LP
ErikM
“Bidule 2.0”
Unreleased Sound Objects by Pierre Henry / Reload and Original Composition by ErikM
Bidule 2.0 is an unique reinterpretation of Pierre Henry's little-known sound heritage combined with ErikM's original composition. The album explores previously unused raw materials, transformed through ErikM's highly digital approach, balancing fixed composition and unexpected sonic events, a singular sonic experience where where historical archives and contemporary creation converge.
« Bidule 2.0 is a composition by ErikM that revisits a selection of the unused sonic heritage of composer Pierre Henry, covering the period from 1950 to 1974, sourced from the Son/Ré studio and digitized by the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France).
Over the decades, Pierre Henry and his team accumulated a vast collection of sonic materials from their studio research.This sound library, recorded on analog tape, is a testimony to the recording techniques of that era — including the quality of microphones and recording media, as well as the acoustics of the recording spaces — all of which define the sound of a time.
Not wanting to create a remix from the composer’s iconic sounds, I chose instead to work with selections of raw material from unused recording sessions, 168 sequences ranging from one to twenty-two minutes each. Isabelle Warnier and Bernadette Mangin provided me with sessions of prepared piano, series of electronic sounds, feedbacks, and voice recordings.
Pierre Henry’s analog sounds were, for the most part, processed through successive stages (up to five generations of transformation), using a custom electronic device: Idiosyncrasie 9.3, built on Max/MSP and Lemur. »
ErikM
Production : CNCM/La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville et INA/GRM Paris
Coproduction : CNCM/GMEM, Marseille
Mastering : Frédéric Alstadt – Angstrom Mastering
A live performance at Présences électronique festival is included on CD version as bonus track.
22,00€
CD
ErikM
“Bidule 2.0”
Unreleased Sound Objects by Pierre Henry / Reload and Original Composition by ErikM
Bidule 2.0 is an unique reinterpretation of Pierre Henry's little-known sound heritage combined with ErikM's original composition. The album explores previously unused raw materials, transformed through ErikM's highly digital approach, balancing fixed composition and unexpected sonic events, a singular sonic experience where where historical archives and contemporary creation converge.
« Bidule 2.0 is a composition by ErikM that revisits a selection of the unused sonic heritage of composer Pierre Henry, covering the period from 1950 to 1974, sourced from the Son/Ré studio and digitized by the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France).
Over the decades, Pierre Henry and his team accumulated a vast collection of sonic materials from their studio research.This sound library, recorded on analog tape, is a testimony to the recording techniques of that era — including the quality of microphones and recording media, as well as the acoustics of the recording spaces — all of which define the sound of a time.
Not wanting to create a remix from the composer’s iconic sounds, I chose instead to work with selections of raw material from unused recording sessions, 168 sequences ranging from one to twenty-two minutes each. Isabelle Warnier and Bernadette Mangin provided me with sessions of prepared piano, series of electronic sounds, feedbacks, and voice recordings.
Pierre Henry’s analog sounds were, for the most part, processed through successive stages (up to five generations of transformation), using a custom electronic device: Idiosyncrasie 9.3, built on Max/MSP and Lemur. »
ErikM
Production : CNCM/La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville et INA/GRM Paris
Coproduction : CNCM/GMEM, Marseille
Mastering : Frédéric Alstadt – Angstrom Mastering
A live performance at Présences électronique festival is included on CD version as bonus track.
13,00€
Out of stock
CD, Book
eRikm
“Douze horizons”
A sound postcard by eRikm: an instant composition recorded on CD, somewhere between sound performance and radio creation, accompanied by a booklet of photographs.
Since 1992, eRikm, a Marseilles based artist, has extended the field of artistic experimentation on the international scene.
Maintaining a constant fusion between thought, instinct and sensitivity, he pursues a simultaneity of practices and addresses the interplay between various compositional modes, relating to and using all languages.
From his early experience as a guitarist through to his later visual work, he is a maverick genre-bender who breaks down anyone's attempts to conveniently classify him.
Quickly recognised as a virtuoso turntablist and sound artist (1996), eRikm has made a longlife habit of crossing all territories and “world-systems” deemed “independent”, “institutional”.
12,00€
In stock
CD
eRikm
“Mistpouffers”
"Draugalimur" (2014-15, 16).
Draugalimur (Phantom Limb, in English) is a crossing from the intimate to vast open spaces, traversed by the elements in motion. Ice, air, gas and fire are in perpetual activity in the chaotic and primitive far off. It resembles the more than five hundred million years ago surface of the earth.
"Poudre" (2013, 16).
Poudre was a puff of nocturnal aroma on the Berliner asphalt of the Eberswalder Straße in Alexanderplatz (Germany). New Year's Eve, where everyone lits a firework in front of their apartment building, evokes an acoustic afterglow echoing with the history and architecture of the city. From this popular event comes a subjacent feeling that oscillates between a state of insurrection, movements of rebellion or of a carnival party.
"L'aire de la Moure 2" (2013; arr. 2015-16).
It was not my sense of telluric magnetic or vibratory power, as when one is facing with a glacier, a rainforest or when making the experience of being in the middle of the Roland rift...
eRikm is an improviser, composer and visual artist based in Marseille (France). He has extended the field of artistic experimentation on the international scene. Maintaining a constant fusion between thought, instinct and sensitivity, eRikm pursues a simultaneity of practices and addresses the interplay between various compositional modes, relating to and using all languages.
From his early experience as a guitarist through to his later visual work, he is a maverick genre-bender who breaks down anyone's attempts to conveniently classify him. Quickly recognised as a virtuoso turntablist and sound artist (1996), eRikm has made a longlife habit of crossing "world-systems" deemed 'independent' and 'institutional' and all territories.
13,00€
In stock
LP
eRikm
“L’art de la fuite”
L’art de la fuite is a selection of first recordings originally released on selftitled homemade tape in 1995. Mainly composed with turntables and prepared records (with various other sources), these recordings have laid the foundation for his future work as turntabilist/improviser/composer. 20 years later, this unique blend of musique concrète and post-industrial still sounds fresh today.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. 300 copies.
eRikm 2015
15,00€
In stock
CD
eRikm
“Zygosis”
’Zygosis’, which is his first fulltime recording, starts with a witty beat track mixing high-pitched shakespeare monologues over syncopated jazz loops, and quickly convinces you that the deconstruction of stolen sound material (sourced from cabaret, orchestral music, rock, poetry...) may grow into something utterly personal and unique - most extraordinary examples are tracks 3, 4 & 6. after this tour-de-force, the listener is allowed a short break, while the cd-player skipps through the almost empty regions of track 9 - 22 (microscopic shards of static, lasting only for a few seconds each). those are quickly followed by a very powerful and dramatic piece (agora) that bears an almost recognizable song structure. the cd ends rather quietly with three unsymetrical ambient pieces followed by a short and funny epilogue. there’s nothing more to add, except that ’zygosis’ is probably one of the most brilliant achievements in musical ’piratage’ so far, and first of all - regardless to it’s historical relevance - it’s simply beautyful! (extract from http606 web site)
8,50€
In stock
mini CD
eRikm
“Frame”
“Frames is the result of a work that originates in the audio CD medium itself: “Digital anomaly and anomaly of the medium itself”; it was produced within the specific frame of hijacking the CDs from the Metamkine Cinéma pour l’oreille series.”
3,00€
CD
eRikm
“Mono face mirror”
Special price. “Beginning his recorded career as a turntablist, Erik M advanced over the years to include all manner of electronic manipulation, his work becoming progressively richer and more mysterious. Mono.Face.Mirror, a brief (26-minute) disc, offered one of the most compelling examples of his sonic investigations, piling allusion upon allusion into a huge and healthy sandwich of sound. There are surprising free jazz sax squalls toward the beginning of the single track that merge into what might be some ultra-low Tibetan horns, all overlaid on vinyl scratches and humming drones. A jumpy piano attack surfaces, is looped, and competes against whirring synth-like tones before abating, then reappears several minutes later as though grabbed from a parallel universe. Shards of contemporary strings appear, set against light percussion in a "sampled" manner that recalls some of John Wall’s work. Eventually, a male voice speaking in French is heard over a mix of natural sounds and drums, very reminiscent of the musique concrete of Luc Ferrari. Still, Erik M manages to make this particular sound world very much his own and, despite its apparent fragmentation, Mono.Face.Mirror ultimately coheres into a powerful, abstract statement, if one which belies easy explanation. Though brief, it’s a fine, mature statement and highly recommended. (Brian Olewnick / All Music Guide)”
5,00€
In stock
book + CD
eRikm
Bilingual edition (English - French), 17 x 23 cm, 176 pages (color ill.). Edited by Maud Chavaillon and eRikm. Texts by Yann Beauvais, Christophe Kihm, Louis-José Lestocart, Jean-Luc Nancy, Leïla Quillacq, Graeme Thomson. Published by Sextant et plus, with the Gantner multimedia centre. Audio CD included with “Arrow” (1999, “Feedback & Ficker” (2001), “Klein surface” (2009), “Corrélation i” (2005), “Soulage” (2010), “Généresense soustractive” (2005).
A key figure of the international sound art scene, eRikm’s practice is nevertheless rooted in the field of visual arts through sculpture, installation and video. This first monograph, which is accompanied by an audio CD, unveils a less visible part of his work that dares to play simultaneously with different practices and composition modes, in all the languages.
25,00€
In stock
CD
eRikm
“Stème”
“Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concréte composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist eRikm has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a cd which was deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k-pad system & md or cd-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are truly distinctive - filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent. eRikm has instinctively followed a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more renowned for his virtuoso turntabling and his use of electronic instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up eRikm has followed up musical collaborations with Voice Crack, Christian Marclay, Luc Ferrari, among others. He is certainly one of the better equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and contemporary music; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an easy pandering to his audience. Note! Copies ordered direct from ROOM40 include a special 12 page fold out score edition from eRikm. An elegant flow chart of opportunity, chance and compositional choice.”
12,00€