Thursday 2 July 2015, 6pm, OTO Project Space
On his first visit to London, as part of his European tour, the Chilean percussionist Felipe Araya Muñoz will present his solo project, CAJÓN, on which the raw materials are transformed alongside the spaces that inhabit his interventions. Felipe Araya Muñoz and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (zither) made music together in the Ciutadella Park in Barcelona in 2008; a special occasion for both of them that shaped the way they experience music. Several years, places and sounds later they meet again to make new music joined by the entrancing local violinist Jennifer Allum. Luciano Maggiore, a recent strong addition to the London music scene, will also present a solo on speakers and playback devices.
A unique event that aims to propagate sound beyond and below.
Felipe Araya Muñoz uses cajón horizontally, employing different objects and materials on it– some made for sound and others not- rubbing, striking, sliding, dropping, waving and exciting them on its surface. Part of the essence of the work is in the transformed raw material used such as wood, metal, polymers, etc. as well as in the spaces and places that inhabit the interventions. He coordinates the Caja Panamericana de Improvisación – CPI sessions.He has been active on drums since 1994. He is an autodidact and remains in permanent exploration taking occasional drums courses, in various groups, times and places of Chile.
Jennifer Allum is a violinist who improvises and plays experimental music.
While she was a post graduate student at Goldsmiths, London she began to attend Eddie Prevost's weekly improvisation workshops where she met musicians like Ross Lambert, Ute Kanngiesser, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga and Daichi Yoshikawa. She also began working with composers such as Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Michael Pisaro and Michael Parsons around the same time too.
More recently she has played and recorded with The Seen, including performances of John Stevens 'For Sake Of Joy Of Study Of Oneself Together' featuring Stewart Lee as narrator.
She has a number of other recordings available, and her most recent is with John Butcher, Eddie Prevost and Ute Kanngiesser on Ftarri records. Other releases are available from Matchless Recordings.
Luciano Maggiore is a Palermo-born, London-based musician whose work is characterised by the use of speakers and analogue/digital devices (samplers, CD players, Walkmans, tape recorders) and which addresses the performativity of the musical act, the perception of it, and the obscurity that emanates from it. His interests include mechanisms of sound diffusion, performance, repetition, endurance, non-human animal languages, dance and folklore. With Louie Rice, he started NO-PA/PA-ON, a project that deals with performing score-based works, both acoustic and amplified.
https://lucianomaggiore.blogspot.com/
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (Thessaloniki, Greece) is a musician and linguist based in London. She is active in experimental and improvised music since 2006. She plays the zither, a string instrument, and uses ebows and objects on its resonance box to produce sustained or granulated sounds. Her approach focuses on the interplay between spontaneity and elaborate techniques.
Recently, Mikroton released ‘Borough’ that documents the singular meeting of ‘The Holy Quintet’ with Johnny Chang, Jamie Drouin, Dominic Lash and David Ryan.
In the last few years she has been performing mainly in and around London, while most recent shows have been in Berlin. At the moment, she is exploring multiple ways to reroute her music.
http://www.strokebystroke.net/
