Concert [Morphine Raum Berlin]
Cedrik Fermont / Nour Soukhoun / Yara Mekawei
Cedrik Fermont is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host, concert organiser, independent researcher and label manager (at Syrphe) whooperates in the field of noise, electronic, electroacoustic, sound art, and experimental music since 1989. He has collaborated with dozens musicians and vocal artists around the world, joining networks of academic and independent artists and activists. He occasionally composes music for sound installations, theatre and choreographies. He has received several awards: Kunstpreis Berlin – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 in Berlin (2024).Golden Nica – Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category (2017, together with Dimitri della Faille for their book Not Your World Music about noise music in South-East Asia, (2017). Best prize, audio category at Côté Court festival, Paris/Montreuil, France, for an experimental short film by Gisèle Pape 2005).http://syrphe.com/c-drik.html His tours and ongoing research lead him to perform and give talks in 70 countries in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. (photo by Magda Bondos)
Based between Beirut and Berlin, Nour Sokhon’s practice draws on archival methods and the activation of inanimate matter as living narrators, taking the form of sound and music pieces, performances, interactive installations, and moving-image works. She earned a master’s degree of Design in Sound for the Moving Image from The Glasgow School of Art. She received the Emerging Artist Prize from the Sursock Museum in 2019 and the Sound Art grant from HBK in 2020. In 2024, she released her debut album Beirut Birds supported by AFAC.
She has exhibited her artwork internationally and performed in various sound/ music festivals including This Is Not Lebanon (2021), Punkt Festival (2023), Gaudeamus Festival (2023), United in Grief (2024), Vorspiel (2024), the Biennale d’Aix (2024), Salam Music (2025), Mapping Sounds in Exile (2025) and Avant Art Festival Berlin (2025). Her work has also been shown at institutions such as Spatial Sound Institute, Beirut Art Center, SAVVY Contemporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. (photo by Helena-Majewska)
Yara Mekawei, a Sonic Sculptor and Music Composer, merges the urban pulse with architectural essence, crafting intricate auditory vignettes. Rooted in architectural philosophy, social historiography, and philosophical literature, she weaves diverse conceptual dimensions. Central to her approach is a sonic opus, blending Sufi poetry and the wisdom of the Book of the Dead. Mekawei’s sonics draws inspiration from historical ritual philosophies, reflecting her identity. (photo by O-Chennafi)
VENUE: * Morphine Raum Berlin – Köpenicker Straße 147 Hinterhof, 1. Etage, 10997 Berlin