Sprawl feat Philippe Petit, AGF, Simon Fisher Turner, Douglas Benford with Iris Garrelfs

Event information

Experimental audio event organisers Sprawl showcase
an evening celebrating 10 years of french label Bip Hop at
Dalston's Cafe Oto, with the label's founder Philippe
Petit.

PHILIPPE PETIT
Based in Marseille, France, where he started Djing on radio shows and editing and writing for zines in the 80s, and into the 90s, In 1991, he started Kinetic Vibes Music, a Garage Punk zine and label, and then in 1993 founded the experimental label Pandemonium Rdz, working with the likes of Guapo, Melt Banana, and Spaceheads. Petit's BiP_HOp label was born in 2000, releasing music by Scanner, Angel, Si-cut.db, Iris Garrelfs, Rothko, Bela Emerson, Spaceheads, Twine, David Toop and Janek Schaefer amongst others. DJing internationally as Dj/ip@bip-hop.com, Petit recently started the live collaboration project Strings Of Consciousness, which
has already released two albums.
http://www.pandemoniumrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/stringsofconsciousness
http://bip-hop.com/

AGF [aka Antye Greie-Fuchs]
AGF is an East German singer and digital songwriter, producer, performer, e-poet, calligrapher, and digital media artist. Her projects include installations, the German electronic duo LAUB, The Lappetites, AGF/ DELAY (with Vladislav Delay), THE DOLLS (Vladislav Delay and Craig Armstrong) and Zavoloka/AG, collaborations with Craig Armstrong, Ellen Allien, Gudrun Gut, Eliane Radigue, Kaffe Matthews. In 2004 she won an Award of Distinction at the 2004 Ars Electronica festival, and in 2006 she was on the cover of the Wire magazine UK. AGF lives and works in Berlin and Hailuoto/ Finland.
http://www.poemproducer.com/

SIMON FISHER TURNER
Simon Turner, is a musician, songwriter, composer and actor. After dabbling with pop stardom in the early 70s, Simon has become an internationally renown film soundtrack composer - writing music for several of Derek Jarman films such as Blue & Carravagio, and also recent films such as Lava, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, William Eggleston in the Real World, Nadja and Un Chant D'amour. Simon is now also known as an established avant garde figure, with albums on the Mute label.
http://www.simonfisherturner.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fisher_Turner
http://www.myspace.com/simonfisherturner

IRIS GARRELFS and DOUGLAS BENFORD
Iris Garrelfs is best known for her emotive, improvised glitch-tech performances based around electronically manipulated and digitally warped voice sounds as well as site specific, multi-channel installations. The central theme of her work is the tension of the human and technology. Her album Specified Encounters was released on BipHop. International performaces and residences, including London's Royal Academy. She also on the board of the Sonic Arts Network, runs workshops and has hosted radio shows on Resonance FM. Douglas Benford aka SI-CUT.DB, has collaborated with Stephan Mathieu, Rechenzentrum, and Ben Edwards [as 'Tennis'] amongst others, with music available on labels Bip Hop, Highpoint Lowlife, and 12x50. Benford has performed at festivals internationally (Mutek, Transmediale, Synch etc) and also venues such as Tate Modern and the ICA.
http://myspace.com/irisgarrelfs
http://.www.irisgarrelfs.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Benford
http://blog.myspace.com/sicutdb