Sprawl is back at Cafe Oto for a rare outing of their once more regular events. Established in the 1990s and loved for their early electronic extravaganzas featuring the first of London laptop performances, internet link ups and such like, hosts Douglas Benford and Iris Garrelfs now focus on live experimental sound in all its glorious guises.

Tonight features maverick and wayward sound experimentalist Adam Bohman; Berlin based Australian Jasmina Maschina performing her woodwind improvisation; and Material Studies performing an audiovisual live set with material from recent workshops.

ADAM BOHMAN

Adam Bohman's personal approach to music has essentially always been acoustic, but due to his close involvement with live electronics (he is a founder member of Morphogenesis), his sounds have very often been subjected to signal processing. The Bohman aesthetic can be a dense and tangled thing to unpick and describe. Various and nefarious sounds and artistic influences merge and collide, Varèsian sound montage supporting spoken word material sourced from a pub menu, or frenetic juxtapositions between amplified shoe brushes and a frenzied tape cut-up of 17th Century instruments. Sound art which oscillates between states of the absurd and sonically grotesque, and highly articulate explorations of extra-musical sound. A new Bohman Brothers CD album, Back On the Streets was released on film director Peter Strickland's label Peripheral Conserve last June. He most recenty appeared as part of the BBC Proms John Cage Centenary Celebrationat the Royal Albert Hall.



JASMINA MASCHINA

Jasmina Maschina performs her woodwind improvisation, musicians moving around the space as they play, exploring & working with the acoustics of the room, creating a shifting mix with an open score of 4 notes that can be played in any order, duration, pitch, amplitude, tempo, style.

Jasmine Guffond is an electronic musician and sound artist who relocated from Sydney (AUS) to Berlin (GER) with her spectral drone duo MINIT (Sigma Editions/Staubgold). Over the last 15 years Jasmine has been performing live at various music and electronic art festivals including, What is Music?, The Now Now, ISEA, Klangbad, Sonic Architecture, Electrofringe, Full Pull, Goldmund, Jazz Juice, Wien Modern, Hybrids Art Australia, Spot City Gothenburg, Adelaide Arts, CO/POP, No Woman No Art, and more. Collaboratively with Torben Tilly as MINIT she has recorded music for CD, 12inch, and 7inch vinyl releases with the Sigma Editions, Staubgold, Tonschacht and Preservation labels. Jasmine has worked as a sound designer and composer for film, exhibited sound installations and developed works of varied scope based on the use of processed acoustic, electronic, and found sound sources.

As Jasmina Maschina she began recording in her Berlin homes, producing her acclaimed debut solo album, The Demolition Series in 2008 for the German label Staubgold. Followed by extensive touring throughout Europe, China, Australia and New Zealand, in 2010, she released a split LP/CD, City Splits : No.1 Berlin with ‘golden diskó ship’ on Monika Enterprise and in 2011, her second full length album, Alphabet Dream Noise. Based on her personal style of gentle guitar picking, abstract electronics, drone and inventiveness, fragile layers of sound swirl magnificently around your ears, seducing you into a unique sound world like no other.



MATERIAL STUDIES

Material Studies aka Matthias Kispert, Blanca Regina and Andrew Riley present an audiovisual live performance with material from their recent anarchic improvisation workshops at Sound//Space, SoundFjord‘s pop-up record store at V22 Summer Club in London.

Material Studies - Metal session- from whiteemotion on Vimeo.

ISRAEL MARTINEZ

Israel Martínez is one of the best known young Mexican artists working with sound accross different fields, from the composition of a music created with field recordings, electronic sounds and digital processes, to visual works that mainly focuse on a reflection about society and include video, actions, site-specific projects and audio art. His discography includes "Two espressos in separate cups" (2012), "El hombre que se sofoca" (2011), "Triptych" (2010), "Nareah" (2009) and "Exorcizios" (2008), released by Sub Rosa, Aagoo and Abolipop, and he has also appeared on several compilations published by labels and magazines around the world, including The Wire.

In 2007 he received the Distinction Award at Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Music category, and currently is guest of the DAAD's Artist In Berlin Program. In his live performances he is blending field recordings with synthesised sounds, exploring different levels of tension and quietness

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