Star Maker is a mini opera for voice and celestial radio emissions developed by Iris Garrelfs for the Science Museum London and Sound and Music to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It is loosely inspired by the science fiction novel of the same title by Olaf Stapledon which describes a […]
The Symbiosis Orchestra presents a symbiosis of electronic and acoustic music, computer-based and natural processes, composition and improvisation, pulse and texture, sound and image. The album Live Journeys was released on Baskaru Records in Feb 2009. Click here for more on the project.
Twine is an audio-visual piece made during a residency at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Celje, Slovenia, 2008. I had been to the gallery the previous year, in 2007, for an installation of my piece Dumplinks, and had been invited back for the residency. Celje is an amazing place, full of culture and history, […]
Swannsong was a sound installation at Leeds Crown Court for Evolution Festival 2008. The piece takes its inspiration from the case of Emily Swann, who was convicted with her lover of the murder of her husband in 1903. Commissioned by Lumen. Click the image for more.
Live at Interplay 2007, live extract from Interplay tour in 2007 with Douglas Benford, on Explorations in Sound, Vol 3: Music of Sound, Furthernoise. June 08. Click here for more.
Dumplinks began life as a 4-channel interactive audio-visual installation based on recycling issues commissioned by Watermans, Brentford June in 2003. It has by now transmuted into ‘Dumplinks, a rubbish film for duck and other water based artifacts’. A shortened film version was shown at Arborescence Festival, Marseille, September 2004, as part of Circle of Sound, London in May 2005 and as a […]
(Talking) Space to Space is an ongoing radio/performance 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. Click the image for more.
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.
My piece Springtide, a 5.1 mix for Semiconductor‘s award winning Brilliant Noise is now out on Fatcat. I don’t often have the chance to record in multiple channels, and hence working on the piece has been particularly enjoyable. The DVD is out in Europe on February 26th 2007 and in the USA/Japan on April 4th 2007. World in Flux contains 13 films and 11 Brilliant Noise alternate soundtracks from guest artists, such as myself, Robert Hampson and more. Click the image for more.
Changing Spaces was an evenings commissioned by Creative Partnership London North exploring creative learning environments and how we use and react to space. All the evenings combine discussion and experimental exploration. On this occasion participants were invited to transform an uninspiring space into an inspiring one. It involved string, screams and a lot of fun. […]
Specified Encounters is an album moulded from dissected and digitally transmuted voice sounds, released on the French label Bip-Hop in May 05. Check some reviews on The Milkfactory (in eng) or Intro.de (in deutsch). You can buy the album from the label directly www.bip-hop.com
Stimung, an audio visual project with filmmaker Mario Radinovic, comissioned by Croatian TV and released as part of Specified Encounters on Bip-Hop in Jan 05. www.bip-hop.com
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). Photon Trouble uses signals picked up by the radio telescope and through a composed sonic narrative tells the […]
Of Dual Nature is an audio-visual DVD project premiered at Sonic Arts Network’s Sound Circus in June 2004.