AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed. Channeling her internet name into her first proper solo studio album since SOLIDCITY (2017), Poemproducer is built around mutating bass, freeplayed rhythms, and subtle field recordings. We discuss the evolution of her musical practice, her interest in pedagogy, feminism, collective politics and much more.
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
AGF - “Oops for understanding iii” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)SP Intro
AGF - “SKINgame” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)AGF - “POEMproducer” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AG.F3 & SUE.C - “Lazy” (MINI MOVIES, Asphodel, 2006)
AGF - “Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi” (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution, female:pressure, 2016)
AGF - “background & processes ⇻ explained by AGF” (rec-on : feminist sonic technologies, 2023)
AGF - “recon - rec-on.org ƒollow @reconsonic” (Soundcloud, 2021)
Laub - “Wortspur” (Filesharing, Kitty-Yo, 2002)
AGF - “fieldWORK” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Sonic Wilderness - “Medley” (DOCUMENTATION: #SONICWILDERNESS #NUSASONIC Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2018)
Antye Greie-Ripatti - “mycelium sonicification video clip” (Vimeo, 2017)
Audience Participation - “Collective Mycelium Hum” (SonicEX10sion, AGF Producktion, 2018)
AGF - “sideNESS” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “Live excerpt” (Presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston, November 18, 2023)
AGF - “FIREmushroom” (DISoriented MINDsets, 2017)
KING VISION ULTRA feat. Dreamcrusher - “UNTRAPPINGS” (SHOOK WORLD, PTP, 2023)
Moor Mother - “Deadbeat Protest” (Fetish Bones, Don Giovanni, 2016)
AGF - “MIGration” (SOLIDICITY, 2017)AGF - “Chorizon” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AGF - “Source Voice” (Beatnadel, AGF Producktion, 2011)
AGF - “words are useless” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
RyJ - “RyJ [excerpt]” (Studio Mix, 2014)
RyJ / Nicki Minaj (Pickle Juice Mix, 2012)
J Dilla - “Bounce” (Beat Tape #3, 2002)AGF - bassPOETess (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Vladislav Delay - “Ele” (Ele, Sigma Editions, 1999)
Craig Armstrong x AGF - “Remix of Memory Takes My Hand” (Memory Takes My Hand - Exhibition Music, Chester Music Ltd., 2006)
AGF - xenakISS (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
The Lappetites - “Avoiding Shopping” (Before The Libretto, Quecksilber, 2005)
Dadub - “Life (Rrose Remix)” (Preternity, Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2013)
AGF - “BONUS_ Westernization Continued 2013 [excerpt]” (Westernization Completed, 2003/2013)
AGF - “şamaran [kurdish]” (uttu EP, 2023)
PINKCOURTESYPHONE + KID CONGO POWERS - “Inflame (Sludge Dub)” (Move To Trash, 3particles, 2015)
Kevin Richard Martin / KMRU - “If (Dub)” (RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, PTP 2024)
Ka Baird - “Gate VI” (Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, RVNG, Intl., 2024)
AGF - “Regional Distinctions” (Futurism Ain't Shit To Me, Kyo, 2004)
—Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
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Episode 35: DIS/CONTENT - with AGF