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AGF 036CD
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Arachnesound: On the ambiguity of non-belonging: In her famous quote from Three Guineas (1938), "As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world", Virginia Woolf captured the spirit of alienation that women have felt, or indeed should feel, vis-à-vis the request of belonging. Such alienation could morph into refusal, but this, as feminist historians of culture know, has happened in very few cases. For the most part, women have buried their alienation, forced by multiple mechanisms of persuasion and induced consent, to succumb to belonging . . . AGF, or Antye Greie, whose creative endeavor is overall an audacious synthesis of electronic compositions, voice, field recordings, as well as of political explorations and re- enunciations of women-centered aurality. In this new work, Arachnesound, AGF, together with her collaborators, sought to work with an enduring language, Greek, and treat it as a tentative record of women's speech but also silence. Effectively, AGF relied on the ambiguity of non-belonging to stitch together a counter-archive of words written, spoken, or -- when she herself makes them up -- associated with women's struggle for language. Greek has been a language steeped in patriarchal social relations, nation- building, and wildly generalized, civilizational 'origins'. The task that AGF set for herself was to compose a music narrative that takes women's efforts to speak beyond the canonical myths surrounding Greek language as a record. It was a difficult task, requiring much research, much listening, much translation, much acoustic imagining. The outcome, however, is movingly rewarding -- and it is so as an encounter of myth and history with the contemporary feminist avant-garde in electronic-music experimentation. Arachnesound draws on a loosely defined corpus of women's spoken word, poems, or sometimes prose, or sometimes sounds that, even if delivered in English as the contemporary global communication tool (AGF's mother tongue is German), their referent lies in Greek myth and/or history..." --Angela Dimitrakaki Athens, (1.9.2020) Features Ismini Samanidou, Reine Linda Nyongo, Savina Yannatou, Maria Arapoglou, Anna Stereopoulou, Nicoleta Chatzopoulou, Maria Papadomanolaki, Katerina Iliopoulou, Dimitra Ioannou, Konstantina Korryvanti, and Marianna Karakoulaki. Includes extended booklet.
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The Dissidentova audio collection is another edition of feminist language exploration by the artist, music producer and poet Antye Greie-Ripatti, aka AGF. This time her work focuses on poetry, sound art, and the her-story in Russia from the mid-18th century to the present day. AGF chooses 15 iconic figures in Russian culture and creates fragmented tributes, placing them in chronological order. She invited Russian musicians and sound artists to collaborate with her as a reflection of the musical landscape of Russia today. Features the work of Ekaterina Urusova, Anna Bunina, Zinaida Gippius, Elena Guro, Emma Goldman, Alexandra Kollontai, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Olga Berggoltz, Elena Shvartz, Unknown Russian Austronaut, Anna Politkovskaya, Anna Gorenko (Carp), Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Galina Rymbu. Features Gubaidulina and an old Russian oven door. Includes booklet with liner notes.
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Sculptress of sound. Radical illusion. The mathematics of emotions. Rooster personality. Greim love. Ernst. Network-mycelium. Exec friendship crews. Sonic wilderness. Club aesthetics without club. 544 reasons to live. Adult-hollow-hood. Transformation capacities. The radical self. The internet and our potential to become cyborgs. Pitch, shape, color & tone. Snowden revelations and the crew. Public reverberation. Non-human spaces. Wild code. Thoughts on capitalism within the human agency. Sonic editing. Between Radigue - Xenakis - influences of grime. The end of the CD object. Wither-beauty. Ink leftovers. Silly poetess extravanganza. This is my process. Thankfulness.
Kon:3p>UTION to: e[VOL]ution is the 9th solo album of the artist and producer AGF (Antye Greie, also Anye Greie-Ripatti or formerly Antye Greie-Fuchs, Laub). It is the 30th studio album as executive producer in collabarations with Vladislav Delay, Gudrun Gut, The Lappetites, Craig Armstrong.
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A Deep Mysterious Tone is the third edition in AGF's poetry series, following Gedichterbe (AGF 015CD, German, 2011) and Kuuntele (AGF 017CD, Finnish, 2013]. The series investigates the history of poetry in one particular language from a female perspective. Via current music and sound art practices, the poems are reimagined in a 21st-century context. Twelve Japanese poets were selected for this issue. Three poets date from the Heian period (794-1185) and the rest are from the Meiji Restoration (when Japan opened up to the world, starting in 1868) and after. In addition to the Japanese-language poets, one piece features the sound of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan. These primarily female stories were interpreted by AGF and her contemporaries Kyoka, Tujiko Noriko, Yu Kawabata, and Ryoko Akama, fellow artists and producers she got to know at various music festivals in Europe. The only living poet represented here is Misumi Mizuki, who reads her work herself.
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Hai Art is an arts organization based on the island of Hailuoto in northern Finland. Its main practice is artistic intervention in social and public space via mixed media and sound art. In 2012 Hai Art produced an international arts conference, "Wind As Context: Remoteness, arts and diversity," to lay the foundation for their off-the-grid practice. Subsequently Hai Art hosted more than ten international artist-in-residencies (Sound Room, Sonic Bikes, Anchorhold, Kiemura snow and sound sculpture, Sound Map Hailuoto iOS app, Sonic Boat Journey, Organum acoustic sculpture), workshops, seminars, and retreats. Hai Art aims to inspire small communities and remote living, critically challenges its prejudices, and builds meaningful content to experience. The actual artworks inspire discourse, communication, and an unexpected perception from a rural perspective. The context is everything that is present on the island. Hai Art runs a local children's program with the Hailuoto iPad Orchestra and a media lab for locals in the village. It organizes a community sound choir called Kaiku (echo) that imitates the field. Slowly, a vision of a "Sonic Island" is forming to accompany many other identities, and starting a subtle conversation with the planet. A poetic voice out of a remote landscape engaging considerations of identity, diversity, and imagination. This CD contains audio documentations of works produced by Hai Art between 2012 and 2015. All projects are curated by Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF), who also edited and compiled this CD.
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AGF 019CD
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"A-symmetry" is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry. Symmetry is an important property of both physical and abstract systems and it may be displayed in precise terms or in more aesthetic terms. Violations of symmetry therefore present theoretical and experimental puzzles that lead to a deeper understanding of nature. Asymmetries in experimental measurements also provide powerful handles that are often relatively free from background or systematic uncertainties. I Am Life was produced by German producer Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) and Georgian producer Natalie Beridze (TBA).
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With the album Kuuntele, poem-producer AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti) interprets the poetry of her new homeland, Finland, with a few well-chosen examples. Her method is the same as on Gedichterbe (AGF 015CD) for which she received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica in 2013 in Digital Music and Sound Art. In this collection, AGF has chosen examples of Finnish poetry from the last 327 years, including material from "An Orphan Child's Lament" by Maria Simointytär (1683) and from the Kalevala's second edition, 1849. The creation-story hero Väinämöinen suits the poetic beginning: he is a demiurge, creator of land and trees, who arises from the water. Among the chosen poets on this album is the Saami multi-artist Nils-Aslak "Ailu" Valkeapää (1943-2001), who, for his picture book Sun, My Father (original in Saami language, 1988), received the Nordic Council's literary prize in 1991. Out of 13 pieces of music, eight poems come from female writers, and six from male writers. Two of these texts have inspired AGF to give a purely instrumental interpretation; for example, Paavo Haavikko's "How to Address the Fog" and Tove Jansson's "Who Will Comfort Toffle?" (Jansson is the creator of the Moomin family of books and comic strips). Another Swedish/Finnish writer is Solveig von Schoultz (1907-1996). AGF transfers her poem "The Birds" into the sound poem "Diamantenstimmen," which refers to the representation of love crystallized into the hardest stone, the diamond. The tradition of the Kalevala can be heard in the selection of these texts. Eino Leino (1878-1926) is the most important poet in this sense, and included here is a fragment of the legend "Blue Cross," taken from the latter edition of the two collections of poems called "Helkavirsiä" (1916). In this context, the whole transforms into a magical chant, which is here performed by the Helsinki-based rapper, producer and spoken-word artist Matti P. The strong line of women writers continues with L. Onerva's (1882-1972; real name: Hilja Onerva Lehtinen) "I Rock the Echo" from the collection Mixed Tunes, 1904. (Finnish underground singer and musician Lau Nau lends her voice to this fragile creation, made entirely from an iPad app by AGF). Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921-1975) is the most important Finnish female modernist from the '50s. Her poem "Counterpoint" is just the first part of the poem, but it finishes with an allusion to another one of her classic compositions with the added phrase: "Drops of Mozart, zart, zart." Eila Kivikk'aho (1921- 2004) is the most lyrical of these poetesses, and she is represented with the poem "Generations" from the collection The Flock (1961). AGF has chosen the first part of Kivikk'aho's poem. Eeva Kilpi (1928-) is one of the most productive and beloved of the Finnish female writers. Languages -- Finnish and English, fold upon each other in her work, weaving a fabric of connection. Finnish "freak folk" singer Islaja sings on the track "Kiitos." AGF sings on and melts together Iris Uurto's text with her son Aku-Kimmo Ripatti's (1931-1994) poem "The Horseman" from the collection I Don't Say Anything Else (1986). The newest poem is Juha Rautio's "Listen" from his third collection of poems Sit Down Song (2011), read by the poet himself.
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AGF 016CD
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AGF aka Antye Greie releases her seventh solo record. Beatnadel (trans. "Beat Needle") is a piercing sonic outburst of razor-edged beats and pilot vocal art. AGF is a rare combination of composer/producer and vocalist. This is digital songwriting with beat structures and penetrating sound sculptures to inspire the mind. The tracks have been constructed out of large, self-designed sample banks, voice, bass, synthesized sounds and discerning effect treatments. The music is sequenced to a large extent and holds an aggressive undertone compared to her recent works. AGF has cut out original tracks with surprising narrative and breathtaking precision in editing and sculpturing the sound. Deconstructed poetry, aggressive beat patterns, tender songwriting, drone parts, full-frequency spectrum. "I want to built a new tradition, an aural tradition, transmitted via the ears." --Karlheinz Stockhausen, London 1971. "He says, the one who is not afraid is anyway cheerful and does not need to sing" --Janosch in Kleiner Hase, Großer Held. "It's not a question of time, it's that people today lack a certain frame of mind. Time is no excuse, your time should be spent on self-improvement, there's no better way to spend your time." --Ai Wei Wei in his blog. Having worked with great composers of our time such as Vladislav Delay, Eliane Radigue and Craig Armstrong and produced records for Ellen Allien with Gudrun Gut and many others, AGF once again concentrates on voice and post-club crossover. After finishing a stage play soundtrack to Orlando (AGF 014CD) with classical composer Craig Armstrong, and releasing a conceptual poetry work Gedichterbe (AGF 015CD) about the German heritage of language, Beatnadel is a very personal form of expression with no compromise. "Lingu-tik" features the voice of Prof. Noam Chomsky. Otherwise, the work is composed, recorded, mixed, mastered and executed by AGF. Artwork and calligraphy also by AGF.
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AGF 015CD
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Gedichterbe is a project by AGF (Antye Greie) that investigates German poetry and the heritage of the German language within electronic music and society. Including the first-known female German poet Frau Ava (11th century) and today's "wunderkind" poetess Ann Cotten (born 1982), poets were chosen from the romantic period of the 18th century, from Jewish poets during the 20th century and poets from East/West Germany after World War II. Personalities from the German electronic music scene help AGF interpret the poems: collaborators vary from the famous techno DJ Ellen Allien, the underground avant-garde legend Gudrun Gut, the prolific German rapper Pyranja, Berlin's electronic star Barbara Morgenstern, the scandalous Gina D'Orio from Cobra Killer, and more. AGF presents poets and poems close to her heart, and here the relationship between sound and music is investigated and interpreted. So how does this sound? Can Quio rap Frau Ava? Do Friedrich Schiller and Karoline von Gnderode stand the test of time? Can Else Lasker-Schler and Paul Celan inspire us today? The music is radical modern and contemporary minimalistic, supporting the poetry as well the history around it. The historical text is interpreted with digital sound technology and aesthetics. Sometimes poems are deconstructed and cut-up and processed to the point of non-recognition, sometimes the poems remain pure and untouched. The voluminous CD book includes numerous calligraphic drawings by AGF and an extended scientific text in German by Christine Lang about language and sound in context of this work. Other contributing artists include: Quio, TBA and Bothnian Draale Pack.
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AGF 014CD
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Craig Armstrong, a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores and AGF (Antye Greie) collaborate once again. In 2001, Armstrong invited Greie to contribute a song to his second solo record As If To Nothing (2002); subsequently, both artists collaborated on Piano Works (2004), The Dolls (2005 with Vladislav Delay), Memory Takes My Hand (2008) and now Orlando. AGF is a digital songwriter, sound composer and poet and has released 20 records and numerous collaborations under such aliases as AGF/Delay (with Vladislav Delay), Greie Gut Fraktion (with Gudrun Gut), and The Lappetites (with Kaffe Matthews and Eliane Radigue). Greie has produced records for numerous other artists, including Ellen Allien (Sool (BPC 175CD/LP). Orlando - The Play: In 2010, AGF composed and performed original music in the Cryptic theater company's staging of the Virginia Woolf masterpiece Orlando, directed by Cathie Boyd. This staging features live vocals and electronics by AGF and an original soundtrack by her and Craig Armstrong. Orlando - the CD: For this CD, these two very different composers scored this theater piece, combining their work and writing compositions in a cohesive flow following the narrative of the book. This work is meant to take the listener on an inspiring journey. Field recordings and recordings of classical cello, voice and digital processing are the key elements here. The music is lush, clever and beautiful -- the combination of Armstrong's melodic strength and Greie's delicately-voiced electronic inventiveness working together like a dream. AGF composed and recorded a piece about writing to introduce the nature of Orlando, sitting in his oak tree, secluded from the world, building his own powerful and wonderful universe in nature and fantasy. Craig wrote the opening theme on cello, and AGF used words from the text as well as recordings of her feet breaking dry wood and a sub-bass frequency. Pieces like "The Tree," "Betrayal," and "Sleep" see AGF and Armstrong incorporate drone and digital processing. The poetry pieces "Yearning Years," "I Held A Queen," "You Sleep On," "Sex At Thought" and "Rain Falls" are deconstructed texts, as recognizable as any of the poemproducer pieces AGF has written before. The core of this CD bears the mark of the outstanding book which Virginia Woolf wrote 100 years ago, though with a 21st century sound score of magnificent, compelling fragility.
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This is the sixth solo album by East German software musician, producer, label-owner and e-poet, AGF (aka Antye Greie), who is now based in Hailuoto, Finland. The artist herself on Einzelkämpfer: "As the title suggests, the work investigates lone warriors -- from the deep sea creatures to the human individuals, the woods, our earth, achievements through solitary action and considerations about this. I based my thoughts and research on scientific papers, ancient and recent literature, personal emotion and created poetry in my audio-composing technique, called 'poem producing.' While my recent releases were based around beats, the new album misses beats for most of it and turns its attention to ambient, noise, poetry and singing on experimental ground. This work is solely created and released on my own label. By doing so, I underline the concept of a lone warrior." Warning: contains irregular beats, noise and low frequencies (speaker system required).
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Quio, the MC and singer based in Berlin's buzzing club scene, has finished her second album with electronic producer, AGF. She is one of the few female MCs in Germany, and she drops her rhymes over drum'n'bass, garage and dubstep. With Phiu!, she continues to follow her own path. She is already highly acclaimed by critics for her first album, Like Oooh!, released in 2005. On this record, the versatile vocalist shows once again how multi-faceted her styles can be. From the angry rapper to the delicate singer, from the light-hearted MC to the serious speaking artist. Be assured, with Quio's vibrating mixture of hip-hop, club, electronica and pop you will never get bored! She plunges readily in and out of her collected influences: from Ol' Dirty Bastard over the Beastie Boys to Tanya Stevens, Lady Saw and Sovereign, from The Smiths to Phoenix. All these are minced up, recombined and given the unique electronic flavor of Quio's producer, AGF aka Antye Greie. Strong beats support high-impact rap, and deep bass brings out the tangent fragility of Quio's vocal lines. Quio has also invited some prominent guests to support her crazy styles: Nicolette, Edu K, Audiotaxi, Lise, Afia, Kwaku, Nanie, Lempapa, Dr. Data and Al Haca.
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AGF 006CD
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Laub are Antye Greie and Jotka and Deinetwegen is their fifth studio album. Deinetwegen sounds like a 21st century post techno version of the blues. Since their previous release, both members found families and developed into serious adulthood and are ready to show the world what a German post-techno band can do. The duo are ready to show the blues, with all their dust, moody narratives, and other complicated arrangements, much in the spirit of John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters -- clear, simple, reduced, honest. This is their interpretation of German 21st century blues. No sampling of old records, but certainly studying the old material helped them to write lyrics about things observed in the multimedia offices of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. The title track is the key song, with Laub-trademark vocals and pop references that refuse to function as pop. The song is not only a love song to the people in their lives, it is also a pure devotional hymn to the blues.
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This is a collaboration between Ukrainian musician, producer and graphic designer Zavoloka aka Kateryna Zavoloka and German vocalist, poet, musician and producer AGF aka Antye Greie. During several live collaborations and some sound material exchanges they developed the concept of creating techno for trees. Nature beats. The idea was to extract existing environmental sounds and form a variation of beats and vocal snippets to make powerful nature-techno. The inspiration evolved out of the structure of forest leaves and berries, translated into musical rhythm and moods. Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice contains 50 one-minute compositions each dedicated to a certain plant. The tracks are split into five subgroups: trees/bushes/meadow/flowers/spices. The structure of the pieces are woody, spicy, discontinuous and recurrent, with flavors like: grain, sappiness, chime, species, extraction and vitality. One technique they used to produce these irregular but repetitive beat patterns was to set up an old-school metronome, count in and start to battle the beat with live drumming played through self-designed sound banks, directly recording into powerful converters. Blending English and Ukrainian folk tradition, this material is feminine and organic and sounds like nothing else.
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Quio is a Berlin-based MC, singer, and performer who started MCing in 1997 as MC Looney Tunes. This is her first full-length album, and her second release for AGF Producktion. She performed with drum n' bass and hip-hop DJs in Berlin and throughout Europe, going on to meet DJ G-Serve from Audiotaxi and DJ Christine Lang. Quio is also a part of a radio show on Berlin's former pirate radio station TWEN FM. Quio met AGF (Antye Greie) when they both performed in a club, and various collaborations followed. In 2003 they started Quio. AGF and Quio have put together their different herkunft, to come up with some unique new combinations of hip-hop lyrics and experimental electronic beats -- mixing drum n' bass MC rhymes with anthem-like sad tracks. Between walking to playgrounds, talking to mothers, saving babies from being driven over, spoon feeding, clothes washing and food shopping, Quio has compiled an album full of eclectic combinations -- uptempo beats and sweet, melancholy tunes; two-steps and Greek string guitars; heavy metal and electroclash. Quio wants to be misunderstood and taken unseriously. She will break unbearable content into amusing snippets of new sense, or break up nonsense while replacing them with playful clichés. Her ability to MC along with a vast array of breakbeat music such as drum n' bass, U.K. garage, hip-hop etc. has gifted her with both twisted and profound lyrical content. Guest artists include 15 year-old singer Lise, Dr. Dee, AGF, Audiotaxi, Daddy Jotka, DJ G-Serve, MC Chubba, Dr. Data, and Lempapa.
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"AGF aka Antye Greie (Germany) and Vladislav Delay (Finland), both known for their various solo releases and worldwide performances release their first full length collaborative album. A dialogue between a drummer and a vocalist, 2 musical activists combine their talents and express their views with music they aspire for, exploring in their unique way. AGF and Vladislav Delay exercise a conscious decision to stay away from their signature sounds and styles featured on their solo works. Explode Baby is a complex collaboration with special ingredients both artists possess and bring in. The album hosts big and small stories, where human touch is always present and imagination is given a room to breathe. The album displays a mutual mix of their influences and musical needs. Antye Greie and Vladislav Delay collected inspiration for this album from the contemporary life and people seen around, in news and on the streets. Observing the world from various angles. Recollections of what was witnessed or heard, felt or understood. Bringing the memories in and keeping the emotions open, they translate what's under into an eclectic and personal collage of sound and soul where sometimes less is more. Self-release from home studio. Music in their common language. The world as their inspiration. AGF/Delay share a passion to cross borders, musically and while travelling, with an open mind. Subtle suggestions. Definite expressions. Silent explosions."
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"AGF announces Quio...AGF is a content producer and believer. Living in Berlin, Quio is an MC and singer living in Berlin -- formerly known as MC Looney Tunes. Quio goes pop or occasionally comic. 'Gazon Gazolina' is a downbeat tune recorded in October 2003 when Quio was highly pregnant maybe that explains the speed ??? 'So Dazed' is a spring tune -- and a serious attempt to be charming." File Under: Hip Hop, Clicks and Cuts ragga, pop, two step hybrid, charts. 5 tracks, including AGF remix.
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