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artist:
AGF
title: Language is
the most
format:
cd
cat. #: quecksilber 6
release date:
29.03.04 |
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AGF
- Language is the most
New full-length album feat. exclusive recordings from the Ars
Electronica Klangpark 2003, fully re-worked and edited by AGF
in Berlin.
AGF:
How code made its way into my music.
As a singer and producer, I rely primarily
on content, and that can get to be a real encumbrance. After many years of creating
music, I feel that I'm
being confronted over and over again with the fact that listeners - and especially
when it comes to Germans dealing with the German language - have problems getting
to the music. Content always comes first - the message, the brain.
In cutting
the tracks for my album "head slash bauch" (head slash
gut), I wanted to free myself from this coercive pressure to have to say something
understandable. On my way to becoming an independent producer, I geeked my
way through the process of self-education in matters of hardware, software,
user's manuals and all the other stuff that goes with it. And that's how the
computer/laptop came to exert an extremely positive - except for the chronic
back pain - influence on my working and lifestyle options, my communication
and production possibilities, and makes possible more and more flexibility,
speed and personal control.
So that's how I discovered the poetry and beauty
of this technically practical programming language. Since then I've been experimenting
with this tension
between technical coolness and rhythm and melody in connection with reality,
feeling, vision. For the opening of the Ars Electronica Klangpark 2003, I presented
a live performance featuring some of this work and my recent album "Westernization
Completed" and integrated into it a composition especially based on the
dictionary entry for "code".
www.poemproducer.com
In addition to her
solo projects, Antye Greie has received critical acclaim for her work with
Laub, Craig Armstrong, and Vladislav Delay (Luomo and agf/dlay)
on labels such as Kitty-Yo and Mille Plateaux. |
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