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Iris
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1. Profile
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
recent album Specified Encounters has been released on the French label BipHop
(see press quotes below).
Now in it's 10th year, Iris is one of the founding directors of Sprawl,
advocating electronic and digital sound. She also the board secretary of the
Sonic Arts Network, an experienced workshop leader and currently co-hosts a
radio shows on London's soundart station Resonance FM.
Click here for extended profile
2. Selected Projects and Performances
Artsfoundation
Fellowship 2006. Shorlisted. To be announced January 2007
Gaudeamus Live Electronics Festival 2006. live improvised 4-channel
performance at the Muziekgebouw aan’t Ij. With Francisco Lopez and more,
November 06
Visiones Sonoras 2006. Composers Meeting, convened by National University of
Mexico and the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts Recipient of Clinker
bursary. Mexico City / Morelia Sept 06.South London Gallery, London,
4 chanel live performance with moving images by Berlin based artist Alexander
Selski, part of Camberwell Arts Festival, July 06
Whitechapel Gallery, London, 4 chanel improvised performance
as part of Wormhole Saloon, June 06
Sound and Anthropology conference, St Andrews,
Scotland: live improvised performance as part of the collaborative conference
between the Social Anthropology Department, St Andrews and the Sound Arts and
Design department, LCC, University of the Arts, London. www.st-andrews.ac.uk
June 06
FACT, Liverpool, live performance at Hive,
New electronic Music For Liverpool. April 06
Sonic Recycler, Waterman's Artcentre, screening of Dumplinks, a stereo
film version of the 4-channel interactive installation Dumplinks
Lovebytes Festival, Liverpool, live improvised performance
with moving images by Alexander Selski. With
Leafcutter John and si.cut-db http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/
March 06
Threshold 06, 4-channel improvised performance transforming voice through
technology as part of BENDING TECHNOLOGY, Novel Instruments at E:vent Gallery,
London. March 06
Sprawl 10th Aniversary Party, Yacht Club, London, live improvised performance.
With Taylor Deupree, Richard Chartier, Si-cut.db. Jan
06
Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy, audio-visual
media art performance with Symbiosis
Orchestra at INnet02 Festival for Interactive Design and new media.
Dec 05 http://www.didstudio.org/innet/
Radiator Festival, performance at
this leading biennial Festival for New Technology Art, Nottingham Nov 05
PEAM, performance collaboration at the live Media Art Festival
PEAM, Pescara, Itlay, with Andrea Gabriele, Claudio Sinatti, Diego Conti and
more. Oct 05
Hoerbar, Hamburg, Germany: 4-channel live performance at this intimate
meeting place for electronic, electroacoustic and industrial sounds. Aug 05
Incantation: audiovisual, 4-hour site and situation specific durational
Live Art event at the Nun’s Chapel in Cork, commissioned by Art Trail
as part of Soundworks Festival 2005. With Régine Elliott, Claire McRandal,
EVRAH, David Aylward, Tom Scott and more. The performance looked at how we as
artists interact with interior spaces and audiences, and audiences with us.
June 05
Space, a participatory performance collaboration with Lynne
Brackley investigating the transformation of 'ordinary' spaces into 'extraordinary'
ones, commissioned by Creative Partnerships London North. It involved people,
string, sound and strange stories. June 05
The Rights of Spring, performing a new composition for Stacked Wonkey's
May Fete at Cecil Sharp House, London. "The Rights of Sping" deals
with various aspects of the labour movement and its relationship with May Day.
May 05
Circle Of Sound, group exhibition at London's Foundry showing a stereo
film version of the 4-channel interactive installation Dumplinks. With Disinformation,
Dan Wilson, DJ Wrongspeed, Kaffe Matthews and more. May 05
Interplay Festival, London, live performance collaboration with Scanner
at this festival of international collaborations. Feb 05
Winter Festival, The Spitz's
Festival of New Music, London, with Sunburned Hand Of The Man and Charles
Hayward (This Heat), Dec 04
(Talking) Space to Space, a radio art project capturing radio emissions
from the stars, reshaping it into an audio composition and broadcasting it back
to the stars on Resonance FM. June 04. Performed as part of Radio Art Riot during
the Frieze Art Fair. October 04. An extended version of this project has since
then been listed for the PRS New Music Award in 2005. An extract is about to
be released on10" vinyl by the German art label lich-tung
Arborescence Festival, improvised performance at this live media arts
festival, Marseille, France. Sep 04
Qui Le Bruit, a quadraphonic live performance, Old Truman Brewery, Brick
Lane, London. June 04
Of Dual Nature, an audio-visual DVD project looking ambiguity. Premiered
at Sonic Arts Network’s Sound Circus conference at De Montfort University,
Leicester. June 04
Spoor, a site and situation specific 6-channel audio and photographic trail
exploring aspects of urban space resulting out of a residency at Grafisch Atelier,
's-Hertogenbosch (Holland). Also included public talk and performance.Commissioned
by EARATIONAL Festival for electronic music and audio art. March 04
Stimung, a soundtrack for a short experimental film commissioned by
National Croatian TV, with Mario Radinovic, Spring 04
Traces, an audio visual performance project in collaboration with filmmaker
Mario Radinovic, performed at Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Sept
03 and Earational March 04
Capital Sonores, live performance collaboration with Si-cut.db at this IRCAM
co-produced festival in Paris. Jan 04
Placard Festival, State 51, London, live performance. The festival originated
in Paris, France and is now being held in several cities over the globe. Visitors
listen to sets over headphones. With Jem Finer, Max Eastley and many more. July
03
Dumplinks, an audio-visual interactive installation based on recycling issues
and involving recordings made in the local business community. Commissioned
by Watermans Artcentre, Brentford. June 03. Also presented as part of Arborescence
Festival, Marseille, September 04 and
Circle Of Sound, London May 05
Total Writing London, CPT London, live performance. A festival of sound,
performance poetry and writing. With John Tilbury, Bohman Brothers and many
more. June 03
Cut and Splice Festival, performance at ICA London; broadcast on BBC Mixing
It. With Trevor Wishart, Farmers Manual, Francisco Lopez; Chris Watson, People
Like Us and more. May 03
Empties, providing the soundtrack for a video documenting the Squatting
Scene in London, in conjunction with CSV / BBC Training. Feb 03
Interplay Festival, London, performance collaboration with Robert Lippok
(To Rococo Rot), Nov 02
Parallel Textures, a 6-channel audio installation based on the History of
Reading for the Berkshire Record Office, commissioned by Art at the Centre,
Reading. Sept 02
Shiftage, 4x4 commission, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow. Installation
with Si-cut.db for the CCA’s opening presentation, Judge for the 4x4 Open
Commissions. To celebrate the reopening of the CCA, shiftage looked at the history
of the building. Oct 01
Chain Gang, Tonic, New York, group performance with Zeena Parkins, Ikue
Mori, Lee Renaldo, Kaffe Matthew. April 01
Avantpop Festival, Podewill, Berlin. Live performance with Matmos,
Mu-ziq, kid 606, Safety Scissors and others. Jan 01
3. Education Projects
Sonic Postcards,
devising and leading sound recording and editing workshops with schools in Welling,
London as part of this Sonic Arts Network project. The programme
is the winner of the 2006 New Statesman New Media Award for Education.
www.sonicpostcards.org
March-June 06
Sri Lanka Sound Stories, a longterm project commissioned by Creative
Partnerships Thames Gateway with children (year 5 +6) of Janet School Junior
school in Basildon and its partner school in Sri Lanka. As part of WATERWORKS
we are exploring sonic environments and interior spaces and composing music
from field recordings for an installation/performance. Jan-July 06
Radiator Festival, music technology workshop for adults at this leading
biennial Festival for New Technology Art, Nottingham. With Music For One. Nov
05
Ladyfest Brighton, technoloy workshops teaching MIDI and audio editing.
With Music For One. Oct 05
Creative Catalyst, Creative Partnerships London North, creative research
project in and with schools to encourage creative learning and to distil methods
to be utilised in Government Policy. Included workshops with primary and nursary
school children and adults. Since June - August 05
Calthorpe Community project, London: sound workshop with children aged 10-14,
in collaboration with Stacked Wonkey. Dec 04
Just
Desserts, at Entry, an action research project into lifelong learning in
West Bromwich, UK, commissioned by The Public (formerly Jubilee Arts), involving
workshops with school children and residents of an old-people’s home, culminating
in a 4-channel audio tea party. July-Aug 03
4. Talks/Panels/TV
Mexican
Center for Music and Sonic Arts, Morelia, Mexico: composition and live
performance Sept 06.
Cybersonica, International Festival of Music, Sound, Art and Thechnology, London:
Presenting my live performance work. www.cybersonica.org
May 06
Threshold 06, E:vent, London: member of sound residency jury panel. Feb
06
Concrete Hum, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow: panel member for talk
exploring the relationship between architecture & sound. With Adam Chodzco,
Anthony Dunne and Gerrie van Noord, chaired by Scanner. Dec 01
Shiftage, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow: 4x4 Open Commissions
assessment panel. Oct 01
In the City, Manchester: panel member to discuss the impact of the digital
distribution on the music industry. Oct 01
Mixmaster TV, appearance on this ITV programme. The project was subsequently
released by Moonshine in the US has been nominated for Best Music DVD at the
Dancestar Awards. Oct 01
The Well Tempered Computer - Are Computers able to compose, appearing in
this ARTE TV (Germany) documentary exploring electronic music. With Karl-Heinz
Stockhausen. June 01
Cybersalon, ICA, London: panel member discussing digital music. April
01
Sept 00: DDMI Global, Los Angeles: Panel member to discuss the music industry
and digital distribution. Sept 00
5. Selected Recordings
Spingtide, 5.1
mix for Semiconductor’s award winning Brilliant Noise. To be released
on DVD by Fatcat in Feb 07
(Talking) Space to Space, extract of radio art project capturing radio emissions
from the stars, reshaping it into an audio composition and broadcasting it back
to the stars. Released in autmn 06 on 10" vinyl by lich-tung
Interplay an excerpt of a live collaboration with Robert Lippok
will appear on Sprawl's Interplay compilation. Autumn 07
tbc - new album on Sprawl in autmn 07
Longplayer remix, contribution for Jem Finer’s Longplayer Remix project
Specified Encounters, an album featuring voice manipulations, Bip-Hop,
France. Released May 05
Photon Trouble, compilation track for "Acoustic.Space.Lab : Radio Astronomy",
a collaborative release of radioqualia, RIXC,
and the VIRAC radio telescope and the artists (Adam Willets, Claustrum, Iris
Garrelfs, Kaffe Matthews, Loosebot, radioqualia, Scanner, SI-CUT.DB, Tennis).
Autmn 04
Donna, an Art of Noise remix for “The Abduction of the
Art Of Noise”, Iris Light. Collaboration with Si-cut.db. April 04
Monza Lecta, re-release of collaboration with Freeform as part
of the Bernt Friedman compiled and remixed compilation “Condensed”
on Nonplace. March 03
Helix and A Therory of Disorderly Behaviour, release of tracks
for Bip-Hop Generation vs 6 and release of Tennis remix, also on Bip-Hop. Jan
02
Civic Halo, a Tennis remix for the Furlines album on Bip-Hop
Recycled 200, a collaboration with Si-cut.db for The Wire Magazine’s
Wiretapper 6
Shiftage, a stereo rendition of the 4x4 installation commission,
published by Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow. Nov 01
It’s Enough, Female of the Species, Law and Auder. 2001
Ave Maria, Hmm, Sprawl. 2001
Little Red Riding Hood, Counterintelligence Subproject, ECR,
Germany. 2000
Assimulation, Broken Voice, Sprawl. 1997
6. Posts Held
since April
05: Sonic Arts Network: member of the Board of Trustees, since May 06 as
board secretary
since Sept 04: Small Pieces: Radio broadcast on Resonance FM with Douglas
Benford
2002 to date: Field 61: Director and cofounder of this non-commercial
venture promoting live digital music. Curated and organised events with Jem
Finer, Matt Rogalsky and others. Currently broadcasting 1st Friday of every
month on Resonance FM 104.4. With Kaffe Matthews
1996 to date: Sprawl: Director and cofounder. This monthly London based
event has become a benchmark of experimental, electronic music. Artists featured
have included Kim Cascone, Scanner, Talvin Singh, Kaffe Matthews, Christian
Fennesz, Hayley Newman and more. Other events include Groundswell Festival at
ICA, Presenting Vladislav Delay, co-curated concert organised in conjunction
with the Tate Modern’s educational department and the Finnish Institute.
The label has instigated projects such as The Broken Voice (an exploration of
the human voice integrated into electronic music, with Scanner, Paul Thomas
and more), Chinese Whispers (an album exploring the further edges of the remix
idea, featuring Stereolab, Si Begg and others), and Hmm (versions of traditional
hymns and anthems reworked by global artists such as Carl Stone, Vladislav Delay,
David Toop and more). With Douglas Benford
Jan 02: Cybersonica: member of steering group of the sound festival at
the ICA, London
May 00 - July 01: Atrecordings.com: London agent and consultant for the
Belgium based independent music website. The site was rated 9 out of 10 by ITV’s
web review
1997 - 98 London Arts Board: advising on funding of sound events and
other policies
1996 - 01 London Arts Board: assessing the quality of funded events
1995 - 01 Freelance photographer: publications include THE WIRE, GQ and
FACE, album covers plus press shots for record companies and publicists.
1991 - 95 Freelance jazz and session singer: included work for various
commercials and “Alter Ego”, a programme for Channel 4
7. Selected Publications
Jan
2006: Wire Magazine: Ephiphany, with Douglas
Benford
Oct 2005: Creative Partnerships London North, Ideas Newsletter, with
Lynne Bracknell
since 2004: SAN Diffusion magazine: audio reviews
Jul 1998: Fourth Door Review
8. Education
Sept 03 - June
04: Middlesex University, London: BA Sonic Art (1 Class Honours). Recipient
of University Scholarship for Cultural Excellence
1995 - 99: City of Westminster College, London: BTECH Design/Photography,
HNC
1995 - 98: City of Westminster College, London: City and Guilds Sound
Engineering, Level 2
1985 – 87: Freie Universität, Berlin: Ethnomusicology, German
/ Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin: Composition, Classical Voice and Vocal Improvisation
9. Selection of Press Quotes