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Érick d’Orion
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Érick d’Orion
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Friday, November 19, 2010
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Cookbook attributed to Guillaume Tirel, dit Taillevent, enfant de cuisine under Jeanne d’Évreux, queux of King Philippe de Valois and of Duke of Normandie, first queux and sergent d’armes of…
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Alexis Bellavance / Nicolas Bernier / Érick d’OrionNo Type NT 112The universes of Alexis Bellavance, Nicolas Bernier & Érick d’Orion are all radically different from one another: one exhibits a conceptual slant, the second is prone to work meticulously…
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
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In addition to the tracks from the Free transgénique album and several live recordings, the Napalm Jazz collective has also produced a number of “home recordings” that were never released…
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Saturday, May 5, 2007
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Érick d’Orion introduced us to the works of late science-fiction autor and humanist Kurt Vonnegut in the early nineties. We immersed ourselves with great interest in the worlds of Vonnegut’s…
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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Gathered at the Avatar studios in 2001, Érick d’Orion, Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt (aka Le Chien borgne) and James Schidlowsky gave life to the Trio Saccacomie. On all 6 tracks of this…
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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On this live 2003 recording in Montréal, morceaux_de_machines are joined by multidisciplinary artist Dominic Gagnon. This noisy audio performance was the soundtrack to a live video montage by Gagnon.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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L’orchestre de granulation was a longtime dream project of A_dontigny. After many failed attempts due to lack of funding or of an appropriate venue, L’orchestre de granulation finally took the…
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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With The Sunny Blount Project, recorded live on December 14, 2001, Érick d’Orion (from the duo morceaux_de_machines) delivers electronic compositions based uniquely on samples from the music of Sun Ra…
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Friday, May 27, 2005
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A_dontigny / Érick d’Orion / Max Haiven / James Schidlowsky / Jon VaughnBricoLodge BRICO 008This album documents an afternoon spent at James Schidlowsky’s “Sound of Rust Studio”, a series of improvisations recorded the day before Jon Vaughn returned to Saskatoon from Montréal during his…
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Saturday, November 20, 2004
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Beware, electronic music fundamentalists: morceaux_de_machines are back! Yeppers, like that, with no warning… And they are quite ready to spoil your party. Hey, what did you expect? That they would…
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
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First solo project by Érick Dorion (Napalm Jazz, morceaux_de_machines), Acariens [Acarinas] is a composition in 6 movements filled with creepy drones, worrying buzzes and unhealthy cracklings. Featuring A_dontigny on additional…
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
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Live at the Espace Ecube, May 2003. “Un microphone dans une tempete de noize” was an evening of music curated by Esther B - in addition to Napalm Jazz, themoonstealingproject…
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
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A harsh and no holds barred session by four uncompromising improvisers with Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, Érick D’Orion and A_dontigny. Live at the Casa del Popolo, July 2002.
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
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Sam Shalabi brought an unsuspected mood to the night, using mostly electronics. Philémon’s use of an amplified metal box, added to A_dontigny’s distorted CD skipping and Érick Dorion’s signature audiomulch…
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
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The first encounter of radical turntablist Martin Tétreault with the Napalm Jazz posse turned into an alcoholic mayhem of scratches, digital noise, drunken rap and obvious borrowings from Prince, Black…
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Saturday, August 10, 2002
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Five free tracks to supplement the Liberum arbitrium full-length.
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Saturday, August 10, 2002
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So here’s the latest happenstances of our favourite miscreants of improvised music. If you thought “speed jazz” & “death ambient” musics were never really what they claim, if you think…
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Wednesday, May 2, 2001
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Amazingly powerful debut maxi-EP from improv mavericks morceaux_de_machines, which are two members from Napalm Jazz. Heavy noisebleed psychedelia like nowhere else in the world. Includes one track from their juggernaut…
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Sunday, December 20, 1998
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Full-length release from the Napalm Jazz collective, compiling 16 of their greatest radio experiments from 1997-98. No-holds-barred improv, scathing mixing & law-defying styles is what you may find on this…
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Appearances
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Biography
Self-taught musician, audio artist and composer, Érick d’Orion has been living in Québec since 1993.
The audio research of Érick d’Orion is concentrated in large part on digital maximalism and closely related to noize, musique concrète and, curiously, free jazz and electroacoustic! That research is expressed by way of improvisations in shows and recordings through morceaux_de_machines, a duet created by Érick with A_dontigny.
Érick’s solo work consists more and more in an exploration of two different spheres: audio, electronic and media art, on the one hand, and musical creation, on the other hand.
The bulk of Érick’s research focuses on audio, electronic and media art. He uses among other things telecommunications such as cell phone technology, and the various surfaces in our environment. Érick is greatly inspired by art history (futurism, automatism, actionism, etc.), visual arts (Duchamp, Boticelli, Borduas…), cinema (Ferrera, Kubrick, Morin, Snow) and litterature (Vonnegut, Burgess, Gauvreau, crime fiction and cartoons). He is a huge fan of Sun Ra; he already did one project on the artist, with more to come…
The second sphere of Érick’s solo work is more musical and playful. Influenced by dub and hip-hop, those creations are totally independent from the others.
Érick d’Orion has worked with a great number of artists and on numerous projects, in various regions on Canada and several foreign countries.
He did communication and distribution work for the artist center Avatar in Québec and for the label No Type in Montréal. He created and supervised a series of workshops on media arts for 14-year olds; he has given workshops and conferences on electronic and audio art creation; and he has acted as executive coordinator and artistic director in more than twenty shows with the now defunct collective “Machines: abstractions sonores électroniques.”
Érick d’Orion is a joyful epicurean.
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