Organized Music from Thessaloniki is celebrating its latest release, ‘Wasted Five Years’, from the duo of Samuel Rodgers and Jack Harris. Rodgers and Harris have been close collaborators for a number of years, meshing feedback, amplification, electronics and field recording approaches into their own blend of improvised music. Going to great lengths to welcome the influence of ambient and environmental sounds into their work, this latest recording finds them playing along to the sounds of an empty office complex at Nuneaton, UK. For their performance at OTO Project Space, they will be performing alongside the urban noise of Dalston.



JACK HARRIS

Jack Harris is an improvising musician, composer, and sound recordist based in the UK.

www.jackharris.info/

SAMUEL RODGERS

Samuel Rodgers is a musician and sound artist working across improvisation, sound recording, performance and installation. His work is concerned with exploring acoustic phenomena and developing haptic relationships to sounding objects and spaces - sound reproduction and recording being key in the articulation of these spatial relationships. His compositions attempt to isolate phenomena within a nexus of sonic and acoustic activity, drawing attention to complexity both on the micro- and macro-levels.

Samuel has performed across the UK and in Europe. He is a member of the Set Ensemble and co-curates the Consumer Waste record label and Empty Orchestra curatorial project.

samuelrodgers.info
consumerwaste.org.uk



SARAH HUGHES / zither

Sarah Hughes and Kostis Kilymis started working as a duo in 2012. Their collaboration has resulted in a few of hours of improvised music, an interpretation of a George Brecht score, and a fixed document in the shape of the Consumer Waste cdr edition, 'The Good Life'. They perform infrequently and intuitively, using a combination of zither, piano and electronics.

Sarah Hughes plays zither and piano in improvising groups and as a founding member of the Set Ensemble, a group of musicians dedicated to the performance of contemporary composition. She performs with long-term collaborators Patrick Farmer, Daniel Jones and Stephen Cornford and has also performed with musicians such as Antoine Berger, Seijiro Murayama, Angharad Davies and Jurg Frey. She has performed internationally and has participated in various festivals such as Blurred Edges in Hamburg, i and e in Dublin, Sounds Like in Canada and Cut and Splice in London.

She is the co-founder of Compost and Height, curating projects such as Michael Pisaro’s Only [Harmony Series #17] New Works by Manfred Werder, Ben Owen and Patrick Farmer, and the Water Yam Project.

sarahhughes.org

KOSTIS KILYMIS / electronics

Kostis Kilymis is an artist focusing on feedback systems and representation in musical performance and artistic practice. His main instrument is the mixing board, through which he captures and manipulates electroacoustic phenomena, pre-recorded material and electronically generated sound.

He has been an improviser, performer and collaborator -his encounters including Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Leif Elggren, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Cornford and Phil Julian amongst others. He curates the Organized Music from Thessaloniki label.

kostiskilymis.com
thesorg.noise-below.org

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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.