On May 8th I will be playing City Lights: Transonic Transformations, City University, Performance Space, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB. Also performaing are Cathy Lane, Viv Corringham and more. Find the details here

On May 17h will give a paper at SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM at LCC , entitled  Escaping gender through technology: Sonic freedom and the machine

Between 6th-8th June I’ll be presenting a paper on my project overide at SSSP.

Feb 2012

I will be playing live at the Performance Space in Hackney Wick as part of the Dismantled Cabaret on Saturday the 17th of March. More on facebook.

Jan 2012

On Feb 6th, 5.45-6.45pm I will be giving a talk at the Sonic Art Research Unit listening group at Brookes University, Oxford.

Dec 2011

Here is a review of  Simon Whetham And Friends – Meditations on Light  on igloomag.com, which I have a piece on.

An abridged version of Room With a View will feature in Ex-trauma, an e-book part of the Experiments and Intensities series published by Winchester University Press, which is curated by  Annette Arlander, Yvon Bonenfant and Mary Agnes Covey-Krell. Not sure when the publication date is.

Also, I have uploaded is some critical writing on my work by Brandon LaBelle.  

Nov 2011:

I have finally managed to put my interview by composer Peter McKerrow online. It was broadcast on Resonance FM back in May, the 30th at 8pm to be precise. Here you go:  Resonance interview.

- are the game rules clear?

- are the files ok to download?

-  how does the length of each piece work?

- how do they effect you, if at all?

- how do you find the introductory text?

- any other observation?

as the reminder, the over ride game rules:

- download files to your mobile phone.

- make your way to a bus stop of you choice, preferably in London.

- don’t forget to take headphones (noise cancelling if you have) and some earplugs. The more you can cut out the ambient sound the better.

- board a double decker bus.

- grab yourself a seat at the front on the upper deck.

- plug yourself in.

- if you can, focus more on the sound than the image.

- enjoy!

- please do let me know how it all worked for you.  You can text me at (to come) or email converse [at] irisgarrelfs [dot] com

the files:

over ride 1

-  mp4 16.2 MB

- stream/ (coming)

over ride 2

- mp4 23 MB

- stream

These projects sometimes also incorporate performed aspects, just click on the pics below to find out more.

Iris Garrelfs performs live, often using her voice as raw material, 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: Tues 8th March, City Lights: Transonic Transformations, City Uni, Performance Space, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB. More details are here

over ride is a series of experimental works for mobile phone designed to investigate creative ways in which the experience of audio visual relationships may be interrupted in order to facilitate a more considered encounter with the senses. The project was developed as part of a practice based PhD, which investigates how multi-faceted artistic practices prevalent at the beginning of the 21st century affect sound artists and their work. It presents part of a research strand that explores how sensual experiences encountered in creative activity in turn impact on the individuals engaged in such activity.

over ride consists of two film-based works to be experienced on a double decker bus with the help of a mobile phone, headphones and earplugs. Both pieces aim to create a visceral sense of discrepancy between seeing and hearing with the help of the movement felt whilst riding on a bus. In both cases the visual aspect of the film shows a journey made on a similar bus whilst the sonic aspects and their relationship to the visual and kinetic information differ.

The pieces draw on Michel Chion‘s notion of Synchresis as ‘the spontaneous and irresistible weld produced between a particular auditory phenomenon and visual phenomenon when they occur at the same time’ [Chion, M. (1994). Audio-Vision : Sound on Screen. Translated from the French by Claudia Gorbman. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 63] and Niall Moody’s thesis that the motion inherent in sight and sound acts as a connecting device between the senses [Moody, N. (2009). Ashitaka: An Audiovisual Instrument. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, p. 66,  download here]

over ride game rules:

- download files to your mobile phone.

- make your way to a bus stop of you choice, preferably in London.

- don’t forget to take headphones (noise cancelling if you have) and some earplugs. The more you can cut out the ambient sound the better.

- board a double decker bus.

- grab yourself a seat at the front on the upper deck.

- plug yourself in.

- if you can, focus more on the sound than the image.

- enjoy!

- please do let me know how it all worked for you.  You can text me at (to come) or email converse [at] irisgarrelfs [dot] com

link to files

I have finally managed to upload some critical writing on my work by Brandon LaBelle.

Nov 2011:

I have finally managed to put my interview by composer Peter McKerrow online. It was broadcast on Resonance FM back in May, the 30th at 8pm to be precise. Here you go:  Resonance interview

A new live video, made by Gianmarco Del Re is online at vimeo now. It was shot at Simon Whetham’s Active Crossover opening concert at Cafe Oto in August. Thanks Gianmarco! An excerpt from that performance will be released shortly.