Joke Lanz

Joke Lanz, born in Basel, is a Swiss noise musician, turntablist and performance artist based in Berlin. Active since 1986, he works across improvised music, noise, musique concrète and performance, and is best known for Sudden Infant, the project he ran alone for 25 years before it became a trio in 2014. Lanz belongs to the Schimpfluch circle with Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips and Daniel Löwenbrück, and from 1989 to 1995 he co-produced the experimental radio programme Psychic Rally with Eb.er on the Zurich community station LoRa.