FEB 07 Out now: SPRINGTIDE , a 5.1 surround mix for semiconductor's award winning film Brilliant Noise, now out on DVD on Fatcat as World In Flux. http://www.myspace.com/semiconductorfilms
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NOV 06 Out now: TALKING SPACE TO SPACE on licht-ung , a stereo version of my radio art piece of the same title. Using captured natural radio emissions from celestial objects, Iris reshapes these sounds into an audio composition and flings them back to the stars in a radio broadcast. A poetic gesture, a sensual fiction which takes the past, re-shapes it in real-time and travels with it into the future. The piece was originally performed on Resonance FM in June 04 and as part of Radio Art Riot during the Frieze Art Fair, October 04. An extract was also featured as part of Radio Day of European Cultures in October 05. An extended version was listed for the PRS New Music Award in 05. More to follow
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BIOG
Iris Garrelfs is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing†as the Wire Magzine put it.
Described as the "Diamanda Galas of Glitch", Iris’ training into creating through voice began very early on. Her parents sang in the village choir, and would often practice at home with Iris making up new melodies, 2nd and 3rd voices to whatever was being sung. She got into the attractions of technology as a teenager, stumbling across her dad’s pulp si-fi magazines. Iris is still waiting for an implant that will siphon off her sonic nerve impulses, fragments of melody, rhythm and correlation floating around in her body and brain. A vital part of her work, be it using voice or other sound material, is improvisation and the use of random elements, the ephemeral fragility and risk implied in giving up control to me moment, a sonic singularity
Iris performs solo as well as in collaboration with other artists, for example Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot), Kaffe Matthews, Scanner, Si-cut.db and others. Since Autumn 05 she is part of Symbiosis Orchestra, consisting of Scanner (electronics - uk), Stefano Tedesco (vibraphone, percussions -it) Andrea Gabriele (guitar, electronics - it), Claudio Sinatti (videos - it).
The recent album Specified Encounters , released on the French label Bip-Hop , has been moulded from dissected voice sounds and was described as "An astonishing document of current vocal art" by German netmag Ikonen. The Wire Magazines drew parallels with Joan La Barbara and Henri Chopin.
Music making aside aside, Iris is the co-founder of London based underground playground and test tube for current sound Sprawl . Artists featured have included Kim Cascone, Scanner, Kaffe Matthews, Christian Fennesz, Taylor Dupree and more. She is a regular on London’s soundart radio station Resonance FM and sits on the Sonic Arts Network Board of Trustees.
As an outspoken person, Iris gets invited as a speaker and panelist at conferences and events in the UK and abroad, most recently at Visiones Sonoras in Mexico. Iris has appeared on TV, for example and ARTE TV in "Well Tempered Computer - Are Computers able to compose" and most recently on ITV's Mixmasters TV. This project has been released by Moonshine in the US and has received a nomination for Best Music DVD at the Dancestar AwardsFind out more at http://www.irisgarrelfs.com
