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ErikM [Erik-M] is a French sound artist, electroacoustic composer, and visual artist. For over thirty years, he has developed a cross-disciplinary practice interweaving sound creation, visual art, performance, and installation. His work, deeply rooted in an expanded sonic ecology, explores the sensitive relationships between matter, perception, environment, and disruption.

Since the late 1980s, ErikM has been actively involved in musical countercultures (rock-noise, fanzines, street art), before establishing himself in the 1990s as one of the pioneers of glitch aesthetics and media détournement. He has become a key figure in sound art and experimental music, while cultivating a singular approach based on friction between disciplines, the crisis of form, and an active listening to the world.

Positioned at the border between the visible and the audible, his practice spans electroacoustic performance, phonography, immersive installations, acousmatic and radiophonic works. Whether manipulating raw sound materials or capturing the unheard in the living world, ErikM creates shifting, critical, and intuitive listening environments, infused with contemporary issues such as technological mutation, catastrophe, intimacy, and shared space.

A frequent collaborator of Luc Ferrari, Jean-Luc Nancy, Mathilde Monnier, FM Einheit, Christian Marclay, and Thurston Moore, he composes for both leading contemporary ensembles—such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Dedalus, and Les Percussions de Strasbourg—and more experimental or performative scenes.

His work, exhibited internationally in festivals, museums, and institutions, forms a poetic and sensory rhizome, shaped by a constant attention to the tensions between the organic and the machinic, listening and gesture, the human and its artifacts.

ErikM is a sound and visual artist whose practice, transdisciplinary by nature, has emerged at the crossroads of electroacoustic music, media art, visual arts, and performance. For over three decades, he has developed a rich and multifaceted body of work centered around notions of interference, friction, and the transformation of materials—sonic, visual, and social.

From the late 1980s, he immersed himself in experimental scenes blending rock-noise, zine culture, and street art, before making a decisive shift toward sound art, installation, and electroacoustic composition. Over time, he became one of the leading figures in Europe’s experimental scene, especially through his research on media détournement (audio, visual, digital) and his pioneering use of glitch as a critical aesthetic.

Yet his work extends far beyond sound : ErikM also creates visual installations, sculptures, light-based pieces, photographic works, and what he refers to as “post-calligraphy”—a plastic exploration of gesture, rhythm, and trace. These forms inhabit museums, galleries, and exhibition spaces with the same poetic density as his performances and compositions, reflecting a continuous attention to material, the body, and space.

Early on, his approach turned toward a sensitive, phenomenological sound ecology, treating sound not merely as material, but as a mode of attentiveness to the world. This stance informs his entire body of work—from field recordings to immersive installations, mixed compositions to radio art.

His collaborations with philosophers (Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler), choreographers (Mathilde Monnier, Emmanuelle Huynh), contemporary ensembles (Dedalus, Intercontemporain, Les Percussions de Strasbourg), and experimental musicians (Luc Ferrari, Christian Marclay, FM Einheit) reveal a constant desire to open up forms, cross languages, and explore new modes of relation.

Each project thus becomes a way of mapping a world in perpetual mutation—through devices that reject established categories and probe the tensions between the visible and the invisible, the sonic and the visual, the organic and the technological.

ErikM is managed by Alters Egos production
The music is physically distributed worldwide mainly by the following distributors :
Les Presses du réel / Corticalart / Digital narcis / Forced exposure / HMV / Staalplaat / Japanimprov ... Moving image and video work is distributed by Light-cone
Graphic and plastic work : Les Presses du réel. Sextant&+. Bisou Records. Ouïe/Dire

Indices & marks

2025 C.I.E Mùa unedansecontinue / LP BIDULE 2.0-Sonoris / LP Sourdines-Sub Rosa
2024 BIDULE 2.0 / CD Sury-Tanuki / Pierre Bastien
2023 CD Fata Morgana / Edition Photos + CD Douze Horizons / …
2022 Edition graphique & CD d’Echoplasme / CD Sun-Dog / 30eme anniversaire
2021 FATA MORGANA / Douze Horizons Quebec Avatar
2020 Roger Turner / Micro-Waves Duet
2019 LP Albédo with Anthony Pateras / ECHOPLASME / Thurston Moore
2018 What-is-Ours - dance / CD & LP Drum-Machines / CD Mistpouffers
2017 Multiphonies GRM / Ensemble Phoenix Basel / TIPC Drum-machines Taipei
2016 CD Doubse Hysterie / DRUM-MACHINES - Les Percussions de Strasbourg
2015 Reissue A.D.F. vinyl / Draugalimur - INA/GRM
2014 CD Ecotone
2013 CD’s MAL DES ARDENTS & ... / Les Percussions de Strasbourg
2012 CD TRANSFALL / Exhibition inONdible / DVD Austral / CD Cartouche
2011 Vinyl VISITATION Palnam / Exhibition Bînome / Exhibition VA©UUM
2010 Exhibition MU / Exhibition mOnO / Exhibition Patholitique
2009 Austral / Workshop / Simulacres série creation
2008 CD STEME / BERNARD STIEGLER / FM Einheit
2007 CD VARIATIONS OPPORTUNISTES / MRS FRICHE /All in all Pierre Droulers
2006 CD SIXPERIODES / Ensemble inter Contemporain
2005 Festival d’Avignon / Frere & Sœur / Alvin Curran
2004 CD Archives Sauvées des Eaux / Christian Fennesz / Dieb13 / F.M. Pesenti
2003 CD What a wonderful world / LUC FERRARI / Staccato . Palais de Tokyo Paris
2002 DEROUTES / Jean Luc -Nancy / Alliterations
2001 MATHILDE MONNIER / MULTIMÉDIUM pieces & PLASTIQUES creations
2000 eRikm
1999 CD ZYGOSIS / CD FRAME / Performance for the DANCE / www.erikm.com
1998 POIRE_Z creation with Voice crack & Gunter Muller
1997 Biennale of young Créators Turin Italy
1996 TOM CORA / OTOMO YOSHIHIDE
1995 ELECTRONICS & CONCRÈTES COMPOSITIONS / CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
1994 ERIK M. / Turntable Art / instinct accidents
1993 Sound & COLLAGE
1992 Visuel COLLAGE / Light
1989 Noise music
1986 Fanzine / Street art
1970 Mulhouse France

Markers Places

The SHOWROOM London / KÖLNER PHILHARMONIE Cologne / Audio Fondation Auckland /
MONA MUSEUM Hobart / BEAUBOURG Paris/ I.C.A London / RHIZ Vienna TONIC NYC / PODEWIL Berlin / INA/GRM / Ircam / Instants Chavirés Montreuil / OLYMPIA Paris / LA BATIE festival Geneve / DARMSTADT I.M.D / HALLES DE SCHAERBEEK Bruxelles / SUPER DELUXE Tokyo / STEIM Amsterdam / LIQUID ARCHITECTURE Festival Sydney / Festival Archipel Geneve / U.H Festival Budapest / NEW CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER Barcelona / REITSCHULE Bern / FONDATION CARTIER Paris / CAVE 12 Geneve / MUDAM Luxembourg / Avatar Quebec / France Culture Radio / France Musique Radio/ WFMU / RSR-Espace2 / Radio Grenouille / BBC Radio 3 ...

Some titles of works (plastics & cd)

Digicode / Acouphène / Mute / Mashup score /Résilience / Itération / Transindividuation / Cause & effect / Zufall / Généresense soustractive / Corrélation / aUTOPORTRAIT sonore / Zygosis / Frame / MonO FaCe MirRor / Sixpériodes / Variations Opportunistes / Steme / ©haos ©lub / Trace cuts / presQue_chic / Lux Payllettes / Stodgy / Transfall / Ecotone / Drum-Machines / Echoplasme...