Brigitte Bardon't
I've worked as a solo musician under the name Brigitte Bardon't since 2013. Brigitte Bardon't is a multifaceted pop concretè sound project including structured pop songs, ambient compositions, radio manipulations, and conceptual projects Infinite Poolside and Drone Therapy.
Brigitte Bardon't songs and performances draw from noise, drone, and pop, and often use field recordings as foundations.
Through music, performance, and multimedia, Brigitte Bardon't mirrors the ways complex and contradictory individual narratives and emotional states crystalize through sound. By appropriating melodies, cadences, and clichés from sources like AM, FM, and shortwave radio, Disney musicals, public spaces, personal diaries, talk shows, or the avant garde, Bardon't fragments cultural gazes and tropes, abandoning the impossible pursuit of a singular narrative.
Whether I'm improvising or structuring Bardon't songs, my presence is conspicuously the only constant assembling force.
Pop Songs | Radio Songs | Infinite Poolside | Drone Therapy | Releases | Live
Live Shows
Releases
Reciprocal Encounter, Cassette, 2017 (split w/ NONSWIMMER), Tori Maas
Inyrdisk Death Match, CDR, 2016 (compilation), Inyrdisk
Weirdest Tuesday II, CDR, 2016 (compilation), Ride the Tempo
Already Dead V: DIY or DIE, cassette, 2015 (compilation), Already Dead
Offerings' 'CD Punk Revolution Vol. 3, cassette, 2014 (compilation)
Canada Song, single, mini disc, 2014, Inyrdisk
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Pop
I write and record original pop songs as a singer-songwriter and producer using instruments including sampler, keyboard, cassette decks, guitar, radio, harmonica, and found sounds. My vocals rely on clichè and kitsch, and often mimic Disney cartoon musicals and operatic ranges. Lyrics and samples are often found online and manipulated.
For the past six years I've been working on a full length album titled O / L, a continuation of an Alpha Couple album that was never finished, and it has since grown to include music, installation, performance, and printed material.
Based on an American woman's Youtube channel, O / L tells the story of L and her dog O as they gradually break free from L's situation in an abusive relationship. All songs, writings, and visual materials within O / L are made up of materials uploaded by L, including footage, audio, blogs, comments, and photographs.
O / L has been presented as a live multimedia project as part of Kazoo Fest in Guelph in 2017 and as part of CHANNEL at Katzman Contemporary Gallery in Toronto in 2016. In 2013 part of O / L was displayed in Berlin.
Videos, installation images, more info:
O / L
Pop Releases
"B4 + After (Sexy Bitch demo)"
Compilation: CHANNEL 3, 2017, Cassette, CHANNEL
"Tightly But Briefly"
Compilation: Weirdest Tuesday II, 2016, CD: Ride the Tempo
Pop Installation
More installation views & info:
O / L
O / L illustration by Leslie Supnet. Photos by Tiffany Sin
Radio
I work with live radio signals to make improvised compositions where the familiar emotional triggers of radio content is fragmented and manipulated into new songs.
Since 2013 I've made songs with live radio in places including Niagara Falls, Brooklyn, Napanee, Toronto, Durham, Rouyn Noranda, Muskoka, Winnipeg, Schenectady, Montreal, Meaford, Coburg, Ottawa, Sudbury, and Milan.
I've released physical recordings through Inyrdisk Records and on compilations from Already Dead Tapes, Offerings Magazine, and Inyrdisk. There is some radio sampling on Reciprocal Encounter as well.
Radio Releases
"I Wonder"
Compilation: Inyrdisk Death Match, 2016, CDR: inyrdisk.com
"Bad Girls"
Compilation: DIY or Die, 2015, Cassette: Already Dead Tapes
"Canada Song"
Canada Song 3" mini disc CD, 2014, Inyrdisk
"Sirens"
Compilation: Offerings' 'CD Punk Revolution Vol. 3', 2014, Offerings
Releases
"Reciprocal Encounter"
Split Cassette: Reciprocal Encounter, 2017
Split cassette between Brigitte Bardon't and NONSWIMMER.
Art publication curated by Tori Maas
Order online: Reciprocal Encounter
"B4 + After (Sexy Bitch demo)"
Compilation: CHANNEL 3, 2017, Cassette, CHANNEL
Stream on Thump or hit me up for a copy
"I Wonder"
Compilation: Inyrdisk Death Match, 2016
Order 4 disc CDR: inyrdisk.com
"Tightly But Briefly"
Compilation: Weirdest Tuesday II, 2016
Order CDR: Bandcamp
"Bad Girls"
Compilation: Already Dead Family Reunion V: DIY or Die, 2015
Order Double Cassette/Free Download on Bandcamp
"Sirens"
Compilation: Offerings' 'CD Punk Revolution Vol. 3', 2014
Order/Free Download on Bandcamp
Read on Exclaim
Canada Song 3" mini disc CD
Compact Disc (CD)
Inyrdisk Records
3" CD-Rs (mini-discs). Colour print, insert & hand numbered Canadian penny in slip.
Sold out.
Live
Brigitte Bardon't live shows include pop performances of structured songs, multimedia presentations, radio performances, noise or drone improvised / ambient sets, Drone Therapy live events, or Infinite Poolside sets (which can be live performances or DJ sets). Event listings will specify what type of performance a Brigitte Bardon't show will be. If no specifications are mentioned, it's a pop set.
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