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Radio // Bernard Fort
Lumière dans la nuit
L’impatience des limites (1992-93), 18m04s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Lumière dans la nuit
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (2003) IMED 0371

Artists // Bernard Fort

7 May 2009

On May 10, 2009, Radio France will present Un regard sonore sur Olivier Messiaen, a work realized by Bernard Fort during his one-year residency at France Culture for the Olivier Messiaen’s centenary.

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3 March 2009

The 5th edition of the Présences “électronique” festival will be held at the 104 in Paris (France), on March 13 — 15, 2009. Its highlights: Denis Smalley, Bernard Parmegiani, Denis Dufour, eRikm, Luc Ferrari, and many others!

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26 June 2008

The French magazine Revue & corrigée (#76, June 2008) has published an impelling article Pourquoi faites-vous des disques? (“Why do you make CDs?”). Jérôme Noetinger, remembering the 1987 Libération special issue asking “Why do you make films?” and the answer by Jean-Luc Godard (“I make movies to avoid the why question”), has decided to ask "the why question" to about 40 artists and producers, amongst whom: Jean-François Denis, Bertrand Denzler, Bernard Fort, Lionel Marchetti, Martin Tétreault, Carole Rieussec, Joëlle Léandre

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16 May 2008

Bernard Fort will present two GMVL workshops on May 31, 2008, of which Paysages les yeux fermés that gives strategies for sound recording, sound exploration, composition, and re-composition of the naturalitic soundscape. These workshops will be given at the CPIE du Haut-Jura in Saint-Lupicin (France).

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28 March 2008

Bernard Fort will give a 3-day workshop at GMVL in Lyon (France), April 4 - 6, 2008. Le paysage sonore naturaliste is an initiation of recording techniques on ground and of composing sound landscapes.

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20 June 2007

On June 29, 2007 Bernard Fort will present his Messe pour le mois d’octobre at the Chapelle de l’Oratoire in Caluire (France). This 5-movement work explores different acoustic spaces — might they be in stereo, multitracks or panoramic — recorded outside or inside, partially or totally reconstituted. The work also explores the multiple uses of voice, and sound symbolism.

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7 June 2007

The 4th Festival di interpretazione della musica acusmatica will take place at the Auditorium della Facolta’ di Lettere in Cagliari (Sardinia), on June 15 — 17, 2007. João Pedro Oliveira, Dieter Kaufmann, Lucio Garau, Bernard Parmegiani, Hans Tutschku, Bernard Fort will present pieces composed by François Bayle, Marcelle Deschênes, Francis Dhomont, Denis Dufour, Beatriz Ferreyra, Gilles Gobeil, Bernard Fort, Annette Vande Gorne, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Hans Tutschku, Hildegard Westerkamp, Christian Zanesi

  • Visit the Amici della Musica di Cagliari presenter web site — Festival di interpretazione della musica acusmatica / 4th: Parmegiani, Fort, Deschênes, Vande Gorne, Tutschku…: June 15-17, 2007, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
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19 September 2006

Bernard Fort has written the soundtrack for Corps en boîtes, a choreography by Kilina Cremona that will be presented in Lyon (France) at the Amphithéâtre culturel on September 20 and 21, 2006, and at the Maison de la danse on September 28 to 30.

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6 June 2006

Ludger Brümmer, Kevin Austin, Flô Menezes, Francis Dhomont, Lucio Garau, and Jonty Harrison are the guest composers at the 3rd Festival di musica acusmatica, June 23 to 25, 2006 in Cagliari (Sardinia). On June 24, Dhomont will spatialize works by several Québec composers: Noyade en magma by Dominique Bassal, 13'13 pour voix défigurées by Monique Jean and Time Well / La fontaine du temps by Christian Calon, and a work by Brümmer. Voyage-miroir by Dhomont will be presented by another guest composer, Garau. Finally, several other composers from empreintes DIGITALes will also be featured: Gobeil, Moore, Álvarez, Smalley, Tutschku, Fort, Stollery, and Lillios!

  • Visit the Festival di musica acusmatica event web site — 3rd: Brümmer, Austin, Menezes, Dhomont, Garau, Harrison…: June 23-25, 2006, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
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30 June 2005

Élektrophonie presents the 2005 Nuit bleue from July 8 to 10, 2005 at Arc et Senans’ Saline Royale (France). Nuit bleue 2005 is the 4th edition of this festival dedicated to new electroacoustic and electronic music, and is presented in coproduction with the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and Musiques & Recherches (Belgium). Every acousmatic composition will be spatialized on acousmonium by Sébastien Chatron, Jonty Harrison, Isabel Pires and Annette Vande Gorne. The night will feature compositions by Pete Stollery, Adrian Moore, Denis Smalley, Stephan Dunkelman, Ingrid Drese, Robert Normandeau, Francis Dhomont, Patrick Ascione, Andrew Lewis, Trevor Wishart, Annette Vande Gorne, Elizabeth Anderson, Theodore Lotis, Roger Cochini, Bernard Fort, Jonty Harrison, John Young, David Berezan et Beatriz Ferreyra, amongst others. The concert will then be repeated integrally in Birmingham (UK) on July 16, 2005.

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Bernard Fort
Lyon, Rhône, France, 1954
Residence: Lyon, Rhône, France
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