Below are the over ride files for your mobile phone. It would be great if you could let me know how the pieces worked for you. In particular I am interested in to find out: – are the game rules clear? – are the files ok to download? –  how does the length of each [...]

Site-specific, installed work as well as mixed media projects are a key part of Iris Garrelfs‘ practice. Inspired by  poetical   conceptual, pattern making, experience – Of equal interest is the immersion into sound through multi-channel… 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, 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.

An experiment to interrupt the sensual interaction in audio visual relationships

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.

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Iris has been featured in many publications – read about her here…

Nov 2011: I have finally managed to upload some critical writing on my work by Brandon LaBelle.

… to come soon

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

Sept 2011:

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.

Here you will find educational projects with students and other young people.

Iris teaches on the BA and MA Sonic Art at London College of Communication. Find some student’s work here: http://lccinstallations.wikispaces.com/

Over the years, Iris has worked as an artist as well as Creative Agent for the Creative Partnerships programme, most recently as part of the Royal Opera House.

Some of Iris Garrelfs‘ work is available in recorded versions. Some items can be purchased directly via this page. See below for more.

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.