Erikm

eRikm is a musician and a French visual artist born in Mulhouse in 1970.

Since 1992, eRikm has extended the field of artistic experimentation on the international scene.

Maintaining a constant fusion between thought, instinct and sensitivity, he pursues a simultaneity of practices and addresses the interplay between various compositional modes, relating to and using all languages.

From his early experience as a guitarist through to his later visual work, he is a maverick genre-bender who breaks down anyone's attempts to conveniently classify him.

Quickly recognised as a virtuoso turntablist and sound artist (1996), eRikm has made a longlife habit of crossing all territories and « world-systems » deemed "independent", "institutional".

At the same time (1997), he has developed an open and aspirational approach toward the technological media, both as a means of development for a new economic model and as an instrument for creation, production and diffusion.

He deals with sounds like living organisms, constantly in flux, always open to the risk of accident or delight/unisson. As he plays with all these contradictions in his improvisations, his performance reaches new heights of intensity, trading off both understanding and sensation, seriousness and farce, anticipation and instinct.

His work references both the intimate and political, both popular and high culture, but without demonstration. Rather he creates a short-circuit connection between points with his live generated (and degenerated) material – from noise to reference – presenting multiple ways to capture each moment of the present in clear focus.

Throughout his career, collaborations have naturally occurred with his audiences and contemporaries, most notably : Luc Ferrari, Christian Marclay, Akosh S, Mathilde Monnier, Bernard Stiegler, Fm Einheit The kind of coincidences which have confirmed his instinctive search for transmutation, and to play on several levels.

Since 1997, on his own or with collaborators, eRikm has toured (with 5-7 on-tour projects to date), or created by request specific pieces, both transversal or for fixed spaces (record labels, radio, festivals, art centres…)

In the meanwhile, each time building on what has emerged before, the most personal fragments from his work (notably from his early artworks in photography, drawings, visual installations and video) continue to substantiate a singular kaleidoscopic vision.

Ultimately, eRikm's research resonates through all of his work, bordering scientific discovery and a poetic curiosity of the world.

eRikm is a Marseille based artist (Friche Belle de Mai)

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1970 Mulhouse France1986 Fanzine / Street art1989 Musique Noise 1992 COLLAGE VISUEL / Lumières 1993 Musique COLLAGE 1994 ERIK M. / Art des PLATINES / instinct accidents 1995 Musiques ELECTRONIQUES & CONCRÈTES COMPOSITIONS / Kill the thrill / CHRISTIAN MARCLAY1996 TOM CORA / OTOMO YOSHIHIDE1997 Biennale des jeunes Créateurs Turin1998 MICHEL DONEDA / POIRE_Z 1999 CD ZYGOSIS / CD FRAME / Performance & Pour la DANSE / www.erikm.com2000 eRikm2001 MATHILDE MONNIER / PIÈCES MULTIMÉDIUM & PLASTIQUES 2002 DEROUTES / Jean Luc -Nancy / Alliterations2003 CD What a wonderful world / LUC FERRARI / Staccato . Palais de Tokyo2004 CD Archives Sauvées des Eaux / Christian Fennesz / Dieb13 / François-Michel Pesenti 2005 Festival d’Avignon / Frere & Sœur / Alvin Curran2006 CD SIXPERIODES / Ensemble inter Comptemporain2007 CD VARIATIONS OPPORTUNISTES / Marseille FRICHE /All in all Pierre Droulers2008 CD STEME / BERNARD STIEGLER / FM Einheit

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Markers Places

INSTANTS CHAVIRÉS Montreuil / OLYMPIA Paris / KÖLNER PHILHARMONIE Cologne / MUSIQUE ACTION Nancy / BEAUBOURG Paris/ I.C.A London / RHIZ Vienna / TONIC NYC / PODEWIL Berlin / LA BATIE festival Geneve / DARMSTADT I.M.D / HALLES DE SCHAERBEEK Bruxelles / SUPER DELUXE Tokyo / STEIM Amsterdam / LIQUID ARCHITECTURE Festival Sydney / U.H Festival Budapest / NEW CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER Barcelona / REITSCHULE Bern / FONDATION CARTIER Paris / CAVE 12 Geneve / MUDAM Luxembourg

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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

Main works

*Steme . 2008 ©2003 . Room 40
*Variations Opportunistes . 2007 . Label Ronda
*Sixperiodes . 2006 . Sirr records
*Archives Sauvées des Eaux . 2004 avec Luc Ferrari . Angle Records
*Poire_z + Phil Minton Q . 2004 avec Voice crack, Günter Müller . For4ears records
*What a wonderful world . 2003 avec Jérôme Noetinger . Erstwhile Records
*MonO FaCe MirRor . 2001 . Sonoris
*Frame . 1999 . Metamkine
*Zygosis . 1999 . Sonoris

External links

* [http://www.erikm.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.erikm.com/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=9/ Text edited in "Frog magazine n°4", automne/hiver 2006 (French)]