Eric La Casa
Eric La Casa works with microphones the way other people work with a camera: he puts them where something is already happening and lets the place do the composing. Born in France in 1968, he has spent three decades recording building sites, stairwells, fields, ventilation shafts and the public spaces of Paris, often returning to the same spot for months. Much of his work is made in duo, above all with the percussionist Seijiro Murayama, where field recording and played sound are treated as the same material. His records come out on his own Swarming, on Erstwhile and on Herbal International.
Magnetic Traces : A Survey Of French And Australian Sound Art
2009 release ** A broad survey of 14 recent pieces curated by Eric la Casa and Philip Samartzis for Project Space in Melbourne. High definition, highly processed sounds, mostly of environmental origin but made highly abstract and hyperreal. A useful …
Supersédure 2
Second Edition of Supersédure 2. Eric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama use percussion and field recording like scalpels on everyday life, shaving tiny ruptures into routine until small, repeated gestures cross an invisible line and start to sound like ev…
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Induction / Mutation
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* At the end of 2024, Eric's purchase of an electric cooker with induction hobs was the catalyst. Between auscultations and improvisations, Eric offered Francisco his recordings of the object in his kitchen. In return,…
Paris Public Spaces 2
On Paris Public Spaces 2, Éric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama stage brief, focused vocal interventions across Parisian sites, letting microphone placement and urban acoustics turn spoken sound into a moving portrait of how voice and city continuously r…
A Grammar for Listening
2008. Paris and Glasgow. Eric La Casa recording sounds for Luke Fowler's 16mm triptych. Not compositions but investigations into the infra-ordinary - that space-time at low intensity where background noise meets the inaudible. How to create a meaning…
Chantier 4
Tip! *2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "When I was in Paris 2013 - 2015, the second apartment in which I stayed was on Rue Adolphe Mille, which more or less ran along the western border of the Parc de la Villette in the 19th Arrondissement. On…
Off Tracks
Within the expanding territories of electroacoustic investigation and field recording archaeology, Éric La Casa and Jérôme Noetinger present Off Tracks, a profound meditation on absence, decay, and the spectral traces left behind in emptied architect…
Contrefaçons
In September 2023, at the Hiventy laboratories in Joinville-le-pont - formerly Pathé - we recorded the film restoration (image and sound) and development processes. Following the mechanical and digital processes, we listened to and interviewed the te…
Polymères 3
*50 copies limited edition* I selected short parts of "Polymères" (never published in print) because they reminded me of the inner world of David Lynch, to whom this soundtrack is dedicated.. From Polymères excerpts, originally composed between Decem…
Paris: Public Spaces
*2025 stock* Seijiro Murayama is a drummer/percussionist/voice performer currently working in Japan again after living for a number of years in France. Éric La Casa is a French sound artist well known for site-specific field recordings with a strong …
Zones Portuaires 2
Between 2017 and 2023, while assisting Tarek Atoui with his Waters’ Witness project, I accumulated a series of recordings in maritime ports, which I have used to create this thematic suite. Rooted in documentary reflection, it presents the unembellis…
Stray Shafts Of Sunlight
2013 release ** "Three pieces recorded live in 2007 but just released. Ultra-quiet approach of electroacoustic improvisation. Guionnet on sax and microphones, La Casa on microphones and laptop, Samartzis on laptop and electronics. All three also play…
O Comme Icare
1992 release ** "Eric La Casa and Sylvie Larouche's first album of lush, cinematic ambience and unsettling atmosphere from 1992. La Casa's sense of drama and timing might sound familiar to those who know his (entirely excellent) later work with fiel…
Métro Pré Saint-Gervais
2025 stock ** "On July 10th 2001, Guionnet (alto sax), Warburton (violin) and La Casa (microphones) explored the acoustics of the Pré Saint Gervais Metro station in Paris, riding the elevators, taking the stairs, experimenting real-time music in dail…
Waters' Witness #03 (Book)
An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.
Parazoan Mapping #2 (Magazine + Digital Download)
Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file. Through their individual practices, Taku Unami …
FO(A)RM N°4 (Magazine + CD)
FO(A)RM no. 4 (topography) treats the movement over, through or across a landscape and the act of documenting, utilizing or noticing an interaction with that landscape. It concerns a mapping of the points between self and space – traversing and/or tr…
Parking
*150 copies limited edition* Parking features two works recorded 14 years apart registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages. The architectural form and function unde…
Barrières Mobiles
*100 copies limited edition* "Following the 2015 attacks, all entrances to public buildings – schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, museums, town halls, police stations, etc. – were reinforced by these metal barriers, without any prior consultation…
Waters' Witness (Book)
An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.
Everyday Unknown 4 & 5
Two compositions conceived mainly from researches on the inaudible and the unspeakable, as part of a series devoted to the representation of infraliminary sound phenomenons of the reality, of everyday life.
"How does the present time, physically so u…
Friche : Transition
*Limited edition of 300 copies*
During Spring 2015, Eamon Sprod and Eric La Casa spent one week to record on waste grounds, at the north east of Paris, and along the canal Ourcq. Spaces which are somehow both inside yet apart from the city; waiting s…
Paris Quotidien (CD+booklet)
For two years, Eric La Casa has been recording the urban sonic environment of Paris from the windows of his own apartment. Between a temporary inventory and a musical documentary, Paris Quotidien is the result of this long experiment. Includes a 60-p…
Installations
** 2021 Stock. Book (24 pages 15x15cm) + CD. Limited edition of 250 copies. Texts Français / English. ** Stereophonic versions based on the recordings and mixes used for the 4 sound installations. Surface-témoin / Show surface (2005) by Jean-Luc Guio…
Interieurs
**200 copies** Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum.
For more than 20 years, while listening to the environment, Éric La Casa (born 1968, …
Soundtracks
Three compositions made for films.
1 – 4 . A grammar for listening 2
From Luke Fowler's 16mm film “A grammar for listening part 2”, 2009.
All sounds recorded in Paris, and Glasgow.
5 . A Hemero Phaestos 2 From Christian Jaccard's video “A Hemero Pha…
Parazoan Mapping
With fifteen untitled vignettes and varying source material, Parazoan Mapping often feels like an aural scrapbook. And when looking through any scrapbook, the different photos and pieces of ephemera always point to something bigger: a sort of unrav…
Home Handover
2025 stock ** "In 2010, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Éric La Casa were invited by Arika to the Uninstal festival in Glasgow (Scotland) to carry out a series of recordings with some inhabitants of this city, in their home spaces. Based on predefined rules, i…
Zones portuaires
Recordings in harbor area made in Le Havre (France) March 2010 and Liège (Belgium), September 2010. Each musician works with these site specific recordings. CD1 Eric La Casa (2011- revised in summer 2013). CD2 Cédric Peyronnet (2012-13).
Chantier 1
An extraordinary document of an experiment in which three improvisers - Pascal Battus (rotating surfaces and found objects), Bertrand Gauguet (saxophones) and Eric La Casa (microphones) - played at a working building site in Paris, adapting their …
Zone Sensible 2 - Dundee 2
For the best part of a decade, Éric La Casa's attention to sonic phenomena has resulted in some of the finest contemporary Musique Concréte to come out of France. A listener of the highest order, La Casa's methodology for sound recording allows for a…
W2 (1998-2008)
"We think that we « make a journey » but soon enough it's the journey that makes – and unmakes - us." (Nicolas Bouvier, "l'usage du monde"). When I listen today to these pieces, I hear, of course, a geographic inventory of all the places I encountere…
Supersedure
Field recordings 1995-2007 by Seijiro Murayama : snare drum + objects and Éric La Casa: microphones + field recordings (1995-2007). Drawing by Tomoya Izumi. 'What makes one a musician, a composer? It happens only when one succeeds in giving life to…
Air. ratio
*2025 stock* "My listening project (about controlled mechanical ventilation in new buildings) is multiple : it can function as a sound study, a sonic data bank, a CD of environments, and finally as a music. This CD isintended to be an object without …
Belvédère Dans L'étendue
in the memory of René Quinon thanks to Fred Galiay & "Samedi 14" We all are in a house: "Villa Adriana", (René Quinon's house - little village - low mountain - high valley - Ardèche). A bunch of all kind of microphones are deviced in the house and am…