dj olive + erikm + Toshio Kajiwara + Marina Rosenfeld

"Performer, sculptor, and sound artist Christian Marclay has been experimenting, composing and performing with phonograph records and turntables since 1979. djTRIO is a rotating trio founded by Christian Marclay in 1996 to showcase the talent of some of the world’s best avant-garde turntablists. >>>

eRikm • jérôme noetinger
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Looking at the whole of a filmstrip, one can see the entire, sequential destiny, from start to finish. A media so inexorably linked to time is completely, unabashedly frozen and motionless. In the seemingly impotent filmstrip there is freedom from temporality in a temporal medium – all is subject to alteration, reversals and invisible splices. Music holds no such luxury.>>>

poire_z • d.grüninger • f.quennoz • j.kahn

The videos Home Sweet Home and Enjoy the Ride explore the unsettled relationships between noise, sound and improvisational music, on one hand, and image, sound and the impact of life environment, on the other. >>>

poire_z • y. otomo • sachiko m • c.marclay

That’s "pwar zed," y’all. This is the third release—the first two came on For4Ears and Sonoris—by the excellent electroacoustic improv group (comprising Gunter Müller, Norbert Moslang, Andy Guhl, and eriKm). Here they are joined by special guests Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, and Christian Marclay. >>>

eRikm • charlie o. • akosh s • Q rollet

The Hammond organ has been rarely used in free improvisation settings. Upon listening to MOSQ, one can’t help but wonder why. The fact that the instrument has been identified with smoke-filled jazz clubs, progressive rock, and tasteless muzak provides elements of answers, but if anything this album proves it can bring unique atmospheres to spontaneous music. >>>

g.muller_voicecrack_erikm

Released in 1999 as a wave of electronic-based free improvisation was slowly overtaking the world of avant-garde music, Poire_Z appeared as the first such record by a supergroup of sorts. The duo Voice Crack (Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang), Günter Müller, and Erik M’s proposition was of a highly introspective, slowly building shroud of electronically derived sounds : >>>