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Brico006
Esther B aka "Vinylbrikol"
It is not easy for doug engelbart to give a conference when youppi and mad dog are in the house!

1-Untitled One (Mad Dog Remix) 6'52"
2-Untitled Two (Mad Dog Remix) 4'15"
3-Untitled Three (Mad Dog Remix) 2'54"
4-Untitled Four 1'38"

total time: 15'39"

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Esther B - Turntable & Field Recordings
with
Jon Ascencio - Electronics & Musical Toy
Aimé Dontigny - Casio
Édouard Jeunet - Laptop
James Schidlowsky - Recording
David Turgeon - Mixing

Recorded in 2003 in Montreal, Quebec.

Visual (Cover) Art by Carrie Gates with source photography by Esther B.

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_label_statement

The vinyl record is the center of this album, the result of an exploration
and an application of a study of contemporary sculpture, sound art, pop
culture, inspired by media art and post-structuralist philosophy. This album
features a trio of famous personalities. First, there is Mad Dog Vachon, an
ex-wrestler, and Youppi, the mascot of the professional baseball team, the
Montreal Expos. Esther B with collaborators Aimé Dontigny, Jon Asencio,
Édouard Jeunet, David Turgeon and James Schidlowsky.

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_artist_statement

The vinyl record is the center of this album, the result of an exploration and an application of a study of
contemporary sculpture, sound art, pop culture, inspired by media art and post-structuralist philosophy.
This album conveys the idea that we live in a remix culture.

Even since the vinyl was invented as a support of information and art (poesy, music, sound...), it has progressively
integrated the visual art milieu and became a material of research. Douglas Kahn, new media theorician, notes that,
as with cinema and photography, it took a while for the vinyl record to get its own media autonomy.

I experimented with the vinyl record as a medium of creation and a space of material intervention. The name
"Vinylbrikol" came literally from the spontaneous operations of alteration (e.g. cutting, sanding, scratching)
in combination with different materials (e.g. collage). The music is improvised and allowed to go in many
directions. Throughout the album, the listener is put in a position of unexpectancy about what will come next.

This album features a trio of famous personalities.
First, there is Mad Dog Vachon, an ex-wrestler, and Youppi, the mascot of the professional baseball team, the
Montreal Expos. Their pop star status gave them the opportunity to push the frontiers of the fields of
entertainment and pop culture. So they got involved in music, the first as a disco-rap singer and the second
as the subject of a song, whereby the friendly mascot is painted as a friendly tribal persona. Doug Engelbart,
american scientist, is the near-legendary inventor of both the computer mouse and hypertext technology. He made
a now famous presentation of these discoveries in 1968. I wanted to imagine what would happen if his presentation
had been continuously disturbed by the impertinent interventions of the first two protagonists.

Thanks to my collaborators: Aimé Dontigny, Jon Asencio, Édouard Jeunet, David Turgeon and James Schidlowsky, whom
I chose for their open minds and their sense of humour.

-Esther B, 2004
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_artist_bio

Esther B. (aka Esther Bourdages) is an art historian, photographer, and sonic explorer based in Montreal. She is
the author of many articles and critical commentaries on contermporary art. She holds a Masters in Art History
from the Université de Montréal. She focusses on new forms of sculpture within an expanded field, and more
recently, multimedia and web art. She is also involved with some artist-run centers in Montreal. In 2001,
she helped create the art association Ecube, located in the old Griffintown neighbourhood in Montreal, where,
since 2003, she has curated a series of noize music events called "A Microphone in a Storm of Noize".

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BricoLodge is a net.label for eclectic techno, playful composition and
complex experimentation that emerged from artistic and cultural exchanges
between the site directors, Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn and other artists
from across Canada and the world since the turn of the 21st Century.

http://www.notype.com/bricolodge/

bricolodge@gmail.com

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