Shelley Hirsch & Joke Lanz / Bogan Ghost
Shelley Hirsch (voice) & Joke Lanz (turntables)
…Shelley Hirsch (New York) is “an unorthodox extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer and performance artist” (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations and radio-plays, which have been presented on 5 continents.
She has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with many musicians i.e. Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen, Paul Lovens, DJ Olive, Joey Baron, Marc Ribot, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp etc.
She recorded for such labels as Tzadik, No Mans Land, Apollo, Innocence Records, FMP etc. with the likes of John Zorn, David Weinstein, Nicolas Collins, Jon Rose, Sven Ake Johannson, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Jin Hi Kim and many more.
“A woman of thousand voices… She offers an enthralling demonstration of the way songs, vocal styles and language might have evolved out of more primal musical impulses.” New York Times
Joke Lanz (Berlin)
Turntablist Joke Lanz creates autonomous sound-cells that melt into a language free of any function. He combines ritual reductionism with anarchistic playfulness, atmospheric soundscapes with cut-up noise and physicalness with unpredictability.
Massive scratches, walls of sound, grooves, loops, noises and voice modulations lead you on a journey into a world of unknown sound holes and deep abstract rhythm constructions.
Best known for his international acclaimed Noise project ‘Sudden Infant’, Joke Lanz is presenting his work since 25 years all over the world. Born in Switzerland and currently operating out of Berlin, Joke Lanz is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet Improvisation and Noise.
Joke Lanz has released his works on some of the most prominent record labels in the noise underground i.e. RRR, Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Entr’acte, Artware, SSSM, Klanggalerie, Some Bizarre, iDeal Rec and many more.
Bogan Ghost (Anthea Caddy & Liz Allbee)
Instrumental noise technicians Anthea Caddy (AUS) and Liz Allbee (USA) unite in this uncompromising duo. Within the extremes of noise and silence, instrumental abstraction and amplification become central. Focusing on the sepulchral and harsh qualities of cello and trumpet rendered in an electro-acoustic space, Bogan Ghost travels between multiple speaker amplification and the acoustic room, building an unnerving, multi-layered and shadowy sound world.