Noisy Words
As part of the “Noisy Words” festival – an event organized by the Goethe-Institut Athen and curated by Evi Nakou -, KET hosts two concerts that reflect the research developed in the workshops “Noisy Writings” (15/11) and “Noisy Writings II” (16/11).
On Friday 15 November, artists who participated in the “Noisy Writings” workshop present individual and group experimental compositions of analogue and electronic sound, words and noise. Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) presents an individual solo set of soundscapes, noises, spoken words, deconstructed beats and fragmented melodies.
On Saturday 16 November, artists who participated in the workshop “Noisy Writings II”, present individual and group experimental compositions of sound, words, noise, analogue and electronic sound. In the second part of the concert, Cedrik Fermont (C-drík) presents an individual solo set that traces sound and textual noise as a means of narration, expression, communication of the audible and the unheard, of stories, voices and bodies that escape, are silenced and assimilated. Electronic sounds, ambient noise and non-linear rhythmic patterns compose a complex sonic and textual grid.
Antye Greie-Ripatti aka AGF is a digital songwriter, sound artist and curator, composer, poet, feminist networker. She is also known as AGF, Laub, and poemproducer. Born in 1969, and raised in East Germany, she has lived and worked in Hailuoto, Finland since 2008. She works with language, sound, listening, voice, and communication, expressed in mixed media, audiovisual live performances, digital communication, sound installations, commissions for radio, movies and theater, exhibitions and conceptual works. Greie-Ripatti has released 30 long player records, and has been engaged in numerous collaborations under such aliases as AGF, AGF/Delay (with Vladislav Delay), Greie Gut Fraktion (with Gudrun Gut), and The Lappetites (with Kaffe Matthews and Eliane Radigue), among them – for a long term – with the award-winning classical composer Craig Armstrong. She runs the production company and music label AGF Producktion and has produced records for other artists, most famously for Ellen Allien (Sool, 2009, BPitch). In 2011, Greie-Ripatti founded the arts organization Hai Art in Hailuoto, where she serves as artistic director, executive producer, and workshop leader. Hai Art has organized a conference on remote art, more than ten artist-in-residencies, extensive sound program with children in Hailuoto, the iPad Orchestra Hailuoto, the Organum, the Hailuoto (mini) MediaLAB, and numerous artists camps. Since 2011 she works as independent sound curator.
https://poemproducer.com/info.php
Cedrik Fermont aka C-drík aka Kirdec is a composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host and concert promoter who has been working in the fields of noise, electronic and electroacoustic music since 1989. His compositions and installations vary from sound art and electroacoustic to noise to industrial to more conventional “dance” music. He was born in Zaire (DR Congo), grew up in Belgium and now lives in Berlin. He studied electroacoustic music in Belgium with Annette Vande Gorne. Cedrik Fermont has been active internationally since 1989 in various musical projects such as Črno Klank, Axiome and Tasjiil Moujahed as well as a solo artist. He has collaborated with several musicians of the free improvisation scene, especially in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Cedrik Fermont is the founder of Syrphe, an online platform for alternative musicians from Asia and Africa.
More info: www.goethe.de/athen/noisy_words