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From: agf <agf@poemproducer.com> Date: Fr Okt 1, 2004 17:43:13 Europe/Berlin To: hynek dedecius <dedecih@seznam.cz> Cc: agf <agf@poemproducer.com> Subject: Re: interview - Prague show yip QUESTIONS: Electronic music is very much connected to new technologies, computers etc. and that is mostly the domain of men. How and why did you start making electronic music? i wanted to get rid off man/ rock/ cliches ;) started using sampler and machines like it gives freedom in 1993 i bougt a commodore 64 and kurzweil keyboard and started doing it... in london dalston went through atarie/ notator to laptop business now i can call myself producer Even though you perform on festivals all around the world, you are not very known here. How would you describe your music work to someone, who hasn‘t got the slightest idea about what to expect? (please try to write more than a few words, maybe a few sentences) it is a personal view. a personal selection of sounds to create a composition to life. i am expressing myself and i use language and voice a lot and. the music can be anything it is playing with song writing and pop but its not consistent or perfect. it breaks down and changes. like life. it is influenced by all contemporary and classicla music but it is an individual creation of music. while i am observing the world and mirror it through me and my thoughts and feelings i play with noise. hip hop. fieldrecordings and bass i wish that my music reaches people in silent circumstances and protects them from carelessness and sonic pollution. makes them stronger Words play an important role in your music compositions. Your last regular album Westernization Completed contained lyrics based on e-mails etc. – what‘s your attitude towards poetry? poetry is my way to output feelings and frustration. happiness and beauty i like poetry cause its aloud to create new words and combination of words which create different angels and maybe really make things look different and even change them... at least for me i am a fan. i love else-lasker schueler. celan. octavio paz. What does your live show look like? What should we expect from your Prague show? depends on the space a bit dont know the place i try to be there for you You are one of the three artists who won the latest Prix Ars Electronica contest in the category of digital music. What did you get the prize for? What made the jury vote for you? thats their statement: http://www.aec.at/en/prix/awards2004.asp Digital Musics AGF (Deutschland): "Westernization Completed" AGF's second solo album explores new patterns in the relation between sound and language. Fractured tonal and linguistic sequences, audible jumps, intentional pauses-poetry arises out of the reorganization of these vocabulary building blocks. The components have a tonality all their own and thus become an additional musical stratum and a superimposed level of meaning. AGF shifts its vocals into the center of attention and, in doing so, entices the listener to measure his/her associative potential against their streams of thought. Painting fragile, transparent pictures with sound and mixing in starkly contrasting elements like rolling bass waves or clicking punctuation marks engenders an organic ensemble of acoustic imagery. > You seem to be very fond of technology. Why is that? technology is my friend helps me doing things more independently i am dependend on internet and income and producing but not so much on attitude of people i can reach directly what i am looking for in music/ art and business Are you a ‚software maniac‘, always hunting for new versions of programs etc.? no not at alll infect i like to update my system once a year or every second i like to rather do music then update software... but it is important to have a reliable studio so i do this part of the job with disciplin and professionalsm but not passion i am rather a loyal... person i rather fall in love with a patch instead of looking for the newest You‘ve designed the Kitty-Yo label website. Do you also work as a web designer? What other websites/projects bear your signature? i am not a designer. i produced the kitty-yo website... i was responsible for the content management and the content i left kitty-yo in january 2003 internet is my passion... i just help people to get their stuff on the web i support some other artists and i helped out bpitch control but its a minor activity What other cultural fields and social phenomena are you interested in? Any inspirations from other arts? film. communities. painting. fashion. books... politics. social factors everything i come across with i dont judge things much On Westernization Completed you‘ve used excerpts from e-mails as ‚lyrics‘. What‘s your attitude towards e-mailing, chatting, mobile phone messages and other modern ways of communication? What would you say to the people who think that this kind of ‚remote communication‘ is unhealthy, that it makes people abandon the ‚healthy‘ face-to-face discussions and real social contacts? this doesnt go for me if you do one thing you dont stop doing another one i have closest friends all over the world and i email with them .. soemtimes call them when i think of them i write sms or i chat i love them and care when i have a chance to see them i hang out with them.. drink eat ... speak.. sleep over and much more... its more communication if you do like but you can just reduce it and shut all off even with my parents i enjoy emailing cause we have so much more possibilty to share things... and i still go a few times a year to see and hang out with them in general i think this ways of communication help poeple to learn communicating and practice i think it makes people stronger and free in communication and more honest and caring The word content within your music composition seems to be very important for you. Most other laptop musicians omit this part. What fascinates you about words and the combination of music and words? i specialiced in that.. i try to explore the quallity.. mmy main instrument is voice so i have to deal with content or deny it like on HEAD SLASH BAUCH its a singers/ vocalists curse Should we understand it (and do you yourself understand it) as a kind of poetry? however you want i dont dictate anybody what to think of me i had to find words to describe from my point of view to explain... promote.. markete my work i chose poem producer What‘s your attitude to poetry in general? What do you like about it? Do you have any favourite poets? answered all that Have you ever written any poems? i write poems every day Your debut Head Slash Bauch was full of German words but then you switched to English. Why this shift? my life changed i started writing speaking reading and dreaming feeling in english i speak 90 % english ... thats why i keep doing german things at least with laub and so on i needed also to say something... my listeners will understand most of my listeners dont understand german Your music compositions are quite hard to demask. Why don‘t you use more accessible structures? i dont feel like i follow my instincts they are not quantisized and repetitive i dont like repeating myself others do that good enough and plenty ur work combines very abstract music with similarly abstract poetry, so it is a kind of double abstraction. What do you think the listeners can get from this abstractness? Or, in other words, what are you ‚trying to say‘ by your work? what is abstract ? something which is not like the other stuff ??? to me britneys spears is abstract or brit pop or metal... its always where you are and who is there to promote and pay to market your shit club music makes people get trunk and dance for hours i like it... but is it less abstract ??? to life ???? i receive a lot of fanmails people are touched and inspired by my music and they feel comforted and encouraged in what they do by hearing what i do thats my wish At the moment laptop musicians are so numerous. In fact, they are sometimes viewed as charlatans pretending to be artists. Why is it so? Where can you see the threshold between good laptop musician and a fake? you can FEEL it Is electronic music still exciting from your point of view? Any names we should concentrate on? lets keep our ears open.... AGF seems to be your main project at the moment but what about Laub, AGF/Dlay etc.? Have you been recently working on any other projects? all going here an update thanks best agf RECENT ARS ELECTRONICA WINNER http://www.poemproducer.com/any.php?id=4 http://www.aec.at/en/prix/awards2004.asp WESTERNIZATION COMPLETED http://www.musork.com/o_18.html now on AGF PRODUCKTION http://www.agfproducktion.com/ LANGUAGE IS THE MOST http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/review.php?review=530&q= AGF PRODUCKTION http://www.agfproducktion.com/ QUIO http://www.quio.poemproducer.com/ LAPPETITES http://www.lappetites.poemproducer.com/ EXHIBITIONS BOX?21 http://www.poemproducer.com/box21/box21.html SOUND + CALLIGRAPHIE http://www.wdw.nl/persfoto/tracer/ http://www.poemproducer.com/any.php?id=47 FUTURE AG.F3 + SUE.C DVD on asphodel/ SF http://www.orthlorng.com/sue/ AGF/DLAY ALBUM on AGF PRODUCKTION 003 collaboration with vladislav delay http://www.agfdelay.com/ ANTYE GREIE / VLADISLAV DELAY/ CRAIG ARMSTRONG piano album on HUUME collabo with craig armstrong http://www.craigarmstrong.com/ maybe also soon new LAUB http://www.laub-filesharing.de/ |