Electronic musician, sound designer and experimental artist.
Deep expert of music and b-movies, dj preparation, cyber-technologist and cultural activist since the 80ies. His principal interest is the relationship between Music and Technology. His work as sound designer is at the base of projects where vintage, modern electronics and sound engineering became the ideal match to experiment new sounds both in pop field as in experimentation field.
The project Transistors is the better example of the mix of these musical experiences. He is the founder member of The Transistors as composer, arranger and he plays keyboards, electronics and theremins. As journalist he had the honor to interview Bob Moog, Dick Hyman, Kraftwerk and other icons of experimenters in music art field.
Now with Timeless Sonic Factory, ErMan explores new territories with his electronic style helped by many artists as Steve Piccolo (USA), Byron Werner (USA), Donavan Suitt (USA), Margoo (Italy, UK), Alex De Martino (Italy, Funkallisto drummer), Stefano Micarelli (Italy), Giorgio Li Calzi (Italy), Matteo Casilli (Italy) and many others will come!
.ErMan's projects
ErMan is the Founder of: .TIMELESS SONIC FACTORY - music-art project. Timeless Sonic Factory is a music-art project where ErMan translates his artistic influences in music.
.THE TRANSISTORS - the best space age pop band of the planet Earth!
.SWITCHED ON BOB - A Tribute to BOB MOOG - a music project with over 20 artists from all over the world dedicated to Bob Moog. Developed with the collaboration of Bellacasa Music (London) and Cherry Red Records (London)
Member of: RURAL WAR ROOM cyberband conducted by two experimental artist/musicians: Donavan Suitt & Byron Werner
Influences
| HARUKI MURAKAMI |
.Tokyo Blues [*]
.Dance dance dance
.All God's Children Can Dance
[*] featuring Giorgio Li Calzi
Tokyo. Stories about urban and youth love stories narrated by Murakami with a jazz feeling. A magical writing with a unique dreamlike transformation of reality trying to decipher forbidden and sorrowful love stories.
Stories re-interpreted by the theremin and explored with a jazz intimacy.
| ITALO CALVINO |
.Cities and desire
.Cities and eyes
.Continuous cities
Continuous cities with never ending borders, cities for eyes able to see invisible stories, cities of desire able to irradiate colors in your mind.
A Philip Glass approach to the art of repetition, minimal music and technology supporting an oneiric trip into the most important hypertext of the XX° century.
| PAUL GAUGUIN |
.Noa Noa
.And the Gold of their Bodies
.The Moon and the Earth [**]
[**] featuring Stefano Micarelli
Tahiti. After reading of Noa Noa by P. Gauguin, it starts the idea to play a virtual path of “exotica” music (so dear to 1950's artists as the thereminist Samuel Hoffman) inspired by the feelings of Paul Gauguin paintings.
The nights of Tahiti, the sparkling colours of the Polynesian Isles, the Maori women narrated by the theremin with jazz exoticism.
Tangier. Morocco. Burroughs' Naked Lunch was written in Tangier.
Naked Theremin draws a lunar landscape without gravity on which flows the Dr. Benway's storyline.
A music path without gravity: obscure, electric and jazz like some Burroughs' cut-ups.
Sounds Like
.Timeless Sonic Factory is born at the Transistors lab, the atelier of the ideas of ErMan and his memorable band The Transistors.
Unusual music instruments, music-toys and technology for experimenting new music ways.
.Etherwave® Pro Theremin [Moog Music]
Professional Theremin of the Etherwave series by Moog Music.
The invisible waves of this instrument brings artist and spectator together in a level of perception really impalpable but tangible.
.Tenori-On [Yamaha].
Created by the media artist Toshio Iwai, Yamaha defines Tenori-ON as “the new digital musical instrument for the 21st century”. A 16x16 matrix of LED switches allows the artists to play music intuitively, creating a "visible music" interface. A completely new concept of playing and composing music in a portable device.
.Music Toys The Casio-Tone [mini-keyboard and calculator from 1980's], the Stylophone [the first little monophonic synth from 1960's; well-known because it was played on Space Oddity by David Bowie] are only two among many music toys revaluate today because of their high level of technology that they have.
And finally, the Korg DS-10, a micro-synth on Nintendo DS platform with all the original sound of Korg MS-10 (1975). A real micro-synth, not a game.
.Virtual instruments [laptop music]
They are the ideal type of music instruments for modern artists.
A whole electronic instrumentation in a box that travels with the musician/producer. The perfect instrument for sound designers.
| Discography |
Theremin the way I feel
Released 1st September 2009
FunkyJuice Records (IT)
[album] out now!
The Flaming Yawn CD
Released 23rd July 2009
Rural War Room Records [USA]
[featuring T.S.F.]
[album]
Switched on BOB - A Tribute to Bob Moog
Released 9th February 2009
Bellacasa Music / Cherry Red Records [UK]
[compilation & curator]
Rural War Room EP
Released 7th September 2006
Rural War Room Records [USA]
[ep - remixes]
Luca Faggella dal vivo
Released 1st October 2006
DDF Teatrosonoro [IT]
[special guest]
Watch the new Video from the Little Rock sound-collage group, RURAL WAR ROOM! - Rural War Room EP (2007 First Strike). "TSF Supersonic Remix" is a collaboration of Timeless Sonic Factory with RWR (Byron Werner and Donavan Suitt) - remixed by ErMan @ Transistors Lab, Rome - may 2007. Enjoy this weird and unbelievable stuff!
“Theremin, the way I feel” arises from an idea of the Italian musician ErMan to experiment the Theremin musical forms according to the structural aspects of contemporary music.
ErMan is among the prime movers in Italy to revaluate the Theremin since 1999. The Theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is a music instrument really unique, because, as in a soft Tai Chi dance, it is played by moving the hands in the air, around an invisible and, therefore, magic sound spectrum.
The Theremin takes its name from its Russian inventor, Professor Lev Sergeevic Termen, who patented the device in 1928. Today Moog Music manufactures performance-quality theremins.
The instrument found great success in many sci-fi and horror B-Movies especially during the early 1950's because of its tremolo and vibrato sound. It is a “cult” electronic instrument and popular among avant-garde artists because of its stage presence really unique and esoteric.
On “Theremin, the way I feel” ErMan paints musically a narrative path, drawn on his reading of Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. The conceptual idea is to transfigure the narrative works of some ErMan's favourite artists in a musical form, as it was for “Pictures At An Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgskij inspired by paintings and drawings by Viktor Hartmann.
Therefore, “Theremin, the way I feel” represents a musical synthesis dedicated to some great works of Haruki Murakami, Italo Calvino, Paul Gauguin and William S. Burroughs.
The works chosen by ErMan for this recording are able to arouse a “meta-narrative” musical path in the listener.
Jazz, improvisation, exotica, avant-garde, contemporary music, minimal music's loops are various types of sound research that carry the listener away in a unique flow, so esoteric and so impalpable, like only the Theremin music is able to create.
“Theremin, the way I feel” is a unique work with style. A music trip into the writing form following a jazz, modern and contemporary feel.
.Steve Piccolo [musician - New York, USA] _
One of the best musicians from the avant-garde New York no-wave jazz scene of the 1980's. He founded the group The Lounge Lizards together with John and Evan Lurie, Arto Lindsay and Tony Fier. A long career with many albums. Today, he teaches “Sound Design” courses at Accademica Carrara (Bergamo, Italy) and he performs as a performance and sound artist on many multimedia events in Europe and USA.
.Giorgio Li Calzi [trumpet player – Turin, Italy] _
One of the best Italian jazz talents. His discovery of the trumpet coincided with meeting Enrico Rava, his teacher during the early '90s, who convinced Giorgio to become trumpet player. In 1990, Li Calzi won in Roma the award for the best European composer at the Competition for Young Jazz Talents (RAI/Ives St. Laurent). Today he is a music producer and he composes also music for cinema, theatre, dance and advertising.
.Stefano Micarelli [electric guitar player – Rome, Italy] _
Well-known guitar player and music producer. A career with many albums and collaborations with Italian jazzmen (Massimo Urbani, Valter Martino, Massimo Manzi, etc…) and American artists (Mike Mainieri, George Garzone, Benny Maupin, Harvie Swartz and Eddie Henderson, etc...). He collaborates with book publishers as Arcana and monthly magazines as Chitarre. He teaches guitar didactics.
.Matteo Casilli [photographer – Rome, Italy] _
A great photographer and a friend. He is really passionate in all of photography aspects. Matteo is the author of all the photos for the cover album "Theremin, the way I feel".
I don't spend much time on myspace anymore due lack of time and having my official website now. Its been very long time since I visited. But, I did just now and listened to your beautifull work. Really , beautiful, interesting and different. Hope things are going the way you want it.
I admire your work very much. There can be never too much of inspiration and originality in the times we live. Still listening...Your music has a very unique force.
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