Video installation, Quadris-phonie
From a picture of him taken on the Web, eRikm shatters himself to be reincarnated into time and space decentered zones. The original picture, sifted through the ASCII code (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), turns into a series of numbers. Read by a digital voice, it turns into a sound poem spread from the center of the acoustic space. Then injected in a Doppler, the series is randomly read again, and finally resets the original (…)
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aUTOPORTRAIT
6 janvier 2007, par erikm -
“Y” +/- audible
17 avril 2001, par erikmLoudspeaker. Amplifier. Steel tube. Parametric equaliser. Ground element : 130,5 cm High element : adaptable to the space
Sound in itself having rarely been worked on in the field of design, the idea was to construct an object that might be included in our daily space, our "home sweet home", as for instance halogen floor-lamps transformed the nocturnal atmosphere of our homes in the mid-eighties.
The device is the following : two loudspeakers, mounted on tubes, like halogen (…) -
Simulacres set
3 décembre 2009, par erikmvideo installation ∞ 2009 Concept : eRikm Extract 30 seconds commissioned by les instants video
video 1 : FRAGS / video 2 : HOPIS / video 3 : PARTS video 1 : RED / video 2 : GREEN / video 3 : BLUE 1 sign shop
"Simulacres Série" consists in accumulating moving light and layering sounds, music, and sounds, sometimes simultaneously.
Each of the 3 videos - "FRAGS", "HOPIS", "PARTS" - takes up an original movie : 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (M. Haneke, 1995), Koyaanisqatsi : (…) -
L’Aitre Blanche
10 novembre 2008, par erikmAcousmatic & light installation 10 PVC tubes, 10 HP, 10 fluorescent tubes
Aître Blanche is done in October 2008 at the Aître Saint Maclou* (Rouen, France). Nowadays, art school of the town, the Aître Saint Maclou has been a mass grave for the plague that happened in the 12th and 16th centuries. And boneyards are still laying under its floor.
Aître Blanche is a night installation consisting of 10 black PVC sculptures (tubes) 15cmx500cm high, each equipped with a loudspeaker and a (…) -
Amygdale
6 janvier 2010, par erikmBoxing Helmet, sensors, electronic device
Inserted into fighting helmets, eye sockets connected to electronic sensors broadcast a high pressure acoustic frequency. The system is inspired by a new type of despotic weapon conceived to maintain order : reference to the acoustic bombers used during war time to upset nerves, to the hyper-frequency device that causes trouble and sickness used by the G-20 to prevent insurrection, or to the “Beethoven”, those ultrasounds audible only by (…) -
Border
6 janvier 2010, par erikmInstallation, cut and print cardboard, steel frame, variable dimensions
The area of technical reproducibility opens a way to a sacralised relation to the art piece and its mass consumption. Disincarnation of an alleged original “aura” of the “master-work” in the industrial serialisation of its artefacts. Here, puzzles of master pieces are broken up to their very pieces, and lined up according to the reading order and reset on empty metallic frames. Stocking of fragmentary data of a (…) -
TunnelMuziek
3 octobre 2008, par erikmSound installation music & Light Commission by Happy New Ears Festival Kortrijk . Belgium
The first time I entered this tunnel intending to create 2 sound pieces, almost immediatly, Hieronymus Bosch’s
painting came to my mind, mostly with the second panel of his series « visions of after life », Ascent of the blessed.
At this very moment, a car passed by with extremely loud speakers and made the space resound with heroic Metal music.
The Metal music and its related social and (…) -
Écran Total
6 janvier 2010, par erikmInstallation, Wood frame, striped canvas, variable dimensions
In between low and high tech, the art piece puts up a screen to eRikm’s moving and transversal languages. Canvas, frame, industrial colours and formal abstractions refer to a certain history of art which surfaces, as if medium and materials have been re-digested. Wefts, streaks and stretched pixels replay the graphic resolutions set on analogical editing tables/ mixing desk. In this chromatic and graphic familiar environment, (…) -
Garden amplify
18 avril 2002, par erikmglass bell . microphones . Flies. Natural audioscape on a audio system by Pierre Berthet
exhibition 2002
Limeligth Kortrijk . Belgium -
Borne
13 novembre 2018, par erikmBorne - Milestone code sacré - Sacred Code Sound installation, ceramics and sound system 33 x 12 x 10.5 cm.
There are a lot of photos and film footage left over from World War I. In terms of sound, though, there is only one film that recorded a measure of the sound vibrations on Armistice Day. That representation of sound shows all the magnitude of the sound of the artillery on the Western Front in Moselle. It preserves the sound of one minute before and one minute after the Armistice on (…)