Esther B. (aka Esther Bourdages) is an art historian, curator and sonic explorer based in Montréal. 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, as multimedia, web art, sound art.

She plays portable turntable and manipulates vinyl records. She pratices
improvisation, a field that affords her the liberty to create raw,
non-linear music, sometimes punctuated by sonic quotes, sometimes by
abstract sounds: textures mostly produced by the disc upon which she
performs alterations (sanding, cutting, etc.). She is part of the turntabilist trio Vinyl Interventions [VI], with Carrie Gates (Saskatoon) and Marinko Jareb (St. Catherines). Since 2002, they have been developing a workshop under the eponym name VI, in which EB gave a lecture entitled The Echo of the Vinyl Record, Between the Sound and the Visual, Between the Past and the Present. She has presented this lecture on several occasions. She has a long collaboration with Quartier Éphemère, a visual art centre based in Montréal, where she works on programming. She is interested in field recording, specifically the music potential of sounds from the environment - soundscape, sound ecology, etc. The sound as a vector of mobility is one of her subject of reflexion. Following her travels in China, she made her first release based on a field recording launch on seasonal mp3 label from Brooklyn, NY. Since 2003, she has curated a series of noise music events called "A Microphone in a Storm of Noize". She continues to curate other series of concerts dedicated to innovative and experimental music.

Artivistic
Quartier Éphemère
mobilegaze
muzikaktiv
notype
Dame
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To the left and right, you will see some of Esther's interventions upon 45"s...