Berger Rond

Bio:

NOT ON MYSPACE ANYMORE. PLEASE VISIT FREAKYWAVES, MY DISCOGRAPHY PAGE for NEW COMPOSITIONS.

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2010 album available for free download now !

Late 2009 album available now !

Info about Stairs of the Unsteady, All Words in World and Second Life available on freakywaves.com. Viveka Eriksson sings on all songs available on myspace, except...

Marco Oppedisano plays all the guitars on Reveil de..Awakeing of the....

The site freakywaves.com is ready for new music musicians who want to make love easily while they are far away from each others. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thinking about it, my first book is now available. It is linked to my music album Le savant devait arriver avant songeur (composed during the 2007-2008 period). The book is published on Éditions Dédicaces, it is called La savante devait dominer :

The music album here ; three songs are on www.freakywaves.com and another one is hidden somewhere.

The AudioBook of the same name was recorded in April 2010. It is free for all freakywaves users (that can register in one minute for free).

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Buy my albums or download them on my official site. They are protected by SOCAN.

..See this page for instrumental versions of my songs...

..Booking invitations and review notices are welcome to this .. email.

..Berger Rond on Sonicbids..

..Recent live performances :..

FIMU 2010

Pop Montreal 2009
Pop Montreal 2008
Casa Del Popolo, July 6th, 2008 (see a high quality video ; I don't like pages full of videos)

Né le 21 décembre 1979. Pour le meilleur et pour le pire, cet enfant solitaire ne savait pas trop pourquoi tous faisaient toujours la même chose ensemble dans cet esprit de compétition pathétique.

Enfant, j'écrivais des histoires. Je voulais notamment écrire une trilogie sur les conquêtes militaires de l'Irak (ce tout petit pays engloutissait même les États-Unis dans le dernier tome). Finalement, l'idée s'est arrêtée à l'étape du concept. J'étais un peu plus persévérant quant aux jeux de société. La plupart n'étaient cependant que des variations de Monopoly. Une revue imaginaire n'était publiée que pour moi et elle incluait des équations mathématiques impossibles. Finalement, je me suis dit qu'il fallait tout de même penser aux autres un tout petit peu alors j'ai décidé que plus tard j'allais devenir un inventeur. Peu habile de mes mains et désintéressé par les sciences et les études, j'ai passé mon adolescence dans la musique.

Vers mes 18 ans, l'idée de joindre un groupe rock ne m'avait pas encore effleuré l'esprit et cela n'allait pas être le cas plus tard. Par contre, les logiciels informatiques m'ont rapidement fasciné. En l'espace de cinq ans, j'ai rapidement développé une méthode de composition personnelle. À 29 ans, j'ai déjà composé cinq albums très complexes d'une chanson que je n'ose plus nommer pour ne pas tomber dans l'erreur de me peinturer dans un coin. Disons que ma chanson est tout sauf ce que je l'ai qualifiée par le passé.

Maintenant, je travaille également depuis quelques années sur des création écrites, encore sans égo et en espérant ne pas en développer un trop rapidement. 'Optimisme Irrational' est un projet de court métrage très divertissant que j'espère mener à terme avec mon collaborateur Christian Lalumière. 'La savante devait dominer' est de loin le texte sur lequel j'ai passé le plus de temps et qui contient mes idées écrites les mieux structurées. J'espère l'avoir écrit sans prétention. Il est possible aussi que ce soit un texte difficile à lire et sans compassion. Mais, certains aiment ça !

La complaisance contemplative, Vincent ne l'aime plus en musique. Il aimerait entendre des pièces plus denses et plus fièrement colorées dans la découverte alors que les intentions de départ étaient des plus sérieuses ou alors entendre des pièces fièrement tragiques alors que le drame devait dominer la comédie. Vincent croit même qu'au cinéma (sa nouvelle passion depuis environ 2004), la musique devrait attirer davantage l'attention et moins se laisser oublier.

Vincent n'a jamais étudié dans le domaine à New-York ou au Québec. Pour le meilleur et pour le pire (c'est qu'ils aiment ça quand les étudiants respectent leur esthétique sonore), il compose par oreille et intuition personnelle.

Born december 21, 1979. Solitary child playing by himself 'cause he didn't understand why other kids wanted to be together to do the same things. In 1997, he started to play with sound softwares. Electronic music never was his main interest as a listener, but he finds softwares really nice and get away from hardware as much as he can (he hates wires). In fact, inventive composition is his main goal, not producing uselessly clean sound in 128 bit with the same usual flow of expected multimedia performances. Ideas in music are what bring life in him. Musical theory is what he feels rather than know about. To clarify things, Vincent never studied music in New-York or anywhere else and he composes his music by ear. Ten years of intensive listening to innovative music from the 20th century helped him to believe in his instinct, his intuition, his personal sensitivity.

Since 2003, Vincent composes music for several instruments including clarinets, saxophones, flutes, oboe, musette, accordion, trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, cello, double bass, digital bass, harp, Russian gousli, luth, guitars of all kinds in an orchestra, voices (song, throat singing and accappella), drums and traditional percussions of all kinds, marimba, vibraphone, piano, traditional instruments from China and Japan, Indian tabla, church organ, electronic and electroacoustic keyboards, acousmatic noise, acoustic noise.... In 2004, Vincent developed an irrational, yet energetic, melodic and structured way of composing that excited him to the maximum.

From 2006 to 2009, Vincent also studied cinema and literature at Université de Montréal. He prefers that to the corporate journalism that some people teach at Université Laval.

Vincent Bergeron

..About three albums (2003-2007).. :

"In the course of a lifetime, one encounters very few major musical talents. Vincent Bergeron is one of those few, a unique composer who is at the forefront of musical thinking. I respect his music professionally and I admire it personally. I find it deeply impressive on every level--musical, intellectual, and emotional. In my opinion, Bergeron has had the vision and ability to create richly complex yet immediately accessible music that is both new and natural with beautiful harmonies, melodies and textures. Bergeron's compositions precisely mirror my view of what new music ought to be."
Noah Creshevsky
Composer
Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Director Emeritus, Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College

..About Forecast Proof (2009).. :

"A new work by the productive mad scientist Vincent Bergeron. I had the luck of reviewing some of the earlier work of this Canadian artist for Vital Weekly: "Philosophie Fantasmatique", and more recently "Audiomachie/Logomachie" and "Instruit Mental". All of them excellent examples of a true innovator and free spirit. [...] This Swedish artist, also known as Laidbackviv makes a wonderful couple with Bergerond. Her voice is jazzy and 'black' in one song and Kate Bush-like in another. Besides Bergerond is assisted by Frederic Szymanski on electric guitar in a few tracks. [...] What is new on "Forecast Proof" is that Bergerond choses for compositions that are more open and progress in a slower pace. Viveka perfectly knows what direction to chose in the strange jungle of Bergerond,s music. She feels perfectly at home there. She weaves seemingly autononous melodic lines through Bergeronds unusual musical constructions. A promising combination, so I hope they will continue their explorations. Of the six pieces on this album, two of them are instrumental. The ideal opportunity to concentrate once again on what Bergerond exactly is doing. Next time I hope to find a fitting metaphor for his puzzling musical universe. (DM)"

Vital Weekly

..About Audiomachie / Logomachie (2009).. :

"For several years now, the music of Vincent Bergeron (who seems to have dropped his real name in favor of the Berger Rond alias) has been the most disconcerting I know. Each piece by him is an incredibly destabilizing construction of notes, chords, and lyrics that somehow should fit together – and most probably do, in the fifth or sixth dimension, the problem being that our ears only perceive three. Audiomachie/Logomachie picks up where Le Savant devait arriver avant songeur had left: key role for singer Viveka Eriksson, a predominance of strings, melodies even more deconstructed than before, music even more monolithically hermetic than before. So what am I to do with such a UFO? Listen to it, again and again. For either Bergeron is a total madman or he’s a genius hearing music in more dimensions than most of us can."

François Couture from All Music Guide

..About Le savant devait arrivé... (2007-08).. :

"A new song cycle by this Van Dyke Parks of the 21st century. An absurd 'musical' in form and content. [...] It is another example of his extraordinary plunderphonic talent. [...] For some reason I have to think of musicals all the time. In a way he creates songs often sung in a duet with Viveka Eriksson. This makes his music very accessible and physical. Besides, in most tracks Bergeron is helped by several 'real' musicians: Marco Oppedisano (guitars), Marco Rosano (saxes, clarinet), Jörg Fischer (drums), Jurica Jelic (guitar), Frédéric Szymanski (piano), Tiny Orchestra (primitive feel), Markus Breuss (trutruca), Thilo Schacht (noise) and Gregory Jacobsen (noise). The characteristic voice of Bergeron is most of the time in the forefront. The far better voice of Eriksson too a lesser extent. 'Sexy Worm Book' is the exception on this cd. It is a purely vocal piece performed by both, somewhere between speaking and singing. Very expressive and dramatic this song illustrates the backbone of Bergeron's music. It proofs that the sampled make-up is not always necessary. On the other hand his sampled orchestrations of the songs are for sure what makes his music incomparable with anything else. The music also makes the impression of being strongly narrative. [...] most comes from the creative mind of Bergeron, mixing old and new material and musical procedures in a very original way. Please do invite this strange angel at your table. (DM)

Vital Weekly

..About Philosophie Fantasmagorique (2006-07).. :

"Bergeron supplies his vocals with a very bizarre and unheard 'background' of electro-acoustic sounds and music. Background into brackets, because he opens new dimensions with his curiously assembled music. Brilliantly done. He uses many different soundsamples for this music. Often you recognize concrete instruments, other elements are from electronic origin or recordings treated beyond recognition. I,m totally impressed by the carpet he weaves in with plunderphonic approach. Very original collage work, producing in an highly imaginative music that is totally fascinating. I would qualify his compositions as songs in the end. And for some reason I associate them with the world of opera and musical. The eccentric Bergeron creates energetic and dramatic music and textures, little psycho-dramas. He sings in french most of time, sometimes a mixture of french and english. I couldn't make much of it, but the texts are an important element for Bergeron [...] it is impossible not to be impressed by this often hilarious music, that is compelling and very listenable. Bergeron is a true original talent, of a kind that is seldomly met. Watch this guy! (Dolf Mulder)."

Vital Weekly

..About Casse-tête de l'Existence (2004).. :

"No matter how versed you are in experimental music, you have never heard anything quite like Vincent Bergeron's Casse-Tête de l'Existence (Puzzle of Existence). Imagine, if you will, plunderphonics coupled with progressive rock, and sample deconstruction and sound collage used as techniques to assemble hiccupping operas [...] the result sounds a lot like a bloodbath at a prog rock convention -- or the digital bastard child of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis and Fantômas. [...] If the basic material tends to give a unique orientation to each piece, it seems there is no limit to what Bergeron can make his samples do. Profoundly disturbing but ceaselessly fascinating, Casse-Tête de l'Existence is oddness to the umpteenth degree. Obviously, the world is not ready for this."
François Couture [All Music Guide]

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May 13, 2006

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NOT OFTEN ON MYSPACE ANYMORE. PLEASE VISIT FREAKYWAVES, MY DISCOGRAPHY PAGE for NEW COMPOSITIONS.

..Booking invitations and review notices are welcome to this .. email.

..Berger Rond on Sonicbids..

..Cinema and performance.. : Alain Resnais (Je t'aime, je t'aime first ; L'amour à mort is too little known, from 1984 with Werner Henze music), Alan Arkin (Little Murders), André Delvaux, Andy Kaufman, Charlie Kaufman, Lenny Bruce, Sol (Marc Favreau), Arthur Lipsett, Patty Smidth (the last CBC radio host for Brave New Waves, aired from 1984 to 2007), Stan Brakhage, Glenn Gould (his lifestyle), Béla Tarr, Theo Angelopoulos (Landscape in the Mist), Carlos Reygadas (Silent Night), Götz Spielmann (Revanche), Bertolucci (1900), Chris Kraus (Four Minutes), Bruce McDonald (Pontypool), Roy Andersson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Mikhail Kalatozov, Andrei Zvyagintsev, Krzysztof Kieslowski (La Double Vie de Veronique), Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Teshigahara, Satoshi Kon, Luis Buñuel, Michel Gondry, George Méliès, Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now ; Bad Timing), Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd), Steven Soderberg (Schizopolis), Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Eric Von Stroheim's (Greed), Pabst, Mike Nichols, Orson Welles, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Ingmar Bergman, Arnaud Desplechin (Esther Kahn is too little known), Robert Bresson (Mouchette is my favorite), Jane Campion (An Angel at My Table first), Martin Provost (Seraphine), Lodge Kerrigan, Margarethe von Trotta (L'amie), John Cassavetes, Jan Svankmajer, Quay Brothers (Institute Benjamenta), Jacques Tati, Kim Ki-duk, Jean-Luc Godard (60's ; later it is too much for the academic minds), Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jos Stelling, Roberto Benigni (please don't snob him), Lars Von Trier (and don't forget Medea), Ettore Scola (Bal), Maya Deren, Michael Haneke, Pascale Ferran (Lady Chatterley), Bertrand Blier, Catherine Breillat, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Raoul Ruiz (Klimt), René Clair (Beauté du diable), Robert Lepage, Robert Morin (Yes Sir ! Madame...), Robert Altman (Images, 3 Women), Roman Polanski, Terry Gilliam, Todd Haynes (Safe ; I'm not There), Paul Schrader (Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters), Todd Solondz, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders (Ailes du Désir, Gardien de but, Paris, Texas) [...]

But, if you hate this narrative voice, perhaps this is for you (with Communication-Isolation, 11 minutes epic to end it, free download) :

..Music.. : Alexander Mosolov (listened seriously in 2009), Andrew Hamilton (a 2008 discovery), Anthony Braxton, Aphex Twin, Arnold Dreyblatt (Animal Magnetic), Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, Alain Bashung (his more poetic works ; Fantaisie Militaire, L'imprudence), Beach Boys / Brian Wilson, Björk, Boards Of Canada, Bob Drake, Captain Beefheart, Carla Bley, Cecil Taylor, Cerberus Shoal, Charles Ives, Charles Mingus, cLOUDDEAD, Cocteau Twins (early), Chris Connelly (Forgiveness & Exile), Cure (Disintegration), Extra Life. Lou Harrison, Conlon Nancarrow, Colin McPhee, Craig Taborn, David Bowie, Disco Inferno, DJ Shadow, Don Caballero, Ennio Morricone, Fantômas, Fennesz, Fiery Furnaces, Harmonium, Hella, Górecki, Herbert, Jim O'Rourke, Joanna Newsom, John Tavener (A Prayer for The Heart), John Fahey, Joy Division, Julius Hemphill, Kate Bush, Léo Ferré, Lili Boulanger (Pie Jesu), Milhaud (La Création du monde), Louis Sclavis, Max Tundra, Mike Oldfield, Moondog, Harry Partch, Mr. Bungle, My Bloody Valentine, Nels Cline, Nico, Nico Muhly, Olivier Messiaen, Per Norgard (Works for harp and ensemble), Pere Ubu, PJ Harvey (White Chalk), Prokofiev (Waltzes), Public Image Limited, Wire, Radiohead, Raymond Scott, René Lussier, Rodrigo, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, Schoenberg (Verklarte Nacht), Shostakovich (piano music), Smiths, Sonic Youth, Sparks, Spring Heel Jack, Steve Lacy (with Irene Aebi on vocals), Sun City Girls, Supersilent, Syd Barrett, Talking Heads, Tim Buckley, Tom Waits, Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle), Velvet Underground, Virginia Astley, William Bolcom, Xenakis, Zeena Parkins (Persuasion) [...]

..Literature, painting and other.. : Hieronymous Bosch, Salvador Dali, Gustave Doré Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854, literary comic strip), Eliade (Aspects du mythe), Kandinsky, Klimt, Henry Darger, Seraphine de Senlis, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul McCarthy, Robert Crumb, Aristophane (Lysistrata), Walt Whitman, Novalis, Shakespeare, Elias Canetti (Le territoire de l'homme), Dostoïevski, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, John Fowles, Gombrowicz, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Nathalie Sarraute, Valère Novarina, Émile Nelligan, St-Denys-Garneau, Anne Hébert, Claude Gauvreau, Réjean Ducharme, Élise Turcotte, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Oscar Wilde (La vérité des masques, essais et aphorismes), Yukio Mishima, Rainer-Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Role Playing Games (Final Fantasy III on Super NES), Virginia Woolf (The Waves), Lewis Carroll, Janet Frame, Clarice Lispector, Stig Dagerman, Hermann Hesse, Samuel Beckett, Luigi Pirandello, Thomas Bernhard, David Tibet [...]

Sounds Like:

I don't think it is worth doing music if it sounds too much like something else. I believe anybody on this earth can make music unlike any other.

Record Label:

Not officially released