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Vital Weekly

“Why Empreintes Digitales sometimes releases CDs and sometimes DVDs I am not sure of. The DVDs are not related to films, but contain 24-bit audio (as opposed to 16-bit on a normal CD) and surround versions.”

Frans de Waard

Why Empreintes Digitales sometimes releases CDs and sometimes DVDs I am not sure of. The DVDs are not related to films, but contain 24-bit audio (as opposed to 16-bit on a normal CD) and surround versions. Maybe there are no surround sound versions available of the works they put on CD?

Here are two DVDs releases, and Nicolas Bernier seems a bit of an odd ball in the more academic serious world of Empreintes Digitales. His background is more in the microsound, ambient, glitch music and has had releases on Cronica, Ahornfelder, Leerraum and Home Normal. He uses the sounds of typewriters, field recordings, tuning forks, old machines and sometimes even real instruments. Yet on Travaux mécaniques his music sounds remarkable alike his peers on this label, save perhaps for the opening Antithèse électronique, which is an odd one minute laptop punk song.

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6 other reviews

CFLX 95.5 FM

“… crème de la crème in demanding music…”

Ondarock

“Nelle sue mani il suono acquista qualità microscopiche, calibrando le orecchie su dettagli apparentemente impercettibili.”

De:Bug

“Letztes Jahr, auf seiner LP für Hrönir, zog Bernier aus seiner Faszination für die Geräusche und Artikulationen kleiner und großer Mechaniken einen beklemmenden Fabrikhorrorfilm.”

Monsieur Délire

“Nicolas Bernier seems fascinated with machines — the old mechanical kind that needs some elbow grease to get going. Travaux mécaniques (out on DVD-A with surround and stereo mixes) culls four electroacoustic works about these machines.”

RNE3: Atmósfera

“Nicolas Bernier es sin duda uno de los más prolíficos artistas de la joven generación de compositores electroacústicos. Principalmente conocido por sus performances, instalaciones, y su música atmosférica, nos llega su primer álbum de música concreta y Acusmática.”

Blogcritics Music

“Discussions of “The soul of the machine” have been going on since at least the time of the Luddites, and probably since the debut of the wheel.”