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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
Interdisciplinary audio artist, composer for the performing arts and cinema, musician/improviser and audio curator residing in Montréal since 2015, previously in Québec City since 1993.
As curator, he has organized more than a dozen events focusing on audio art and advanced sound creation. He was co-curator of the artist-run center Avatar from October 2008 to June 2010. He is also curator for the sound installations component of the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville since 2010.
Concentrating much of his audio research on digital maximalism, d’Orion performs a work that closely resembles noise, musique concrète, free jazz and electroacoustic.
In parallel or jointly, he develops installations projects where audio and new technologies are assembled to create works in continuous movements, becoming sources as well as audio broadcasters. His reflections focus mainly on the reinterpretation, appropriation and re-reading of certain concepts of art history, in particular in musique concrète, dadaism and futurism, The redefinition of acoustic space as well as the relationship between the spectator’s imagination in the face of images, objects, environments and familiar or falsely mythical icons form an integral part of his installation work.
He is part of the duo morceaux_de_machines, the trio BOLD (with Alexis Bellavance and Nicolas Bernier) and the trio Napalm Jazz, as well as a multitude of had hoc ensembles.
He has performed with renowned artists such as Evan Parker, Martin Tétreault, Otomo Yoshihide, Robin Fox, Ilpo Vaisanen, Diane Labrosse, Alexandre St-Onge, eriKm, Sam Shalabi and Gunter Muller.
Since 2009, he is a frequent collaborator of Productions Rhizome, an organization of productions of live shows of hybrid literature / digital art, as audio artist/composer and performer in several projects. He also designs the sound environment and music for interdisciplinary projects, cinema, theater and dance, working closely with Martin Bureau, David Ricard and Jocelyn Pelletier.
Since the summer of 2015, he has collaborated with the interdisciplinary artist Catherine Lalonde Massecar (Duo Massecar • d’Orion) to combine both sound creation approaches, real-life practices and clandestine dramaturgy.
He is or has been a member of several boards of directors in the field of art: La chambre blanche, Perte de Signal, productions Rhizome, RCAAQ, CHYZ, Folie Culture, RAIQ, Dare Dare, etc.
His work has been presented in Canada, Europe, Australia, Cuba, Mexico, Haïti and the United States of America.
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