ERIKM (FR) & PETR VRBA (CZ) | concert

ConcertCella Gallery and Hovorny, Opava

9. 10. 2025
19:00
Cella Gallery, Opava

Erik and Petr first met in Canada in the fall of 2021. Since then, they have performed at several festivals in the Czech Republic and France and recorded the album L’horizon des événements, released in May 2023 by the Canadian label Tour de bras. In this duo, sound itself serves as a true platform for communication.

ErikM is a French composer, electronic musician, and visual artist. His work draws on intimate, political, as well as both popular and high culture. He approaches sounds as living organisms—always in motion, always open to the risks of chance or pleasure. In his improvisations, as he plays with all these opposites, his performances reach new heights of intensity, alternating between understanding and sensation, seriousness and farce, expectation and instinct. Among his notable collaborators are Luc Ferrari, Christian Marclay, Mathilde Monnier, FM Einheit, and Otomo Yoshihide. https://www.erikm.com/

Petr Vrba is one of the key figures of Czech experimental music and an tireless advocate of free improvisation. He plays trumpet, clarinets, synthesizers, and other electronic instruments. As a trumpeter, Vrba explores the integration of the trumpet into new contexts and the creation of new contexts by other means—both acoustic and electronic. In doing so, he demonstrates remarkable inventiveness driven by a fascination with the acoustic experience. https://vrrrba.cz/