As ::Ball’s Pyramid::, ErikM & Gaudenz Badrutt situate their work within the field of ‘digital concrète’,
carrying forward the legacy of musique concrète within contemporary technologies.
Their practice does not regard digital tools as mere interfaces, but as
the very substance of sound: flows, fragments, accidents, residues and instabilities become the
constituent elements of their real-time composition.
Through instant sampling, the repurposing of electronic systems and
electroacoustic improvisation, they sculpt the signal as if it were a tangible substance.
The ‘digital concrète’ approach they develop is based on a material understanding of the digital realm:
sound is manipulated, fractured, recomposed and laid bare in all its granularity and fragility.
Together, they construct a tense and fluid listening space, where digital streams
take on a tangible density.
Their non-hierarchical dialogue gives rise to an
unstable, living soundscape, suspended between emergence and disappearance.
