Tuesday 24 January 2023, 8pm
Three performances celebrating vibrating strings, resonant hollows, frictions, random accidents, and transitions. The violin, cello, objects and rubbish are explored in expansive ways in this trio of concerts. In his Oto debut Greek improvisor Dimos Vryzas focuses on the 'moment of creation' in a set which will see him radically repurposing the violin. While Isidora Edwards presents an improvised set centred on the cello, and RUBBISH MUSIC turn to the discarded items of Dalston for their detritus-filled soundscapes.
Dimos Vryzas is a violinist, improviser, sound artist and composer from Thessaloniki, Greece. For several years now his focus in music has moved toward free improvisation. He studied improvisation with Fred Frith and Alfred Zimmerlin, and has a comprehensive spectrum of influences, from classical and folk music to rock, noise and ambient music. He is interested in exploring the limits of his instrument, working with the contrasts of acoustic / electric sound and exploring new ways of expression within music. While the violin is the main source of his sound, he often uses his voice as well as other instruments. He has collaborated with many composers, visual artists, directors and dancers in various interdisciplinary projects all over Europe. In recent years, he has been traveling, recording and performing with many renowned musicians in Greece, Switzerland, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany and more.
ISIDORA EDWARDS is a London-based cellist, improviser and PhD researcher from Chile. Moving between thresholds that include the acoustic, amplified, and processed cello and electronics, her musical language questions epistemologies of time, listening, freedom, and pleasure. Her solo and collaborative performances with fellow improvisers have been presented in a vast number of festivals and venues around Europe, Latin America and the US. She was trained as a classical cellist at the Universidad Católica de Chile, and was awarded scholarships by the National Research and Development Agency of Chile (ANID) to pursue an MMus in Creative Practice (2019-2020) and a Practice-Based PhD in Music (2020-2024) both at Goldsmiths University of London.
Rubbish Music is the duo of Kate Carr and Iain Chambers. We use sound to investigate the journeys, transformations and impacts of our discarded objects. With a practice centred on improvisation and the amplification of objects we seek to imagine new possibilities for rubbish with our orchestra of dirty oven grills, plastic wrappers, old toilet plungers, wine bottles, nasal spray and cardboard boxes,
