Michel Banabila  | |
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![]() Banabila in 2009  | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1961 (age 61–62) Amsterdam, Netherlands  | 
| Genres | Electronic | 
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, producer | 
| Years active | 1983 – present | 
| Labels | Bureau B, Séance Centre, Challenge Records (1994) | 
| Website | banabila.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.
Discography
- Marilli (Eduard Vingerhoets, 1983)
 - Des Traces Retrouvees (Trichord, 1984)
 - VoizNoiz: Urban Sound Scapes (Steamin' Soundworks 1999)
 - VoizNoiz II: Urban Sound Scapes (Tone Casualties, 2001)
 - Spherics (Tone Casualties, 2001)
 - Spherics II (Boudisque 2003)
 - Phonema (Tapu, 2003)
 - VoizNoiz 3 – Urban Jazz Scapes with Eric Vloeimans (Javaanse Jongens, 2003)
 - Live-Mix (Requiem, 2005)
 - Hilarious Expedition (Tapu, 2005)
 - Music for Films & Documentaries (Tapu, 2007)
 - 0+1+0+1+0+1+0+1+0+ (Tapu, 2010)
 - Changing Structures (Tapu, 2010)
 - The Latest Research from the Department of Electrical Engineering (Tapu, 2011)
 - In Other Words (Tapu, 2011)
 - Sum Dark 12 (Tapu, 2012)
 - TENT 06 & 16 & 2012 (Tapu, 2012)
 - Gardening (Tapu, 2012)
 - 47 Voice Loops (Tapu, 2013)
 - Float (Tapu, 2013)
 - ZoomWorld (Tapu, 2013)
 - More Research from the Same Dept. (Tapu, 2014)
 - Music for Viola and Electronics I with Oene van Geel (Tapu, 2014)
 - Music for Viola and Electronics II with Oene van Geel (Tapu, 2015)
 - Gorlice 2014 (Tapu, 2014)
 - Eyes Closed (Tapu, 2015)
 - Jump Cuts (Tapu, 2015)
 - Meet Me in Venice with Beppe Costa (Tapu, 2015)
 - Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves (Tapu, 2015)
 - Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves II (Tapu, 2015)
 - Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves III (Tapu, 2016)
 - Earth Visitor (Tapu, 2016)
 - Early Works (Bureau B, 2016)
 - Sound Years (Tapu, 2017)
 - New Land with Eric Vloeimans (Tapu, 2017)
 - Trespassing (Séance Centre, 2017)
 - Imprints (Tapu, 2018)
 - Just Above the Surface (Tapu, 2018)
 - Winter Sketches (Tapu, 2019)
 - Uprooted (Tapu, 2019)
 - Wah-Wah Whispers (Bureau B, 2021)
 - Echo Transformations (Knekelhuis, 2021)
 
With Robin Rimbaud
- Banabila / Scanner (Steamin'Soundworks, 2010)
 - Between Your Eyes And Mine (Tapu, 2013)
 - The Spaces You Hold (Scanner, 2020)
 
With Machinefabriek
- Banabila & Machinefabriek (Tapu, 2012)
 - Travelog (Tapu, 2013)
 - Error Log (Tapu, 2015)
 - Macrocosms (Tapu, 2016)
 - Entropia (Eilean, 2019)
 - Cassina (7K!, 2020)
 
References
- ↑ "Programs Calendar". Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
 - ↑ "Museums Openings". HighBeam Research. The Washington Post. 9 August 2013. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
 - ↑ Banabila, Michel (14 February 2012). "Crops (Gerco de Ruijter)". Vimeo. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
 - ↑ 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.
 - ↑ "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.
 - ↑ "'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.
 - ↑ "Global Week For Syria". Syrian Music Lives. Archived from the original on 3 November 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
 - ↑ "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.
 - ↑ 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.
 - ↑ "Tag Archives / junto". Disquiet. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
 - ↑ Weidenbaum, Marc (31 January 2013). "Disquiet Junto Project 0057: Phoneme Transmit". Disquiet. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
 
External links
- Official website
 - Michel Banabila discography at Discogs
 - Michel Banabila at AllMusic
 
