[microsound-announce] London/Sprawl: nxt wk - Philippe Petit, Simon Fisher Turner, AGF...

[douglas benford]

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S P R A W L March 2009 bulletin
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^ PRESENTING...
an evening celebrating 10 years of french label Bip Hop at
Dalston's Cafe Oto, with the label's founder Philippe
Petit. [This coincides with a free CD, given away with the March
issue of the Wire magazine, of Philippe's collaborations with a
wide range artists.]

TICKETS SELLING FAST....

Date: weds 25th March

Line up:

PHILIPPE PETIT
Based in Marseille, France, where he started 
Djing on radio shows and editing and writing for 
zines in the 80s, and into the 90s, In 1991, he 
started Kinetic Vibes Music, a Garage Punk zine 
and label, and then in 1993 founded the 
experimental label Pandemonium Rdz, working with 
the likes of Guapo, Melt Banana, and Spaceheads. 
Petit's BiP_HOp label was born in 2000, releasing 
music by Scanner, Angel, Si-cut.db, Iris 
Garrelfs, Rothko, Bela Emerson, Spaceheads, 
Twine, David Toop and Janek Schaefer amongst 
others. DJing internationally as 
Dj/ip at bip-hop.com, Petit recently started the 
live collaboration project Strings Of 
Consciousness, which
has already released two albums.
http://www.pandemoniumrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/stringsofconsciousness
http://bip-hop.com/

AGF [aka Antye Greie]
AGF is an East German singer and digital 
songwriter, producer, performer, e-poet, 
calligrapher, and digital media artist. Her 
projects include installations, the German 
electronic duo LAUB, The Lappetites, AGF/ DELAY 
(with Vladislav Delay), THE DOLLS (Vladislav 
Delay and Craig Armstrong) and Zavoloka/AG, 
collaborations with Craig Armstrong, Ellen 
Allien, Gudrun Gut, Eliane Radigue, Kaffe 
Matthews. In 2004 she won an Award of Distinction 
at the 2004 Ars Electronica festival, and in 2006 
she was on the cover of the Wire magazine UK. AGF 
lives and works in Berlin and Hailuoto/ Finland.
<http://www.poemproducer.com/>http://www.poemproducer.com/

SIMON FISHER TURNER
Simon Turner, is a musician, songwriter, composer 
and actor. After dabbling with pop stardom in the 
early 70s, Simon has become an internationally 
renown film soundtrack composer - writing music 
for several of Derek Jarman films such as Blue & 
Carravagio, and also recent films such as Lava, 
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, William Eggleston in 
the Real World, Nadja and Un Chant D'amour. Simon 
is now also known as an established avant garde 
figure, with albums on the Mute label.
http://www.simonfisherturner.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fisher_Turner
<http://www.myspace.com/simonfisherturner>http://www.myspace.com/simonfisherturner

IRIS GARRELFS and DOUGLAS BENFORD
Iris Garrelfs is best known for her emotive, 
improvised glitch-tech performances based around 
electronically manipulated and digitally warped 
voice sounds as well as site specific, 
multi-channel installations. The central theme of 
her work is the tension of the human and 
technology. Her album Specified Encounters was 
released on BipHop. International performaces and 
residences, including London's Royal Academy. She 
also on the board of the Sonic Arts Network, runs 
workshops and has hosted radio shows on Resonance 
FM. Douglas Benford aka SI-CUT.DB, has 
collaborated with Stephan Mathieu, Rechenzentrum, 
and Ben Edwards [as 'Tennis'] amongst others, 
with music available on labels Bip Hop, Highpoint 
Lowlife, and 12x50. Benford has performed at 
festivals internationally (Mutek, Transmediale, 
Synch etc) and also venues such as Tate Modern 
and the ICA.
http://myspace.com/irisgarrelfs
http://.www.irisgarrelfs.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Benford
http://blog.myspace.com/sicutdb

doors: 7pm

ticket price: £6
advance booking
<http://www.wegottickets.com/event/44796>http://www.wegottickets.com/event/44796

VENUE:
Cafe OTO
18 - 22 Ashwin street
Dalston, London, E8 3DL
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk
<mailto:info at cafeoto.co.uk>info at cafeoto.co.uk

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Future Sprawl events
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MAY 9
Sprawl, Watermans and Brag presents
SONICRECYCLER5
at Watermans art centre, Brentford, West London
Line up includes James Blackshaw, Annie Whitehead,
National Jazz Trio of Scotland [Bill Wells project], Steve Beresford,
Aleks Kolkowski [films plus CD-lathe], films by Cedrick
Eymenier and Aura Satz. More TBA.

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other UPCOMING PERFORMANCES etc
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JULY 1
IRIS GARRELFS residency
Pollinaria, Civitella Casanova Abruzzo, Italy
http://www.pollinaria.org/

IRIS GARRELFS other news:
http://blog.myspace.com/irisgarrelfs

SI-CUT.DB / d. benford:
* current Douglas Benford CD album - 'In The Footsteps Of The Princess'
on <http://12x50.com/>http://12x50.com/ [Analog mastering by Stephan Mathieu].
* Douglas Benford exclusive collaboration track with Philippe Petit on free
CD to Wire magazine subscribers, March 09 issue.
other news: http://blog.myspace.com/sicutdb

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best wishes

Iris Garrelfs
http://www.irisgarrelfs.com
http://www.myspace.com/irisgarrelfs

si-cut.db [d.benford]
http://www.douglasbenford.co.uk
http://blog.myspace.com/sicutdb
http://www.myspace.com/sicutdb

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