NEWS
New SUDDEN INFANT Blog at http://suddeninfant.blogspot.com/
Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) will be staying in Los Angeles until mid February 2010 for sound research and live shows along the Westcoast (see listing). For further updates and more informations please check the Sudden Infant MySpace site. Thanks!
CRANK INFANT (Crank Sturgeon & Sudden Infant) live at
AundV Leipzig Germany 6th September 2009:
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here
The Wire launches Below The
Radar, a major new series of free download compilations.
Below The Radar Volume 1, features new or
exclusive tracks by: SUDDEN INFANT, MARK WASTELL, JAMES FERRARO, LSD
MARCH, GHEDALIA TAZARTES, BRIAN MORANT, UTON, SEYMOUR WRIGHT, RHODRI
DAVIES, PHIL MINTON, LEE PATTERSON, A BROKEN CONSORT, CONCERN and more.
Below The Radar
Live at No Fun Fest '08 at the Knitting Factory
in New York City 18th May 2008:
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here
SUDDEN INFANT on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise
CONTACT: joke@suddeninfant.com
EVENTS
23/January/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
RYAN JENCKS / S6X6S
RIVERVERB
ELI PECHMAN
AUTHOR & PUNISHER
@ Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA (USA)
http://www.myspace.com/sodabarbooking
24/January/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
RYAN JENCKS / S6X6S
THE HATERS
DAMION ROMERO
JOHN WIESE
CLEANSE
@ Luna Playhouse, 3706 San Fernando Rd, Glendale, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
http://www.lunaplayhouse.org
26/January/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
DEATHROES
DARKSMITH
@ The Terminal, 3957 San Leandro St, Oakland, CA (USA)
http://fierysummons.blogspot.com/
27/January/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
RYAN JENCKS / S6X6S
CASU MARZU
SOULSCYTHE
@ Speak Easy, 915 Oak St, Eugene, OR (USA)
http://www.myspace.com/oakstreetspeakeasy
28/January/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
RYAN JENCKS / S6X6S
DANIEL MENCHE
PETE SWANSON
@ Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, Portland, OR (USA)
http://www.holocene.org/calendar/
29/January/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
RYAN JENCKS / S6X6S
DRIED UP CORPSE
SCARD T1 & ~DYNA*GIRL
@ The Josephine, 608 NW 65th St, Seattle, WA (USA)
http://www.myspace.com/thejosephine
31/January/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
RYAN JENCKS / S6X6S
TRALPHAZ
HORAFLORA
@ The Lab, 2948 16th St, San Francisco, CA (USA)
http://www.thelab.org/events/421-suddeninfant.html
http://www.23five.org/
http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/
SUDDEN INFANT US-Westcoast shows are kindly supported by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and Swissnex.
20/February/2010
JOKE LANZ: turntables
ARIEL GARCIA: electronics
@ Festival Rue du Nord, Theatre 221, Lausanne (CH)
www.ruedunord.org/
21/February/2010
SUDDEN INFANT
DICK TOURETTE
@ Musikzimmer, Kunstraum, Aarau (CH)
SUDDEN INFANT – My Life's A Gunshot - 2x 2LP (Hrönir / Germany) - Available January 2010!
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
A dinner is a dinner is a dinner: Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) & Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock) bite, chew, smack, gulp and slurp in order to tickle your ears and your digestive system. Instead of decay and corruption, Lanz and Eb.er deliver a true and undiluted composition of this existential act of annihilation. This historical document of an early Schimpfluch Gruppe performance is an absolute must for fans of actionistic noise and performance-art.
It is packaged in a pro-press folded cover including all information and photos which itself is housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve with the text from the original documentation of the performance back in 1991 at the Shedhalle in Zurich Switzerland. Strictly limited to 200 copies only! www.pan-act.com
This new SI Tape was especially made for their 2009 mini-tour in France with shows in Metz, Paris and
St. Laurent de Terregatte (Agrippa Festival).
Sudden Infant, this time consisting of Ute Waldhausen & Joke Lanz, delivers rough and wild versions and new edits of: Moi Toi Lui Elle, Tandoori Chicken Scooter, Parrotism, Ne me quitte pas, Ghostzilla, Celinoise.
Each cassette comes with a different children book!
Recorded at Etui in East-Berlin June 2009. Strictly limited edition of 50 copies!
www.myspace.com/ssbtapes
Brand new Sudden Infant LP (Vinyl only!) on Harbinger Sound. Composed and recorded by Joke Lanz in February 2009 for Sudden Infant's 20th anniversary. Comes with SI stickman rubber-stamped on the front and handmade stencil artwork by JL. This special version is only available through SI headquarters and selected record stores in Berlin. Limited edition of 100 copies!
http://wrackedandruined.blogspot.com/
'I asked Joke to record a 20-minute-secret of himself, which he's still not willing to give away. This cassette is the result'. (Micha Barthel / RFTS)
Limited edition of 100 copies!
Another 2009 tape sweetie! This time released by Gothenburg based 'iDEAL Recordings' label. This two-track cassette was especially made for Sudden Infant's live action at the Freefest at Nefertiti Jazzclub in Gothenburg. Limited edition of 50 copies!
www.idealrecordings.com
2009 tape release on French label Tanzprocesz. Limited edition of 66 copies.
Tracks: Mindfuck, Interlude, Catharsis, Dreamhole, 22 scenes from the sink.
http://tanzprocesz. free. fr
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.
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.'
www.tochnit-aleph.com
Carlos Giffoni says: 'I first met Joke Lanz four or five years ago in New York, during his US-tour. I was immediately blown away by his work, by its ferocitiy and precision. I had been experimenting in similar areas in my solo performances and in recordings with the Old Bombs trio, and had heard of Joke through his involvement in Schimpfluch-Gruppe, but nothing could prepare me for the cut-up insanity of Sudden Infant's performance.
This current collaboration has its origins in a joint performance in a shady pub in East London in 2004, though in between then and the time this record was made our styles had diverged - Sudden Infant still ferocious and precise but with a whole new refreshing approach to physical sounds - me still looking for the perfect frequency to make the audience come in their pants. Combine these approaches and you get a true oscillating orgy.'
Recordings have been exchanged and reworked, and finalised when the two played together again at Blå club in Oslo in 2006. Mastered and cut by the peerless Rashad Becker in Berlin. First edition of 200 copies!
www.entracte.co.uk
Liederliches is a collection of 36 one minute cut-up absurdities / insanity? perpetrated by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) and Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock), both of which are founding members of the actionist group Schimpfluch. This LP is pressed on 140 gram marbled vinyl that plays from the inside-out (vinyl starts at center and plays to the edge) and comes housed in a beautifully printed (and sturdy) sleeve adorned with art by Rudolf Eb.er. Limited edition of 300 copies! www.blossomingnoise.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
www.blossomingnoise.com
SUDDEN INFANT - retrospective 1989-2009 - 4LP (Hrönir / D)
JOKE LANZ / RUDOL EB.ER - gesprochenes & erbrochenes / poetry - C60 Tape (SSB Tapes / D)
05/September/2009 @ Projektwerkstatt, Leipzig (D) photos by Hannah Sieben
21/August/2009 @ Staalplaat, Berlin (D) videostill by Ursula Peer
10/July/2009 @ GdK/White Rabbit, Berlin (D) photo by Schlafzeug
18/April/2009 @ Ausland, Berlin (D) photo by Tom Smith
11/September/2008 @ Koenji High, Tokyo (Japan) photo by Martin Holtkamp
18/May/2008 @ No Fun Fest, New York City (USA) photo by Seth Tisue
16/March/2008 @ Unyazi Festival, University of Johannesburg (ZA) photo by Okko Bekker
23/September/2007 @ ZXZW Festival, Tilburg (NL) photo by Christiaan Westgeest
30/April/2007 @ Stralau68, Berlin (D) videostill by Ute Waldhausen
07/December/2006 @ Barden's Boudoir, London (UK) photo by Capitodeneuve
28/April/2006 @ Cube Microplex, Bristol (UK) photo by Hugh Spiller
16/September/2005 @ Transart Festival, Bolzano (I)
29/January/2005 @ public lavatory, Kentish Town, London (UK) photo by Martin Holtkamp
contact & booking: joke@suddeninfant.com
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