
Fluidian (Emil Gherasim, b. 1973) composer, musician, sound artist. His work includes acoustic and electronic art 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 Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is also active as a solo performer, improviser and has collaborated with other musicians and visual artists. In addition, he composes original music for theater pieces, dance performances, films and new textural electronic art music for different sound ensembles.
Recently he released Opaque Lights album created in collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen.
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 Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is also active as a solo performer, improviser and has collaborated with other musicians and visual artists. In addition, he composes original music for theater pieces, dance performances, films and new textural electronic art music for different sound ensembles.
Recently he released Opaque Lights album created in collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen.
- Opaque Lights -
featuring Arve Henriksen & Emil Gherasim

"...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."
- Sinkovics Ferenc - magyarjazz.hu -
"Amazingly beautiful, captivating, impressive."
- László Gőz, Budapest Music Center (BMC) -
"It is a beautiful album and I enjoyed working on it."
- Helge Sten, mastering engineer of the album, member of legendary Norwegian band Supersilent. -