Son[i]a #366
Antye Greie (AGF)
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Antye Greie (aka AGF or poemproducer) is a poet, activist, sound artist, sound sculptor, and curator, born in East Germany and based on the island of Hailuoto in northern Finland for over fifteen years. She started out playing in the experimental electronic group Laub in Berlin in the early 1990s, and went on to weave together an ongoing career out of feminisms, activism, collaborative practices, and radical ecology. Her practice, both poetic and political, goes beyond music and takes place between language, sound, listening, communication, and working with others in many platforms, formats, and alliances.
In this podcast, we talk to Antye Greie about language, sound, and the body. At their intersection, the voice emerges, with its multiple resonances and different ways of introducing the voice of others through her own practice and space of visibility. Along the way, we look at her work and methodology, from the deconstruction of texts to the implementation of what she calls “feminist sonic technologies”. Permeating everything, we encounter the memory and the experience of having been raised in the values and the political experiment of the former Eastern Bloc and feeling part of a silenced diaspora.
Musical references
AGF feat. Sonic Wild Code, “botn”, from Kon:3p>UTION to: e[VOL]ution, 2016
AGF, “Kaamos”, from Source Voice, 2013
AGF, “Readme”, from Head Slash Bauch, 2002
AGF, “POEMproducer”, from Westernization Completed, 2003
Kaiku community choir feat. AGF, “Wind-elimination”, from Hailuoto Seasons, 2013
Alexandra Kollontai 1872-1952 feat. AGF, from Dissedentova, 2018
AGF, “Digital Yoik”, from Source Voice, 2013
AGF, “Delusion”, from language is the most, 2003
AGF, “Insisting to remember” for REC:on, 2023
Nusasonic, “TREEing”, 2018
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Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with poet, activist, sound artist, sound sculptor and curator Antye Greie. We unpack some of her strategies to deploy what she calls "feminist sonic technologies". And we do so, starting with her own understanding of unlearning.
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