Silences, Delays, Vortices

Soheil Soheili

Soheil Soheili is a sound-engineer (Studio A Tehran), Sound-collector, label-manager (Noise à Noise) from Iran. His experiences have converged toward the field of humanities and culture. As a teenager he started by playing music in the early 90s, and later on expanded his activity into more art-forms and various media.

He now works as record producer and a private music promotion agent. Running a private post-production space ‘Studio A Tehran’, and a team for supporting independent music in Iran (Classical, Jazz, Electronic and Contemporary music).

Links:
https://soheilsoheili.com/
www.noiseanoise.ir
noise-a-noise.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/noise.a.noise

Cedrik Fermont and Dora Bleu

Dora Bleu & Cedrik Fermont have been performing as a duo that creates dreamlike atmospheres that
explore imperialized psychic struggles of and against reproducing colonial realities. They have recently
recorded and toured with Periklis Tsoukalas.

Dora Bleu
https://dorableu.wixsite.com/dorableu
Through the echoes of an acoustic guitar and vocal expressions, Dora Bleu explores inner life as a site
of the militia state. With vocals that erupt trauma within storytelling and uneven compositions driven by
stark silences and bent notes, her songs ignore genres to exhume vulnerable, dreamlike states.
Simultaneously tonal and atonal, sparse, tense, atmospheric without enacting melodies, sometimes
droning or dissonant, Dora’s pieces follow an inner sense of narrative time. Vocals and texts fuse with
sound to form a dense yet minimalistic soundscape. Dora has worked, recorded and performed with
numerous musicians, including Periklis Tsoukalas, Marc Ribot and Sam Shalabi. Prior works were
released on labels Drawing Room, VHF and Fire Museum, and other. Since 2007 Dora Bleu has toured
many times in Eastern and Western Europe and on the North American East coast.

Cedrik Fermont
http://syrphe.com
Cedrik Fermont (aka C-drík, Kirdec, Cdrk) is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician,
mastering engineer, author, radio host, concert organizer, independent researcher and label manager (at
Syrphe). He operates in the field of noise, electronic and experimental music since 1989. Cedrik’s
compositions and installations vary from sound art and electroacoustic to noise, industrial and more
conventional ‘dance’ music such as electronica or acid. He works solo and in the projects Axiome, Tasjiil
Moujahed, Ambre and collaborated with Marie Takahashi, Luong Hue Trinh and many more. Cedrik
Fermont’s main research focuses on electronic, electroacoustic, experimental and noise music
originating from Asia and Africa. He has extensively toured Eurasia, Africa and North America and
composed music for sound installations, theatre and choreographies, including collaborations with Robyn
Orlin, Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) and Dao Anh Khanh. In 2005 his soundtrack for the
experimental film Atalodz directed by Gisèle Pape won the best prize at Côté Court Festival,
Paris/Montreuil, France. Together with Dimitri della Faille he released the book Not Your World Music:
Noise Music in South-East Asia, winner of the 2017 “Golden Nica” Prix Ars Electronica in the category
“Digital Musics & Sound Art”.

Alexander Markvart
Alexander Markvart – is a musician, member of theater projects and organizer of events and festivals. Born on January 5, 1987 in Kemerovo, Siberia. Now based between Berlin. At the moment he is a notable figure on the Russian new improvised and experimental scene. Stylistically he works in a lot of musical genres from radical free improvisation, EAI, noise, hardcore, to well-structured projects, minimal techno and post-folk. Founder of such polystylistic musical formations as Studio of Unconscious Music (SUM) and Siberian Improvisation Company (SIC!). Also in different years is a member of another experimental bands and projects – Sacrifices, Verevka, Radical Muzak Septet, MITLO, Klub Demboh, Inorganic Blossoming, PSVSV, Cherubs, Importunate Twins, Sekta Phoenix. Works and plays concerts in various projects with different musicians from all of the world. Since 2011, Alexander actively plays concerts in different tours in Europe and Russia. Participant of international festivals Blurred Edges (Hamburg), APosition (Spb), Long Arms (Moscow), Jazz Bez (Lublin), Riga Poetry Map (Riga), Urban Poetry Fest (Riga), Music of Present (St.Petersburg), HA-AS Fest (Yerevan), Sound Around Kaliningrad (Kaliningrad), reMusik (St.Petersburg), Theses Fest (Kemerovo/Berlin), Creative Source (Berlin), Moscow Music Week (Moscow). Organizer of festivals and concerts in Siberia, St.Petersburg and Berlin. The most significant of which is the festival of different arts “Theses Fest”. Since 2018 main artistic director of Petersburg Art Space (Berlin). Also run such places in St.Petersburg as Folly Bar, Art-Farm 36, F5 / Noisegraph.

Links:
https://alexandermarkvart.bandcamp.com/
https://akt-produkt.bandcamp.com
some video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcsT9grDajs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdQBlWpuLgc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGBAc5KZJfY