Please
note:
From 31st January to 29th June 2012 I will be staying most of the time
in Cairo (Egypt) for an artist residency.
Exceptions are my appearances at Maerz Musik Berlin, Archipel Festival
Geneva and possibly at El Nicho Aural Mexico.
You can still contact me by email. New bookings and projects can be
accepted after the end of June.
SUDDEN INFANT Book 'Noise In My Head' published on Marhaug
Forlag (see Release section):
http://marhaugforlag.no/suddeninfant2.html
Shelley Hirsch & Joke Lanz Duo (live at NK Berlin July 1
2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6cx3ZgJ-A
SUDDEN INFANT Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sudden-Infant/169263813138593
SUDDEN INFANT Blog: http://suddeninfant.blogspot.com/
T-Shirt gallery: http://sitshirtgallery.blogspot.com/
SUDDEN INFANT on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise
CONTACT/BOOKING: joke[at]suddeninfant.com
UPCOMING EVENTS
18/March/2012 - 22:00
Tomomi Adachi / Portrait:
Minna no Uta (Song for Everyone)
for 10 Voice performer & turntables (1995)
JOKE LANZ: turntables
@ Maerz Musik Festival, Sonic Arts Lounge, Haus der Berliner
Festspiele, Berlin (D)
http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/02_maerzmusik/mm_start.php
30/March/2012
JOKE LANZ: turntables solo
@ Archipel Festival, Théatre Pitoeff, Geneva (CH)
http://www.archipel.org/2012/index.php?m=01&i=e2250&e=0
Noise In My Head documents the work of Sudden Infant / Joke Lanz since the early beginning in the late 80s and features:
- Photos from installations, performances and actions
- Visual works including drawings and paintings
- Poetry and manifestos
- A visual discography
- Reproductions of concert posters and flyers
- New essays by Rudolf Eb.er, Leif Elggren, Daniel Menche, Steve Underwood, Mark Wharton, and Drew Daniel
- In-depth interview with Joke Lanz himself by Christopher Sienko
Noise In My Head is a portrait of a remarkable artist, but also offers insight into the noise music underground Lanz has been working with for over two decades.
Hardcover, 160 pages (16 in colour) and limited to 300 copies. Published October 2011.
ISBN: 978-82-998765-0-6 / Europe: 30 Euro - World: 45 US-$
http://marhaugforlag.no/suddeninfant2.html
"The name Joke Lanz is typically used as a metaphor to describe the most pure & harrowing elements of transgressive art, conjuring up solemn images of contortion & absurdity. Making instant breakthroughs in the late 80′s reactionary Swiss art scene using his alias of Sudden Infant, Joke Lanz also is one of the key members of avant-garde performance art group Schimpfluch-Gruppe which employed various mediums along side performances to erase any perceived notion of social dogma. Sudden Infant left it’s own unquire signature on the world with such classic recordings as Radiorgasm (1991) and Solothurn (1994), leaving a blueprint behind of his current sound art study. Typically employing the use of distortion and voice, scrambling up both mediums until one is indistinguishable for the other. This recent composition, wrapped up as The wicked Mothers, is a unique example of such primal techniques." - Robert & Leopold
Limited edition of 125 copies!
http://robertandleopold.com/
Ritual emissions: Joyous! Perverse!
Documented July 2011!
Limited edition of 150 copies. Highest quality chrome tape!
http://www.blossomingnoise.com/
Sudden Infant live LP! Girl side: Termite Club Leeds 2004. Boy side: Rote Flora Hamburg 2007.
Limited edition of 300 copies in coloured vinyl. Artwork by St. Martin. Thanks to Mike Dando, Thomas Beck, Asmus Tietchens, Pollo.
Release date: 20th May 2011!
http://www.reduktivemusiken.com
20 Year retrospective of Joke Lanz's Sudden Infant project, released on 4 LP's housed in 2 fullcolour gatefold-covers (Vol.1 & Vol.2), featuring paintings by Joke Lanz, and an essay about S.I. by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D+M, designed by Bill Kouligas.
"These two double LP's combine 49 rare and unreleased tracks as well as some of Sudden Infant's most essential and radical work from the last twenty years. Beautifully housed in two fold-out double LP's with original cover paintings by Joke Lanz and an exclusive 4-page essay by GX Jupitter-Larsen. No CD or download releases planned.
"Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant) is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet improvisation and Noise. In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes, etc. The result is an extreme form of musique concrète that juxtaposes spasmodic gibbering with a battery of disorienting electronics." - The Wire
This set runs the garmut of ritual action, early new wave/metal-on-metal punkers, organic noise eviscerations, dark drone works and hysterical body horror [...] Highly recommended!
- Vocanic Tongue
http://www.hronir.de/
Psychotic Einzelkind is an exploding kaleidoscope, an acoustical Rorschach inkblot test, of psychotic sounds and noises. Sudden Infant as a trio, with the forces of Joke Lanz (vocals, electronics), Bill Kouligas (percussion, electronics) and Christian Weber (bass), delivers a strong and extensive album without any boundaries and limits. Recorded 2007 at Rashad Becker's studio in Berlin Kreuzberg. Includes three remixes by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Lasse Marhaug and Z'EV. Cover design by Allon Kaye.
http://www.blossomingnoise.com
Eminent DVD release of three seminal Sudden Infant performances from three different time periods:
2007 Berlin, 2002 Paris and 1996 Taipei. All actions composed and performed by Joke Lanz.
Pure classic noise-actionism and physical sound-poetry! Includes four inserts with photo and detailed informations about each performance. Direct mailorder copies (from Sudden Infant or Tochnit Aleph) are signed by the artist! Available in PAL & NTSC.
'An inner motivation causes the sound to find its way out of the body and into the space. Gestural pantomime explains more about this music, coming as it does from a feeling for the body, than words could ever do.'
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com
Exciting studio album featuring Annie Stubbs on vocals + percussion and Joke Lanz on noise toys + vocals.
With cover versions of Cabaret Voltaire's Nag Nag Nag and Roxy Music's In Every Dream Home A Heartache.
Housed in a beautiful Digipack with a limited edition Sudden Infant sticker.
"Abandoning the predictable walls of noise and static assaults, the music of Sudden Infant bounces the listener about an unpredictable journey through violent explosions, eerie body sounds and functions, and hysterical lunacy. If there was an asylum established for noise and industrial musicians who had lost touch with reality in their pursuit of music 'Invocation of the Aural Slave Gods' would be the soundtrack playing at the asylum.
by Malakhi Thorn / Heathen Harvest / September 2005
http://www.blossomingnoise.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6cx3ZgJ-A
Psychotic Einzelkind - Trailer (w/ Brigitte Wilfing) 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nV9eLaEyeM
Live at The Lab San Francisco 31st January 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtDIyWOglJ8&feature=related
Live at No Fun Fest Knitting Factory New York City 18th May 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCx11CMd6o&feature=related
03/November/2011 @ NK, Berlin (D) photo by Frank Foge
01/November/2011 @ SI Book presentation, Rumpsti Pumsti, Berlin (D) photo by Daniel Löwenbrück
04/October/2011 @ Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava (CZ) photo by Jirí Volejník
14/September/2011 @ WREK, Destroy All Music, Atlanta (USA) photo by Graham Moore
01/July/2011 @ NK, Berlin (D) photo by Aniana Heras
10/July/2009 @ GdK/White Rabbit, Berlin (D) photo by Schlafzeug
11/September/2008 @ Koenji High, Tokyo (Japan) photo by Martin Holtkamp
23/September/2007 @ ZXZW Festival, Tilburg (NL) photo by Christiaan Westgeest
07/December/2006 @ Barden's Boudoir, London (UK) photo by Capitodeneuve
29/January/2005 @ public lavatory, Kentish Town, London (UK) photo by Martin Holtkamp
contact & booking: joke@suddeninfant.com
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