People Like Us

Welcome to the only official site for People Like Us and Vicki Bennett

Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett 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. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, The Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Maxxi and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU has had over a million "listen again" downloads. since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb. Vicki recently completed the creation of a new live a/v performance called Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another), which premiered at transmediale in January 2013, and a new film for live improvisers called Gesture Piece. She is now working on two short animation films for Animate Projects/Channel 4 television, UK as part of their Random Acts Series for broadcast on national television in Autumn 2013.

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UbuWeb Top Twenty for Sept 2012

Posted on September 1, 2012 by admin

Alongside our posting of 25 New Titles for viewing and download on UbuWeb, we are very pleased to have compiled the UbuWeb Top Twenty for September 2012.
You can find it here

And on the UbuWeb homepage, right hand column.
http://ubu.com/resources/feature.html#plu

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Many thanks to Ubuweb, PennSound, Centro and WFMU for hosting the tracks on this site to make it more accessible for more people to download for free.

We strongly believe in the power of profit through free distribution, and the publicity that comes along with that - so we are putting our money where our mouse is. Often people have never heard of an artist because they aren't being distributed through as many channels as they should be, due to the very poor state of music/media distribution for non-major label music coupled with ignorance of the way that avant garde art forms infiltrate mainstream culture. Also many prints of a work are allowed to go out of circulation or are deleted for no reason other than cost effectiveness by a label/publisher. This makes perfect sense financially, but no sense whatsoever that a year's work by an artist should also disappear for such reasons. So get all of this while you can, and we completely endorse getting one's work out there, no matter what. If you don't share, your profit is limited.

We encourage all creative use of our work, and although we don't encourage duplicating of our work for commercial use you are welcome to share as mp3s or sample.