— Cédric Dambrain: biography
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Cédric Dambrain (a.k.a Porz An Park, Bambi OFS) is an electronic composer and musician
living and working in Brussels. His approach to sound is primarily based on the exploration
of perceptual thresholds and the physiological impact of sound phenomena.
His career in the realm of written music started with the creation of a language that
confronts traditional instruments with live electronics. His compositions have been
interpreted by various performers and by the Ictus ensemble, with which he has regularly
collaborated since 2004, and have been performed at contemporary music festivals such as
Wien Modern, Musica Strasbourg, Ars Musica, or Maerzmusik.
In 2011, seeking to confront his language with other forms of expression and collaboration,
Cédric Dambrain initiated an experimental metal project with the electric guitar quartet
Zwerm and drummer Jeroen Stevens, before dedicating himself fully to electronic music in
2012.
His debut album, Subjective Slave, was released in 2013 and was followed by the vinyl album
Abandon Tracks in 2014 on the Sound By Visual label, as a result of his collaboration with
the painter Stephan Balleux. During this period, he became interested in a
phenomenological approach to the connection between sound, space, and perception. In late
2014, he was admitted to the prestigious Akademie Schloss Solitude for a three-month
residency during which he created the sound installation Ee Duct Con v.2, which was
presented at the TheaterHaus in Stuttgart in 2015. In 2017, the City of Brussels
commissioned him to present a new live installation at the City Hall.
Dambrain also designed the Falcon, a performance interface with vibrotactile feedback. He
has used this instrument since 2015 while developing an authentically physical approach to
electronic music. He performed in Brussels, Geneva, Berlin, Stuttgart, Lausanne, Zürich, and
Amsterdam.
Dambrain has scored numerous works for dance and musical theatre. He has also co-written
soundtracks with Terre Thaemlitz and Antoine Chessex.
Since 2019, he has been working on Bambi OFS – club-oriented project based on complex
polyrhythms. In 2020 and 2021, he released two critically acclaimed EPs, Yakka and Kwon-9.
Porz An Park is the moniker he uses to produce a body of work that hovers between the
notions of out-of-language experience, inclusion, and psychoacoustics. His production
currently revolves around the reflection and diffraction of synthetic sound sources.