„…I focus on the emotional and atmospheric quality of sounds.
Every sound fragment carries a story within it – sometimes as an echo, sometimes as a hint, as a trace of spaces, atmospheres and memories.
In my compositions I explore these subtle connections and create open spaces for associations, between sound and space, between time and memory, between the outer world and inner experience. It’s not about imposing meaning, but about creating a space in which listeners can discover their own connections – intuitively, associatively, personally from their own connections…“
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Debate and discussion
Phonurgia Nova_2023_audition et discussion (fr)
Daniel Deshays, Radio Campus Paris (fr)
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Foto: M. Woodtli 2024
Bernadette Johnson (*1955) lives in Basel (Switzerland). She is author of acoustic poems and audio pieces for Radio and other listening rooms. In their sound works, auditory perseption is observed, questioned and „disturbed“. It’s a matter of tracing otherwise parallel and hidden experience spaces.
Prizes and honorable mentions: Several times prizewinner at Phonourgia Nova Awards, Radio Helsinki Graz, Honorable Mention by l’Institut International de la Musique Electroacoustique Bourges (IMEB), prize winner by the Soundscape Forum, Radio play contest at the St. Pölten Technical College, Karl Sczuka Promotion Prize 2007.
Performances of audio compositions: (among others) in the Sound Tower St. Pölten, Sound Theater of the House for Radio Culture Vienna, Festival for Electro-acoustical Music Bourges, Donaueschingen Music Days, Réattu Museum in Arles (listening balcony), IRCAM Paris, Winterthur Radio Play Marathon, Listen-Bar in Freiburg, Altes Magazin Hannover, VoxNovum, Soundlab VI, Nuit bleue Arc et Senans, Ohrenhoch Sound Galery Berlin, Aufbauhaus Berlin, Ars electronica Forum Wallis, Festival Monestiés…
Radio Broadcasts: Swiss Radio SRF, Austrian Radio Ö1, Radio France, German radio dradio.de, SWR2, Radio Campus Paris, Radio LoRa Zürich, Colaboradio Berlin