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Art-Sonal

WHAT WE THINK, WE BECOME!!

About Me


"Tangled Web" is a new collaboration between me (Art-Sonal) and Malcolm MacFarlane.
Main guitars tracks are originally and splendidly composed by awesome guitar player : MALCOLM MACFARLANE.
Clic the image below to visit his page and hear is great playing:
Welcome!
I'm Stephane. I'm a multidisciplinary musician who explores the amazing world of audio and visual creation waves in this astonishing laboratory that we call Earth.
Born in the region of Quebec City in Canada, I began my musician career in 1985 as a rhythm guitarist-composer in various speed and power metal bands.
Years later, I slowly transformed my playing and creation to something more open minded... I started to play hand-percussions and other traditional as well as electronic instruments... I wanted my songs to be moving in a more positive energy and give myself more colors to be more emotionally accurate. I began to explore different styles and arrangements passing thru jazz, folk, blues, techno, world beat, drum & bass, industrial, ambient, trip hop, etc... and always with that heavy and progressive background that has followed me since.
After a while, instinctively my path brought me to a new aspect of my art. I created original music for theatre, dance groups, various live performers and multimedia events. I also began to explore video clip creations, art direction, clay sculpture and digital visual arts... Those are the elements that have really changed and solidified my route. Since then, I still perform in that multidisciplinary sphere...
Here's a clip of a show I did this last April for Christine, a new friend of mine. She's studying contemporary dance at Concordia University in Montreal. She did this awesome choregraphy with 3 first year students. I play Darbouka (hands percs) with another drummer-bro (on Djembe). I'm the one at the right side of the screen sitting on a chair... Hope you'll enjoy...
The video clips below are whole auto-productions images and musics...
Shamann Urbain (Art-Sonal copyrights 2004)
My Profile's background image is part of the great and amazing artwork of DE ES
Thank-you greatly Mr Schwertberger!
CLICK ON IMAGE or visit : (http://www.dees.at)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/11/2006
Band Members:

Stéphane Simard :
Composer, Arranger, Performer, Sound Engeneer and Multimedia Artist.
I play :
Guitar, Hands-drums, Various traditional and electronic instruments

Art-Sonal is an Artistic Exploration Laboratory.
I'm always looking to get in touch with audio and visual artists from various schools of thinking and from any cultures that are aiming to evolve outside the main stream heading on originality and authenticity... If you're into of course music, or dance, theatre, film, multimedia, circus, video gaming or any other discipline, I am available for live acts, studio projects, experimentations, occasionnal performances, long term projects and distant collaborations; contact me!

Go see my friend's kayak school web site and let your soul ride the wave!
CLICK ON IMAGES or visit : (http//www.Kayakkarma.com)

Keep an eye on this all meat creative artists group :
CLICK ON IMAGE or visit : (http://www.vachemorte .com)

Influences: La vie dans son ensemble m'inspire. La nature avec ses innombrable formes et couleurs en constantes mouvance se renouvellant à l'infini... Le rire d'un enfant, Le cri de l'injustice, L'amour sous tout ces étranges aspects, nos impardonnables blessures à notre si fragile planète. Mon instrument de musique, L'espace et sa profondeur virtigineuse. La beauté d'une femme, La science, L'incohérence de nos actes en rapport à nos dires, La force d'une rivière, La foudre, Notre capacité d'émerveillement, La dualité, La souffrance, La haine, Le vent, Les animaux et toute la faune majestueuse, La spiritualité, La lumière, La mort... etc

Et plusieurs artistes et musiciens de très différentes écoles de pensées. Comme entre bien d'autres : Peter Gabriel, Massive attack, Dead can Dance, Bach, Tori Amos, Gentle Giant, Prodigy, Daniel Boucher, Slayer, King Crimson, Ekova, Mrs Bungle, Bjork, Mass Histeria, Kreator, Mozart, Amon Tobin, AC DC, Medeski Martin and Wood, Destruction, Aphex Twin, The Orb, Daniel Bélanger, David Bowie, 4D Art...............

Sounds Like:

WE HAVE ALL THE POWER TO MANIFEST OUR INNER DIVINE STRENGHT TO BE MORE CAUSE WITHIN EXISTENCE AND ACCOMPLISH THE SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE; SO BE IT!

What if all you had consume since then was piled in front of you... Et si tout ce que vous avez consommé jusqu'ici se retrouvait empilé devant vous...

Review: Alex Jones’ Endgame is a horror film. ( read more )
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My Blog

DE ES is the ARTIST I was looking for!!!!!!

I have finally found the amazing artists that has draw those intense images : His name is DE ES "Dieter Schwertberger" http://www.dees.at  I identify myself totally to his work... He use sha...
Posted by Art-Sonal on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:35:00 PST

Raise awareness about violence against women

I just saw a T.V. documentory about acid attack against women in Bengladesh... I was allready concern and aware of bad treatments to women around the world... But that is awefull!!!! How religion, cul...
Posted by Art-Sonal on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:13:00 PST

A Collective Creation Project

My vision is to have a certain amount of creators "I thought of maybe 10 or 12" ?(TBD) and as a work in progress we can all decide of a theme to respect and a deadline to finish the process. First, it...
Posted by Art-Sonal on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:45:00 PST