Cedrik Fermont: The history of electronic and experimental music in Africa and Asia
DATE: February 2nd at 7pm

The lecture (followed by sound samples) will present the origins of electronic and experimental music in Africa and Asia. Although the history of experimental and electronic music is mostly associated with the Western culture, we can find early sound experiments already in 1944 in Egypt (Halim El-Dabh), 1957/Israel (Shalhevet Freier), 1959/Turkey (Ilhan Mimaroglu), 1963/Indonesia (Slamet Abdur Sjukur) , 1965/ Iran (Alireza Mashayekhi), etc..

The result of many years of research will be the book containing all the materials and informations collected during that period. The book will be released in the near future.

Cedrik Fermont, the label manager of the Belgian Syrphe Records, has met on his "never ending" world tour many artists from all around the world and participated in various experimental projects of industrial and ambient music, such as Amber, Ammo, Axiom, Holliwood Dead Stars, Imminent, Xingu Hill, Panacea. Syrphe records released several albums and compillations with artists from African, Middle East and Asian countries such as Iran, Tunisia, Algeria, Singapore, ...

Thanks to: Sanja Kuveljić and Aluviana.