Nicolas Bernier
Nicolas Bernier is joyfully flowing from musique concrète to live electronics, post-rock, ambient, glitch, field recording, improvisation, performance, installation, art video while also working with dance, theatre and cinema. In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain constant
His work has been of interest for Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), SONAR (Spain), Mutek (Québec), DotMov Festival (Japan) and Transmediale (Germany) and has been released on lovely labels such as Crónica (Portugal), Ahornfelder (Germany), leerraum (Switzerland), and Home Normal (UK).
He holds a PhD in sonic arts from the University of Huddersfield (UK) under the direction of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay and Monty Adkins. He his a member of Perte de signal, a media arts research and development centre based in Montréal.
For his work frequencies (a) he is awarded the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria, 2013).
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Nicolas Bernier has received awards at the following contests
- Concours international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, Bourges (Cher, France): 2007
- Concurso de Composición Electroacústica Destellos, Mar del Plata (Argentina): 2011
- Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (CIMESP), São Paulo (Brazil): 2007
- Digital Art Awards, Fujisawa (Japan): 2007
- Música Viva — Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica, Parede (Portugal): 2007
- Prix Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria): 2009
