Cedrik Fermont
As someone that is not well versed in the genre of noise, hearing Cedriks noise pieces was a completely different experience I’ve not felt from a sound piece. They sounded terrifying and all the sounds were unrecognizable, nothing worked together creating a concoction of atonality and could only be defined as noise. This is in relation to his song “traffic jam” but this kind of noise captivated me. While researching, I found this quote asking for him to define noise:
To me, noise is some kind of energy, therefore, very emotional too. It often generates a strong positive feeling in me, I feel good when I listen to loud noise music I like. Noise can be much more than pure distortion, rough sounds and feedback. I enjoy sitting at the edge of a river’s strong flow or a fall, or stand next to some factories or construction sites, or listen to a plane’s reactor; I also enjoy a lot to stand several minutes between two wagons when I travel by train and listen to those banging metal parts or screeching wheels, the oldest train, the less insulated, the best; I often record these, as I like to stick my ear against the fuselage of a plane while flying and listen to the drones the aircraft generates, change the position of my ears or move slightly to get some effects or other frequencies. This is not intentionally music, but because I perceive it so, to me it is a musical form.
Cedrik Fermont being interviewed by The Attic
I like his quote “This is not intentionally music, but because I perceive it so, to me it is a musical form” because it summarises his opinion on noise and as someone that enjoys using noise in a more musical form, I completely understand what he’s saying. Music is subjective, and what defines something when it’s not music is also subjective.
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