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Bernard bonnier
12+ albums
Canadianelectronicsynth popexperimentalplunderphonics
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Bernard Bonnier has a down on earth hearing, and a dancing too, altough now and then out of beat. Bernard Bonnier has defined chameleon-music as: '...a mime* trying to beat its parth through the puzzle (casse-tête: literally 'head-breaker') of soliciting madness, sundowns, violence, science, love, death, velveeta* cheese, competition, sex, zen, and mandragora.' This must be true as well of soldier boy, an issue to the motion: 'nothing lost, everything regained'. Each and every single sound hear trough this piece has been made from the loop 'tell me why...' by means of electro-acoustic manipulations, the mark of Bernard Bonnier's concrete music. Following the steps of Pierre Henry, Bernard Bonnier has been a forerunner to new-wave, and other 'underground rock' music. "After studying with musique concrète demigod Pierre Henry, Bernard booked it to Quebec City and brewed his incredibly forward-scheming proto-dance collage. Casse-Tête, literally translating to “Head-Breaker”, is a puzzling exploration of break-beat montage. Bernard scaffolds the boundaries of rhythmic sensation and pounds through scraps of sinusoidal decay, beating societies remnant audio into a violent drum-laden melee of modern-dance predication. No less revolutionary than the acid-house visions of Charanjut Singh, Bernard’s genius resides in pushing these limits from the forgotten snippets of sound permeating our everyday ether. Originals are tough; thankfully reissues exist. Canon grip." User-contributed te
