Alaa Yousry is an Egyptian electroacoustic sound artist and neuroscientist who performs 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. She works 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. Her recent album Refugees of the Symbolic Network is an archaeoacoustic study on the convolution reverb of the King's Chamber of the Giza Pyramid, deconstructing the work of poets Izz al-Din Manasirah and Sargon Boulus. She has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Cafe Oto, IKLECTIK, Radiophrenia, Another Sky, Göteborg Art Sounds, Field Maneuvers, Experiment Intrinsic, Electrowerkz and more. Her work has been reviewed by The Wire, The Quietus and Mixmag. She is a resident artist at Radio Alhara, Mutant Radio and RadioSyg.ma. ​She also curates the London-based event Boundary Condition: a series of site-responsive, multimedia durational sonic events investigating parallels between dark jazz, hauntology and musique concrète as nostalgia-centric practices.
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