Niklas Adam examines the ability of work on the border between visual art and music to break loose from the traditional behavioural patterns of listening, rational thinking and immediacy. Sound, movement, perception and how we choose (or are confined) to interpret the outside world, is a recurring theme in Adam’s work. His approach is characterized by problematizing and questioning the performance of music, and especially how the traditional use of the concert situation closes off the possibility for other types of listening in society. His work is often demanding and patient. For this performance Adam has prepared a concert for semi-attended computer, water boiler, hydrophone, temperature sensor and electronic accentuators.

Adam has studied, inter alia, at the Danish Institute for Electronic Music and has worked with Mattin, Toshimaru Nakamura, Rubén Patiño, Harald Fetveit, Taku Unami, among others. He recently finished his MA in Performing Music Technology, and has spent the summer at V2_ institute of unstable media in Rotterdam, Netherlands.




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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.