Two events featuring sound and sculptural work in aid of Project Fukushima.

Day one provides an opportunity to catch a solo set from pivotal British free music innovator Evan Parker. Joining him on the bill will be the frenetic convulsions of lll人 - the trio of Paul Abbott, Seymour Wright and Daichi Yoshikawa - plus Jonas Gustafsson and Lia Mazzari's müllZimmer project which draws on phonography, electro-acoustic composition and improvisation.

Day two brings hallucinatory, high-volume noise from Ryan Jordan, Clorinde's new improv sound project Tancredi - who will be joined by classically trained Japanese koto and shamisen player Keiko Kitamura - and the shimmering glowing overtones of the Organ Octet. An installation work from Roberto Mozzachiodi and Hidekazu Sogabe will be in OTO Project Space over both days.

There will be special Japanese food by Ryoko Takahashi and Yuki Yamamoto (from OTO), and money from the tickets and food will go to Fukushima, as well as donation from the installation at OTO Project Space.

Project Fukushima website

SONOBA ANOBA: INSTALLATION at OTO PROJECT SPACE

Roberto Mozzachiodi and Hidekazu Sogabe"s Installation work at OTO Project Space will involve a mixture of sound and sculptural work.

The primary concern of the installation will be to look at the relationship between sound, memory and air in a specifically Japanese context. Separately the pieces consider the abstract nature of sonic interpretation and together they relate an experience of sound which is embodied and multi-dimensional.

DAY ONE - 28 August

EVAN PARKER / solo

Evan Parker has been a consistently innovative presence in British free music since the 1960s. Parker played with John Stevens in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, experimenting with new kinds of group improvisation and held a long-standing partnership with guitarist Derek Bailey. The two formed the Music Improvisation Company and later Incus Records. He also has tight associations with European free improvisations - playing on Peter Brötzmann's legendary 'Machine Gun' session (1968), with Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lovens (A trio that continues to this day), Globe Unity Orchestra, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, and Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO).

Though he has worked extensively in both large and small ensembles, Parker is perhaps best known for his solo soprano saxophone music, a singular body of work that in recent years has centred around his continuing exploration of techniques such as circular breathing, split tonguing, overblowing, multiphonics and cross-pattern fingering. These are technical devices, yet Parker's use of them is, he says, less analytical than intuitive; he has likened performing his solo work to entering a kind of trance-state. The resulting music is certainly hypnotic, an uninterrupted flow of snaky, densely-textured sound that Parker has described as "the illusion of polyphony". Many listeners have indeed found it hard to credit that one man can create such intricate, complex music in real time.



evanparker.com

lll人 (PAUL ABBOTT / SEYMOUR WRIGHT / DAICHI YOSHIKAWA)

“I went to a private session of theirs … which I thought was absolutely outstanding. The musicians are Paul Abbott (drum kit), Seymour Wright (alto), and Daichi Yoshikawa (electronics). [...] They tell me they have been playing together for quite a while...” - Victor Schonfield



“convulsing but controlled, reigned and railed, concentrated not opposing between the 3. Sound bending to include others. to be met and slightly connected. Semi-soothed in trilling galloping galactic space” - KiO

“There are some globs of clay inside a cage. The cage is badly made from a gridded, rough, metal wire. It is suspended from the ceiling of a living room … inside the cage, above the clay, is a small glass box with a neat funnel protruding from its base.” - c-Ban

lll人 website
Seymour Wright website
Paul Abbott website
Daichi Yoshikawa website

müllZimmer

müllZimmer is a project launched in 2013 by musicians and artists Jonas Gustafsson and Lia Mazzari, aiming to create a platform for young artists exploring interdisciplinary/performance art. The duo currently works within areas such as phonography, electro-acoustic composition and improvisation by using traditional instruments, found and prepared/amplified objects.


DAY TWO - 29 AUGUST

RYAN JORDAN

Ryan Jordan is an electronic artist conducting experiments in derelict electronics, possession trance, retro-death-telegraphy and hylozoistic neural computation. His work focuses on self built hardware, signal aesthetics, and the physical/material nature of experience. His live performances make excessive use of stroboscopic light, high volume noise, and electronic stimulation of rocks in an attempt to induce hallucinatory and trance like states.



ryanjordan.org

TANCREDI with KEIKO KITAMURA/crolinde

Tancredi is Clorinde's alter ego new music project. Their music fluctuates between musical improvisation, sound exploration and ritualistic drum beats. Tancredi like contrasting effects, melodies that gradually destroy and decay, combining acoustic instruments with digital processing producing sounds that constantly change and evolve. They will be joined by Keilo Kitamura, she is a classically trained Japanese koto and shamisen player who will weave her idyllic music with Tancredi's to produce something unique and mesmerizing.

soundcloud.com/clorinde
soundcloud.com/tancredi-project/
clorinde.org/

ORGAN OCTET

Bradford Bailey, Oliver Barrett, John Chantler, James Dunn, Luke Garwood, Jamie Quantrill, Carina Thorén, Alexander Tucker and more tbc

The organ octet is a loose assemblage of musicians kicking life and form into the humble reed organs of the 70s taking them out of the living room corner and onto the stage, sharing wave space with their fellows to create a shimmering, glowing halo of overtones...