artist: ERIKM
title: Stéme
label: Room40
country: Australia
format: CD
title: Stéme
label: Room40
country: Australia
format: CD
"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." (Room40)
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." (Room40)