Artists from Vietnam, Germany connect via online concert
A special online concert featuring Vietnamese electronic music artist Nhung Nguyen and Cedrik Fermont from Germany will be livestreamed from 7pm on July 5.
Sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Photo courtesy of the artist)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - A special online concert featuring Vietnameseelectronic music artist Nhung Nguyen and Cedrik Fermont from Germany will belivestreamed from 7pm on July 5.
In 2016, Nhung Nguyen was featured in the book Not Your World Music: Noise inSouth East Asia by Fermont and Dimitri della Faille, and three years later, thetwo artists met in person in Hanoi.
The concert is part of their new project which aims to explore thepossibilities of virtual collaboration, diversity of soundscapes, and people’sexperience around the world.
Interested in soundscapes in cultural context as well in electro-acoustic musicand sound art, for this project, the artists have utilised their personal fieldrecording archives recorded during the pandemic-lockdown periods in bothcountries and use them as a starting point for their performance.
The project also includes a series of interviews with people in Germany and Vietnamabout their personal experience with the soundscapes around them, especiallyduring the pandemic period and how to cope with the current lockdown situation.They used live and online interviews in Vietnam and Germany to collect shortvoice notes. The responses have been translated into German and Vietnamese andused as a reference and audio material for their performance.
Cedrik Fermont, aka Kirdec (Photo: discogs.com)
Cedrik Fermont, aka Kirdec, was born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic ofCongo) in 1972 and is now based in Berlin. Since the late 1980s, he has beeninvolved in electronic and experimental music. He runs Syrphe, a platformdedicated to electronic and experimental music from Asia and Africa.
Born in 1998, Nhung Nguyen is an emerging Vietnamese sound artist currentlybased in Hanoi, experimenting with a range of left-field aesthetics andexpressions.
Since 2014, she has been creating works under the moniker Sound Awakener andcollaborated with international labels. Alongside her solo work, Nhung hascollaborated with artists from various other fields aiming to enhance the audioexperiences of her works.
The concert will be streamed on the Facebook page of the Goethe Institute Hanoiat .
The concert is also part of ReConnect – an initiative by the Goethe Instituteto strengthen translocal cooperation with meaningful online gatherings, whichprovide a sense of human connection during the ongoing pandemic./.
Germany’s Goethe-Institut will conduct two musical projects in Vietnam this year as part of efforts to introduce contemporary music based on linking artists living in Vietnam and Germany.
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Sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Photo courtesy of the artist) 
Cedrik Fermont, aka Kirdec (Photo: discogs.com) 
