AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti)

AGF is the alias of Antye Greie-Ripatti, a German digital songwriter, sound composer and poet born 1969 in East Germany. She lived in Berlin from 1996 to 2008 before settling on the island of Hailuoto, Finland. She first emerged in the avant-electro-pop duo Laub, then released the solo album Head Slash Bauch (2001), turning fragments of HTML scripts and software manuals into electronic poetry. Its follow-up, Westernization Completed, won an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2004. She has collaborated as AGF/Delay with husband Vladislav Delay, as Greie Gut Fraktion with Gudrun Gut, and as The Lappetites with Kaffe Matthews and Eliane Radigue, and founded a community choir on Hailuoto.