Cerpintxt

Tuesday 8th February

Cerpintxt – Refugees of the Symbolic Network /  أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلم

Live performance:
Saturday, 15th MarchDoors 7pm, first act 8pm sharp

The Glad Café, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow, G41 2HG
Limited capacity. Advance tickets through EVENTBRITE
Pay what you can: £0 / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 / £10


Refugees of the Symbolic Network / أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ is a hauntology series of Palestinian resistance and funeral music spatialized in the convolution reverb of the King’s Chamber of the Giza Pyramid. Mainly deconstructing the work of the Izz al-Din Manasirah & Sargon Boulus. Some research suggests that the Great Pyramid could have functioned as a kind of geo-vibrational resonant amplifier on account of its construction of granite, a resonant quartzbearing rock which appears to have been tuned to precise frequencies. On a site visit to the King’s and Queen’s chambers of the Giza pyramid, the impulse response of the chambers was acquired. This impulse response is then mapped onto convolution sound effects, transposing the performance within the spectral footprint of the chambers.

The live performance involves reading selected excerpts in a compositional speech system; multi-layering of utterances and organums over several cycles, until a new language or syllabic melody is unearthed. The prime resonant frequencies of the chambers continue to sculpt the compositional material, by accentuating the words’ phonetic motifs as the piece unravels. The idea is using speech as an instrument whose tonal or dynamical structure arises solely from the weight of the words, and how they interweave to reveal harmonic ciphers embedded in the fabric of the language and contexts which created it. This process is an inquiry into the ritualistic nature of submission to utterance as a spiritual force. It seeks to precipitate a funerary sonic practice; a type of chant to mourn and resist in the same breath. To perpetuate the writers’ voices not by merely echoing them; but by roaming their caverns of dialectical systems, as a form of resistance to oppressive and colonialist forces. To paint a tapestry of voices of the forsaken, refugees of the symbolic network, the countless “lives buried in the belly of the whale that is called history”.


Cerpintxt – Another Sky Festival – by What About The Ash _ Marc Tunguz
Cerpintxt – Another Sky Festival – by What About The Ash _ Marc Tunguz

Cerpintxt is an electroacoustic progress report concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation. Working with cut-ups and dialectical chaos magick to decimate the parasitic structures of language and linear constructs of temporality. Blending ritual with precision in an exhaustive process of lingual erosion into protoconversation, to reveal the tenuous links between sound and the fluid interconnectivity of meaning. Her sound’s textural counterparts include wind instruments, broken turntablism, tape recorders, granular and modular synthesis. Some of her projects include a quasi improvisational synaesthetic musical game system, , ethnic heritage projects documenting music of East Sinai and site-specific works in the pharaonic temples and the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula, amongst many more. She curates ‘Boundary Condition’ investigating the parallelization between darkjazz, hauntology, and music concrete as nostalgia-centric sonic practices, previously hosting Esperanza Spalding, Shabaka Hutchings, Machinefabriek, Carlos Casas and more. She is a resident on Radio Alhara, Radio syg.ma and Mutant Radio. 

https://www.cerpintxt.com