Category: INSTALLATIONS

Appliances #8

For Appliance #8 on Friday 21st November at Cafe OTO, to celebrate the release of our recent FREE compilation, we will be presenting a programme themed more specifically around our work with film. Britt Hatzius will be presenting new work ‘The Film’ with a live sountrack by Adem Ilhan and there will be screenings of recent work by Martin Hampton and Alice Scott with live soundtracks provided by Isambard Khroustaliov, Maurizio Ravalico and Dominic Lash. The evening will also premiere a new film by Candas Sisman, set to a soundtrack by Isambard Khroustaliov and present Joji Koyamas recent animation ‘First Place’. Finally (as if all this wasn’t enough!) there will also be a chance to see some installation work in the early evening and a banging dancefloor set by Rumpistol to keep you reveling late into the night. If you’re interested in the current shape of experimental film and music, this is an evening not to be missed…

8pm – 9pm

Zittern Installation (Britt Hatzius / Fred Labbe)
‘Air Squint Opera’ Video Installation for 3 projectors (Squint/Opera)

9pm

Cat on the Piano (Misha Mengelberg)
First Place (Joji Koyama)
The Audience… (Ant Hampton)
Drift (Martin Hampton)
Edicisum (Candas Sisman) – World Premiere

9:45pm

Pink (Alice Scott) – live soundtrack – (Maurizio Ravalico / Isambard Khroustaliov)
Schneefall (Britt Hatzius) – live soundtrack – (Ollie Bown)

10:30pm

Traum (Martin Hampton) – live soundtrack – (Dominic Lash / Isambard Khroustaliov)
The Film (Britt Hatzius) – live soundtrack – (Adem Ilhan)

11:30pm

Rumpistol (visuals by Brittski / Squint)

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21ST @ Cafe OTO, 18 – 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL.
£5 on the door

(photo by Hiroshi Sugimoto)

Not Applicable @ Kammer Klang

The brainchild of Lucy Railton, this will be the second installment of the monthly Kammer Klang residency at Charlie Wright’s International Bar, dedicated to disintegrating the ever blurring boundaries at the edge of contemporary classical music in collaboration with electronic musicians and improvisors.

David Worswick (solo violin)
– performs ‘A Paganini’ by Alfred Schnittke

Isambard Khroustaliov
– sets in motion ‘Pendulum’ by Steve Reich

Vicky Wright (bass clarinet), Sasha Koushk-Jalali (tuba), Rob Ames (viola) Sarah Creswell (percussion) and Lucy Railton (‘cello)
– perform ‘Workers Union’ by Louis Andriessen

Oren Marshall (tuba) and Maurizio Ravalico (congas)
– improvise

TUESDAY OCTOBER 28TH @ Charlie Wright’s International Bar, 45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA.
nearest tube – OLD STREET
£5 on the door

Music for Museums

A 15 minute sound piece by Isambard Khroustaliov will form part of an installation entitled Music for Museums by Support Structure in the Far West Exhibition at the Arnolfini in Bristol from the 28th June until the 31st August 2008.

Designed as an ambient work to be listened to at a volume just above the environmental noise floor, the piece takes as its motivation the idea that a family of small insects are attempting to learn how to communicate with the human world using morse code.

Situated in the bookshop at the gallery (surrounded predominantly by books on art theory and practice) and feeling the desire to express themselves in the code they are seeking to master, they begin to contemplate the familiar human allegory of the cave. Needless to say, a fierce argument ensues, which is notable, above all, for its complete incomprehensibility.

A documentary CD containing recordings of all of the pieces is available through the gallery.