BERTIN

Bertin van Vliet (1974) graduated from art-school with pop-art paintings of stylized Edison dolls and unrecognizable portraits of famous actors. Today Bertin is mostly active composing songs, recording lo-fi albums and doing solo-performances with electronic improvisation music. Bertin makes short-video's with still-photography and found-VHS-footage. In 2011 Bertin developed the casiophonic workshop.

more bio info/

Bertin's music carreer started with playing in lo-fi indie band Pet or Luau and as electronic noise duo Prank Agressor in the late 90's.
From 2002 till 2010 he was an active member of artist run venue for experimental music, small press and performance art Extrapool and got connected to the improvisation group The Hitmachine.

Bertin has recorded numerous albums as lo-fi recording artist and has always swung back and forth between experimental electronic music and song-based lo-fi. In the middle of the 00's the casio popmusic came to life with the album Joyeux, the hitsingle 'Videorecorder' and in 2010 a cassette released named 'mini'on Stenze Quo label.

These albums are downloadable at bandcamp

discography info/

mini (stenze quo, 2010) instrumental album made with casio keyboards
random songs (2010) collection of lo-fi songwriter material recorded between 2006 - 2010
the voice (2009) experimental songs based on frank sinatra hits
joyeux (2007) album with casio pop music (including ' Videorecorder')
digitally distorted miniatures (Olé records, 2005) electronic experimental short tracks

listen online to my albums!!

other contributions/

Bertin contributed various casio tracks, songs and radioplays on:

Hark Too! (Worm)

Audiotoop (Extrapool)

Elektrisch Kafe LP

BRITNEY SPEARS, AN ALL AMERICAN SLAVE (Vatican Analogue #7)

Wormstation sampler

Audiotron (Extrapool)

Happy new ear (Korm Plastics)

...and more

• a few songs I recorded...

treveling emix (from 'digitally distorted miniatures')
fools rush in (from 'the voice')
traffic (from 'joyeux')
don't you worry about your cat (from 'random songs...')
some friends (from 'random songs...')
arabiapan (from 'random songs...')

2011 1 Square Meter performance

A composition with acoustically filtering the sound from small keyboard- and walkman speakers.
Performed within the bounds of 1 square meter at Etalage Derde Wal, Nijmegen.

video: The Video Dead (excerpt)

video: dinner is ruined (from digitally distorted miniatures')

"...it was really cool to see yer 'dinner is ruined' vid/song.great ideas and concepts all around.."
~ Dale Morningstar

7" single on Olé records

kant A videorecorder
kant B happy sundays

contact: Bertin van Vliet