from
Retrieving Beirut part 4/4,
released August 7, 2020
Dirar Kalash - Electronics
Joke Lanz - Voices
Utku Tavil - Drums
Dirar Kalash is a musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of compositional and improvisational contexts. His performative and compositional approaches to instruments, techniques, and aesthetics are highly political as they challenge dichotomies, hierarchies, and binary logics of new/old and west/east as tools of cultural imperialism and hegemony. The methods he uses are based upon his research into the intersections and relationships of music and sound with other contexts such as language, architecture, mathematics, visual arts and further social and human sciences. His regular solo and collaborative performances include but are not limited to audio-visual performances, free jazz groups, string ensembles, solo piano, and live electronics.
albayan.bandcamp.com
Born 1965 in Basel, Switzerland. Currently based in Berlin.
Joke Lanz is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet Improvisation and Noise.
In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes etc.
The result is an extreme form of musique concrète that juxtaposes spasmodic gibbering with a battery of disorienting electronics.
Has worked as garbageman, cleaner, caregiver, night watchman, farmer, record dealer, administrative assistant, bike messenger, chocolate manufacturer, technician, housekeeper, and more.
Free studies in Performance Art, Noise Music, Turntablism.
Since 1985 involved with a broad variety of musical projects, such as: Jaywalker, Sudden Infant, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, Psychic Rally, Vehikel & Gefäss, Catholic Boys in Heavy Leather, WAL, and Tell.
Composed music for contemporary dance, theatre, films, radio plays, and installations.
Collaborations and live shows with: Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Z’EV, Shelley Hirsch, Mette Rasmussen, Rudolf Eb.er, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Daniel Menche, Lasse Marhaug,
Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Astro, Voice Crack, Carlos Giffoni, MSBR, C.C.C.C., Con-Dom, The New Blockaders, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO Wien),
Sixes, DJ Olive, Hans Koch, Audrey Chen, eRikm, Strotter Inst., Christian Weber, Bill Kouligas, Roger Rotor, Small Cruel Party, Dieb13, Due Process, Christian Wolfarth,
Martin Baumgartner, Evil Moisture, Charlotte Hug, Martin Tétreault, Brigitte Wilfing, Ute Wassermann, Julian Sartorius, Simon Berz, Mike Majkowski and many more.
Artist residencies in Berlin, London, Vienna and Cairo.
Composition Assignment by Arts Council of Switzerland.
Workshops and lectures at Music Academy Lucerne, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, University of Stellenbosch.
Nomination for Swiss Music Prize 2015.
Innumerable releases on international labels, including Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, RRR, Entr’acte, Artware, Klanggalerie, PAN, SSSM,
iDEAL Recordings, Harbinger Sound, and Nihilist Records.
Concerts, performances and tours in: USA, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Mexico, and all over Europe.
www.suddeninfant.com
Utku Tavil aka BEEATSZ v and many other monikers hits drums and fiddle with various electronics.
brainpussyfication.bandcamp.com