For your diary: Wed. Feb 14th, 9am-Noon NY Time:
DO or DIY with People Like Us fill in for Ken on WFMU
https://wfmu.org/playlists/pl
People Like Us fill in for Ken on WFMU
The Library of Babel at Colchester Arts Centre
People Like Us perform The Library of Babel at Colchester Arts Centre
30th March 2024 / Doors open 7.30pm, gig starts 8pm / Support from Diacritical Mark
Tickets
People Like Us perform at The Wire Magazine Takeover, IKLECTIK
The Wire Magazine Takeover, IKLECTIK, London
Wednesday 17 January 2024 | Doors: 8pm
We will be performing the new People Like Us AV performance The Library of Babel at The Wire Magazine takeover of IKLECTIK.
In the lead-up to the venue’s closure on 24th January, we invite you to join us for this, one of a series of closing benefit events, each a takeover of IKLECTIK by a different organiser with a special lineup. All proceeds go towards supporting the future of IKLECTIK.
Lineup: GAIKA [live] Elaine Mitchener [live] Loré Lixenberg [live] David Toop x Mark Wastell [live] People Like Us [AV set: The Library Of Babel]
WFMU shows in December 2023
People Like Us fill in for Station Manager Ken not once but twice in December on WFMU!
Here’s where you’ll find the show, both live with a playlist and comments, and then as an archive afterwards. https://wfmu.org/playlists/pl
People Like Us Residency at Cafe OTO
PEOPLE LIKE US Cafe OTO ARTIST RESIDENCY
27 / 28 / 29 OCTOBER 2023
PEOPLE LIKE US | MAGGIE NICOLS | ERGO PHIZMIZ | GWILLY EDMONDEZ | POREST | IRENE MOON | ERIK BUNGER | HEARTY WHITE
Cafe OTO is proud to announce a new artist residency, featuring multimedia artist Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us. Vicki has collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians; some are joining us for this 3-Day residency, both solo and in collaboration. The residency includes a preview of the new People Like Us audiovisual performance The Library of Babel.
Feature on our Cafe OTO residency
Here’s a Café OTO feature on our People Like Us : Three Day Residency at Cafe OTO. (please note there’s a revised line-up)
The Library of Babel at CineCity/Attenborough Centre Brighton
Our new People Like Us AV performance The Library of Babel will be on at Brighton Cinecity at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on 14 November 2023, on a double bill with our good friend Blevin Blectum.
Film screening at Other Cinema, San Francisco
We’ll be showing some People Like Us films at Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema on 16 September 2023 at ATA on Valencia Street. Click on the link above for more info about Other Cinema. Please note, this is a screening, not a performance.
Introducing Casseptember! Sixty years of cassette tape culture on BBC Late Junction
1st September 2023, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction at 11pm UK
We were talking about our contribution to killing the music industry, in the first of a series of specials that commemorate 60 years of the cassette.
Program info and 30-day archive: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pv3x
Vicki’s segment:
Negativland & People Like Us // PAARD, Den Haag
WEDNESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2023 AT 18:30
https://www.paard.nl/event/double-bill-negativland-people-like-us/
We play a double bill at Paard in The Hague, Netherlands the week before the PLU residency at Cafe OTO, London, where Negativland will also appear.
People Like Us returns to the WFMU airwaves
Happy to announce that we will return to our weekly radio show DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU for the Summer Schedule 2023 :). Mark your calendar for weekly shows through the season starting Wednesday 7 June, 7-8pm NY Time (that’s midnight-1am Wednesday night in the UK). Shows are, and have been archived in perpetuity for over 20 years now, which is exactly how long DO or DIY has been on WFMU, and is returning to its original slot after Seven Second Delay.
Follow the Listen link at the time: wfmu.org and then listen to the archive(s) here.
Carl Stone and People Like Us live collaboration
CARL STONE AT 70 – THREE-DAY RESIDENCY at CAFE OTO – 13 TO 15 JULY 2023
As part of this residency People Like Us will join Carl Stone (along with Scanner) for a panel and live performance.
FRIDAY 14 JULY 2023, 8PM
CARL STONE / KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI (DUO) + CARL STONE (SOLO) + PANEL DISCUSSION WITH CARL STONE / VICKI BENNETT / SCANNER / EMILY BICK
SATURDAY 15 JULY 2023, 8PM
“MISCHIEVOUS MISAPPROPRIATION MAYHEM” (CARL STONE / VICKI BENNETT / SCANNER) + CARL STONE (SOLO) + SYLVIA KASTEL (DJ)
After the fact: here’s a clip, courtesy of Robin Rimbaud:
Cafe OTO is delighted to host a very-special 70th birthday residency with pioneering composer, Carl Stone! Featuring avant-garde electronics, forensic sampling, and live computing unveiling a strange musical language, these will be his first London performances in five years.
Dubbed the King of Sampling by the Village Voice, and one of the pioneers of live computer music. Carl Stone started originally with tape recorders and turntables in 1972. In 1986 he adapted his performance to include live computing, which he continues to this day. In addition to solo performance, he often collaborates with other musicians in ensembles that merge and blend musical reality. Pitchfork called Stone’s music “like a dance party in a room made of funhouse mirrors” and the New York Times called it “a powerful stimulant with lingering euphoric effects”.
Now in his 70th year, Carl Stone’s plan for his Cafe OTO residency will feature his solo work, plus collaborators helping him explore acoustic resonance, media bombardment, Irony, elegance, economy and wit. Guests include Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Miki Yui (Realistic Monk), Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Silvia Kastel, plus panel discussions, interviews and DJ time!