Sunday 26 February 2017, 7pm, OTO Project Space
After the fantastic Silver Road venue were sadly forced to close their doors this month – due to London's usual short-sighted approach to development – OTO are proud to welcome them for a one-off show in the Project Space.
During their short tenure in South London, Silver Road have made a distinctive impact on the capital's new music scene, with a thrillingly varied and forward-thinking programme making use of the unique acoustics of a converted water tank in Lewisham. Tonight sees a great line-up of some of the most exciting exponents of new music from London and further afield.
Bertrand Gauguet plays alto saxophone in contexts of solo and group improvisation - many festivals in recent years in France and abroad - his approach to the saxophone is involved in research on technical areas of the instrument, whether acoustic or related to amplification - composes electronic music : works with film, dance, visual arts and radio - focuses on learning processes related to sound and music - music and non music - sound as support for meditation - breath - the very relationships that sound and music have with image and body - still learning to play shakuhashi after recent trip to Japan ... Collaborations with : Sophie Agnel & Andrea Neumann ; Franz Hautzinger & Thomas Lehn ; X Brane ; Rhodri Davies & Christoph Schiller ; Andy Guhl & Mike T. Bullock ; Martine Altenburger & Frédéric Blondy ; Xavier Charles ; Pascal Battus ; Insub Meta Orchestra. Meetings with : Tetuzi Akiyama, John Butcher, Eric La Casa, Michel Doneda, Axel Dörner, Isabelle Duthoit, Robin Hayward, Tomas Korber, Urs Leimgruber, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetsu Saïtoh, Roger Turner and Michaël Vorfeld.
Tom Wheatley is an artist and musician based in London. His work is patterns, rhythms and cycles, at an interface of physical and digital zones.
His projects are Tennota with Grundik Kasyansky, Vesta Payne with Sarah Hartnett and Cast-On with Ilana Blumberg. He also works closely with Daniel Blumberg and Adam Christensen.
Seth Cooke describes most of his practice as “filling noise with space”, adopting an accidental turn of phrase coined by his daughter. This side of his work attempts to say something useful about “place” by snookering himself via broadband noise, scavenged data, media artefacts, graph theory, or his flimsy strawman arguments about other artists. The other side of his work involves snookering himself in performance through bloody-minded rules-based adherence to feedback, resonance, routing or mathematical processes that he can barely control, if he can control them at all. Sometimes he escapes through luck, sometimes it’s all just excruciatingly high effort/low reward.
“I saw Seth Cooke play tonight and he did something I’ve been trying to capture for a while. Completely pure music that does one thing but that one thing does everything. Whole, super-nutritious music in one tone-stew.” – Matt Loveridge (MXLX, Knife Library, Gnar Hest, Fairhorns)
“… richly investigated, purposeful work looking into the sonic artifacts of the unresolved dissonances in constellations of history, politics, and media. Through his no-input field recording technique, Cooke brings into consideration the materiality of the inscription devices, a sort of sonic ghost hunting that rewards investigative listening.” – Derek Baron (Reading Group)
Sound artist, improviser, composer, Pascal Battus has developed a practice which is more concerned with sonic gestures, listening and the situation which determines them rather than with any particular instrument. Among other sound sources, he uses guitar pick-ups, rotating surfaces, ‘environmental guitar’ (table-top electric guitar with contact microphone, various objects and electronics), percussion (amplified objects, or not).
He has played throughout Europe and in the USA, Canada, Asia, the Middle East, Australia… both solo and more frequently with other musicians. He often works with dancers and with performers from the plastic arts (video, lighting, sculpture…) He has published drawings and was co-inventer of Sonic Massages (les Massages Sonores). His discs have been released by Potlatch, Corpus Hermeticum, Amor Fati, Another Timbre, Cathnor, Organized Music From Thessaloniki, Herbal Internationa.
