Tuesday 19 January 2027, 7.30pm
OTO favourites Infant Tree and Earworm join forces with a phenomenal lineup featuring Joke Lanz, Alice Kemp, Jacob Winans, and a first-time duo performance from Shearman & Rory Salter.
Joke Lanz was born in Basel in 1965 and lives in Berlin since the late 90’s.
He is a pioneer of the electronic Independent scene and crossover artist whose work spans improvised and experimental music, noise and turntablism, performance art and musique concrète. He regularly performs with his band Sudden Infant or in various combinations throughout the improv and noise scene or as solo artist with voice and electronics. Joke Lanz is a member of the internationally renowned Schimpfluch Gruppe alongside of Rudolf Eb.er and Dave Phillips.
He collaborated with: Shelley Hirsch, Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Astro, Z’EV, Lasse Marhaug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Strotter Inst, Christian Weber, Ute Wassermann, DJ Olive, Sophie Agnel, dieb13, Martin Tétreault, Eklekto Ensemble, Alexandre Babel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mette Rasmussen, GX Jupitter-Larsen, The New Blockaders, just to name a few.
Innumerable releases on international labels: Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, RRR, Entr’acte, Artware, Klanggalerie, PAN, iDeal Recordings, Harbinger Sound, Nihilist Records, Voodoo Rhythm Records, Some Bizarre, Cubus Records etc.
In his solo program he will present compositions from his latest studio album “Zungsang” (Force Majeure), a rework of his 2021 cassette on Vice de Forme. A unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, created with contact microphones, voices, electronics and rhythms. Major themes of his intense musical universe are childhood experiences, physical eruptions, psycho mechanisms and absurdities of human destiny.
Kemp is dually based in Devon and London, producing a distinctive unsettling output through sound composition, public and private performance, visual arts and fetische-object making.
Her work is shaped by subtle states of trance, dream, and disturbance.
Jacob Winans is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental musician based on the American East Coast (primarily active in New York City).
Originally half of the Brooklyn based power electronics duo Sibling, Winans has been creating and curating noise and electronic music for the last decade with releases on No Rent Records, Industrial Coast, Alien Passengers and more. Extensively touring the United States, Europe and Asia.
His most recent cassette “Exit” is available now on No Rent Records.
Shearman is a noise being of (deep) Leytonstone. He carves noise out of objects and ephemera - he kneels at the altar of feedback, lies down in the slowly lapping undulations of seas of static and harsh noise viscera.
Rory Salter is based in London, working mostly with sound and performance, as a musician and sound technician. Recordings are available via Index Clean, TEETH, Research Laboratories, Zoomin' Night & others. A new album 'a sky cold as clay' is out now on Infant Tree.
