Thursday 31 March 2016, 8pm
Slip are back at OTO with an evening of expanded song. Laurie Tompkins and Susie Whaites perform Tim Parkinson’s gloriously monotonous Songs; German and Swedish musicians Andreas Dzialocha and Marta Forsberg bring drones both nocturnal and ecstatic to the UK for the first time; and masterful American performer/composer Ashley Paul makes a special guest appearance.
Ashley Paul uses an array of instruments including saxophone, clarinet, voice, guitar, bells and percussion, mixing disparate elements to create a colorful palate of sound that works its way into her intuitive songs; free forming, introverted melodies. This blend manifests beautiful and simple musical forms against acoustic experimentation.
Ashley has performed or recorded with Phill Niblock, Rashad Becker, Nik Colk Void, Loren Connors, Heatsick, Aki Onda, C. Spencer Yeh, Anthony Coleman, Bass Clef, Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, Seijiro Murayama, Greg Kelley, Bill Nace and Eli Keszler appearing on such labels as Important, PAN, ESP-DISK’ and Tzadik. She received a Masters of Music from New England Conservatory in 2007.
Andreas Dzialocha (DE) is an electric bass player, programmer and composer, founder of the Serenus Zeitblom Oktett. Studies art history, musicology, computer science. Writes environments with and without computers for instrumentalists, theater and sound installations. Performs in various ensembles between free improvised music, chamber music and pop. Bass player of the swedish group Tula (Telegram / Warner), publisher of the BLATT 3000 paper platform for contemporary music. Solo Electric Bass Album Release 2015 on Slip Imprint (London / Berlin). Cofounder of the selfcurated festival VERANTWORTUNG 3000 summer 2016. Young artist award 2012, nominated by the Moers Festival. Lives and works in Berlin.
http://solo.andreasdzialocha.com/
Marta Forsberg is currently a bachelor student in Electroacoustic composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She a violinist and electroacoustic composer working in the field of free improvisation and slow, drone based music. She aspires to create an all embracing environment for the music, performers and the audience by visualising sound with colour and light constructions.
https://soundcloud.com/martalennartsdotter
Tim Parkinson, for the last 25 years based in London writing music (described as “homeless”) such as recent albums piano trio 2020, an album, Here Comes a Monster, piano music 2015-16, (also TIME IS OVER w/Travis Just) and hybrid reclaimed opera Time With People performed somewhere in some form every year since 2014 (except pandemic-time), and other genrefluid things such as Pleasure Island and recent Oxford Triptych (for Audiograft and MAO), as well as for example five string quartets, one of which is in a large box, written for the Samuel Beckett Centre, all written for and performed by friends who understand like Mira Benjamin, Anton Lukoszevieze, the great Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop, Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker, Object Collection, and sometimes broadcast on BBC or Resonance FM or wfmu. Also occasionally performing on piano or keyboards or objects own music or others (like Foetus) from hcmf to Tate Modern to Roadburn to ATP. Also making a corner in London for music noone else programmes at Music We’d Like to Hear since 2005 and still going strong. More of all this on www.untitledwebsite.com
