Sunday 31 January 2010, 8pm
A night of new electronic music with performers from USA and UK.
Nicolas Collins makes his first London concert appearance since 2004's epic “Feedback: Order from Noise" tour. He performs three typicallyextraordinary works which draw on a lifetime of building radical new electronic instruments. A composer who has worked notably with Alvin Lucier and David Tudor, since 1997 Collins has also been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and since 1999 a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The second edition of his acclaimed book,
Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking, was published by Routledge in 2009.
Following concerts at Tate Modern, Atoms to Patterns, Show Flat and the First Last LMC Festival, the neo-primitivist multimedia electroacoustic quartet Oscillatorial Binnage at last return to Cafe Oto. Working with experimental interfaces, video projection, acoustic devices, biofeedback and destabilised equipment responsive to touch, Oscillatorial Binnage create raucous and compelling compositions based on an exploration of the resonant frequencies of found objects.
Paul B. Davis founded the BEIGE Programming Ensemble with Joe Beuckman, Cory Arcangel and Joseph Bonn and pioneered the use of hacked video game cartridges as an art practice. He currently plays in the duo The Potions with DJ LeDeuce (Thrill Jockey), lectures in Fine Art at Goldsmiths and produces beats for St. Louis rapper Wonton.
Davis is the only DJ to ever get thrown off stage at the Technics/DMC World DJ Championships. Tonight he premières a new solo piece which he describes as probably a longish song.
The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, actors and technicians based around the award-winning radio station Resonance104.4fm. With an ever-changing, fluid line-up and an aesthetic informed by the imp of the perverse, the ensemble is concerned above all with the development of radio art. Tonight the Orchestra presents a radiophonic sketch based on surreptitious recordings gathered as part of a commission of Ed Baxter by Dundee's prestigious Instal festival.
Photo by Salvo Fundarotto
