Artist Bio

Raised in Maidstone Ontario, David holds a Bachelor of Music Honours and a Masters of Film and Media Arts from the University of Windsor. David is primarily an electronic musician that produces standalone music as Quiet i, as well as soundtracks for films, games, and installation art. His work and collaborations have been showcased across Canada in North Bay, Quebec City, Toronto, Victoria, and Windsor, and internationally in Tokyo, Texas, Louisiana, Poland and Iran.

Organizing and engaging community are crucial to David's work, currently he is the President of the Arts Council Windsor & Region. Previous to the COVID-19 pandemic, David regularly performed and organized events and ensembles in Windsor, Ontario. Recently, David was awarded a Windsor Endowment for the Arts Community Grant for his project/podcast Tracks of my Years.

CV available upon request

ARTSPEAK - Podcast

Arts Council Windsor & Region – Monthly episodes featuring updates, and details on new and upcoming projects, what’s happening behind the scenes, and where we can connect as part of the Windsor-Essex community.

https://acwr.net/artspeak/artspeak-podcast/.

Tracks Of My Years - Podcast

Founded in June 2020, Tracks of my Years is a community project that compiles autobiographical memories told by the elderly in our community using music as the stimulus. Our gathered information will potentially be shared progressively in the form of a podcast and as a book upon completing 30 interviews.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/tracksofmyears/.

404 not sound - Ensemble

404 not sound is a Windsor based noise jam ensemble

https://404notsound.bandcamp.com/.

Blightmare - Video Game

David is an employee of Plateau Games providing music and sound effects for first release Blightmare

https://store.steampowered.com/app/859160/Blightmare/.

Anti-Spectacle - Media Arts Persona

Anti-Spectacle is a political vaporwave (Found Audio) project that uses found audio and video to explore major world issues that often go unspoken.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyrZOz4fsjnt7Gml2XQqw1A?view_as=subscriber

Day One - Short Film

Film by Xavier Vance, Soundtrack composed and produced by David Bergeron
Day One is a narrative short film based around a young, Black couple in today’s America who have just found out that they are expecting a child. Day One seeks to challenge the stereotypical Black love relationship, and convey a multilayered, non-toxic Black love story.

Rollerbabies (of Paradise) - Short Film

Rollerbabies (of Paradise) is an audio video collaboration between David Bergeron and Julie Sando.
The world wide web is a powerful leveller: content that was once produced and controlled by publishers, industries and institutions is often freely available to be conjured, shared and re-shared in a variety of non-hierarchal ways. This is perhaps especially true of pornography, long known to be one of the central drivers of web-based technological change and commerce. Rollerbabies (of Paradise) is a montage that exhausts all promises of the exotic and the erotic found in the original films: Bird of Paradise (1932), Rollerball (1975) and Rollerbabies (1976). As a work of satire, this piece embodies its suspicions and questions many of the voyeuristic gazes found in these earlier sources. Designed as an anti-spectacle, the visuals emphasize the juxtapositions of roughly cut transitions upon the repeated movements of the bored skaters. With its sugary violins, the soundtrack is reminiscent of the kind of sentimental music used in iconic love stories. It offers a counter-narrative of a dreamy yet saccharine world.

Inbetween Mediums - Audio/Video Duo

The Windsor, Ontario based Duo InBetween Mediums is a collaborative effort featuring Aaron Eichler and David Bergeron. Recycling, repurposing, and hacking various mediums, they unlock a harmony between nostalgia, experimentation and eclecticness. They discover the hidden sounds of custom textural instruments, found media, and bygone technology by exploring imperfections.

https://dbergeron.bandcamp.com/album/inbetween-mediums-the-ghost-of-mediums-past

Quiet i is an alias of David Bergeron who produces conceptual ambient electronic music.

Releases

And Time Began To Flow - August 2021

And Time Began To Flow is a convergence of events. It outlines three realizations/occurrences that need to happen for “time” \ to flow again. In this instance, time is not literal time, but the perception of time. Our perception of time is often punctuation by physical events, locations, and changes in our lives on a micro and macro level.

The titles can be read as a poem but also imply a vague narrative which outlines a moment of significant change.

The Past Weaves The Present is a realization that the present is a trajectory that can be traced to the beginning of all and a coming to terms with the impact of our decisions, reactions, and actions.

The Break Allows The Wind To Enter is a malfunction, tear, gap, or crack that once it happens, lets wind pass through/into a solid surface or a space. The tear itself is undesirable and non-intentional, but its creates a connection between the familiar and unfamiliar.

The wind that has entered the space is refreshing, re-animating, a source of motion, and potentially life - A toy merry-go-round begins to rotate, A Bird lifts its wing, A human decides to stand, and The Static Is Given Life Through Motion

And Time Began To Flow is the convergence. Layers, references, and themes flow together punctuating time with gestures and moments that show motion and confidence.

Anyone But Myself - January 2021

Anyone But Me is about transition. A repetitive chromatic theme is presented and moves into a long transition, emerging as an uplifting varation.

Antidote - December 2020

Antidote is a meditative, pulse free synthesizer piece. The synth swells overlap, and interject each other, representing ideas and thoughts. As the piece continues there is a moment of symbiosis where the ideas join in agreement.

Pre-Verbal (Full Length) - April 2020

Pre-Verbal is melodic ambient album mixes organic piano and saxophone performances with electronic synthesizers. There is a slow evolution which captivates and takes the listener on an engaging ark of energy.

Pre-Verbal is about communication. Communication about/before words.

Lookings (Full Length Audio/Video Album) - Jan. 2020

Lookings is an ambient audio/video series that explores the relationship between the subject, viewer, and landscape. Currently, there are seven installments to the series that also functions collectively as a standalone full length album of music.

The videos create a form of tension for the viewer, pushing them to question what is the focus and subject of the video. The videos frame a single human, outlining a clear subject and creating a connection between the subject and viewer. Is it possible to see the environment as a subject when a human is present? If the viewer does visually explore the environment, does the subject gradually transition from foreground to background? Alternatively - what is figure and what is ground?

No Body (EP) - 2018

https://quieti.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2DoUgg84eYleVV3KuXNyAN?si=IEVaT5ZURCW4T4087SRFzw

Performances

  • Virtual Flowers With Love - feat. Afro Moone & Quiet i - Aug. 16, 2020 - Online Event
  • Program Nexus: Virtual 1 - June 17 2020 - Online Event
  • Program_Nexus /2020.1/ featuring Camcussion and Friendly User - Jan. 21 2020 - Phog Lounge, Windsor, ON
  • Olinda, Uppers, French Girl and Quiet i - Dec. 26, 2019 - Phog Lounge, Windsor, ON
  • Program_Nexus: Version 2.0 - Quiet i and Ethrelite B2B - Dec. 12, 2019 - Phog Lounge, Windsor, ON
  • Program_Nexus: Ethrelite / Quiet i / Crystal Hue - Nov. 12, 2019 - Meteor, Windsor, ON
  • Intune Music Presents: Video Game Music Live - May 25, 2019 - Windsor Armouries, ON
  • Particle Accelerators - March 30, 2019 - Villains Beastro, Windsor, ON
  • Dance Euphoric! (Feat. DJ Loft and Quiet i - March 16, 2019 - Villains Beastro, Windsor, ON
  • Technobody Dance 2 - Feb. 26, 2019 - Phog Lounge, Windsor, ON
  • Technobody Dance Night - Dec. 1, 2018 - Villains Beastro, Windsor, ON
  • Technobody Vogue - Sept. 26, 2018 - The Windsor Beer Exchange, Windsor, ON
  • David Bergeron, Imogen Wilson: Virtual Mentality - May 30, 2018, Freedom Way. Windsor, ON
  • No Net Techno 2 - May 29, 2018 - Freedom Way. Windsor, ON
  • in/fuse 24: Recall and Flourish - Oct. 26, 2017 - Lambton Tower, Windsor, ON
  • WSYO Project 2016-2017 - Capital Theater, Windsor, ON

Screenings

Day One

  • Toronto Black Film Festival - Feb. 10-21 2021 - Toronto, ON
  • Seoul International Short Film Festival - Jan. 17-23 2021 - Seoul, Korea
  • Tokyo International Short Film Festival - Dec. 21-28 2021 - Tokyo, Japan
  • Twin Cities Black Film Festival (TCBFF) - Oct. 21 2020 - Minneapolis, U.S.A.
  • Montreal Independent Film Festival - Sept. 3 2020 - Montreal, QC
  • Detroit Trinity International Film Festival (DTIFF) - Aug. 21 2020 - Detroit, U.S.A.
  • Culture and Diversity Film Festival - Oct. 5 2020 - Online

Rollerbabies(of Paradise)

  • Cinema on the Bayuo - Jan. 29 2020 - Lafayette, Lousinana
  • Deep Cut Film Festival - Jan. 25 2020 - North Bay, Ontario
  • Polish International Film Festival - Oct. 26-27 2019 - Jagiellońska, Poland
  • UAAC / AAUC Conference - Oct. 24-27, 2019 - Québec, QC
  • Austin Art House - Oct. 21 2019 - Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
  • Antimatter - Oct. 16-26 2019 - Victoria, BC

Walking Through Memories

  • Fajr International Visual Arts Festival - Jan. 2019 - Tehran, Iran
  • Iranian Academy of Art - Jan. 2019 - Tehran, Iran
  • Saba Cultural Institute - Jan. 2019 - Tehran, Iran

Inbetween Mediums - The Ghost of Mediums Past

  • Video Store - May 18, 2018 - Windsor Armouries, ON

Conferences

  • MUTEK Montreal - Aug. 20-25 2019 - Studios des 7 Doigts, Montréal, QC
  • FEEDBACK #4: Marshall Mcluhan and The Arts March 1, 2019 Armouries, Windsor, ON

Workshops

  • Found Audio: Nuances of Audio Appropriation July 13, 2019 - Artcite, Windsor, ON
  • Generative Music Series (Noiseborder Ensemble) - 2017 - University of Windsor, ON
  • Interactivity: Ableton Live with David Bergeron - Aug. 2017 - Hackforge, Windsor, ON
  • WSYO Project - 2016-2017 - Capitol Theater, Windsor, ON
  • Piezoelectric Speaker (Noiseborder Ensemble) – Oct. 2016 - University of Windsor, Ontario
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