Michel Banabila (born 14 April 1961 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch composer and sound artist.
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Background information | |
Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Genres | Electronic |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, producer |
Years active | 1983 – present |
Labels | Bureau B, Séance Centre, Challenge Records (1994) |
Website | banabila.com |
Banabila performed live[1] in 2013 in the auditorium of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, at the opening[2] of the exhibition of Crops,[3] an audiovisual installation with photographer Gerco de Ruijter. He performed live with media artist Geert Mul with their audiovisual set Big Data Poetry[4] at the Logan Symposium,[5] in the Barbican, London, in 2014 and in Yukunkun at the Global Week For Syria[6][7] in Beirut, in 2015. In 2015, he also appeared at the Sonic Circuits Festival,[8][9] Silver Spring, with a small modular improv set. Banabila is a member of the Disquiet Junto group.[10][11] He lives with his wife and daughter in Rotterdam.
Discography
edit- Marilli (Eduard Vingerhoets, 1983)
- Des Traces Retrouvees (Trichord, 1984)
- VoizNoiz: Urban Sound Scapes (Steamin' Soundworks 1999)
- VoizNoiz II: Urban Sound Scapes (Tone Casualties, 2001)
- Spherics (Tone Casualties, 2001)
- Spherics II (Boudisque 2003)
- Phonema (Tapu, 2003)
- VoizNoiz 3 – Urban Jazz Scapes with Eric Vloeimans (Javaanse Jongens, 2003)
- Live-Mix (Requiem, 2005)
- Hilarious Expedition (Tapu, 2005)
- Music for Films & Documentaries (Tapu, 2007)
- 0+1+0+1+0+1+0+1+0+ (Tapu, 2010)
- Changing Structures (Tapu, 2010)
- The Latest Research from the Department of Electrical Engineering (Tapu, 2011)
- In Other Words (Tapu, 2011)
- Sum Dark 12 (Tapu, 2012)
- TENT 06 & 16 & 2012 (Tapu, 2012)
- Gardening (Tapu, 2012)
- 47 Voice Loops (Tapu, 2013)
- Float (Tapu, 2013)
- ZoomWorld (Tapu, 2013)
- More Research from the Same Dept. (Tapu, 2014)
- Music for Viola and Electronics I with Oene van Geel (Tapu, 2014)
- Music for Viola and Electronics II with Oene van Geel (Tapu, 2015)
- Gorlice 2014 (Tapu, 2014)
- Eyes Closed (Tapu, 2015)
- Jump Cuts (Tapu, 2015)
- Meet Me in Venice with Beppe Costa (Tapu, 2015)
- Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves (Tapu, 2015)
- Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves II (Tapu, 2015)
- Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves III (Tapu, 2016)
- Earth Visitor (Tapu, 2016)
- Early Works (Bureau B, 2016)
- Sound Years (Tapu, 2017)
- New Land with Eric Vloeimans (Tapu, 2017)
- Trespassing (Séance Centre, 2017)
- Imprints (Tapu, 2018)
- Just Above the Surface (Tapu, 2018)
- Winter Sketches (Tapu, 2019)
- Uprooted (Tapu, 2019)
- Wah-Wah Whispers (Bureau B, 2021)
- Echo Transformations (Knekelhuis, 2021)
With Robin Rimbaud
- Banabila / Scanner (Steamin'Soundworks, 2010)
- Between Your Eyes And Mine (Tapu, 2013)
- The Spaces You Hold (Scanner, 2020)
With Machinefabriek
- Banabila & Machinefabriek (Tapu, 2012)
- Travelog (Tapu, 2013)
- Error Log (Tapu, 2015)
- Macrocosms (Tapu, 2016)
- Entropia (Eilean, 2019)
- Cassina (7K!, 2020)
References
edit- ^ "Programs Calendar". Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Museums Openings". HighBeam Research. The Washington Post. 9 August 2013. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Banabila, Michel (14 February 2012). "Crops (Gerco de Ruijter)". Vimeo. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ Mul, Geert (13 January 2015). "BIG DATA POETRY live at The Logan Symposium, The Barbican Centre. London". Vimeo. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Programme 2014 - The Logan CIJ Symposium The Logan Symposium 11-12 March 2016". CIJ Logan Symposium. 12 March 2016. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "'Michel Banabila' and 'Geert Mul' at Yukunkun During Global Week for Syria, Beirut Festival". Beirut.com. 19 April 2015. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Global Week For Syria". Syrian Music Lives. Archived from the original on 3 November 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Sonic Circuits Festival Night 1 - @Pyramid Atlantic". Dc-soniccircuits.org. 18 September 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ Barbiero, Daniel (20 September 2015). "Percorsi Musicali: The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, 18-20 September 2015". Ettoregarzia.blogspot.nl. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Tag Archives / junto". Disquiet. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ Weidenbaum, Marc (31 January 2013). "Disquiet Junto Project 0057: Phoneme Transmit". Disquiet. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
External links
edit- Official website
- Michel Banabila discography at Discogs
- Michel Banabila at AllMusic