Michel Banabila

Michel Banabila
Banabila in 2009
Banabila in 2009
Background information
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
GenresElectronic
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, producer
Years active1983 – present
LabelsBureau B, Séance Centre, Challenge Records (1994)
Websitebanabila.com

Michel Banabila (born 14 April 1961 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch composer and sound artist.

Banabila performed live[1] in 2013 in the auditorium of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, at the opening[2] of the exhibition of Crops,[3] an audiovisual installation with photographer Gerco de Ruijter. He performed live with media artist Geert Mul with their audiovisual set Big Data Poetry[4] at the Logan Symposium,[5] in the Barbican, London, in 2014 and in Yukunkun at the Global Week For Syria[6][7] in Beirut, in 2015. In 2015, he also appeared at the Sonic Circuits Festival,[8][9] Silver Spring, with a small modular improv set. Banabila is a member of the Disquiet Junto group.[10][11] He lives with his wife and daughter in Rotterdam.

  1. ^ "Programs Calendar". Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Museums Openings". HighBeam Research. The Washington Post. 9 August 2013. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  3. ^ Banabila, Michel (14 February 2012). "Crops (Gerco de Ruijter)". Vimeo. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  4. ^ Mul, Geert (13 January 2015). "BIG DATA POETRY live at The Logan Symposium, The Barbican Centre. London". Vimeo. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Programme 2014 - The Logan CIJ Symposium The Logan Symposium 11-12 March 2016". CIJ Logan Symposium. 12 March 2016. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  6. ^ "'Michel Banabila' and 'Geert Mul' at Yukunkun During Global Week for Syria, Beirut Festival". Beirut.com. 19 April 2015. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Global Week For Syria". Syrian Music Lives. Archived from the original on 3 November 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Sonic Circuits Festival Night 1 - @Pyramid Atlantic". Dc-soniccircuits.org. 18 September 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  9. ^ Barbiero, Daniel (20 September 2015). "Percorsi Musicali: The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, 18-20 September 2015". Ettoregarzia.blogspot.nl. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Tag Archives / junto". Disquiet. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  11. ^ Weidenbaum, Marc (31 January 2013). "Disquiet Junto Project 0057: Phoneme Transmit". Disquiet. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.