Dreaming in the cocoon ::
 from "Come ho imparato a volare" Released on LP, Corvo Records 2010

Dreaming in the cocoon,  from "Come ho imparato a volare" 2010

Solo for voice, microphone, sampler
Recorded live by Matthias Erian, 15th November 2013
New Adits Festival 2013 Klagenfurt (Austria)

Trihisiha, live 2013

ILVA's roar and seagulls on Mar Piccolo's wharf
5:30am Taranto (Italy) not far from the steel plant, recorded in October 2013
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part of the sound installation "Se Dio Vuole" Alessandra Eramo 2014

ILVA's roar and seagulls on Mar Piccolo's wharf, Taranto 2014

Ofeleia, 2014
Vocal composition based on the guttural sounds of the Tarentinian dialect and on words in Ancient Greek.

Part of the sound installation "Se Dio Vuole"
Alessandra Eramo 2014

Ofeleia, sound installation 2014

The vocal piece is inspired by the music of the easter procession, traditionally played by a marching band in Taranto.

Part of the sound installation "Se Dio Vuole" 
Alessandra Eramo 2014


Se Dio Vuole, sound installation 2014

Alessandra Eramo 2014
from 7'' Roars Bangs Booms, released on Corvo Records

Fruscii - from "ROARS BANGS BOOMS", 2015

Scoppi - from "ROARS BANGS BOOMS", 2015

Borbottii - from "ROARS BANGS BOOMS", 2015

Mneme
Composition for voice and field recordings (2014)
5'47''

Text-sound composition I wrote and recorded in May 2014 at ex-industrial areas in Berlin:
- Wiesenstrasse 55 Wedding "Wiesenburg Ruins" former homeless asylum (in 1940 the Metal Foundry of Moabit moved in)
- Corner Volta-/Hussitenstraße Wedding, former "Assemby Plant AEG" (General Electric Society)
- Herzbergstrasse 55 Lichtenberg, former "Margarine Factory Berolina" (founded in 1909)

Focusing on the idea that ex-industrial places can still show ghost-sounds, memory and present melt into each other in a new soundscape through our imagination and personal experience. 

Mneme - text-sound composition, Berlin 2014

Alessandra Eramo | voice, field recordings, theremin, sampler
Seiji Morimoto | objects, feedback systems with vibration speakers


with Seiji Morimoto, 2013-2012

Voice, field recordings, magnetic tapes, theremin

Solo for Voice and Electronics_Alessandra Eramo

Recorded at TU Berlin, Elektronisches Studio

Tomomi Adachi-Alessandra Eramo_Voice Electronics 3

Tomomi Adachi-Alessandra Eramo_Voice Electronics 4

Migratory Echoes: Thessaloniki (2017)
Text-sound composition which was part of the installation exhibited at the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

Migratory Echoes: Thessaloniki, 2017

“Tracing South” to be released in April 2019 on LP on Corvo Records. 
A sonic enchantment where polyphonic singing, repetition, dissonance and overtones are pushing the listener out of the comfort zone. Reflecting on the Mediterranean Sea as a human and spiritual dimension, but now also as a vast and silent migrant cemetery, Eramo's work oscillates between the caress of tender melodies and the brutal energy of noise eruptions.
Kindly supported by Musikfonds. Promotion of Contemporary Music. German Ministry of Culture and
Media.

TRACING SOUTH

My favourite A train_from TRACING SOUTH (Corvo Records 2019)

“Tracing South” to be released in April 2019 on LP on Corvo Records. 
A sonic enchantment where polyphonic singing, repetition, dissonance and overtones are pushing the listener out of the comfort zone. Reflecting on the Mediterranean Sea as a human and spiritual dimension, but now also as a vast and silent migrant cemetery, Eramo's work oscillates between the caress of tender melodies and the brutal energy of noise eruptions.
Kindly supported by Musikfonds. Promotion of Contemporary Music. German Ministry of Culture and Media.

Primitive bird_ from TRACING SOUTH (Corvo Records 2019)

Vacio_from TRACING SOUTH (Corvo Records 2019)

Singing in the night of the resurrection :: from "Come ho imparato a volare" released on LP, Corvo Records Berlin 2010

"I made these recordings during the rites of the eastern procession in the South Italian town Castellaneta (Taranto), where my father was born; in particular I used the women's choir (Coro delle Pie) that harrowing sings  the life and death of Christ. The women's choir in fact enbody the special role of link between audience and procession, which is since always performed only by male actors. The spirit of such a “street-theatre” is in the meantime sacral and profane, a theatre that aims to represent and exorcize the fear of the corporal death." Alessandra Eramo, from "Come ho imparato a volare"

Singing in the night of the resurrection, from "Come ho imparato a volare" 2010

Heute bin ich Asche :

Live at Quiet Cue Berlin, 2012
Released on "VOIX BRUTES", Audition Records, May 2014

Heute bin ich Asche, 2012

DUOFORUS - Irena Tomazin & Alessandra Eramo (2020)
Live at Kino Siska Ljubljana
Recorded by Brane Zorman/CONA 
29 January 2020

DUOFORUS - Irena Tomazin & Alessandra Eramo Live in Ljubljana

TANZ SEDIMENT (excerpt)
2019-2020 
commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Klangkunst Program 2020 as radiophonic work

Taking inspiration from Tarantella music and dance, in her new work "Tanz Sediment" Alessandra Eramo explores the freedom that resists in the female voice by creating a trance music ritual, evoking sonic memories like a river sediment. She traces the wild, natural and vulnerable voice, which is not only an instrument, but it is an archaic sonic territory to be disclosed in the modern human body.

An hypnotic sound collage that includes extended solo voice, female choir and glossolalia, a traditional Apulian female work song, frame drum, the text in ancient Greek from the Euripides tragedy “The Bacchantes”, field recordings at a wild park and former deserted industrial area in Berlin.

Originally commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Klangkunst Program 2020 as radiophonic work, Tanz Sediment recently materialised as a multimedia installation presented at Savvy Contemporary in the group exhibition “Ultrasanity” in Berlin from 14th December 2019 to 26th January 2020.

CREDITS:

Composition, Voice and Electronics: Alessandra Eramo
Frame Drum: Antonino Secchia
Voice in ancient Greek: Eirini Fountedaki
Choir: Inma Bernlis, Alessandra Eramo, Ianni Luna, Morena Miceli, Sonia Noya

Tanz Sediment_excerpt

ALESSANDRA ERAMO is a sound artist, vocalist, composer based in Berlin.
more info:
www.ezramo.com

Alessandra Eramo

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