Wednesday 10 April 2019, 7.30pm, OTO Project Space

Photo by Cristina Pedreira Pérez

OTO PROJECT SPACE: Katz Mulk + Al Fresco + Louie Rice & Luciano Maggiore

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Katz Mulk round off their PRS Beyond Borders commission - joined by Al Fresco and Louie Rice + Luciano Maggiore.

KATZ MULK

Based in Glasgow/Tokyo and featuring group mainstays Ben Morris and Ben Ellul-Knight with a rotating cast of collaborating artists & dancers, katz mulk infuse  dance, sculpture, and choreography into slippery avant electronic pop. Katz Mulk have performed at Counterflows Festival (2019) and were invited on a residency in Hong Kong by the Xevarion Institute (2023) where they developed the music for all the mess, their most recent release on the Brussels-based label Futura Resistenza. An absurdist collection of songs (of sorts) about playing, play work, and the labour of play. Katz mulk like the idea of the spontaneous gesture oozing from song like tree sap that can be distilled into something you'll gamely put on your morning oats.
 
For this show Ben Ellul-Knight will be joined by the artist Rob Lye and other collaborators.

photo by Mary Hurrell

Al Fresco

Al Fresco is Lia Mazzari, Sholto Dobie and Tom White, a group of London based artists who make music together. They perform live with acoustic instruments, amplified objects and concrete sounds - including cello, hurdy gurdy and tape manipulation. Their work, which is both improvised and collectively composed, combines dissonant materials to play with narrative and atmospheric tension, tentatively exploring the potential of slowness, repetition, mimicry and silence.

Lia Mazzari's work encompasses sound, text, and performance. She is the founder of Silver Road, a non-profit arts organisation devoted to site-specific and interdisciplinary performance and music. In her musical practice she uses cello, whip, text and other tangible objects.

Sholto Dobie is an artist and performer using loose structures and and array of instruments including home-made organs and bagpipes, and anything else that comes to hand. He founded the event series Muckle Mouth in 2014 which continues to this day.

Tom White's work traverses multi-media platforms including sound, experimental film and video, installation and live performance. He founded Apologies in Advance in October 2016 as a platform for artists presenting live works in progress.

They are named after Sholto and Lia’s performance at Tom’s night Apologies in Advance, in 2018.

photo by Jonathan Crabb

Louie Rice & Luciano Maggiore

Luciano Maggiore and Louie Rice continue to explore a shared interest in auditory phasing and an expansion of the spatialisation of sound beyond the stereo field. Aiming to reach beyond the confines of electro acoustic music to develop a type of performance referencing conceptual and performance art, folk singing, dance choreography and minimalist composition amongst other things.

photo by Lorenzo Burlando