Thursday 14 November 2024, 7.30pm
Taiwanese-Canadian composer extraordinaire Alex Zhang Hungtai makes a welcome return to OTO. After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, he has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, soundtrack music and free jazz. His newer compositions predominantly works with saxophone, synthesizers, percussion and piano, furthering his research on ritualistic music of liminality.
Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles who is perhaps best known for his extensive and incredibly intense work with the saxophone. Over the last decade he has established himself as one of the premier improvising musicians in Los Angeles, playing solo and in numerous collaborative projects. Shiroishi may well be considered a foundational player in the city’s vast musical expanse.
"The raw, impromptu output of a player uniquely attuned to his instrument and purpose, it amounts to an exorcism of the generational trauma that informed this searching night underground." — PITCHFORK
