Stème, by eRikm

Stème

by eRikm

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2.	Ressac 04:38	buy track
3.	Frag 02:18	buy track
4.	Puff 01:55	buy track
5.	Game 02:11	buy track
6.	Leak 02:35	buy track
7.	White Out 21:38	buy track
8.	Organic 05:04	buy track

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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.

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released December 3, 2008

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