AGF
AGF alias Antye Greie is an East German singer and digital songwriter, producer, performer, e-poet, calligrapher, digital media artist known for artistic exploration of digital technology through the deconstruction of language and communication within music and abstract poetry that occurs within sound. Antye returns to FON following her research project at Grizedale Arts and performance at Lanternhouse in 2010. Read more about the Wilderness Concert project here.
Friday 5th August
ANCHORSONG
Anchorsong is a music producer and solo live act. He started his career in Tokyo in 2004 and now based in London. He has become globally recognized for his unique live performances, creating electronic music live with a sampler (MPC2500) and a keyboard right in front of the audience.
Since his relocation to Europe in late 2007, he's supported Prefuse 73, DJ Krush, Daedelus, Gonjasufi, Jaga Jazzist and so on. Although generally performing solo, he frequently teams up with a string quartet and has performed at many prestigious venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Roundhouse in London. His international debut EP "The Lost & Found EP" was released on 28th March 2011 on his own label Case Study.
Friday 5th August
BOXCUTTER
Although arguably not as widely recognised as he deserves to be, to those in the know, Barry Lynn has been more than a significant blip on the underground’s radar since first emerging in 2003. Never one to copy his own sound - let alone anyone else’s – Lynn, alias Boxcutter, has restlessly explored a smorgasboard of sonics from his Northern Irish homeland.
2011 has seen Boxcutter take another left turn, this time delving into a range of tempos as wide as is the gap between him and his peers: The Dissolve (another product of Planet Mu) fuses the organic with the synthetic into lush, brightly hued compositions created with keyboards, drum machines, plenty of echo and even the odd electric guitar. From dancehall to hip-hop via downbeat and hypnagogic, it’s another devilishly detailed discussion from the mind of an untameable electronic talent.
Friday 5th August
DOPPLEREFFEKT
Dopplereffekt are one of the strangest and most mysterious units of the contemporary electronic music scene. There is only a handful of interviews and hardly any live appearances. The composers hide behind strange German pseudonyms whereas the song titles and lyrics are in English and make up a strange brew of scientific, sexually explicit and political allusions. Dopplereffekt's music is highly eclectic and atypical. Even if at first sight, forefathers Kraftwerk seem to be more than present, Dopplereffekt have developed their very own and highly influential sound aesthetic without which the current ‘electro’ culture would be unthinkable.
The driving force behind this mythical group is scientist Heinrich Mueller (Drexciya, Arpanet, Japanese Telecom, der Zyklus). Dopplereffekt have taken an unusual path with their stylish anti-style cover artwork, which has always been surprisingly and provocatively plain. Their best known album is Gesamtkunstwerk which appeared in 1999 under the Gigolo Records label. Track titles like Voice Activated, Superior Race and Sterilization combined with the utilitarian artwork make this is a Dopplereffekt production “pur sang”.
Today their music is more experimental and daring but at the same time also more, mature and evocative. Their last release Calabi Yau Space on Rephlex is a beautiful melodic and rhythmic journey in to the world of theoretical physics and string theory. Great melody, rhythm and harmony begins with sound itself and it is on this level that Dopplereffekt is concentrating. This is ’Techno’ in the sense that the term was originally intended.
myspace.com/dopplereffektmusic
Saturday 6th August (+DJ Set Fr 5th)
LEE GAMBLE
Lee started out as a teenager dj-ing on pirate radio and on the emerging Jungle scene, however his own approach to music has taken a more experimental direction. Exploring the outer realms of abstraction through digital synthesis/resynthesis, Lee has described his current compositional process as "The configuration of material (ex nihilo) via various digital synthesis methods, prompts further digital disfigurations and reconfigurations (in perpetuum). At chosen points, what you then have left is often the detritus or debris of an idea. Phantasms of both previous and current musical, pseudo-scientific and sculptural influences are manifest as new material abstractions created from the digital blank canvas. This pure abstraction allows several interests to appear in the works simultaneously". Lee is a also a founding member of the UK-based Cyrk collective and has curated/co-curated several Cyrk events. He has also produced and curated two radio series for London based radio station Resonance104.4FM and he continues to DJ. Lee has released his computer compositions on the Entr'acte label and has collaborated with composer John Wall and artists Yutaka Makino and Bryan Lewis Saunders. New works are set for release later this year. cyrk.org/leegamble
Friday 5th / Sat 6th August
TAL HADAD
Tal creates artworks using music objects or sound materials in order to produce singular listening experiences. His recent works involve diverse practices from recordings to collective performances or site specific installations; all of them having in common the exploration of meaning through sound. His forthcoming work is an interpretation of minimalism in music exhibiting a collection of transformed grand pianos.
Saturday 6th August
PHILIP JECK
Philip Jeck studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early '80's and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as well as his solo concert work. His best kown work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's/'60's record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London [2000]. In 2010 Philip won The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award.
