considerations, reflecting on acoustic ecology/environment issues, how the use of the media has changed and became the primary way of communication in the pandemic period, and how communication and human relations are radically changing. The concept of the composition is based on looped samples, which represent this suspended time we are living in, almost as if we were in a cyclical and repetitive time bubble, without changes and external stimuli. The idea is to produce a piece that never repeats itself, and it is potentially a never-ending composition produced with an algorithmic generative system.  The concept and the content of the piece are mirrored, representing a statement welcoming the idea of the open form.

Il Tempo Sospeso_ Binaural Version

Pelagic Dreamscape (2023) - WDR Sinfonieorchester

first track of my new acousmatic album "lisières"
brunobernard2.bandcamp.com/album/lisi-eres-2

Estran PreM01

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.

Estran PreM01

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