Associated Sine Tone Services.
«THE MUSIC FILLS ME WITH GREAT JOY»
— Vital Weekly (NL)
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
transert/futur
«MERCURIAL POST TECHNO TONES IN POLYMETRIC STRUCTURE»
— Boomkat (UK)
New (and hopefully) definitive version of this weird «mercurial post techno in polymetric structure» as Boomkat described it. Those who like the experimental side of Oneothrix Point Never should like this.
Originally released on Acte label on November 10, 2017 and re-released on September 1st 2025.
strings.lines.
« SUBLIME. »
— Boomkat, UK
« A MERVELOUS RECORDING »
— Cyclic Defrost, AU
Foreshadowing a cycle of works based on tuning forks, those «acoustic sine waves» are here balanced by strings performed by Pierres-Yves Martel and Chris Bartos.
Released October 1, 2010
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
Melt Mauve Trio
MELT MAUVE‘s third EP 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
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 and performance LUEURS ONIRIQUES by visual artist Manon De Pauw in a collaboration with choreographer Pierre-Marc Ouellette.
Released January 12, 2024
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
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
Les éternités vibrantes
«multi-dimensional landscapes of sound design and cinematic melodies of slowly unfolding sci-fi jazz»
— Electronic Sound Issue No.81 Sept 2021
With Simon Trottier and guests.
Released September 15th, 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
Étude no.3 pour cordes et poulies. (soundtrack)
« RARE AND WONDERFUL »
— Eric Hill in Exclaim! (Canada), June, 2007
Soundtrack to Ginette Laurin’s (O Vertigo) choreography. Co-composed with Jacques Poulin-Denis Jacques Poulin-Denis.
Released January 1, 2007
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Complete discography
SOLO RECORDS
2025 Nicolas Bernier, Visions couleurs, Label Formes • ondes (CA)
2024 Nicolas Bernier, Lueurs oniriques (musique pour l'installation), Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2023 Nicolas Bernier, Invisible multicolore, Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2023 Nicolas Bernier, Bettica Batenica (musique inspirée du livre), Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2022 Nicolas Bernier, Science_Fiction, Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2022 Nicolas Bernier, Danses kaléidoscopiques (musique du spectacle), Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2022 Ensemble d'oscillateurs, 5 Directions, LINE (US)
2021 Nicolas Bernier, M. Carreaux (musique du film), Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2021 Ensemble d'oscillateurs, 2 Transcriptions (Oliveros • Pade), LINE (US)
2019 Nicolas Bernier, frequencies a (archives), Farmacia901 (IT)
2018 Ensemble d'oscillateurs, 4 compositions, LINE (US)
2017 Nicolas Bernier, transfert/futur, Acte (CA)
2015 Nicolas Bernier, frequencies (sound quanta), Farmacia901 (IT)
2014 Nicolas Bernier, frequencies (a / fragments), LINE (US)
2013 Nicolas Bernier, frequencies (synthetic variations), Entr’acte (UK)
2012 Nicolas Bernier, Music for a Piano / Music for a Book, Home Normal (UK/JP)
2012 Nicolas Bernier, Travaux mécaniques, Empreintes DIGITAles (CA)
2011 Nicolas Bernier, usure.paysage, Hrönir (DE)
2010 Nicolas Bernier, courant.air, Ahornfelder (DE)
2010 Nicolas Bernier, strings.lines, Crónica (PT)
2010 Nicolas Bernier, The Dancing Deer EP, Home Normal (UK/JP)
2010 Nicolas Bernier, silence.musique, leerraum[] (CA)
2008 Nicolas Bernier, Les arbres, No Type (CA)
1977 Société magique, Fantôme sinusoidal, Bureau des fréquences (CA)
COLLABORATIONS
Soon Associated Sine Tone Services II, Flag Day Recordings (US)
2025 Melt Mauve Trio, Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2025 Melt Mauve II, Label formes • ondes (CA)
2024 Melt Mauve I, Bureau des fréquences (CA)
2024 Associated Sine Tone Services I, Flag Day Recordings (US)
2019 avec Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, Music for Standard Oscillator Ensemble, Archives officielles (CA)
2014 avec Francisco Meirino, Fiction, Misanthropic Agenda (US)
2015 avec Simon Trottier, E-tron (CA)
2013 BOLD, fmv/shr, E-tron (CA)
2010 BOLD, Duel second, Cronica (PT)
2010 avec Simon Trottier, The Market Fresh, Zymogen (IT)
2009 avec Simon Trottier, …et retrouvé en forêt, 12rec (DE)
2009 avec Jacques Poulin-Denis, sur fond blanc, Ekumen (CA)
2007 BOLD, Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo: Études, No Type (CA)
2007 avec Simon Trottier, objet abandonné en mer, 12rec (DE)
2007 avec Jacques Poulin-Denis, étude No.3 pour cordes et poulies, Ekumen (CA)
2007 Millseconde topographie, Tricycle, Ekumen (CA)
2007 Milliseconde topographie, Paperasses éparses, No Type (CA)
2006 Milliseconde topographie, Poster musique, Ekumen (CA)
COMPILATIONS
2020 v.a, Strangeness Reloaded, Dragon’s Eye Recordings (US)
2011 v.a, Just a moment, Audio Gourmet (UK)
2011 v.a, One Minute for The Stars, Sem (FR)
2010 v.a, Essmaa, Tsuku Boshi (FR)
2010 v.a, Chroniques, Perte de signal (CA)
2009 v.a, trans_canada, empreintes DIGITALes (CA)
2009 v.a, Luigi’s Avatar. OHM / Avatar (CA)
2009 v.a, So Much Achieved.So Much Left To Do., 12rec (DE)
2008 v.a, Música Maximalista 14, PANaroma (BR)
2008 v.a, Ostinato 21, Oral (CA)
2006 v.a, Pueblo Nuevo Primer Aniversario, Pueblo Nuevo (CH)
2006 v.a. Morceaux d’Ekumen, Ekumen (CA)
2006 v.a, Dagens Bilaga, Ruga (SP)
2005 v.a, Cache 2005, CEC-PEP (CA)
2004 v.a, Métamorphoses 2004, Musiques & Recherches (BE)
2004 v.a, Dotmov Festival, Dotmov (JP)
2004 v.a, Cache 2003, CEC-PEP )CA)
2013 Tout croche, Super Silent Gipsy, Silent Howle (UK)
2012 Celer & Machinefabriek, Mt. Mitake, Machinefabriek (NL)
2011 d’Incise, Cructacé, Tsuku Boshi (FR)
2011 Érick d’Orion, Becquerels, Indépendant (CA)
2010 Mokuhen, Oyikust, Tsuku Boshi (FR)