Vomir
This March, Skaņu Mežs announced an open call for sound artists, intended for residencies focusing on installations and performances as creative outcomes. The open call led to the selection of three artists who will visit Riga from late September to mid-October to create new works and perform at the Skaņu Mežs 2024 festival (4-5 October). They are German-Filipino sound and performance artist Tintin Patrone, harsh noise wall spearhead Vomir and Berlin-based sound artist and electronic musician Nick Klein.
Vomir residency will take place from 3 to 6 October.
Romain Perrot (born 1973), better known by his stage name Vomir (French for “vomiting” or “regurgitate”), is a French noise music artist based in Paris. Since beginning his career in 1996, Vomir has appeared in over 300 releases, including singles, albums and collaborations with other noise artists. The majority of his albums were produced by his own independent label, Decimation Sociale. Vomir positions his approach to music as an “anti-” approach, with a radical and nihilist stance. He spearheads the harsh noise wall movement, an extreme subgenre of noise music which he describes as “no ideas, no change, no development, no entertainment, no remorse”.