First act:
GUILLAUME VILTARD / 7 pictures of a bass
GUILLAUME VILTARD / double-bass

Second act:
Henrik Olsson, Daichi Yoshikawa, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (trio)

Being one, among many others, playing on the same ancient instrument, might mean that the bass knows much more about music than me. Without any picture of its early days, any idea about how it would sound in a few decades. Intuitions, mistakes, dead ends; shadows and lights of our time. Vibrations, for it's all about vibrations, but which ones? Not satisfied? Go back on work and trust the bass. Words and drawings displayed in the space may be a non musical way to share vibrations, another attempt to catch imaginary voices... may be also a collective way to play the bass.

Artworks by Nicolas Deleau (ink on paper) will be displayed in the Project Space during the performances.

GUILLAUME VILTARD / double-bass

Born in 1975 in the North of Ivory Coast, Viltard grew up in the wild countryside with almost no music. Back in France, he played with many artists of the French underground improv scene, including dancers and poets as well as musicians.

After moving to London in late 2007, Viltard has worked with many of London’s best improvisers, forming strong associations with the circle of musicians centred on Eddie Prevost's experimental workshop, becoming a mainstay of the London Improvisers Orchestra, and playing in a great free jazz trio with Tony Marsh and Shabaka Hutchings that was sadly curtailed by Marsh's untimely death.

It is this eclectic appetite for collaboration across the whole spectrum of improvised music as well as his resolutely unamplified and powerfully physical playing that marks Viltard out as one of the most interesting musicians to emerge from London's fertile improvised and experimental scene in the last few years.



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HENRIK OLSSON / objects and electronics

Born in 1975 in the village of Kyrkhult, a small industrial community in the south of Sweden. Studied classical percussion and received his MFA in 2001 at The Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg. Henrik moves freely between notated music and free improvisation, blending acoustic and amplified sounds with the use of contact microphones. His music has been released on labels such as Another Timbre, Häpna, Kning Disk, BombaxBombax, Monotype Records, iDEAL, Hockey Rawks and more.

Over the years he ́s been collaborating with musicians such as Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tisha Mukarji, Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga, Nikos Veliotis, Angharad Davies, Axel Dörner, Ko Ishikawa and many more.

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DAICHI YOSHIKAWA / feedback

Daichi Yoshikawa is one of the most interesting young improvising musician currently based in London. Using a variety of inverted, diverted and reinvented electronic and acoustic devices he strikes a constantly evolving balance between harsh atonal feedback and elegant high-frequency constructions.

DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA / zither

Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (b. 1981, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a musician and a linguist based in London. She is active in experimental and improvised music since 2006. She plays the zither, a string instrument, and uses ebows and objects on its resonance box to produce sustained or granulated sounds. Her approach focuses on the interplay between spontaneity and elaborate techniques.

She has performed solo, in long-term collaborations or in occasional formations with Jennifer Allum, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Matt Davis, Axel Dörner, Phil Durrant, Ferran Fages, Anastasis Grivas, Franz Hautzinger, Robin Hayward, Chris Heenan, Ute Kanngieser, Grundik Kasyansky, Martin Küchen, Tisha Mukarji, Ivan Palacký, Eddie Prévost, Henrik Olsson, Christine Sehnaoui, Birgit Ulher and Daichi Yoshikawa among others.

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OTO PROJECT SPACE

The OTO Project Space is located just around the corner from Cafe OTO at 1-7 Ashwin Street - E8 3DL.

It was created as a space for artists to develop new work and for OTO Projects to present workshops, talks, film screenings and installations relating to the core programme at Cafe OTO. The building was designed by Assemble - a young, critically acclaimed design practice based in London - and built by a team of more than 30 volunteers.