ErikM & Ensemble Dedalus

CD edition at Relative Pitch Records
17 Feb 2023

LIFE EXTRAORDINARY TRANSPOSED TO INSTRUMENTS
The project consists in making audible all the spectra of sound, including those outside the field of human auditory perception, and then transposing them into notes in order to produce scores. The musicians will be immersed in the listening experience via headphones, in order to paraphrase (biomimicry) other sounds of cetaceans or bats. The circulation of original sound materials to the instrumental ensemble creates contamination between the performers, producing a « Fata Morgana » metaphorical effect.
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Erikm : composition & electronics / field recording
Ensemble Dedalus is
Didier Aschour : guitar / Amélie Berson : flute
Thierry Madiot : trombone / Christian Pruvost : trumpet
Silvia Tarozzi : violin / Deborah Walker : cello

Herve Glotin Lsis Umr Cnrs : data
Maxence Mercier : video animation
Stephane Cousot . Virgile Abela . Camille Lesez : RIM developer
Mastering : Giuseppe Ielasi

Sound All pieces
Video > MuseInsitu Out of residence fab 2021 > 3 pièces

Hanatsu Miroir
Ayako Okubo : Double bass flute
Olivier Maurel : Percussion
Erikm : Live electronics, Composition 2019

I met HANATSUmiroir during my collaboration with the Percussions de
Strasbourg on Drum‐Machines in 2016. We decided with Ayako Okubo and
Olivier Maurel to explore the peculiar aspect of my work wich consist in
unbuilding and rebuilding the sound priorities of an ensemble.

This project is about amplified contrabass flute, percussions, sound
objects, electromagnetic lutherie, amplified electric streams, all going into my
idiosyncratic device.

We created Echoplasme during a long‐residency period, which allowed
us to apply a dynamic composition process : the instruments have transmitted
a corpus of instrumental and sound materials that I can organize differently in
their tessiture and time. This hybrid composition process looks more like an
on‐stage writing compared to a classical writing process which would be said
‘on the table’ in my case ‘on the mixing device’. I felt it was very pertinent for
me as a composer and a free improviser, to transpose my music in an
instrument‐augmented version. From this working process was born a more
free and complete musical relation between the composer and the interpret,
resonating with our time.
Erikm 2019

Echoplasme online

Book of ink collection + CD
Edition : Bisou-records fall 2022
Distribution : Les Presses du Reel

Particules
Morphogenesis of being
Ensemble Phoenix Basel
ErikM 2017

Watch the videoscore here
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Particules is a mixed media work for two ensembles and electronics. It is based on a video score inspired by a panoramic photograph taken in the Camargue during the winter of 2016.

The project explores the morphogenic interpretation of graphic objects scrolling through a video score. Each instrument’s specific tessitura is associated with a color that musicians interpret. The orchestral setup features a mirrored structure, with one ensemble acting as a slightly distorted reflection of the other, as if mirrored in water.
The piece is conceived using a process of crosstalk : one of the ensembles begins the performance with a one-second delay, creating an interplay between the two groups.

The inspiration for this asymmetrical setup and orchestral performance came during a birdwatching session. While hiding in the reeds, I observed the reflection of semi-submerged plants on the water’s surface. These reflections created geometric shapes and intricate movements. The superimposition of the plants’ static upper portions above the water with their iridescent, shifting reflections formed an interconnected system, resembling a quantum state of entanglement—where each part depends on the other in a given moment.

This quantum relationship is transposed into the musical performance. Two instrumental ensembles play the same score, creating timbral polarizations, or Klangfarbenmelodie. The shapes of the plants above the water, along with their altered reflections, are translated into musical interpretations of tempo, pitch, and intensity. These are performed simultaneously in two physically distinct spaces, with each ensemble representing one aspect of the mirrored system.

The two ensembles must be equal in size and string sections, though the piece is adaptable and can be performed by heterogeneous ensembles or groups. Audience members are encouraged to sit between the two ensembles, enhancing their immersive experience of the performance.

Particules premiered on June 11, 2017, commissioned by the Ensemble Phoenix Basel. The first recording to accompany the video score was created by superimposing two performances of the same ensemble in the same space, recorded 24 hours apart.
Erikm, 2017

Particules est une œuvre mixte pour deux ensembles instrumentaux et électronique. Elle s’appuie sur une partition vidéo inspirée d’une photographie panoramique prise en Camargue durant l’hiver 2016.
Le projet explore une interprétation morphogénique d’objets graphiques défilant sur une partition vidéo. La tessiture spécifique de chaque instrument est associée à une couleur que les musiciens doivent interpréter. La disposition orchestrale repose sur un système en miroir, où un ensemble agit comme un reflet légèrement déformé de l’autre, à l’image d’un reflet sur l’eau.


La pièce est construite autour d’un processus de diaphonie : l’un des deux ensembles commence la performance avec un décalage d’une seconde. L’idée de cette configuration asymétrique m’est venue lors d’une séance d’observation d’oiseaux. Caché dans les roseaux, j’ai observé les reflets de plantes partiellement immergées à la surface de l’eau. Ces reflets formaient des formes géométriques et des mouvements complexes. La superposition des états de ces plantes, entre leur partie supérieure statique au-dessus de l’eau et leur reflet irisé et mouvant à la surface, créait un système interconnecté. Ce phénomène évoquait un idée d’intrication, où chaque élément dépend de l’autre à un instant donné.
Cette relation est transposée dans la performance musicale. Les deux ensembles interprètent la même partition, créant des polarités timbrales, ou Klangfarbenmelodie chaque ensemble représentant un aspect de ce système en miroir.
Les deux ensembles doivent être équivalents en taille et en sections de cordes, bien que la pièce reste ouverte et puisse être interprétée par des groupes ou ensembles hétérogènes. Les spectateurs sont invités à s’asseoir entre les deux ensembles, renforçant l’expérience immersive de la performance.
Particules a été créée le 11 juin 2017 dans le cadre d’une commande de l’Ensemble Phoenix Basel.
Le premier enregistrement accompagnant la partition vidéo est une superposition de deux performances du même ensemble, enregistrées dans le même espace à 24 heures d’intervalle.
Erikm, 2017


A la tombée des flamants
En équilibre sur une patte
Le mistral souffle au sein des salins
Pris en étau par les glaces
Au bout de leur sommeil paradoxal
Je voie sous un ciel d’acier
S’effondrer leur pigment vertical

Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Erikm > Electronics

Throughout the ages and their various uses, survival tools (rhombus wind instruments, flute-calls, etc.) have become musical instruments. In the context of this work, these vectors of affects co-exist side-by-side with an electro-acoustic system.

 This machine cannibalizes its own sound production while simultaneously thriving on sounds produced by the musicians. 
From this agora spring forth "multitimbral" landscapes whose edges dissolve into microtonal steppes, devoid of human action.

From liminal pulsation to decimal infinity, the physicality of the sound summons an allegory to geology, from the infra thin (l’émoi - volute) to the supra massive (embâcle - doline).

 Drum-Machines consists of subconscious and collective archaic fields
that reach all the way to the noise aberration of the contemporary world. The 21st century begins in its great collapse, the imbalances and the disruptions of the sound masses deployed by organisms in movement (percussionists) compress time and sounds until their paroxysms.

This work is the elaboration of a lengthy sifting approach in which process creates form through a dynamic composition. This process uses accumulation, manipulation and re-arrangement across several generations of sound data. The original intention is modified and transformed.

Drum-Machines is polymorphic in it’s arrangement, suspended on a line of time and actions.
Erikm 2016

Video online
CD & Double LP 2018
Edition : Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Distribution : Corticalart

Sound, Memory and Flesh

DVD Edition .
Image générative & Music by eRikm
with L’ensemble Laborintus
Time : 21.54 mn / 2009

Austral is a mixed work (electronic and video) for ensemble, originally composed for Laborintus (contemporary ensemble). This creation was previously imagined in its origins to be re-interpreted by other musical aesthetics.
Austral is a pretext, a vector. My main interest is to deal directly with the sounds, music, and ‘noises’ produced by musicians : the specific archetypes of their own training (amateur or professional). This piece calls for an individual memory, as well as a collective memory...

Video extract

Bandcamp

Potsdamer-platz-Score
Vorschlag einer partitur
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For the Positionen revue
ErikM 2000