Thursday 28 January 2016, 8pm
“chunks of matter in uncertain space” – Mark Leckey, Cinema In The Round
Slip return to Cafe OTO for an evening of UK premieres and venue debuts which play with objects and environments. Both the main venue and its neighbouring Project Space will host performances and installations where fans, arduinos, bricks, and footballs merge with distorted visions of landscape.
MAIN SPACE
- Klaas Hübner & Lysandre Coutu-Sauvé Music For Ceiling Fan & Tubes
- Kaj Duncan David 4c0st1ctr1g3r * & Relay
- Laurie Tompkins Heat, War, Sweat, Law
- Tom Rose Dry saying *
* performed by Sam Wilson
PROJECT SPACE **
- Klaas Hübner Schwarzwald
- Susie Whaites & Aaron Parker Storage
** Both installations will be open from midafternoon on Jan 28th, and available to view free of charge.
German sound sculptor, improviser and instrumentmaker Klaas Hübner has developed a body of work which honours sound as a live medium with which to craft, shape and play in realtime. His playful punk and Flux inspired practice ranges from installation based works, to live improv, to theatre and sound design. Hübner’s first Oto visit is also the UK debut for his tape installation Schwarzwald, which will be installed in Oto’s project space, and Performance For Ceiling Fan & Tubes, created with contemporary dancer and regular collaborator Lysandre Coutu-Sauvé (CA). The pair have created numerous pieces together, most recently for Duwamish Revealed in Seattle in 2015, alongside solo shows in Kairo, Venice, New Orleans, and most regularly in Berlin, where they are based.
http://matchees.blogspot.de/
http://cargocollective.com/lysandre
Kaj Duncan David is a British/Danish composer and performer making work with electronics, instruments, lights and video, as well as musictheatre situations and installations. He often works collaboratively, for example with Danish multidisciplinary artist Troels Primdahl, London composer collective Bastard Assignments, and Swedish soundartist Kajsa Magnarsson. Kaj’s Oto debut sees him premiering rhythmic work for arduinos, drum pads, and strobes, performed alongside British percussionist Sam Wilson, who also performs British composer Tom Rose’s Dry saying, for flat football, a pair of scissors and a large metal spring.
http://www.kajduncandavid.com/
http://www.sam-wilson.info/
http://cargocollective.com/tomrose-tcr/
Laurie Tompkins (b.1990) is a UK composer, performer and co-founder and co-director of the Slip label.
From scores for samples, instruments and voices he creates a grabbable music that dreams and confounds. Bodies, things, words, and sounds strain under duress, looping their way through scenes of grubby presence, not-quite riff, mouldy echo, and swollen bombast.
His spring 2022 discs for Entr’acte, 33-33 and Hyperdelia are a thick, unruly soup of keys and computer with pianist Eliza McCarthy; a desperate suite of consoling, tanked songs with takes from Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, Teresa Winter, Gwilly Edmondez and videos by Joel Wycherley; and some dilated rotten soul with Eliza and Ashley Paul.
Laurie helms Slip, which has released music by Yeah You, Mica Levi, Julia Reidy, Bass Clef, Object Collection, ilgendo, Chaines & Competition, Old releases of his own include ‘Ample Profanity' (2018), with cellist Oliver Coates; 'Heat, War, Sweat, Law' (2016); and 'Exorcise' (2021), as Yes Indeed with bassist Otto Willberg, justly hailed as “proper, mad scones” (Boomkat).
Performances: Café Oto, Aldeburgh Music, Spike Island, Harp Art Lab (Harplinge) and National Sawdust (New York). Commissions: House of Bedlam, Daylight Editions, LSO Soundhub Scheme, ddmmyy and 840 series. Radio: specials for NTS and Resonance FM and a session with Adam Bohman recorded at Maida Vale studios, broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
