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Esther Bourdages [Esther B] (Val d’Or, Québec, 1974) • residence: Montréal, Québec • composer • performer — member of: Virgule
Working in parallel with the visual arts milieu, Esther B plays portable turntable and manipulates vinyl records. She pratices improvisation, a field that affords her the liberty to create raw, non-linear music, sometimes punctuated by sonic quotes, sometimes by abstract sounds: textures mostly produced by the disc upon which she performs alterations (sanding, cutting, etc.). She is part of the turntabilist trio Vinyl Interventions [VI], with Carrie Gates (Saskatoon) and Marinko Jareb (St. Catherines, Ontario). Since 2002, they have been developing a workshop under the eponym name VI, in which EB gave a lecture entitled The Echo of the Vinyl Record, Between the Sound and the Visual, Between the Past and the Present. She has presented this lecture on several occasions, including February 2005 at Société des arts technologiques (SAT) of Montréal. She has curated a serie of concerts dedicated to new musics called A Microphone in a Storm of Noize since 2002. A_dontigny, Gordon Allen, Olivier Borzeix, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Léon Lo, Martin Tétreault, Erin Sexton and David Turgeon are her favorite collaborators. [ii-07] electrocd.com Esther Bourdages [Esther B]: biography |
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