about
Cerpintxt
Alaa Yousry is an Egyptian electroacoustic sound artist and neuroscientist performing under the alias Cerpintxt. Her work is concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation. Working with cut-ups and dialectics to decimate language and linear constructs of temporality, in an entropic process of lingual erosion into protoconversation. The textural counterparts of her sound include wind instruments, broken turntablism, augmented cello, reel-to-reels, tape recorders, granular and modular synthesis.
Cerpintxt has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cafe Oto, IKLECTIK Art Lab, Radiophrenia Festival, Göteborg Art Sounds, Another Sky, Experiment Intrinsic, Field Maneuvers, Electrowerkz and more. Her work has been reviewed by The Wire, Quietus, and Mixmag. She's a resident artist at Radio Alhara, Mutant Radio, and RadioSyg.ma.
She curates the London-based event Boundary Condition: a series of site-responsive, multimedia durational sonic events investigating parallels between dark- jazz, hauntology, and music concrete as nostalgia-centric practices.
