A lecture about electronic and experimental musical scene in Asia and Africa. Presented by belgian musician and theorist Kirdec
21 h / ChoP (CHI/PL) , C-drik (BE) / concert
ChoP is a transnational project consisting of sound and visual artists from China and Poland. Performances by ChoP combine traditional and modern sounds of China and Poland with field recordings and ambient structures. ChoP is showing the aspects of constant development of the Far East and Eastern Europe. Performances are accompanied by different visuals made by different Vjs. ChoP is performing live, therefore all shows are unique experiences not unlike what the public experienced one century ago when films were mute and live improvised music gave it the whole context. ChoP was formed by Zen Lu (China) and Grzegorz Bojanek (Poland) in 2006. Since than many other artists have been invited to join the project, record their albums and play live-acts both in China and Poland.
Cedrik Fermont (aka C-drík Fermont, C-drík, Cdrk, Kirdec, Y-drík, M-drík, F-drík and many other “-drík”) is a multifaced vegan artist, academically trained musician, dj, singer, composer and drummer ; he is electroacoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne former student (Conservatory of Mons, Belgium). Of Greek, Zairian and Belgian descent, born in Zaire (RDC), he lived in Belgium, the Netherlands and relocated to Germany in 2010. C-drík started his first project in 1989 and juggles in between many projects and genres such as electro, noise, breakcore, digital punk, electro-acoustic, industrial, ambient, free jazz, hip hop, etc.
I’m a very patient listener, but I have my limits. When this record came out, I bought it on the strength of Aufgehoben’s previous album, Messidor, an album that was mistakenly placed in the “electronic” section of Other Music (NYC), and, since it looked like Autechre, I had some reservations about it. However, that was pretty damn good, in the same vein as MoHa!. None of that, however, prepared me for Khora. When I saw the song lengths, I asked myself if I could listen to a nearly 30 minute track of this. Truth be told, some of you might pass on that, at least for a long time. I did. In fact, I didn’t listen to that last track until this past month. I have no idea why I waited.
Khora is a special beast, especially this last track. Its mystery is how it can pack so much dynamism within a seemingly static song. That is, if you don’t just listen to it, just like some eai, it will sound completely arbitrary and uniform, but just like eai, it can actually be seen as radically different from moment to moment. This last track is so good, in fact, that I consider it the ultimate rock instrument generated noise track I’ve ever heard.
When I first listened to this, I was trawling through Tumblr and came across this picture:
This isn’t a commentary whatsoever about the specific contents of the picture, but rather a personal experience tied to listening to this music. The sounds in this last track are chaotic, aggressive, and when I encountered this picture, it added some sense to the music of despair. In other words, this noise can take on a sorrowful tone. Indeed, portions of this track, especially around the 17 minute mark, sound desperate, out of control… And these feelings stuck. While driving back from my radio show last Sunday, I waited until I had 27 minutes left until I got home, and I put this on. This music fit the landscape so well. Most Midwestern terrain is best suited to epic tracks, long developments, and a tinge of sadness. The track retained the sorrow I felt in first listening to it, and it took on the character of the nighttime, and the emptiness of my drive home.
While I’m confident that some of the tone will translate to your own experience, I understand many people can hear many things in this. But unless you make it 20 minutes in, don’t judge this. It is a powerful piece of art with its own personality, but it also has a way to seem sympathetic to your moods. It presents itself as a unified whole, but underneath the surface clipping is a great, dynamic energy. Don’t pass on this.
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Aufgehoben – Khora (Holy Mountain,…
Here is a very cool submission from PZ. I absolutely hound him to submit more of this stuff. I can’t really advertise his Facebook page, but needless to say, this guy must have the best favorites on his Vimeo and YouTube profile. That he took the time to submit this (as a former KiC mainstay) warms my heart. Important, given the coldness of this piece. Locrian is a very new act for me, though (if I’m remembering right) I checked out their 2010 album. Noisy, drone-y, dark ambient, basically.
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Here is a very cool submission from PZ. I…
Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide – Good Afternoon
second track from album Good Morning Good Night by Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura and Otomo Yoshihide which came out in 2004 on great US label Erstwhile records.
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