Bruno Bernard – City Diaries

City Diaries is a refection on our city lives, a daily imaginary journey that invites us to introspection. Te world of sound that surrounds us is experienced in a unique way by each and every one of us, yet we all share it.
Each stroll is unique, each moment unique.
It’s up to us to make these situations our own, to build our own dream cosmology.
Considering the creative power of what surrounds us as a tool for inner construction, as poetry, is a response to our materialistic lives and can help us better apprehend the modern world.
True to Gaston Bachelard, the aim here is to give free rein to daydreaming, while at the same time giving full artistic expression to the noise of our times, an essential concept developed by Luigi Russolo.
City Diaries was composed from sounds collected at night in my city (Chalon sur Saône), which gave rise to an imaginary vocabulary for this acousmatic piece.
Our sound context is a refection of our times, and it’s up to us to seize it and, like modern alchemists, appropriate one of the last things that is free – noise – and transform it into a work of art. Fortunately, it’s one of the last things we have free access to.

Bruno Bernard uses microphonic sound as well as analog and digital sound synthesis. He addresses the senses and the emotions to provoke deep listening in the listener, as free as possible of any musical reference. He works with sound as a plastic artist, sculpting textures, densities, lines of force and colors.
He also promotes awareness of the importance of sound phenomena through active listening and the poetry that emerges from it.
He has produced numerous soundtracks for films and museum installations (On-Situ, Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon sur Saône, Kennedy Center in Washington, etc.), as well as sound compositions for the performing arts.