"combining electronic control with an element of Yoko Ono's conscious primalism." (Wreck This Mess, Holland).
"An obvious antecedent is Joan La Barbara's intense investigations in New York, since the mid-1970s, of electronic extensions of voice. More distantly there is the trail blazed by sound poets and in particular Henri Chopin, composing wity microparticles of vocal sound. More obliquely I was even reminded at times of Grateful Dead associate Ned Lagin's integration of the voices of David Crosby, David Freiberg and Grace Slick into his early 1970s electronic composition, Seastones. ... In practice she has a distinctively personal agenda on Specified Encounters, as she intriguingly mutates and projects vocal identities across an interface of technological possibility and imagination... " The Wire
"Despite the human intervention and the use of human sounds, the electronic make up of this record remains proudly exposed in the foreground. Yet, it is kept totally versatile and fresh by Garrelfss fluid touch. Garrelfs uses this context to develop a series of subtle compositions to perfection" http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/igarrelfs_encounters.htm
"So some of the tracks on here contain shining, beautiful voices, others hacked up and distorted voice-bits like listening to someone having a fit while on LSD, to electronica noise like cuts and glitches, to noise ." http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/reviews/Rev%20garrelfs.htm
"...the effect is reminiscent of Meredith Monk .. But by electronically manipulating and warping her voice in radical manner, Garrelfs' boldly experimental approach goes further than Monk's. In the second piece, for example, her voice becomes a veritable percussion orchestra performing an alien drone. Haunted voices and ominous splinters foster a mood of dread in the fourth setting, while the fifth plunges the listener into an industrial netherworld of clanks, rattles, and possessed garble. ... In the first of five sections, Garrelfs layers a supplicating, hymn-like vocal line (that wouldn't sound out of place on a John Tavener or Arvo Pärt recording)... " www.textura.org/archivespages/efgh/garrelfs.htm
"By electronically manipulating and digitally twisting and warping the wordless sounds coming out of her mouth, Garrelfs produces a highly varied and at times unbelieveable collection of work. ....or sounding so far unlike anything even remotely humanoid... at times reminiscent of an early Philip Glass opera .
With this CD Garrelfs enters the august company of women experimental vocalists whose modern era begins, I suppose, with Meredith Monk " http://sonomu.net/text/~iris-garrelfs-sp/?key=29547b-90197
FEB 07 Out now: SPRINGTIDE , a 5.1 surround mix for semiconductor's award winning film Brilliant Noise, now out on DVD on Fatcat as World In Flux. http://www.myspace.com/semiconductorfilms
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NOV 06 Out now: TALKING SPACE TO SPACE on licht-ung , a stereo version of my radio art piece of the same title. Using captured natural radio emissions from celestial objects, Iris reshapes these sounds into an audio composition and flings them back to the stars in a radio broadcast. A poetic gesture, a sensual fiction which takes the past, re-shapes it in real-time and travels with it into the future. The piece was originally performed on Resonance FM in June 04 and as part of Radio Art Riot during the Frieze Art Fair, October 04. An extract was also featured as part of Radio Day of European Cultures in October 05. An extended version was listed for the PRS New Music Award in 05. More to follow
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BIOG
Iris Garrelfs is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magzine put it.
Described as the "Diamanda Galas of Glitch", Iris’ training into creating through voice began very early on. Her parents sang in the village choir, and would often practice at home with Iris making up new melodies, 2nd and 3rd voices to whatever was being sung. She got into the attractions of technology as a teenager, stumbling across her dad’s pulp si-fi magazines. Iris is still waiting for an implant that will siphon off her sonic nerve impulses, fragments of melody, rhythm and correlation floating around in her body and brain. A vital part of her work, be it using voice or other sound material, is improvisation and the use of random elements, the ephemeral fragility and risk implied in giving up control to me moment, a sonic singularity
Iris performs solo as well as in collaboration with other artists, for example Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot), Kaffe Matthews, Scanner, Si-cut.db and others. Since Autumn 05 she is part of Symbiosis Orchestra, consisting of Scanner (electronics - uk), Stefano Tedesco (vibraphone, percussions -it) Andrea Gabriele (guitar, electronics - it), Claudio Sinatti (videos - it).
The recent album Specified Encounters , released on the French label Bip-Hop , has been moulded from dissected voice sounds and was described as "An astonishing document of current vocal art" by German netmag Ikonen. The Wire Magazines drew parallels with Joan La Barbara and Henri Chopin.
Music making aside aside, Iris is the co-founder of London based underground playground and test tube for current sound Sprawl . Artists featured have included Kim Cascone, Scanner, Kaffe Matthews, Christian Fennesz, Taylor Dupree and more. She is a regular on London’s soundart radio station Resonance FM and sits on the Sonic Arts Network Board of Trustees.
As an outspoken person, Iris gets invited as a speaker and panelist at conferences and events in the UK and abroad, most recently at Visiones Sonoras in Mexico. Iris has appeared on TV, for example and ARTE TV in "Well Tempered Computer - Are Computers able to compose" and most recently on ITV's Mixmasters TV. This project has been released by Moonshine in the US and has received a nomination for Best Music DVD at the Dancestar Awards
Find out more at http://www.irisgarrelfs.com
Papiers Collés (Lorenzo Commisso / Stefano Giust) @ Art Gallery Contemporaneo for "Art? - Nuove Pratiche Artistiche Interrogano La Città" a project by Chiara Sartori | film director: Fabrizio Personeni | location: piazzetta Mons. Olivotti 2, Mestre (Venezia) | produced by Galleria Contemporaneo on June 22nd 2007 | Art - to see things differently | Art - to not disappear | Art - questions avery answer | Art - sounds like experience | Art - plays with what surrounds you | Art - can be everywhere | Art - can break the rules | Art - makes life more interesting.
Abolipop es un colectivo y sello discográfico que tiene su base en Zapopan, México. Comenzamos en 2003 con la idea de abrir espacio para nuestra música, tanto organizando eventos como publicando CD's y tomando la Internet como medio de difusión. El roster de artistas ha cambiado con el paso de los años, pero seguimos manteniendo la idea de proponer música que combine la exploración del sonido con calidez, adentrándonos en las mil y un formas del pop actual. Hemos participado en sesiones y festivales en México, Estados Unidos, Colombia, España, Inglaterra, Alemania, Suecia, Holanda, Suiza, Austria, India y Japón. Siempre será apenas el principio o casi el punto final.
Record launch party for Agaskodo's second album Psycho Goulash at CATCH on Thursday September the 18th...
Live music from Agaskodo Teliverek, Le Couteau Jaune, Wang Wang Gou & DJ sets from Neon Skullz, Loves Tru Flavour, Barely Legal & Shintaro Taketani...
Entry is free, arrive early for stinky Hungarian sausage..
Psycho Goulash will be released on September the 29th & is available from our new digital distributer IODA, physical copies can be ordered at the ADAADAT SHOP, or through CARGO RECORDS.
Check out the latest review from Plan B magazine here.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
Best Wishes, Lukas Ligeti
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