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DAVE PHILLIPS (CH)
sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience and a consciousness, vibration. dp re/searches and ponders existences and behaviourisms humanimalistically. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life and living, that activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of civilisation, inviting rumination, encouraging intervention, endorsing catharsis, liberating, cleansing. therapeutical stimulation is acknowledged.
sonic activism, ritual protest music, humanimalism.
dp might touch topics such as sentient perception and awareness, environmental sensitisation, existentialism and existential e/quality, but it’s also how these and related topics interconnect that interests, the hyperconnectivity some call chaos.
dp rings in the era of humanimal.
methods are audio de/construction, composition, sonic rituals, psycho-acoustics and performance. tools are voice, body, field recordings, electronics, objects, video.
solo works as dave phillips/dp since 1987. part of schimpfluch-gruppe since 1991 (with rudolf eb.er/runzelstirn & gurgelstøck, joke lanz/sudden infant etc.). co-founder of ohne in 2000 (with tom smith, daniel löwenbrück, reto mäder), one-man-doom-metal-project dead peni since 2004, the perverts in white shirts duo since 2012. co-founder of fear of god in 1987 and has played in numerous other bands, projects and collaborations. born 1969 in switzerland.
dp has been sonically active for 38+ years, has appeared on over 250 releases and has played over 700 concerts in 50+ countries.
keywords: ritual protest music, sonic activism, humanimalism. composition, sound art, psycho-acoustics, experimental noise, musique concrète, performance. voice, body, microphones, objects, electronics, field recordings, video.