Sourdure

Based in Thiers, Ernest Bergez, alias Sourdure, has been exploring the fringes of obscure soundscapes for the past decade, combining an experimental spirit with a personal, DIY approach to traditional musical instruments. Hybrid and exploratory, Sourdure’s music reveals itself in many facets: baroque inventions on traditional canvases, vociferous carnival odes, stylistic borrowings from Eastern music, and sound craftsmanship marked by concrete music. Combined with the acoustic rusticity of the violin or dotar (a Central Asian lute), electronics perform their alchemical work, disturbing sound objects, altering perceptions and the passage of time.

Exhilarating or bittersweet, the singing readily borrows from the voices of classical Arabic, Turkish, or Persian music. Occitan from Auvergne imposes itself on the pen and the spittoon, deploying its metaphorical and polysemic network to express the common, the intimate, the sacred. The melody is born from the word, the poem gives birth to the song, in a form that could vaguely recall trobar, the art of the troubadours. A one-man orchestra, a lone man playing an orchestral universe, Sourdure sings like the nose on your face.

A new creation in partnership with GMEA – CNCM, l’Inconnue and le Confort Moderne.