Arp

Alexis Georgopoulos is a composer and artist based in New York City. As ARP, he makes liminal, minimal music, most often with analog synthesizers and, increasingly, classical stringed instruments. • • • • • • • • Since 2002, he has performed internationally and has been presented in such spaces as PS1, Deitch Projects, MOMA (SF), White Columns, 303 Gallery, Luggage Store Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, New Langton Arts, Yerba Buena Center and Frieze Art Fair. • • • • • • • He has released work on DFA, RVNG, Smalltown Supersound, True Panther Sound, Lo, Type, Rong, Eskimo, Root Strata, Troubleman Unlimited, White Columns & Deitch Projects. He has remixed Lawrence Wiener, Lindstrom, Delorean, Harald Grosskopf and Shocking Pinks and has been remixed by Hot Chip, Studio, Munk, Optimo, Etienne Jaumet and Soft Pink Truth. He is also a member of the groups Q&A (DFA), The ALPS (Type/Mexican Summer). Georgopoulos co–founded the group Tussle (Troubleman Unlimited/Rong), which he departed in 2007. • • • • • • • Twice recently, he has performed an original live score for Doug Aitken's film Migration, at Princeton University Art Museum and at 303 Gallery (NY). His score for Replica – a Modern Dance piece featuring Jonah Bokaer & Judith Ruiz Sanchez (of Merce Cunningham & Trisha Brown Dance Companies, respectively) – premiered at the New Museum in New York City (December 2009). It toured internationally throughout 2010. A number of his pieces were used in the Soundtrack to the film Objectified (Gary Hurstwit, 2009). His collaboration with British composer Anthony Moore, FRKWYS III, was released on the RVNG imprint in April 2010. The most recent Alps album, Le Voyage, was released in May 2010 on the Type label. His most recent ARP album, The Soft Wave, has just been released (Smalltown Supersound, September 2010). Forthcoming is the Pastoral Symphony 12–inch single, accompanied by remixes of his work by the group Studio (Information), Etienne Jaumet (Domino) and the American artist Keegan Mchargue (Metro Pictures). • • • • • • • SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY • ARP The Soft Wave (2010, Smalltown Supersound) • ARP & ANTHONY MOORE Frkwys Volume 3 (2010, RVNG) • ARP in light (2007, Smalltown Supersound) • • • • • • • FORTHCOMING • ARP pastoral symphony (2011, Smalltown Supersound) Remixes by STUDIO, ETIENNE JAUMET & MAUVE DEEP • • • • • • • COMPILATIONS
• On Fire (2009, Smalltown Supersound) • The Portable Smalltown Supersound (2007, Smalltown Supersound)
• • • • • • • REMIXES • DELOREAN Real Love (Tropical Acid Version by ARP) (2010, True Panther Sound) • HARALD GROSSKOPF Synthesist (Version by ARP) (2010, RVNG) • LINDSTRØM Breakfast In Heaven (2009, Feedelity)