Cumpire

Geoffroy C. Dedenis is a French artist based in Paris. For the past 10 years, he’s been making videos, photos, collages and tapes. Most of his creative activities combine cut-up techniques, détournement, remix that use either sounds, pictures, or the mental images he tries to design with audiovisual material. He tends to use raw material and focus on subjects such as desire, psychosis and drugs. When he’s working with music, it’s mostly under the name Cumpire. He uses tapes for their emotional impact and energy, without regard for the genres. Lately, he’s been working on a film project and tried to organize his visual material in a new form, „Violent Narcissus“.

In his eclectic hour and a half long mix for New Blood, Cumpire tries to design a narrative about speed – the drug itself, its pop cultural translation and how one may experience it, from the initial euphoric rush to bursts of anger, to madness and obsession. The structure repeats itself until a final crash, a relapse into calm and perhaps even a happy ending. The mix wanders from industrial to noise, punk electro, and whatever genre he found representative of the amphetamine flow – aggressive, cleverly paranoid and potentially dangerous.

In the records

Cumpire on the mix

The idea was to do something funny and destructive in both negative and positive ways, in the sense of the transcendental, shamanistic power one can catch while swimming through these overly energetic fields. I really wanted to use music and sound that possess repetitive, stimulating and debilitating qualities to match the mental state where speed users lose track with the continuity of time, to go inside a loop, a frenetic spiral where they draw connections between previously isolated elements.