Today I am happy to have Jeannette Petrik on the show. Jeanette is an experimental noise maker performing as Chebedajha, writer, and cultural worker based in the Netherlands. I have been fascinated by Jeannette’s work ever since I saw their live performance in Enschede using heartbeats to clock a live modular synth show. We talk about live performance, working with environments, and building community and hear some of their incredible live sounds.
Links and Bio
Bio:
Drifting off while in the moment, a raw and unfinished collage of harsh and intense analogue and digital electronic sounds emerges from the delicate interaction between a human and a collection of sound devices—sensitively modulated noise with a slow, yet driving pace, embracing the unexpected with a situationist attitude. Chebedajha means “not from here” in an imaginary language. Chebedajha is the solo sound art project of cultural producer Jeannette Petrik, mental child of situationism, adhocism and punk. With a curiosity for sound design, experimental noise and meditation practices, they consider language, sound and design as an opportunity for public empowerment. Operating in the vicinity of intense states of anxiety and pleasure, discomfort and relief, the experimental sound of Chebedajha aims for increased levels of perception and sensitivity to become part of the collective everyday. Petrik is a cultural producer concerned with collective spaces and processes, who challenges hierarchies and structures of dominance. Their practice spans across disciplines which include text, sound, performance and the organising of collective events of doubt. Since 2013, they’re part of Dutch and German D.I.Y. scenes and are active in a loosely organised network of tekno soundsystems. Petrik was an organiser at the squatted D.I.Y. venue The Loch in Enschede. They’re part of the feminist network fem*noise and are active as an experimental sound artist under the pseudonym Chebedajha.
Photo credit: Paulus https://www.instagram.com/by_pauluz/ https://www.by-pauluz.nl/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeannettepetrik
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/chebedajha
Recordings
sw9mep: excerpt of a live recording that was produced as part of the podcast 'Conversing our Soundscapes of Fear' hosted by studio calh at Z33 in Hasselt, BE (2021): Invited as the show's accompanying musician, I was tasked to try and acoustically articulate their approach towards contemporary sounds of fear.
Quantum Inspired Sound: https://jeannettepetrik.com/quantum-inspired-sound
Recording of live performance at Schwankhalle Bremen as part of the series Anachronism: using a modular synth and other sound devices (2023
Recording of live performance from Voltage Control Amsterdam (January 2025): using the heartbeat together with a modular synth and a Lyra-8
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