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“I roamed for miles in imposed silence until I reclaimed my voice. No one knew my secret battles behind my smile until I came foward with the music project, Hippocampus. ”

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The Hippocampus Project

 

Trauma can become  a Shared Artwork: All art forms, from the most sophisticated to the most accessible, carry within them the potential for awareness and healing.

The Hippocampus project is a musical creation project aimed at raising awareness of the paths taken by survival after rape by combining technological arts and popular song. The album, which is scheduled for release in the fall of 2022, includes 9 songs as well as testimonies from survivors.

A while ago, Marie Martine Bédard experienced a violent trauma, an armed sexual assault that put her life in danger, and for which her journey of reconstruction lasted more than twenty years.

The projet

It’s in the spring of 2020 that The Hippocampe project begins in collaboration with the NXI Gestatio laboratory team led by Nicolas Reeves. For the experiment and to collect data, Marie Martine Bédard is equipped with an EEG Helmet ( Electroencephalography is a monitoring method to record the electrical activity of the brain) during a series of experiences during which she successively recalls the different stages of her journey, from the initial traumatic event to the present day.

The electrical signals are then transformed into melodic and rhythmic embryos. These last will then serve either as a basic framework for the composition of the various pieces or as an instrument in its own right.

 

Music Heals

 

Every song has the potential to be a conversation starter for victims.

 

Breaking the silence is the first step in healing.

 

Marie Martine Bédard has joined forces with RQCalacs (a non-profit organization that helps victims of sexual violence) in order to promote the cause that is so dear to her heart. Fundraising campaigns will be organized periodically.

 

 

This project was made possible by the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

 

 

During the installation of the EEG Helmet.

During the installation of the EEG Helmet.

Artist Statement

I am a songwriter, performer and activist. I am also a mother, a musician, and a survivor of sexual violence and narcissistic abuse. My art has become my platform of choice to not only express or see my suffering alleviated, but also to raise awareness and educate a society too often indifferent to the realities of survivors and survivors. 

The word Hippocampus in my recent project refers to the hippocampus of the brain in which traumatic phenomena are recorded. I discovered its existence and its role by researching the work of Dr. Muriel Salmona, a French psychiatrist and activist in the field of sexual violence. This seahorse- like structure in the brain influences the way one responds to these dislocations of soul and body that are trauma. From this was born the powerful and intimate symbolic association between memory and the sea, the imaginary place of all the subconscious and all the unconscious. Nestled in the hollow of a remote cerebral cavity, during the healing process the hippocampus travels a motionless journey that can lead a person from the darkness of pain and the fear of dying to the light of rebirth and life.

Marie Martine Bédard

News

Oct 2 2021

Que de bonnes nouvelles / Only Good News

(English below)

Depuis sa première bourse du Conseil des Arts du Canada en mars dernier, Marie Martine Bédard travaille à la préproduction de l’album de musique hippocampe avec les artistes Christine Roberge, Jonathan Harnois, Jean-François Lemieux et Nicolas Reeves. Comme…

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Jan 7 2021

✦ She's Back ✦ ✦ Elle est de retour ✦ 

Français plus bas.

✦ She's back ✦ 

We all know that it's been a tough year.  After losing both her parents within a period of six months and during the pandemic, Marie Martine Bédard needed some time to let resilience…

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Oct 15 2020

News/Nouvelles + New Song

 

A note from the artist: 

I know that it’s been a little while since you heard from me.  I have one good news though… I am back with a new song that you can listen to on YouTube.

I am…

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Jun 15 2019

MM & Ophelia présente des extraits du projet Hippocampe au 40e anniversaire des RQCALACS

Libres Artistes   

Le vendredi 14 février 2019-06-14 

MM & Ophelia présente des extraits du projet Hippocampe au 40e anniversaire des RQCALACS

 

 

Montréal, le samedi 15 juin 2019  ¾  Dans le cadre du 40e anniversaire des RQCALACS célébré à Montréal, Marie…

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Apr 3 2019

La première du vidéoclip Beautiful #MoiAussi

 

Le jeudi 4 avril, 2019 à 19 h 30  sera la grande première de la vidéo "Beautiful #MoiAussi"  sur la chaîne YouTube de Marie Martine Bédard. Il s’agira d’une expérience de visionnage inédite autant pour l’artiste que ses admirateurs. L’artiste…

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Feb 8 2019

Le heureux hasard d’une renaissance et d’une chronique sur le premier groupe punk rock féminin au Québec, Blue Oil.

MusiQc sans Frontières  Le vendredi 8 février 2019
Pour diffusion immédiate

À la veille du lancement de la campagne de sociofinancement du projet Hippocampe de Marie Martine Bédard, le hasard a voulu que le journalise Félix B. Desfossés raconte sur…

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Sep 26 2018

Action!

 

September 26th, 2018 ~ Last Monday, Marie Martine Bédard was shooting a music video on the site of the former Canadian military base of Lac-Saint-Denis in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard with the songwriter and guitar player Christine Roberge. This base, also…

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Aug 22 2018

A New Logo

August 22nd 2018 ~ Marie Martine Bédard has a new logo that was designed by the artist Julie Desmarais and which refers to the metaphor of the artist's project "Hippocampus" and explained for the first time on her blog…

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Jun 24 2018

Dreams Come True

May 12th 2018 ~ On May 12th, Marie Martine joined a thousand new graduates from Berklee College of Music and walked the stage of the 2018 official Commencement Ceremony at the Agganis of the Boston University in Massachusetts. "It…

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Mar 17 2018

2018: What's Next?

March 17th 2018 ~ Marie Martine Bédard is stronger than ever and has a fantastic 2018 ahead! 

With nine years of studies in music in the rearview mirror, she is ready to bask in the optimism of a…

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Feb 14 2016

Aux Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2016 (EN)

On February 20th at Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Erik Cimon (Les citadins du rebut global) presents the New Wave movement of the Montreal scene in his documentary Montreal New Wave. "Out to meet those who were the key…

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Dec 17 2015

Metaphors Waiting to Come to Life

As metaphors are waiting to come to life, Marie Martine is currently working on her next album on which everyone will have the opportunity to hear the music with their eyes and follow a singular odyssey from the survivors'…

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Oct 25 2015

Chicago 2015

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Marie Martine was happy to come back last week from the Chicago first DIY Musician conference. She had an awesome time and met great people, learned a great deal too. 

We thought of sharing some Martine's…

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About

 

Born in Montreal, Marie Martine Bédard  is a singer, songwriter and survivor. 

As a teenager, it is on bass guitar that she makes her debut on the “rock” scene with Patrick Bourgeois, who later became famous with band “The BB”, 

As a rising music figure of the Montreal underground music scene of the 80s and 90s,  she has the chance to work with many artists.  She performs close to a thousand concerts until she sees years of efforts and momentum short-circuited. 

Two months after the birth of her first child and while the summer sun was bursting her city with life, she attends the slaying of her soul and body.  She is the victim of a sexual predator. 

After a forced shutdown of more than a decade, in 2009 she embarks upon a healing journey through music studies with the renown Berklee College of Music. In 2010 she receives the celebrity-sponsored “Steve Vai Scholarship”. In 2014, she obtains a Professional Certificate in Guitar and in 2018 a Bachelor Degree of Professional Studies in Songwriting.  Some say that she is the first French Canadian and Québécoise obtaining a degree with Berklee Online.  A nice way to come back to life knowing that she was one of the members of the first all girls band in Quebec, Blue Oil.

 

Photo: Daniel Desmarais

 

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    Thanks!

    Thank you to all those who have supported me through difficult times.

    Thank you to my two sons and Valerie for their unconditioannal love.

    Thank you to Jean-François Lemieux for wanting to coproduce the Hippocampus project. Without his support, his talent and his great patience, it would have been difficult for me to keep going through the storms. Part of what you hear on my EP, it's him!

    Thank you to all those who did collaborate so far with their talent to the Hippocampus Project:  Kimura Byol, Daniel Desmarais, Julie Desmarais, Jacqueline Van de Geer, Julie Laurin, Morty, Ella Negrescu, Pascale, artiste peintre, Wil Putt, Karine Rathle, Christine Roberge, Marie-France Thibault, Selvi Subramanian and Josée B.

    Thanks to my Berklee Online Family,  for the knowledge, guidance and challenges.
    Thank you to Muriel Salmona for her work and to all my sisters-in-arms.

    A special thank to my emotional support dog, Ophelia..

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