Torpor
A composition on the Covid-19-Pandemic
for 3–13 Performers (2020–)

Cedrik Fermont

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

Tusa Montes

Tusa Montes is a percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and educator who specializes in the musics of the Philippines, Asia, West Africa and Latin America. She graduated in 2012 with a MM (Master of Music) Musicology degree at the University of the Philippines College of Music. She taught at the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music for 10 years and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Music. She has performed and recorded in various projects, events and festivals in the Philippines and abroad, with notable local and international musicians such as royal hartigan, Edsel Gomez, Dana Leong, Addictive TV, Joe Bataan, Bob Aves, Grace Nono, Johnny Alegre, and Bo Razon.

Tintin Patrone

Tintin Patrone is a German-Filipino composer and sound-artist based in Hamburg, Germany. Her minimal sound work and long duration performances are essentially shaped by her studies on the emotional impact of music mainly concerned with the principled relationship between form and function in evolved animal signals. The songs and improvisational pieces rely on the perceptual effects of controlled tones to re- calibrate the listener’s relationship to natural sound. Her sound focus on tuning, intonation and harmonic modulation and gradually moves through a series of long, sustained tones played by trombone and various modulation devices. Her art and sound pieces were presented internationally. She recently toured Japan and Taiwan and was working on collaborative projects in Mexico and the Philippines. Previous releases can be found on visible dinner, Pudel Produkte, Stoffe or Waschzwang. This year she will perform at intonal festival in Malmö and release a new tape on Otomatik Muziek.

Pina Bettina Rücker

As a sound artist, Pina Rücker has been exploring the musical possibilities of quartz glass bowls for over ten years. She has developed a new music instrument out of the fascinating context of industrial high technology and analog sine tone, and has been instrumental in its acceptance and use in the musical world. No analog instrument has the ability to fill the space with bell-like sound surfaces in such a physically immersive and acoustically powerful way. Pina‘s performances take place in churches, concert halls, galleries, clubs, she has played at festivals for classical music (mdr-musiksommer, moviementos) and experimental music (sinwald, sinusTon, ZixP, StelzenFestspiele near Reuth), at the Jazztage Leipzig, world music (Lauschrausch, Ancient Trance), techno (KONG, Garbicz) and also the Chaos-Computer-Club-Congress as well as world premieres (T. Friebel, TC Heyde).