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Fluidian

Fluidian (Emil Gherasim, b. 1973) composer, musician, sound artist. His work includes electroacoustic and electronic art music, chamber music, film and theatre music, sound illustrations for contemporary dance and visual performances, minimalist textural music, sound paintings and ambient soundscapes.

His music is very personal and deeply meditative, with huge visual emotions, combining minimalist sound textures with a specific manner of improvisation. Due to his playing techniques like wind-guitar (blowing across the strings) or bowed-guitar (using a violin bow), manipulated with electronics and using his own minimalistic textural concept, his music transforms into a contemplative, floating sound journey.
Initially self-taught, he studied and graduated in music composition, mentored by award-winning composer Ede Terényi, at The National Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Fluidian is best known for his solo performances, but has also been collaborate with artists like Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, Tibor Szemző, László Gőz, Ede Terényi, Petre Ionuțescu, Paul Taylor, Sándor Szabó, Roland Heidrich and many more.
In addition, he composes original music for theater plays, dance performances, films and new textural electronic art music for different sound ensembles.

Among his collaborative projects from the last years could be highlighted the "Windscapes" album featuring Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, the "Opaque Lights" album created in collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, the "Pendular Emotions" album with Romanian trumpeter Petre Ionuțescu, a soundtrack co-written with Arve Henriksen for Anastasia Isachsen's audio-visual light art installation "Perspective" premiered at Fjord Oslo Light Art Festival, Norway and the "Clouds of Wonder" album with Hungarian guitarist Roland Heidrich.

Gear

guitar, piano and electronics

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About "Opaque Lights" album:

"...its stately pace, often ominous soundscapes, and sonic ingenuity conjuring up a wealth of cloudy, opaque visions...often dreamy, allowing the listener to indulge their thoughts and let their imaginations run wild."
- Simon Adams - Jazz Journal, UK -

"Mysterious and foggy like an autumnal walk through empty night streets in some unknown city."
- Jarek Fidala, listener -

"Ambiguous and open to the unknown, Opaque Lights gradually unfolds through Fluidian’s profound, intense vision and Arve Henriksen’s familiar calligraphy of sound."
- Cristina Frunză - pendul.art -

"Opaque Lights is an album of thoughts and musings / reflection and contemplation. ...it is a kind of 'musical painting' that is becoming, or could become, a style and a creative concept in a wider sense."
- Ferenc Sinkovics - jazz.hu -

"Amazingly beautiful, captivating, impressive."
- László Gőz, Budapest Music Center (BMC) -

About "Windscapes" album: