Symphonie d’une grande ville (1927) by Walther Rottmann
Creation May 2023
Paris Music Festival
Musée des Arts et Métiers Paris . France

Ciné concert with music by Erikm with some sounds (19’) by Pierre Henry, to images from Walther Ruttmann’s German silent film "Berlin symphonie d’une grande ville".

24.01.18 à 20h
Le Louvre - Auditorium
Tribute to Pierre Henry - The composer and the image
Le Candidat by Gérald Belkin, 1966, 22 min, music by eRikm,
restored version 2017
Evening presented by Philippe Langlois, musicologist at the Louvre

Festival futuro presente Rovereto . italy
duration : 40 mn

Photographed by franck Hurley
music score : Erikm was perform according to the film ’south’

In December 1914, Shackleton set sail with his 27-man crew, many of
whom, it is said, had responded to the following recruitment notice : "Men
wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of
complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and
recognition in case of success. -Ernest Shackleton."

this restored version of the film has been construted by the national film
and television archive from a wide range of materials.
the NFTVA has applied its own tinting and toning to match the original prints,
and has produced this handsome and richly coloured testament to a remarkable
episode in the history of exploration

music score : eRikm
film action : Gaelle Rouart & Etienne Caire
Centre Pompidou Paris . France
tour in EU & UK

HyperScope is a new project from Levox - squeezing fresh filmic juice from all those discarded cinematic lemons. Expertly exploiting elaborate optical techniques and sharp, encyclopedic musical juxtapositions, both filmmakers and musician playfully corral the whole gamut of dramatic cinema’s legacy ; it’s stereotypes, its sentimental pronouncements, its fatal dénouements ; reconstituted and reworked by hand, coloured, cropped, re-shot and re-printed ; soundtracks layered, slowed, sped up and reformed.

Gaelle Rouard and Etienne Caire extract HyperScope’s imagery from what seems like hundreds of different films - overlaid, combined and contrasted in a rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, and with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows or midnight bird-song. In a flow of colours and dramatic intrigue the unknown sits next to the known, and perhaps draws some strange new meaning from it.

Meanwhile eriKm brings his patent-pending, made-in -France broken-punk take on Musique Concrète, derived from an approach to turntables that seems just, you know : beyond. As with the filmmakers, the sound is culled and ripped from film soundtracks ; reworked, and layered into half-rhythms of inchoate screams and slammed car doors marking out time. In the end, its this new soundtrack that grips the rudder while light and chemical swirl about in an organic, polymorphing maelstrom.

All in all, a dizzying and intense experience, full of compressed narratives and real drama.

Centre Pompidou Paris - France
duration : 52 mn

French film directed by René Clair in 1923
music score : erikm

« David » fenech + Manu Holterbach – Llog
LLOG is a duet with David Fenech + Manu Holterbach. Both played prepared electric guitars. LLOG then became a quartet with Agnes Perroud on bass, and Etienne Caire on super 8 movie projection. Llog performed with ErikM at 102 Grenoble France & International Symposium of Shadows in
London, England in 1996.

Release tape 1996
Label : Drones and visual humming

Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927)
Live performing by Barney Gumble at Electropolis museum in Mulhouse France (1994).
It’s Erikm’s first solo performance "as part of the Barney Gumble duo" on turntables.
Barney Gumble is Remy Bux & David Grunenwald.