Laptop genius Mori returns to Oto, this time for a highly volatile trans-Atlantic, electro-acoustic trio with multi-reedsman Ned Rothenberg and percussion master Steve Noble. Channelling their experiences of no wave noise, free improvisation, ecstatic jazz, avant-garde composition, world musics and experimental electronica, expect a unique evening of improvised explorations into unknown musical territories.

IKUE MORI

Ikue Mori has been a pioneering musical presence since she started playing drums with DNA in 1977. Switching from drums to drum machines to laptop, she is an essential figure in New York's experimental scene, collaborating with John Zorn, Sonic Youth, Evan Parker, and Christian Marclay.

STEVE NOBLE

Steve Noble is London’s leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O’Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more.



“[Ikue Mori's] laptop-generated percussion filled the room with bangs, beeps and arcs of birdsong. She was so sensitive to her colleagues that it seemed as if she was using them as a sound source to be expanded. Yet she was fully independent and took a full part in the melee, going against the stream or developing a train of thought with a sound palette of extraordinarily concentrated force... [Steve Noble's] armoury of textures and tones is an acoustic mirror of Mori’s electronica, and just as spellbinding. He attacks his orthodox, loose-skinned drum kit from all angles, lays upturned gongs on the drumheads and is a master of orthodoxy as well as the avant-garde. His duet with Mori was the evening’s highlight, a pulsating welter of scrapes, thumps and press rolls interrupted by silences made sinister by the tick of an off-kilter metronome.” - Mike Hobart, Financial Times

NED ROTHENBERG

Ned Rothenberg is one of the most powerful reeds players working today, whether on the alto saxophone, clarinet , bass clarinet, or the shakuhachi - an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. He's played with an astonishing range of musicians, including John Zorn, Heiner Goebbels, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp and has a long-standing relationship with saxophonist Evan Parker.

“This is not about virtuosity, in spite of Rothenberg's superb technique.... Other kinds of music might entertain you, cheer you up or pump the blood, but his clarifies the mind and throws your soul wide open.”- Manfred Pabst, Neue Züricher Zeitung



Ikue Mori website
Ned Rothenberg website

Ned Rothenberg photo by David Agasi