Description

Alexis Georgopoulos had the distinction of being born in Akron, Ohio – home of Devo and the rubber capitol of the world. Fittingly perhaps, he spent his formative years bouncing back and forth between France, Greece and Ohio with his parents. Between 2002–2008, Georgopoulos wrote on emerging music, art & design for i-D, The Blow Up, Vice, Sleazenation and other publications. During this time, in 2002, he co-founded Tussle [Troubleman Unlimited] and played a pivotal role in that band until his departure after the release of Telescope Mind [Smalltown Supersound 2007]. In 2008, he was asked by Matthew Higgs (curator/director of White Columns) to contribute a sound installation to a show he was curating. Inspired by the brief but substantial moment when academic and psychedelic music converged in the 1970s – and various Conny Plank productions – Georgopoulos had begun experimenting with analog synthesizers. The debut ARP album "In Light" [Smalltown Supersound 2008] collected those installation pieces. More recently, he performed a live score for artist Doug Aitken's film Migration at 303 Gallery and has been commissioned to score Replica, a duet between Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, dancers in Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown dance companies, respectively. Georgopoulos is also a member of The Alps, whose debut album III was released by Type and Q&A (until recently Expanding Head Band), who've released a remix for DFA and feature on Lo Recordings' "Milky Disco 2: Let's Go Freak Out!". Q&A's first two DFA singles will be released in late summer 2009. He has peformed at Deitch Projects, SFMoMA, Luggage Store Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, New Langton Arts, Yerba Buena Center and Frieze Art Fair and has remixed Lawrence Wiener and Lindstrom. The next ARP album is due out on Smalltown Supersound in early 2010.