Concert
NOISY WORDS – Noisy writings I

Showcase and Gig with AGF

Fri, 15.11.2024
9:00 PM KET, Athen

A twofold evening performance showcasing experimental sonic and textual compositions by participating artists of the workshop workshop Noise Writings - a collaborative sound and word making, conceived and performed in a collective and/or individual manner.

Following the work of the local artists, digital songwriter, sound artist and curator, composer, poet, AGF, will present a set that transcends the conventional boundaries of sound and language. An immersive sonic experience that intricates soundscapes, noise together with spoken word, glitchy beats, and broken melodies to offer a liminal space that resonates the unheard and unseen. Seamlessly blending elements of music, poetry, and digital art, AGF will push the limits of our perception of noisy language and sound in a performance comprised of narratives articulated through the lens of feminism and radical ecology.

The names of the local participating artists will be announced soon.

About AGF (FIN)
Antye Greie-Ripatti aka AGF is a digital songwriter, sound artist and curator, composer, poet, feminist networker. She is also known as AGF, Laub, and poemproducer. Born in 1969, and raised in East Germany, she has lived and worked in Hailuoto, Finland since 2008. She works with language, sound, listening, voice, and communication, expressed in mixed media, audiovisual live performances, digital communication, sound installations, commissions for radio, movies and theater, exhibitions and conceptual works. Greie-Ripatti has released 30 long player records, and has been engaged in numerous collaborations under such aliases as AGF, AGF/Delay (with Vladislav Delay), Greie Gut Fraktion (with Gudrun Gut), and The Lappetites (with Kaffe Matthews and Eliane Radigue), among them – for a long term – with the award-winning classical composer Craig Armstrong. She runs the production company and music label AGF Producktion and has produced records for other artists, most famously for Ellen Allien (Sool, 2009, BPitch). In 2011, Greie-Ripatti founded the arts organization Hai Art in Hailuoto, where she serves as artistic director, executive producer, and workshop leader. Hai Art has organized a conference on remote art, more than ten artist-in-residencies, extensive sound program with children in Hailuoto, the iPad Orchestra Hailuoto, the Organum, the Hailuoto (mini) MediaLAB, and numerous artists camps. Since 2011 she works as independent sound curator.

A few words about the workshop Noisy Writings
Noisy Writings is a four-days workshop on improvising, writing, rewriting, cutting and pasting, warping and performing text and sound facilitated by artists and curators Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) and Cedrik Fermont (C-drik). Learning and unlearning ways of writing and sounding words through sound and vice versa, this workshop will provide the space and time to explore, both on a collective and individual manner, non-linear and fragmented ways of composing with electronic sound, speaking and singing voice, everyday objects and bodies. A hands-on workshop where participating artists will jam and discover, together as a group, ways of writing sounds and sounding words. Participants will be encouraged to come up with intimate sonic portraits, capturing the essence of their personal sonic identity. These portraits will offer a deeper understanding of their creative processes, influences, and positionalities. A diverse range of sounds, styles, mediums and technologies, will be nurtured in order to accommodate the needs and interests of the group. The participating artists together with Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) and Cedrik Fermont (C-drik) will engage in a mutual exchange where all parties will be regarded as equal in a process of learning and exchanging skills, experiences and knowledge. The workshop will culminate in a live performance open to the public where the artists will showcase their noisy sets, or else instances of their personal and group noisy wor(l)ds with the audience.