TAKAHASHI / FERMONT followed by: Sharing Realities with Cedrik Fermont
Sun 26 Oct
|Teatro dei Fauni
Marie Takahashi and Cedrik Fermont combine deep formal tradition with radical sound improvisation. The pure viola on her part and gongs or electronics on his part open up a spectrum between sensitive minimal music and acoustic experimental noise.
Orario e luogo
26 Oct 2025, 17:30
Teatro dei Fauni, Via alla Morettina 2, 6600 Locarno, Svizzera
Descrizione
Marie Takahashi: viola Cedrik Fermont: gong, metal, cymbals, pebbles
Marie Takahashi, a violist, composer, and modern and baroque improviser, was born in 1985 in Sapporo, Japan. With a background in classical and early music, she creates vibrant contrasts between minimal/abstract and expressive sounds. She has collaborated with many international musicians, including Tristan Honsinger, Axel Dörner, Hui-Chun Lin, Shuichi Chino, Joel Grip, Antonio Borghini, Michel Doneda, Sylvia Hinz, Burkhard Beins, Tadahiko Yokogawa, and Toshimaru Nakamura. Her curiosity has led her to work with artists across various disciplines such as live video, film, animation, theater, breakdance, butoh dance, tattoo art, poetry, and prose. One of her specialties is working with visual artists. In this regard, she has collaborated with James Devlin, Éric Fourmestraux, Tea Mäkipää, Laure Catugier, Akane Kimbara, and Riccardo Buck. Since 2018, she has been composing experimentally using calligraphic techniques, colors, shapes, and numbers. Her works have been exhibited in Berlin, Sapporo, and Tokyo.
Cedrik Fermont is a composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio presenter, concert promoter, independent researcher, and label manager (at Syrphe), who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1989 in the fields of noise, electronics, electroacoustic music, sound art, and experimental music. From club music (industrial, breakcore, electronica) to harsh noise, electroacoustic compositions, free improvisation, and music for choreography, he works as a solo artist and in numerous collaborative projects such as Axiome, Tasjiil Moujahed, Les Désaccordeuses, as well as with Ira Hadžić, Dora Bleu, Periklis Tsoukalas, and many others. He has collaborated with dozens of other artists, including Luong Hue Trinh, Yan Jun, AGF, Sarmen Almond, Gülce Özen Gürkan, Dickson Dee, Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Khabat Abas & Hardi Kurda, Klaus Janek, to name just a few. In 2024, he was awarded the Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948. In 2017, together with Dimitri della Faille, he published the book Not Your World Music on noise music in Southeast Asia, which won the Prix Ars Electronica 2017 “Golden Nica” in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category. His touring and ongoing research have led him to perform and give lectures in over 60 countries across Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas.
Sharing realities:
Followed by: Artist Talk with Cedrik Fermont
Cedrik Fermont is not only an experimental musician: for decades, as a sound activist, researcher, and label manager, he has dedicated himself to making marginalized music scenes visible, especially in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. His artistic work is inseparable from his political commitment: through his award-winning book Not Your World Music, his participation in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and his radical ethics as a vegan, anti-racist cultural creator. In this talk, Fermont discusses sound as a tool of resistance, decolonial perspectives in music, and a practice that moves between research, performance, and personal engagement.