Cédric Dambrain
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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. www.roughledge.com