Antye Greie-Ripatti
Tutor "Sonic Writing & Soundings"
What would you want to change about music / music making?
I want tech companies to repay us for using our music to make weapons. Otherwise music is awesome, magic – protect it!
I want it to be more wild – sonic wilderness – responsible – and musicians make unions
How do you go about making music in a specific space?
Time and space are what music is evolving in, so it is very relevant – acoustic, presence, moment, mood, I come with my skills and unfold them.
What can disturb (your) music?
a bomb could
Born in 1969, Antye Greie-Ripatti is a digital songwriter, sound artist, curator, composer, poet, feminist and activist. She is also known as AGF, Laub and poemproducer. Born and raised in East Germany, she has lived and worked in Hailuoto, Finland since 2008. She works with language, sound, hearing, voice and communication, which finds expression in mixed media, live audiovisual performances, digital communication, sound installations, commissions for radio, film and theater, exhibitions and conceptual works. Greie-Ripatti has released 30 longplayers and has been involved in numerous collaborations, including under the pseudonyms AGF, AGF/Delay (with Vladislav Delay), Greie Gut Fraktion (with Gudrun Gut) and The Lappetites (with Kaffe Matthews and Éliane Radigue), including – for an extended period – with award-winning classical composer Craig Armstrong. She runs the production company and music label AGF Producktion and has produced records for other artists, most notably Ellen Allien (Sool, 2009, BPitch). In 2011, Greie-Ripatti founded the art organization Hai Art in Hailuoto, where she works as artistic director, executive producer and workshop leader. Hai Art has organized a conference on remote art, more than ten artist-in-residencies, an extensive sound program with children in Hailuoto, the iPad Orchestra Hailuoto, the Organum, the Hailuoto (mini) MediaLAB and numerous artist camps. AGF has been working as an independent curator for sound since 2011.
In 2025, Antye Greie-Ripatti is a tutor at the Darmstadt Summer Course for the fourth time.