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Artist Biography For People Like Us & Wobbly

People Like Us & Wobbly Have Been Collaborating Since Her First Visit To The San Francisco Bay Area In 1998. Early Improvisations As A Trio With The Jet Black Hair People Aka Peter Conheim Of Negativland Are Documented By The Online Album What's The Use As Well As Archives Of Numerous Radio And Concert Appearances Recorded Both In California And London Including On BBC Radio 3's "Mixing It". The Present Album For Illegal Art Is Composed From Live Recordings Carefully And Obsessively Edited Over A Great Deal Of Time And Is Their Funniest Darkest And Yet Somehow Strangely Compassionate Work Music For The Fire Tells A Story Which Every Listener Will Recognize In Their Own Unique Way. Since 1991 British Artist Vicki Bennett Aka People Like Us Has Been An Influential Figure In The Field Of Audio Visual Collage Through Her Innovative Sampling Appropriating And Cutting Up Of Found Footage And Archives. She Has Shown Work At Amongst Others Tate Modern The National Film Theatre Purcell Room Pompidou Center Sonar In Barcelona The Walker Art Center In Minneapolis The BBC And Channel 4 Released Albums Of Her Work On Labels Such As Tigerbeat6 Soleilmoon And Touch Both Solo And In Collaboration With Matmos Ergo Phizmiz Christian Marclay And Members Of Negativland. 2010 Will See The Completion Of A Commission For The Edinburgh Art Festival As Well As Concert Appearances At The AV Festival MACBA Liverpool Sound City Copenhagen & Jerusalem. Wobbly Is The Long-Running Collage Project Of Jon Leidecker US Who Improvises Live With Pre-Recordings To Coax The Harmonies Out Of Recorded Sounds Of Individuals And Animals From Disparate Cultures. Albums Have Been Released On The Labels Alku Phthalo Illegal Art Tigerbeat6 And Vague Terrain. Previous And Ongoing Projects Include The Bands Chopping Channel Sagan The Freddy McGuire Show And Amen Seat As Well As Various Collaborations With Negativland Matmos Thomas Dimuzio Blevin Blectum Lesser Tim Perkis & Xopher Davidson Otomo Yoshihide And MaryClare Bryztwa. In 2009 He Was Commissioned By The Museum Of Contemporary Art In Barcelona To Produce "Variations" A Podcast And Lecture Series Overview Of The History Of Musical Collage & Sampling.

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