ErikM & Pierre Bastien

With one exception, this record is a live recording of a concert performed at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, in March 2024.
It was preceded by three short hours of improvisation over the two previous days, during which ErikM and I carefully observed each other’s playing.
Both of us had brought several cases of equipment—enough, really, to perform multiple concerts without ever repeating ourselves.
Erik had brought his turntables, along with sophisticated electronic devices and a near-infinite sound bank.
As for me, I came with both a mechanical orchestra and a wide range of acoustic instruments.
Over the course of two sessions, we eliminated the superfluous and the ineffective.
On the night of the concert, it was through close listening—of each sound, each direction taken by one or the other, each intention, each break—that we composed this record in real time : vigilant and observant, like the pairs of eyes on the album cover.
Jean Dubuffet used to define his music as something untidy and dirty. But here, it’s a Dubuffet returning from a long trip to Africa, with haunting rhythms that go as far as trance, corrupted by ErikM’s UK-Drill.

Sub Rosa records

« Unpublished » sound objects by Pierre Henry / Reload and original composition by ErikM

The project
Bidule 2.0 is organized in two parts, the first being an acousmatic composition for a minimum of 8 loudspeakers and the second an electronic live performance, two practices that characterize ErikM’s work.
In the acousmatic version, these two approaches will consist solely of unused original sounds by Pierre Henry. In the live electronics version, other unpublished sounds by Pierre Henry will be mixed with ErikM’s sound materials.
Duration
2 X 20 minutes Total : 38.43mn

Sonoris records

Sam & Gaby is a documenteur film made in 2025 and 2026, two free spirits who have lived outside the norm for half a century. Between
Gaby’s cabins and Sam’s house-studio, incredible anecdotes,
family archives, and political reflections emerge. Through their intimate stories, their lively exchanges,
and their silences, the film retraces their atypical journeys, marked by love,
rebellion, and an incessant quest for freedom. A true ode to friendship and the power of
conviction.

Director : ErikM
Director of photography : Mariusz Grygielewicz
T:52mn

MuMaBoX > Home « Movies »
Musée d’art moderne André Malraux - MuMa, le Havres . France
07.01.2026 - 6pm
Projection by ERIKM, HQME
2007 / Mini DV / color / sound / 1E / 7’ 47

Home movie is the English translation for film de famille, meaning amateur film shot within a family setting, made at home. In our program, home should be understood as referring to one’s dwelling place, one’s household, and home movies as representations of this domestic space.
The familiar setting in which daily life unfolds says a lot about its occupants. Furniture, objects, images, the organization of space : everything is a sign and reveals the psyche of those who, day after day, evolve there as if on a playground patiently constructed—or deconstructed. Let’s view this session as a series of visits where we move from one interior to another (in the style of Georges Perec’s Life : A User’s Manual), where the intimate and social lives of the characters (present or absent) will be partially revealed to us.

11.03.2026
Creation : Murmuration
Order A/B Ensemble
Auditori / Barcelona . Span

Murmuration
whose collective and synchronized movements trace ever-changing shapes in the sky, accompanied by a continuous murmur.
This observation both in the air and in the sea, through the dynamics of fish schools feeds a reflection on collective forces oscillating between order, disorder, and chance.
The project extends my calligraphic and sonic practice, where the pictorial gesture meets the electronic one, and where accident, randomness, and granularity become engines of creation.
The work unfolds as an immersive space of superpositions, propagations, and disappearances like a sonic cloud in continuous transformation, moving between structure and accident, the collective and the individual, the organic and the electronic.