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THIERRY BERNARD 


ABSTRACT
   
This practice-based research delves into the exploration of noise within ambient fields by undertaking a series of sound projects. Rooted in sound studies, sound art and atmosphere / ambiance studies, the research places significant emphasis on the soundscape concept, devoid any discrimination against noise. 

Core Concept:
- Inside/Outside|Interior/Exterior
- Versatile Verticality
- Reframing Noise


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DISMEMBERING ECHOES
PRS#1




APR 2019
PRS ASIA

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Project#1
DISMEMBERING ECHOES


The first project started at the beginning of the PRS ASIA was Dismembering Echoes-2019.

It was a transitional project. The transition is evidenced by transitioning the themes of metal music genres into a gallery space [Galerie Quynh, District 1 Saigon Vietnam].

Dismembering Echoes explored the verticality of breaking apart members of a hardcore metal band across different floors within a four-floor gallery. The music introduced physical spatiality, through the need to visit each floor to experience each instrument. Alternatively, the audience could relocate to the street to experience the collective sound.

This dismembered performance revealed several interesting themes. Firstly, I reflected upon the disruption to the existing exhibition within the gallery. I was not part of this exhibition directly as a performer. But instead, I have planned and conceptualized the performance and gallery settings, in which I have placed a hardcore metal band of Saigon to perform their music within specific defined rules, and it acted as an externally generated set of properties that were disrupted by my impact on the ambience of the show and the gallery. This situation places in the foreground the “spatial orientation of the music that goes beyond the spatial characteristics that defines the site specificity of the space” (Klein 2009, 1).

Secondly the role of the sound listening experience and the gallery atmosphere, was this moment of transition between my reference to music and genre, primarily looking at the composition (melody, harmony, structure) to more specifically at noise itself (tone / intensity / randomness) and its spatialization.

Indeed, randomness introduced through externally generated data, is an important theme in my practice. Moreover, I could say, it is one of the things that has been consistently present in my practice. The use of external data working as a tool to generate random inputs (e.g., The Internet data, weather report data, the audience) appeared in my early projects. Randomness has gained relevance in my practice as it aligns to disruption as a current theme.

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