The final DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU of the season will be on Monday 4 September 2017, and as has been a little bit of a tradition we will accompany it with a “best of” album length download. Listen live at 6-7pm on WFMU and join in the live playlist and comments.
Early Radio Works Vol. I – New Cassette Release
We are very pleased to let you know that we have another release on the wonderful label Discrepant. Brave new old work by Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us. A journey into her early radio experiments with some dating back 20 years!
Vicki Bennett’s People Like Us began life as a three hour radio show on Brighton’s Festival Radio in 1990 called Gobstopper. She went on to release around 20 solo albums based on her radio sound collages, and after a decade working primarily with sound, has increasingly worked with film and images. She has recently produced collage and multi-screen, multi-speaker work, including 2013’s touring film and performance piece Notations, a film used as a score for improvising musicians, and Gone, Gone Beyond (2017++), a 10 screen, 8 speaker immersive cinema work for Recombinant Media Lab’s CineChamber.
Continue reading “Early Radio Works Vol. I – New Cassette Release”Exhibition of Prints in Los Angeles
People Like Us have a collection of prints currently exhibiting at Nabi in Los Angeles until the end of September 2017. This is a joint exhibition with Peter Knight, and you can purchase the prints and grab some excellent Korean food while you’re at it!
Nabi
4632 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 16
Los Angeles, CA 90029
restaurantnabi AT gmail.com
(323) 986-0107
Hours:
Every Day Except Tuesday
11am – 7pm
Inside the Union Discount Swapmeet. Plenty of free parking off Santa Monica.
Metro: Vermont/Santa Monica stop
People Like Us perform at Brighton Digital Festival
Wednesday 20 September, 2017
Doors 8:00pm
Oliver Coates: 8.15pm People Like Us: 9:15pm
Adults £10 | Students £8 | On the Door £12
People Like Us will perform at The Attenborough Centre For The Creative Arts at the University in Falmer, Brighton as part of Brighton Digital Festival.
This audiovisual concert commemorates the 25th year of People Like Us publishing work, featuring highlighted excerpts from the previous four a/v performances of People Like Us.
https://www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/878/oliver-coates-people-like-us/
DO or DIY Special: Gwilly Edmondez
Monday, July 17th, 6pm – 7pm EST
on DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/73648
Gwilly Edmondez is all over the place yet usually in the wrong place at the right time. As an improvisor and recording artist he tries to play as often as possible with anyone who’s game, or solo if no one is about. What he uses mostly is his voice, but is always searching for things to go with it, like samples, tapes and beats. Anything could happen, which is why Gwilly prefers to act at the very fringes of proper. He has collaborated with all sorts of people but his primary non-solo projects at the moment are YEAH YOU (with Elvin Brandhi), Kleevex (with Faye MacCalman) and Impossibility Knox (with Odie Ji Ghast and sometimes THF Drenching).
DO or DIY Special: Dominic Robertson aka Ergo Phizmiz
Monday, July 3rd, 6pm – 7pm EST
on DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU
Dominic Robertson aka Ergo Phizmiz
One Summer’s morning Vicki Bennett was visited by Dominic Robertson aka the composer, writer, theatre director and collagist Ergo Phizmiz. He brought with him stories of political prophecy, homemade opera, and laments on the death of the internet-of-dreams.
Over The Edge on DO or DIY on WFMU
Over The Edge
DO or DIY with People Like Us – Monday, 19 June 2017 – 6pm
https://wfmu.org/playlists/pl
From 1981 to 2015, Negativland‘s Don Joyce hosted Over The Edge, the longest running block of freeform live mix collage radio in broadcast history — a program which continues today, having been inherited by long time show participant and collaborator Jon Leidecker. In this very Wobbly interview, Vicki and Jon discuss the history of collage radio, and the slow evolution of the Edge, as well as its many possible futures, both True and False.
http://www.detritus.net/wobbly/ | https://archive.org/details/ote
DO or DIY returns to WFMU Summer Schedule 2017
We are very pleased to let you know that DO or DIY with People Like Us will return to the WFMU air and etherwaves this summer. The first show will be Monday 5 June 2017, and will run weekly through to and including 4 September 2017. The show time is 6-7pm NY time (that’s 11-midnight UK), and all shows will be archived shortly after, and podcast.
New THE THE single video We Can’t Stop What’s Coming by People Like Us
People Like Us have edited the video for the new THE THE single “We Can’t Stop What’s Coming”
7″ limited edition single from THE THE – featuring Matt Johnson, Zeke Manyika, Johnny Marr, James Eller, Meja Kullersten, Chris Whitten and Iain Berryman.
Trailer edited by Vicki Bennett / People Like Us from footage taken from the documentary The Inertia Variations directed by Johanna St Michaels.
Released through Cineola.
Music available to purchase through iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TheThe-WCSWCSingleiT
People Like Us on panel at Splice Festival
Vicki will be on a panel about sampling at Splice Festival at Rich Mix in London at 7.30pm on 26 May 2017.
Sampling in AV : Panel Discussion
With archives opening up and online memes and supercuts now commonplace, has video sampling finally come of age? A discussion panel around the use and abuse of audiovisual sampling and it’s many challenges faced by artists working in this genre, whether creative, technical or legal. Ben Sheppee of Light Rhythm Visuals chairs the panel and discusses issues with some of the pioneers of the art-form.
Graham Daniels (Addictive TV | Orchestra of Samples | Splice Festival co-producer)
Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
Brian Kane (EBN)
Gardner Post (EBN)
Matt Black (Coldcut)
Johnny Wilson (Eclectic Method)
http://www.splicefestival.com/friday-26th-may/
http://www.splicefestival.com/tickets/
http://www.splicefestival.com/line-up/vicki-bennett/
People Like Us/Vicki Bennett Filmography
ALL COMMISSION ENQUIRIES OR BOOKINGS FOR GONE, GONE BEYOND ARE TO BE MADE DIRECTLY WITH US THROUGH OUR CONTACT PAGE.
“Ghost Rider” video for Soft Cell and JG Thirlwell [2025]
“Time Inside the Violet” video for The Soft Pink Truth [2025]
“Underneath II” video for The Soft Pink Truth [2025]
“Purple Zone” video for Soft Cell live show [2025]
“Torch” video for Soft Cell live show [2025]
“Mise En Abyme” wide screen installation [2024]
“Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake” video for The The, directed by Tim Pope [2024]
“Elusive Butterfly” video for Marc Almond [2024]
“Linoleum Smooth” video for The The, directed by Tim Pope [2024]
“First Hand Experience In Second Hand Love” video for Soft Cell live show [2024]
“Cognitive Dissident” video for The The, directed by Tim Pope [2024]
“A Man Could Get Lost” video for Soft Cell live show [2024]
“The Library of Babel” new live AV performance [2023/4]
“Global Eyes” video for THE THE [2022]
“Gone, Gone Beyond” 10 Screen / 8 Speaker work, Stage One complete, Stage Two in progress [2016-2021+]
“Fourth Wall” for Hallwalls Artists-in-Residence Project (HARP) [2020]
“Cosmos Song” by Big Fresh [2019]
“Objects In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear” (film for improvisers) [2019]
“The Mirror” (live performance), [Spring 2018]
“The The 2018 Comeback Tour” – video backdrop for the THE THE world tour [2018]
“Can’t Stop What’s Coming” video edit for THE THE [2017]
“Optimized! Expanded Radio & Artist Residency at WFMU with People Like Us & Let’s Paint TV” documentary [2016]
“Optimized! Special: The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon – At Union Square, Manhattan” documentary edited by Vicki Bennett [2016]
“Ultimate Care II Excerpt 5” – official video for Matmos [2015]
“Nothing Can Turn Into A Void” – documentary film about People Like Us edited by Vicki Bennett and directed by Carl Abrahamsson [2015]
“CCCitations” [2015]
“Citation City” (live performance) [2015]
“Art Heist” (film – under construction) [2015-]
“The Big Sleep” [2014]
“BLINK” [2014]
“Notations UK Tour Travelogue” documentary [2013]
“We Are Not Amused” [2013]
“The Golem – An Inanimate Matter” [2013]
“Notations” [2013]
“Gesture Piece” [2013]
“BWPWAP” [2013]
“Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another)” (live performance) [2012-13]
“Free Rod MckMoon” [2012]
“Variations On Jem Finer’s Slowplayer” [2012]
“The Zone” [2012]
“4’33” The Movie” [2011]
“Free (As A Chapel In The Moonlight” [2011]
“The Magical Misery Tour” (live performance) [2011]
“The Atlantic Conveyor” [2011]
“Magic” [2011]
“The Doors Of Perspection” [2011]
“Clean Your Room” [2011]
“The Keystone Cut Ups” (live performance with Ergo Phizmiz) [2010]
“Magic” (with Ergo Phizmiz) [2010]
“The Sound Of The End Of Music” [2010]
“Mull of Kintyre” (with Ergo Phizmiz) [2010]
“Genre Collage” (live performance) [2009-10]
“Induction Is A Draft Is A Gust Of Air” [2009]
“The Look” [2009]
“DrivingFlyingRisingFalling” [2009]
“Parade” [2009]
“In The Waking” [2008]
“Skew Gardens” [2007]
“Ghosts Before Breakfast” (with Ergo Phizmiz) [2007]
“Live Excerpts” [2002-2007]
“Work, Rest & Play” [2007]
“Trying Things Out” [2006]
“Story Without End” [2005]
“People Like Us At The Movies” [2005]
“Resemblage” [2004]
“The Remote Controller” [2002]
“We Edit Life” [2002]
“New Knowledge” [2000]
“Well If You’d Like To See” [1999]
“Burning” [1999]
“Discovering Electronic Music” [1999]
“Music Of Your Own” [1999]
Kollasj! in Oslo
Kollasj! People Like Us will be in Oslo doing a week of Collage-based events for children.
Kollasj! at Kulturtanken – 8-12 May 2017
A week of concerts specially for school children.
http://www.dks.osloskolen.no/produksjon/1005598
kulturtanken.no/tankebloggen/2017/4/27/bit-for-bit-til-sammen-en-kollasj …
Part of a larger event of contemporary art for young people:
Live videokollasj : People Like Us / Vicki Bennett
Live vinylkollasj: Lasse Marhaug
Live musikkverkkollasj: Nordic Voices / Kjell Tore innervik / Guro Skumsnes Moe / Christian Meaas Svendsen
Popp-up: Marcus Andreassen and Nina Bing
A collaboration between nyMusikk , Culture tank and DKS Oslo
Only Connect Kids: Collage at nyMusikk – 13 May 2017
A music festival for children! At Central is the festival day for all the families who are interested in music, vinyl, dance, cut and paste and film.
http://nymusikk.no/no/hva-skjer/kollasj