Invisible multicolore.
Following decades of abstract electronic music, Nicolas Bernier returns to the basics in a post-electronic, post-rock, post-jazz, post-everything fashion.
Released January 2, 2023
M. Carreaux (soundtrack)
Original music for the animation short film M. Carreaux directed Marie-Hélène Turcotte : embuscadefilms.com/m-carreaux
Released April 8, 2021
Associated Sine Tone Services.
« THE MUSIC FILLS ME WITH GREAT JOY […] THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL WARMTH IN THESE PIECES »
— Vital Weekly No. No. 1450
Collaboration with Jeremy Young and Rutger Zuydervelt using sine wave oscillators. Navigating a strange dreamstate, the score feels moody and cinematic, flowing in velvety textures and dense timbres.
Released July 19, 2024
Music for a Piano.
« AN INCREDIBLE PLACE TO BE »
—Norman Records (UK)
« DU GRAND ART»
— Claudine Caron, Circuit (CA)
Music for a Piano was mainly composed with a piano in the middle of the Canadian Rockies in July 2009 during a residency at The Banff Centre.
Released August 7, 2012
Lueurs oniriques.(soundtrack)
Original music for the exhibition/performance/installation LUEURS ONIRIQUES by visual artist Manon De Pauw in a collaboration with choreographer Pierre-Marc Ouellette.
Released January 12, 2024
The Dancing Deer (soundtrack)
« totally unusual and exceedingly strange »
— Boomkat, UK
« dreamy and destabilizing »
— Monsieur Délire, CA
A pop concrète collage translating months spent in the Canadian Rockies, working on the interdisciplinary piece On the Side of The Road by Theatre Junction.
Released December 3, 2010
Melt Mauve Trio
MELT MAUVE is an improvisation collective. This third EP is featuring Vincent Fliniaux on double bass. Reminiscences of jazz (free or not), doom, joy, melancholy sirup or deep fried crackling textures are melting in a velvety, uninhibited, organic flow.
Releases June 13, 2025
Strings.Lines.
« SUBLIME. »
— Boomkat, UK
« A MERVELOUS RECORDING »
— Cyclic Defrost, AU
A collection of acoustic tuning forks ranging between 21Hz and 6khz on top of which slow movements are gently flowing alongside the strings played by Pierres-Yves Martel and Chris Bartos.
Released October 1, 2010
Société magique.
WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SOCIÉTÉ MAGIQUE. We found a 35 foot long graphic poem alongside a reel tape machine containing haunted folk compositions. The rumours says Société magique might have been an obscure artist collective from the 70s. Acoustic guitar and sine waves (Ondes Martenots??) creates a unique experimental folk that should please the listeners of Master Will Burn Burchette, John Fahey, Bill Orcutt and Dale Cooper Quartet infused by some sort of the Morton Feldman spirit. To listen to late at night.
🜁 🜳 🝩 🝢 🝊🜁 🜳 🝩 🝢 🝊
Released approximatively on November 1, 1977
Science_Fiction.
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« a uniquely surreal sound collage »
— Electronic Sound [Issue 90]
« a must experience for adventurous ears »
— Last Day Deaf
Collaborations with poets/vocalists around the theme of science fiction and its anchor to our reality. From the AI generated words of Av3ry to the legendary avant-rapper BEANS (Anti-pop Consortium), this album will please adventurous ears in search of futuristic musical schemes.
Released June 7, 2022
Bettica Batenica (soundtrack)
Original music inspired by the comic written and illustrated by Romane Granger.
Released April 8, 2021
Les arbres.
Sonic landscapes and slow textures meet with precise articulations, all this resting on a minimal orchestration made of guitars, brass instruments, vibes, accordions and strings.
« an amazing CD, with great ideas, perfect execution »
— Vitral Weekly, NL
🏆 Mention Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2009.
🏆 Prix Opus 2008-09, disque de l’année.
Released May 28, 2008
DK. (soundtrack)
Original music for the project Danses kaléidoscopiques, a interdisciplnary performance by Manon De Pauw (visual art) an Pierre-Marc Ouellette (movement).
Released February 1, 2022
Étude no.3 pour cordes et poulies. (soundtrack)
« RARE AND WONDERFUL »
— Eric Hill in Exclaim! (Canada), June, 2007
Trame sonore composée par pour le spectacle chorégraphique de la compagnie de danse O Vertigo dirigée par Ginette Laurin. Co-composée avec Jacques Poulin-Denis.
Les paysages défilent dans une métaphore de l'insaisissable pensée et son désir de lever les voiles, de sa propension à s'envoler malgré la contrainte matérielle du corps qui la contraint au terrestre.
Released January 1, 2007
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Some music is already available via Sonata Media (UK):
https://sonata.media/artist/nicolas-bernier/bf5af29d-e6dd-44d4-989f-af6a8a524d4d
More on Bandcamp
You can directly visit Nicolas Bernier’s Bandcamp page for more (but still a partial list of) records.