Wednesday 2 June 2021, 7.30pm
OTO hosts a special screening of two films that we're very proud to be able to release on our TakuRoku label next week!
'The Bent Bow Must Wait to Be Released' is a new work from Sunik Kim, following Zero Chime (First Terrace, 2019), presented in film format. Featuring new music, as well as text from George Jackson, Kim San, Danièle Huillet, Xu Lizhi, Rosa Luxemburg, V.I. Lenin, Lee Jae-eui, and many more.
This will also be the first public screening of Four Dances, an animated film made by Billy Steiger and Zara Joan Miller for TakuRoku. The film features four 'movement-drawings', or dances, each accompanied by piano recorded at Cafe OTO. Following the screening, Billy and Zara will re-imagine the film's score live.
Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work often plays with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. She is the author of BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer on Reading Group in 2023.
Her work has recently been presented at Les Atelier Claus, TACO!, Barbican Centre, Maximilian William Gallery, Horse Hospital, In Vitro, Default Den Haag and and has appeared in motor dance journal, Fieldnotes, Hotel, Another Gaze and Worms Magazine.
Billy Steiger was born in Howth on the 16th December, 1986. Now he plays the violin.
“Then he sat down by a pond and began to play a tune. As he played, the most extraordinary thing happened. One by one the fish in the pond began to jump out and fly about in the air. And what is more, they were all different colours and they were singing to the music.”
Patrick, Quentin Blake.
https://billysteiger.bandcamp.com/
Sunik Kim is a musician, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. Her recent work attempts to unfold problems of perceptual and temporal distortion through computer-generated sound. Her writing on subjects ranging from Korean communism to Conlon Nancarrow has been featured in The Wire Magazine, Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Tone Glow and elsewhere. Her latest album, Formenverwandler, was released in 2025.
Drawing from her extensive research on composer Conlon Nancarrow, Formenverwandler sees Kim exploring the time or tempo canon, which can pull and project the listener's senses, melting the temporal and spatial perception of presented sounds. As in previous works such as 2022’s Raid on the White Tiger Regiment and 2023’s Potential, Kim deploys patches and tools she has designed for SuperCollider, which take raw, utilitarian General MIDI notes and multiply and spray them into frenetic webs and networks of spiraling sound.
