Saturday 25 March 2017, 7.30pm
Presented by: OOR Saloon Zürich & Klappfon Basel
Oto Nove Swiss is a three-day festival at London’s Cafe Oto. Teamed up in pairs per evening six Swiss institutions—namely Bad Bonn, Südpol Luzern, zweikommasieben Magazin, Präsens Editionen, OOR and Klappfon—invite different musicians and/or bands from Switzerland, the UK and beyond. The common denominator of the institutions involved? All of them deal with contemporary (experimental) music in one way or another—whether as a venue, record store, magazine, event series or label.
Klappfon, Basel is a monthly series of concerts happening in Basel, Switzerland, covering new music, contemporary jazz, free-improvisation, soundart and noise.
www.klappfon.info
OOR Records/OOR Saloon (One’s Own Room) is a collective run record-/art book store, soundspace and sound related production context in Zürich, Switzerland. Since 2014, OOR Saloon organizes performances, DJ sets, discussions, listenings, soundart mini-acts and concerts. The OOR Saloon series wishes to create collective and discursive spaces for negotiations of emancipatory artistic practices related to sound.
www.oor-rec.ch
Valentina Magaletti, drummer-composer and multi-instrumentalist, returns to the stage for A Colourful Storm, following La Tempesta Colorata (2023), a compilation appearance on Soon I'll Run Out of Air (2024) and a multitude of solo and collaborative releases.
Magaletti's versatile technique, which can incorporate anything from vibes and marimba to contact microphones and found objects, results in a style that is forever evolving. Feeling just as comfortable performing behind a delicate ceramic kit as she does hammering out motorik rhythms, her creative take on percussion has resulted in an extremely diverse discography.
As a drummer, Magaletti moves effortlessly between the seemingly disparate worlds of alternative and mainstream music. She has played with artists such as Jandek, Pat Thomas, Deb Googe, Malcolm Mooney, Thurston Moore, Steve Beresford, Steve Shelley, Lafawndah, Mica Levi, Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Nicolas Jaar to name a few. In addition to collaborating with the gamelan Ensemble Nist-Nah and drummers Malcom Catto, Julian Sartorius and Charles Hayward, she has played with stalwarts of the experimental underground scene like Gnod’s Marlene Ribeiro, Wire’s Graham Lewis, and Thighpaulsandra (Coil). In 2017, Valentina participated in The Can Project, standing in for the late Jaki Liebezeit, at London’s Barbican Centre.
Magaletti’s compositional credits are just as elaborate: with Tom Relleen, she was one half of Tomaga; with Al Wootton, she creates irresistible claustrophobic dub as Holy Tongue; with Pino Montecalvo, under the Avvitagalli alias, Valentina improvises intricate sonic collages; alongside percussionist João Pais Filipe, as CZN, she constructs hallucinatory rhythmic worlds, which are as fragile as they are eternal; with Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, she plays as Moin.
The DJ-producer Don’t DJ, former member of «Institut für Feinmotorik» and «The Durian Brothers» is interested in what he calls «musique acéphale« – a metric which has no distinct starting nor ending point and thus encourages the listener to constantly switch his* or her* metric focus to discover different «points of listening» within the same arrangement. These Euclidian polymetric soundlayerings or minimalist-gamelanian-kraut-tekks seek to inspire consciousness to wander beyond culturally suggested boundaries of the perception of reality. Don’t DJ recently released on Berceuse Heroique, Emotional Response, Fullfridge amongst others and co-runs the Labels Sexes and Disk Records.
https://soundcloud.com/dont-dj-1
http://dontdj.tumblr.com/
«And who sees the mystery», Gilles Aubry’s new record on Corvo, is based on soundcheck situations recorded in Morocco between 2013 and 2014. The piece is a sonic exploration of Berber-Amazigh voices and instruments, rhythms and spaces. Using his microphone as a sound processing device, Aubry further manipulates his field recordings through performative feedback techniques, creating an abstract composition. Gilles Aubry is a swiss artist and musician living in Berlin. He uses field recordings, voices and sound archives to create live performances, installations and movies.
http://corvorecords.de/gilles-aubry-and-who-sees-the-mystery/
www.earpolitics.net
Nucleic encounters of beings bordering on nothingness. The core, the midpoint, the eye, the skull, driven into ascesis. A strobe grid clamps the mind with pure potencies, endured and engaged as directly as possible, without the security of pretext, context or explanation. Electrical signals, coaxed but barely modulated. Something other has merged with you, nonhuman. Pure Mania does not stop where you begin. Michi Zaugg (electronics); Ryan Jordan (electronics); Jamie Allen (electronics).
Anna Frei is an artist, sonic researcher, graphic designer, editor, DJ and record store co-founder (OOR Records), who lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. She* organizes experimental audio formats, concerts and club nights, is part of several collaborative art projects, and works as a conceptrice of publications/editions. As DJ Fred Hystère, she*s searching for multi-layered, emancipatory narratives within experimental DJ mixes and collaborates on performances and audio-pieces. Since 2014, she* co-operates and co-curates OOR Records/OOR Saloon.
OOR Editions and DISK Records collaborate on the Tape Edition «The Durian Brothers – Mischgewebe» which contains newly combined and mixed live-recordings by the poly-rubber-kraut-tekk-turntablists recorded on their Swiss tour in 2015. OOR and DISK are happy to release and share a limited edition at Café OTO!
http://oor-rec.ch/released/
http://www.thedurianbrothers.net/
