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THE LAPPETITES @ KONTRAKLANG_2018 Berlin, Heimathafen

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visiting Eliane Radigue with the Lappetites, Oct 2022 during a 3 day France tour

The Lappetites, the live electronic band comprised of Antye Greie/AGF, Kaffe Matthews and Ryoko Akama—Heroines of Sound Festival 2019 found its perfect ending. Their open, participatory structure made their performance a meeting place. A roofing slat was filmed from above and projected onto the wall. Randomly selected audience members were invited on stage, continuously filling the paper with lines, movement, noise and crossings. This audiovisual participatory performance imagined a world without borders, where people can move and meet freely. It was an interaction between different concepts, bodies and materials that took on improvised sonic and visual shapes open to reaction and change. It navigated the space between composition and performance, concept and realisation. And, just like the festival itself, it called for collective listening and action.

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rehearsals

Since 2002 The Lappetites work in the formation of founder Kaffe Matthews, AGF and Ryoko Akama. Their work includes a collaboration with the French composer Eliane Radigue on her composition Elemental II (2002). In 2014 a residency at EMS Stockholm resulted in an audiovisual performance project titled: Borderless. Since, multiple transcending musical concepts have been developed and furthered with each of the resulting performances. The quadrophonic staging features a roofing slate that is filmed from above and is an open platform for participatory audiovisual interaction with the audience. Sonic concepts of text based speculative fiction, translated biological evolution into sine wave growing, noise improvisation are part of the trios output. Matthew's decade long experience of spacial live sound, Akama's sonic sensitivity with synthesiser and AGF’s digital and vocal execution bring a dynamic spectrum in sound without borders.

our amplified roofing slate