About Sudden Infant

NOISE project named "Sudden Infant" is the noise-music project of Swiss born Joke Lanz, working in the area of experimental and free music since 1989. He has countless releases on experimental labels from Europe to Japan, and focuses on a very analogue production style that ranges from visceral to absurd, comical to intriguing. Joke Lanz was born 1965 in Basel, Switzerland. Currently based in Berlin. Joke Lanz 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 punk, industrial and electronics. Has worked as garbageman, cleaner, caregiver, night watchman, farmer, record dealer, administrative assistant, bike messenger, chocolate manufacturer, technician, housekeeper, and more. Free studies in Performance Art, Noise music, Turntablism. Since 1985 involved with a broad variety of musical projects, such as: Jaywalker, Sudden Infant, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, Psychic Rally, Vehikel & Gefäss, Catholic Boys in Heavy Leather, WAL, and Tell. Composed music for contemporary dance, theatre, films, radio plays, and installations. Collaborations with: Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Z'EV, Shelley Hirsch, Rudolf Eb.er, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Daniel Menche, Lasse Marhaug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Astro, Voice Crack, Carlos Giffoni, MSBR, C.C.C.C., Con-Dom, The New Blockaders, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO Wien), Sixes, DJ Olive, Hans Koch, Ignaz Schick, eRikm, Strotter Inst., Christian Weber, Bill Kouligas, Roger Rotor, Small Cruel Party, Dieb13, Due Process, Christian Wolfarth, Martin Baumgartner, Evil Moisture, Charlotte Hug, and many others. Artist residencies in Berlin, London, Cairo, and elsewhere. Composition Assignment by Arts Council of Switzerland. Workshops and lectures at Music Academy Lucerne, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the University of Stellenbosch. http://www.suddeninfant.com/frameset.html https://myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise http://suddeninfant.blogspot.com.es/ http://sitshirtgallery.blogspot.com.es/ http://www.discogs.com/artist/75331-Sudden-Infant https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sudden-Infant/169263813138593 suddeninfant@gmx.de Joke Lanz / Sudden Infant Schöneggstr. 29 8004 Zürich Switzerland