Erno Helen
Traveler of sonic landscapes.
Me and music
I became acquainted with music early on in my life, and very soon it had me in a gentle headlock: I'm going on 30 and so far have had nothing else to call a hobby. My artist grandfather always encouraged experimentation, learning and turning to nature for inspiration, and life has proven his teachings.
Innate dread of authority had me stop in my tracks when enrolling to the local conservatory to study the violin, but I managed to attend keyboard lessons for many a year. I went through a period of fondling the electric guitar, but ultimately the seemingly unlimited world of sound offered by the likes of Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre and Kraftwerk held more allure for me. Soon my home computer and four-tracker moved next to the keyboard and original electronic compositions set the tone to school plays already in the last couple of years in primary school. Lasers and fireworks were missed, but being the humble kid from an industrial town, I could do without...
Passion became a profession through education; today I handle our group's sound engineering duties in addition to my compositional input. My garden of musical influences has joyfully grown to a wild junglelike state, with klezmer, post-rock, orchestral music of the modern era, electronic dance music, progressive rock, ambient and dub all flourishing among other species... Meditation and the Zen tradition have also left their mark on my life, which comes through in my music.
As a composer I am ready to do what the order states with professional gusto, but most nourishing are projects where the director or artist works out of the flux of feeling and has the gift of seeing, hearing and experiencing with an open mind – the kind to whom nothing inhumane is unfathomable!
To me the most important attributes in music are dynamics and narrativity. I consider the composer an artist working in the temporal domain, hanging the elements of his art onto moments in time, and the piece must assertively transport the listener through this installation – movement being more important than destination...
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