Cedrik Fermont (C-drík) + Sofia Zafeiriou
Sounds of places, instruments, and objects transformed live through electronic means: Cedrik Fermont and Sofia Zafeiriou return to KET with two solo sets of electronic and electroacoustic music.
Fermont combines field recordings with sounds from gongs, stringed instruments, and everyday objects, as well as synthetic sounds; the processing sometimes leaves the source recognizable and other times completely transforms it. At KET, he presents an electroacoustic set that combines electronic processing, acoustic sounds, and field recordings. The result ranges from the abstract to a cinematic experience.
In her electronic sets, Zafeiriou works with recordings of gorges, streams, and dry wells, as well as underground vibrations and coils she has collected from the trash, and processes this material in real time on a computer.
In both sets, the focus is on the details: the texture of a sound, its nuances, and the things that usually go unnoticed.
◍ Cedrik Fermont (C-drík), a Belgian-Congolese composer and musician, was born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), grew up in Belgium, and lives in Berlin. He studied electroacoustic composition with Annette Vande Gorne at the Royal Conservatory of Mons. Since 1989, he has moved between noise, electronic and electroacoustic music, and free improvisation. His music has always been primarily electronic. Détails (2021) is, as he himself notes, his first solo album based primarily on acoustic sounds. In the title track, a bicycle wheel, furniture, and metal objects coexist with a cello, a gong, and field recordings. Other tracks feature a zither, the Chinese string instrument erhu, and wine glasses. For most of the album, the computer is used only for basic processing: Fermont cuts and reverses excerpts, changes their pitch, and mixes them together.
In 2002, he founded Syrphe, a record label and platform dedicated primarily to experimental, electronic, and noise music from Asia and Africa and, to a lesser extent, from Latin America. Through Syrphe, he releases albums, hosts monthly radio shows, gives lectures, and maintains a database of artists and record labels from both continents. Together with Dimitri della Faille, he co-authored the book Not Your World Music (2016) on noise music in Southeast Asia.
He had performed at KET on November 16, 2024, as part of the Goethe-Institut Athens’ Noisy Words festival. For the same festival, he had co-organized the Noisy Writings workshop with AGF. His solo performance that evening—featuring electronic sounds, ambient noise, and nonlinear rhythmic patterns—explored noise in sound and text as a narrative device.
◍ Sofia Zafeiriou, an Athens-based sound artist and composer, approaches listening as a relational and political method, moving between sound, technology, and social processes. Her live sets feature micro-sounds, reverberations, vibrations, and soundscapes.
She also plays the violin in the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera. She records in nature and in refugee camps; in her work, the sound of a place is linked to its history and to the experiences of the people who live there.
In her ongoing sound research project Timber, Turbines, Timbre, she explores the ecological, historical, and acoustic transformations of Vermio. The podcast she produced in January 2026, which was selected for the NEXUS section of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, combines narration, archival material, and field recordings from the mountain.