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An arranger and lyrist, Vincent Bergeron is available to work on your professional recordings. You'll need something different for your music band, a sound that can be both innovative and out of time. The i-pod generation knows all music and it won't bother for another band who don't live up to the expectations !

Send me a proposal with some of your recordings (an ftp server or a service like yousendit should be used) and I can give you an example of what I can do for you. If you are not happy about it, you get your money back. Otherwise, I can do magic for you !

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New album available now ! Free download (320 kbps MP3) for a limited time (August 2009). Mostly I would love Bruissement de griserie, Propensity to go forward and Second Life to always be available for free download. The rest is up to my feeling of the moment.

Just follow the link on the cover art :

Info about Audiomachie, Aux Limites and À DOS d'un croque-mort available on freakywaves.com. Viveka Eriksson, Amy Kohn, Jörg Fischer and Bob Marsh appear on Audiomachie (2009). Viveka Eriksson and Jörg Fischer also are on Bruissement de griserie (2009) with Dan Stearns. Viveka Eriksson also appears on RUBBER sur la voie gauche. Marco Oppedisano plays all the guitars on Child Trumatismes, Reveil de..Awakeing of the.... Fabienne Ducet (from Perfect Couple) adds vocals. Other credits on this page.

The site freakywaves.com is still in preparation 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 ; most songs are on www.freakywaves.com

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Buy my albums (PayPal) or download them on my official site. They are not officially released, but are all 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 :

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.

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 grotesques 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. Vincent decided to make music inspired mostly by his first hero, Björk, which is still one of his favorites among Charles Ives, Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), Captain Beefheart and so many others. 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 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]