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.
Aliases: Sudden Infant
Wellenfeld
The grande finale of 'Extreme Rituals - A Schimpfluch Carnival', performed and recorded live at Arnolfini, Bristol UK on December 2nd 2012. Four leading figures of the international Noise circus team up for a unique performance, solely based on their brainwave activity. Each performer is wearing a wireless electroencephalograph (EEG) headset. The EEG signals sent from the stage are received by soundengineers, transformed from data into sound and processed to emerge through eight speakers …
Noise in My Head: The Actionistic Music and Art of Joke Lanz
Joke Lanz was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1965. In 1989 he created the noise music - performance, art - installation project Sudden Infant in connection with the Schimpfluch-Gruppe art collective. For more than 20 years Lanz has been one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones between performance/body art and improvisation/noise. Noise In My Head documents Lanz's myriad activities and features: photos from installations, performances and actions; visual wor…
Things That Happened
Joke Lanz aka Sudden Infant creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocals, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorienting electronics. It's a fragmented field of sound that comes to its own autonomy!' Two great live recordings which shows more the competence of Joke Lanz then the most studio recordings ! Termite Club, Leeds, England (Live 2004-08-21). R…
My Life's A Gunshot - Retrospective 1989-2009
20 Year retrospective of Joke Lanz's Sudden Infant project featuring 49 rare and unreleased tracks, as well as some classics. Luxurious set released on 4 LP's housed in 2 seperate fullcolour gatefold-covers, featuring paintings by Joke Lanz. Comes with 12x12 booklet with a 4-page 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.' 'Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant) is on…
Akustische aktion (Essen)
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. We believe that, what we are doing, is right, because we are endeavouring to remain true. We want to create no false illusions, no sickly aesthetic or anything beautiful. We want to find th…
Radiorgasm : reissued
Reissue of the extremely limited LP from 1991 transfered from the original master tapes. Classic Sudden Infant -schimpfluch noise dramas featuring Joke Lanz (Schimpfluch-Gruppe), B. Lingg, Inzekt & Dave Phillips (Fear of God). Essential noise listening.
Invocation of the aural slave gods
Exciting new studio album featuring Annie Stubbs (LUSTMORD, SPK) on vocals + percussion and Swiss Aktionist Joke Lanz (SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE) on noise toys, with conversions of Cabaret Voltaire's Nag Nag Nag and Roxy Music's In Every Dream Home A Heartache.
