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is an audio art improvisation ensemble formed by Alexis Bellavance, Nicolas Bernier and rick
d'Orion and guests. Inspired by playfulness,
the artists are exploring the possibilities of interaction between each other.
Through bloody duels, solitary marches and cut-throat trios, they impose their
actions as would characters in a Spaghetti Western. Indeed, therein lies the
catachresis of the project; it is a movie for the ears, a fictitious soundtrack
worthy of cowboy kinetics. From silence to explosion, from long shot to
close-up, from well-oiled machinery to haphazard mechanics, from abstract
landscape to concrete scenery, from impulsive action to languorous
reflection... the language is one of extremes.
ACTIVITIES
May
21st, 2010 : Performance : FIMAV,
Victoriaville
Febuary 3rd, 2010 : Performance CD Launch
: DAMN : Gatineau
November 6th, 2009 : Performance : Grace Space : New York, US
October 3rd, 2009 : Residency : Le Lobe : Chicoutimi
May 22nd, 2009 : Workshop : Universit de
Annecy : Annecy, France
December 19th, 2008 : Performance : Rustines
| Lab : Montral
September 6th, 2008 : Performance : Chevalier du noise 3 : Qubec
May 15th, 2008 : Release : No Type
March 14th, 2008 : Performance : The Factory : Hamilton
May 31st, 2007 : Performance : Galery 1313
: Toronto
VIDEO
AUDIO
http://www.notype.com/drones/cat.f/nt_112/
ALEXIS BELLAVANCE
Alexis Bellavance studied at the visual art and
media art school of the Quebec University in Montreal (UQM) and is a member of
the collective Perte de Signal since 2003,. His works explore the phenomenon of perception
through the filter that is the human body. In grasping the reality and his
reverse, he privileged the performance and audio art. His works has been
exposed in many places in Canada, in Europe and in Asia. He is a member and
cofounder of the collective Priphriques and
cofounder of the performance festival VIVA! Art action.
NICOLAS BERNIER
Nicolas Bernier's initiation into musical
creation was through popular music. His love of experimentation has inspired
him to develop acousmatic compositions, live
electronics, installations and art video, as well as music for dance, theatre
and cinema. In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain
constant: the balance between the cerebral and the sensual, and between organic
sound sources and digital processing. He his the founder of the sound art
microorganism Ekumen, member of the media art
organization Perte de Signal and he his the the art director of Rseaux, a major Canadian electroacoustic
concert producer. His works have been awarded and broadcast in festivals around
the world.
RICK DORION
rick dOrion is a sound and new media artist as
well as a self-taught composer and musician who has lived in Quebec City since
1993. Most of his work with sound focuses on digital maximizing and is closely
related to noize, musique concrte, free jazz and electro-acoustic music. In tandem
or in parallel he develops installation projects in which sound and new
technologies are used together to create works which are both performative and static. His current work focuses mostly
on reinterpretating, appropriating and re-reading
certain art historical concepts, especially musique concrte, Dada and Futurism, without being
stuck in the past.
PRESS
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Les univers dAlexis Bellavance, de Nicolas
Bernier et dՃrick dOrion
sont tout ce quil y a de plus different |
Sur Notype.com, 15 mai 2008 Les
univers dAlexis Bellavance, de Nicolas Bernier et dՃrick
dOrion sont tout ce quil y a de plus diffrent: lun a la fibre conceptuelle, le second,
le soin du travail mticuleux,
et le troisime, la patte
nergique. Que peut-il bien arriver quand la destine force ces trois canailles travailler ensemble? Peut-tre bien cet change
improvis autant quimprvisible, inspir en cela dun certain film de Sergio Leone vous maintenant de deviner qui est le bon, qui est la brute, qui est le truand |
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Fresh! |
By Sven Swift in 12rec blog (Germany) June 22nd, 2008 A fine EP of collective improvisation music
to fetch at No Type. Alongside Alexis Bellavance
and rick dOrion,
Nicolas Bernier provides expanded electro-acoustic collages, field-recordings
and subtle ambient textures. Especially the first two tracks Le Duel and Paysage made me listen up. The art of this Montreal
triple is to bring their academic sonic research to musical forms. Fresh! |
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somehow evoking a
cinematic narrative through sounds |
By Stephanie Vegh, blog, March 15th, 2008 Also
visiting Hamilton from further afield were Alexis Bellavance
and Nicolas Bernier from Montral, presenting a sound performance work at The
Factory. In my limited experience, this is a bit of a departure from their
policy of showing video art during the crawl, and I suspect I wasnt the only
one confused by the initial lack of action in the screening room. Getting an
audience to stick around for poorly-advertised live events on the crawl has
always been a source of irritation on my part - and I can only imagine the
annoyance of the artists themselves - but I was well rewarded for sticking
around to wait for the start of Bellavances and
Berniers collaboration, which did eventually draw a respectable group of
spectators once the nifty noises started. audio/actes is a live improvisation of sounds
generated in point-counterpoint between the two artists in an exchange that
is both obscured by the profusion of laptops and electronics and made
physically evident with the intervention of simple gestures like plastic wrap
being dragged over a microphone. The results are sampled in small doses at
the projects website, but the entirety of the experience has more in common
with a tradition of oral storytelling, somehow evoking a cinematic narrative
through sounds that are both utterly strange and sometimes as familiar as the
ringing of telephones and doorbells. |