Iris Garrelfs performs live, often using her voice, which she transmutes into machine noises, choral works or “granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magazine put it. However, some performances use other sounds, just click on the pics below to find out more.
next live date: Sat 17th March, Performance Space in Hackney Wick as part of the Dismantled Cabaret.
Described as the ‘Diamanda Galas of Glitch’, Iris Garrelfs’ 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, [...]
Urbania is a collective of six artists, Jessica Antwi-Boasiako, Iris Garrelfs, Oko Goto, Harold Offeh, Maki Suzuki and Patrick Lacey with different skills and diverse backgrounds in performance, sound, video, design and interactive events. We performed a live 4-channel composition by Iris Garrelfs at the Royal Academy, GSK Contemporary Season in January 2009, using instruments created by Iris. The show also saw our installation Red Storage Room. Click the image for more.
(Talking) Space to Space is an ongoing radio project. 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 [...]
Iris Garrelfs and Berlin based artist Alexander Selski are exploring the tension between humanity and technology in sound and image. Performances have included Lovebytes Festival and South London Gallery. This follows on from their early explorations in the 1990s with the duo AIR . View our mad film Air Grabs Hair on yotube. Since spring 06.
Traces is an audio visual performance and DVD project with filmmaker Mario Radinovic. It was premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubjana (Slovenia) in September 2003. Click the image for more.
