Friday 10 September 2021, 7.30pm
Bint Mbareh is a musician with a curiosity about water, pedagogy and the parallels that bring together and keep separate material and unseen worlds. For example, the wave mechanics that govern both sound and water and their uncanny abilities to break borders, with a focus on Palestinian histories of water governance. Bint Mbareh scores films, like Forensic Architecture's Dawaymeh Masssacre investigation and Julie-Yara Atz' What if We Were Happy?, and she makes material work such as the dancing bucket of water she showed at the Sharjah Biennial, derived from earlier work shown at the Royal College of Art, The Tate Modern. She also convenes a choir for non-musicians, and has been regularly installed at Cafe OTO since her Youth Music Residency here in 2021. more at bintmbareh.today
Kinn's tongue-in-cheek ‘dread-voyeurism’ has become a go-to for many seeking the weird and the eerie in their home city of London, finding their origins in the class struggles of early 00s Tottenham. Influences pulled from the guitar music of their youth are unmistakable counterparts to Kinn's contemporary electronic aesthetics, deft musicianship, and state-of-the-art sound design. Kinn brings their distinguished solo show to OTO, developed for joining Factory Floor on their recent UK tour, including shows at Salford's legendary White Hotel, the performance is a cross hair of IDM drum machine wizardry, smokey chorus laced guitar anthems and sonicly atomised memes, played at boisterous levels.
