Joke Lanz (born 1965 in Basel) is a Swiss noise musician, turntablist, performance artist and singer, a figure in the noise, industrial and experimental scene since the late 1980s. Founder of the Sudden Infant project, member of the group Schimpfluch (with Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips, Marc Zeier and
Daniel Löwenbrück), he is involved in several improvised music formations, with Shelley Hirsch, Christian Weber,
Sophie Agnel, Ute Wassermann,
Audrey Chen, Jonas Kocher, Michael Vatcher, Olaf Rupp, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Mat Pogo,
Alexandre Babel, Charlotte Hug, Rudi Fischerlehner,
dieb13,
Jacques Demierre,
Alfredo Costa Monteiro, etc. He toured with Sleaford Mods and shared stages with Wolf Eyes, Ben Frost,
Merzbow,
Derek Bailey,
Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Steve Ignorant...
