The "Transmissions" series is an audience interactive, live electronic music performance series about the transmission of culture through the information media of sound and radio. It redefines the relationship of performers and audience to the radio medium, opening audio spaces to unheard voices in diverse communities by emphasizing the ability of both to create both the content and the means of production of radio communication.
About C-drĂk:
Born in Zaire (DRC), of Greek, Belgian and Congolese descent, C-drĂk aka Kirdec begun to study declamation, orchestral drums and music theory in 1985, started to compose music in 1989 in the project Crno Klank. He later on studied electro-acoustic/acousmatic music at the conservatory of Mons, Belgium. He currently produces different music genres ranging from electro-acoustic music to minimal wave, digital punk to industrial, dark ambient to electronica, etc. He's Syrphe label owner, a label partly dedicated to alternative electronic and experimental music from Africa and Asia.
Label owner : Syrphe, mostly dedicated to electronic and experimental music from Asia and Africa.
Radio host : at Staalplaat Radio and presents experimental music from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Performed in 43 countries in Europe, North Africa, Asia and North America.
Lectures and talks about electronic and experimental music in Africa and Asia given in Vietnam (Hanoi Sound Stuff), Indonesia (Indonesia Institue of the Arts, The Unifiedfield), Czech Republic, Morocco (LycĂ©e Descartes), Algeria (MusĂ©e public national dâart moderne et contemporain dâAlger, organised buy Pulsation Sonore), Lebanon (Zico House, organised by Acousmatik System), France (Ăcole SupĂ©rieure D'Art D'aix-En-Provence), Taiwan (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), Slovenia (Kiblix 2013), Belgium (MNĂAD), Germany (NK, Mindpirates Auditaurium, organised by DAAD, Deutschalndradio Kultur, Technical University of Berlin, House for Electronic Arts Basel), etc.
Member of music projects such as Axiome (Belgium), Tasjiil Moujahed (Lebanon), Elekore (Singapore), Tetra Plok (Belgium) and a dozen more, collaborated with artists all over the world : Choi Joonyong (Astronoise), Cindytalk, Contagious Orgasm, Damo Suzuki network, David Thrussell (Snog, Black lung), Dickson Dee (Li Chin Sung), Effie Wu, Kueiju Lin, Lin Chi Wei (ZSLO), Manuel G. Richter (Xabec), Mark Spybey (Dead voices on air, Download), Mathis Mootz (Panacea, MÂČ), Mick Harris (Scorn, Lull), Naofumi Ishimaru (Yximalloo), Yan Jun, etc.
Composed soundtracks for theater plays, short films, films and choreographies (GDMDC in China, ĂĂ o Anh KhĂĄnh Studio in Vietnam, BaltÄ Nakts in Latvia...) and published an essay entitled Une singularitĂ© au sein de la musique noise d'Afrique et d'Asie. (Les presses du rĂ©els in the book Le performentiel noise, Edited by SĂ©bastien Biset. In English here : http://syrphe.com/texts/A%20singularity%20of%20noise%20music%20in%20Asia%20and%20Africa.pdf
Performed in festivals like ZXZW (now Incubate Festival, Netherlands), Maschinenfest (Germany), Hanoi Sound Stuff (Vietnam), Audiotrauma (France), Pulsation Sonore (Algeria), to name a few and has been selected to perform and / or give some workshops in the following European capital of culture : Brussels 2000, Maribor 2012, Marseille en Provence 2013.
Published music on various labels : Ant-Zen (Germany), Ad Noiseam (Germany), Syrphe (Germany), Hushush (Canada), Mad Monkey Records (USA), Gun Music (USA), PuZZling Rec. (Belgium), Independenza Recordings (Belgium), Shanshui (China), Deaf Blind Dumb School (China), Sleepless Records Berlin (Germany), Pflichtkauf (Germany), Ruptured (Lebanon), etc.
http://syrphe.com/c-drik.html
