Cedrik Fermont (also known as C-drík Fermont or Kirdec) is a

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artist, academically trained musician, DJ,

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, composer and drummer. He is a former student of electro-acoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne ( Royal Conservatory of Mons,

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). In 2017, he was co-awarded the prestigious Golden Nica

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in digital musics and sound art.

Biography

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, Zairian and

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descent, born in Congo (former Zaire) C-drík grew up in Belgium and also lived in the

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. He is an eternal voyager, a "noise nomad", a "musical archivist". He has performed in numerous countries across North America,

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, the

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Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

and

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

. He started his first project in 1989 and juggles in between many projects and electronic genres. He is also a

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manager and concert organizer who produces his own projects and experimental artists who predominantly originate from Asia and Africa on the labels Syrphe and Textolux. C-drík is a noted researcher on the history of experimental and extreme music in Africa and in Asia. He has written essays and given many conferences on the topic. In 2016, with sociologist and experimental musician Dimitri della Faille, he co-wrote a

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on noise music in

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Collaborations

C-drík collaborated or still works together with the following artists ive and or studio:

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Mark Spybey Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey's experimental and industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France.Lengel, Kerry (December 2, 1999). "Dead Voices' Music Comes Alive", ''The Arizona Republic'', p. 47. Dead Voices on Air has col ...

Mathis Mootz Mathis Mootz is a prolific German electronic musician and DJ. Mootz is best known as The Panacea (until 2005, simply as Panacea), his drum and bass stage name and main musical project, and as m2 (pronounced "Squaremeter"), his dark ambient si ...

, David Thrussel, Planet Aldol, Sato Yukie, Nakamura Yuji, Yan Jun, Wu Quan, Itta, Daytripper, Mimetic, Ha Jane, Lee Han Joo, One Man Nation, Mindfuckingboy (Shaun Sankaran), Cliquetpar, B6, 718, Contagious Orgasm, Naofumi Ishimaru, Goh Lee Kwang, Lau Mun Leng, Li Chin Sung, Xavier Depienne, Le diktat, Error, Gisèle Pape, Gregory Durez, Tri Minh, Hùng Nguyễn Mạnh, Nguyễn Van Cuong, The Seventeen Migs of Spring, Olivier Moreau, John Sellekaers, Hervé Thomas, Gabriel Séverin, Marc Medea, Szkieve, Pei, Stereo warfare, Aluviana, Xabec.

Visual arts

Connected to

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(he has also learnt declamation, theater and improvisations), he composes soundtracks for

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, exhibitions,

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s and short movies (Blanc murmure, 3point5, RTBF, Télésambre, Babel Q Compagnie, Charleroi Danse / Frédéric Flamand, Giovani Guzzo, Les théâtres du mercredi in Belgium, Wim Reiff Gallery, B52, Kunsttour, in the

, Ðào Anh Khánh Studio in

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, the

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in China). He composed and performed live two musical scores for the

Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, scree ...

's mute films

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in Riga, Latvia (at the festival Baltā Nakts) in 2006 and The Battlefield Potemkin in

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, Germany together with Xabec in 2009.

Awards

* 2017 : "Golden Nica" by

co-awarded with Dimitri della Faille for their research on noise music in Southeast Asia. * 2006 : Best

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award at the film festival Côté court in Montreuil,

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.Côté Court
The movie was directed by Gisèle Pape and edited on DVD by

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Trivia

Between the years 2000 and 2002 C-drík used variations of his moniker for various compilation, increased by one letter of the alphabet for each new compilation. Aliases such as D-Drik, F-Drik, H-drík, J-drík, Kirdec, O-drik, Q-drík, R-Drik, V-drík, Y-drík are therefore variations of C-drík main alias.

Discography

* Axiome, Črno klank - Théorie et progression, 1991, Tape * Črno klank, M.E.3, Globuleux - Cloportes, 1992, Tape * M.E.3 - Sombre novembre, 1992, Tape * M.E.3 - Wat is vrijheid ? / Dada is(s)t Gott, 1993, Tape * Črno klank - Actividad sonora 1994, Tape (split tape with M. Nomized) * Deleted/C-drík - Hopeless dreams, 1994, Tape * Deleted/C-drík - Hopeless dreams, 1998, Tape (split tape with Al & Del) * Ambre - Enclave, 1998, CD * Axiome - Rictus, 1999, CD * Ambre &

- Sfumato, 2000, CD * Moonsanto - Dogme, 2000, CD * Ammo - The age of terminal irony, 2000 CD and 12" * Dead Hollywood Stars - Gone west, 2000, CD * Dead Hollywood Stars - Wagon of miracles, 2000, 12" *

& Ambre - Dys, 2001 CD * Ammo - Kaleinoiscope, 2001, CD * Ammo - Beautiful People, 2001, 7" * XHM² - This anxious space, 2001, CD * Moonsanto - Fraud, Hell, Dope, 2001, CD * Moonsanto - Pesticide for ever kit, 2001, CD + C10 * Axiome - Ça ne nous rendra pas le Congo, 2002, CD * C-drík - Dissolution, 2002' CD * Ammo - Perturbacée / Terra Amata, 2002, 12" (split with Szkieve) * Logatomistes - Ke-re-kö-kö-kokex, 2002, CD * The Forsaken Odes Conglomarate - Tonal Tutorial, 2002, CD * Martiens Go Home - Une occasion de chute, 2002, CD * Dead Hollywood Stars - Junctions, 2002, CD * Dead Hollywood Stars - Junctions / Gone West, 2002, CD * Axiome - Va-t-il faire beau ?, 2002, 12" * Ambre - Nebka / Térébrant, 2003, 7" * Ambre - Le mensonge, 2003, CD * Tetra Plok - Future marker, 2003, 7" * Kirdec - Stadskantoor zero, 2003, 12" * Črno Klank - État des lieux, 2003, CD * Axiome - Il pleut des cordes, 2005, 12" * Kirdec - Death to the macho, 2006, 12" * Črno klank - Chéngyì, 2006, mp3 * Tetra plok - Fear of a blind date, 2007, 10" * Kirdec - Killed by a coconut, 2007, CD * Elekore - Voluntary human extinction, 2007, CD * C-drík / Aluviana - Moje čelo, 2008, CD * The klank of črno migs - Disturbing perceptions, 2008, CD * Contagious Orgasm & C-drík - Journeys into time and space, 2008, CD * Kirdec - Das Gemeinsame Schicksal, 2008, mini CD

References

External links

Official site

C-drík at Discogs
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