Sunday 11 August 2024, 2pm
For the fifth iteration of IN HOUSE we say bye for now to member of the team, Regan Bowering, who’s leaving OTO for a year in NYC. Five of Regan’s scores (works in progress, to be published with OTOHAN later this year) will be performed by some legendary fellow artists/ musicians and friends of OTO. These will be accompanied by a solo performance by Ash Reid.
IN HOUSE is a series for collecting and sharing the voices, talent and camaraderie that exist in-house at Cafe OTO.
Programme
Regan Bowering: works-in-progress scores
Five pieces of varying lengths, materials, scoring methods, and combinations of performers. (Information about the pieces and performers coming soon).
These scores were written for and the following performers:
Rory Salter
Jackson Burton
Luciano Maggiore
Florence Uniacke
Onyee Lo
Abby Thomas
Ash Reid
Hannah McLaughlin
Halldora Osk Eiriksdottir
Regan Bowering
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Ash Reid performing a new score by Ash Reid.
Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of objects and materials, drums and percussion, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album Solos for _ _ _ _ spaces (Dec 2023, Bezirk Tapes) captures this process across a variety of settings, from cavernous concert halls to studios and micro-edits on a laptop. According to the Quietus, Solos is “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” Bowering is one third of a trio with Li Song and Conal Blake, whose tape Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers was released on Infant Tree in May 2023. She’s currently doing a practice-based PhD in Music at Goldsmiths.
Rory Salter is a musician, artist and technician living in London. He has published albums under various monikers with Index Clean, TEETH, Zoomin' Night, Alter, TakuRoku, Infant Tree, Bison and amongst others.
His work is formed through experimentations with acoustic & electronic instruments, faulty & functional technologies, cassette tape, feedback and walking; motivated by exploring relationships to environment, work/labour & materials. It is rooted in practice and the forms of documentation and theory that come from that practice. He has performed and worked with Derek Baron, Ecka Mordecai, Russell Walker, Mark Peter Wright, Regan Bowering, Li Song and others
He co-runs the record label and mail-order distribution Infant Tree with artist Ben Victor Waggett and curates a series of concerts in London between Cafe OTO, Dalston and Spanners, Loughborough Junction. He also works as a sound technician.
Luciano Maggiore is a Palermo-born, London-based musician whose work is characterised by the use of speakers and several analogue/digital devices (samplers, CD players, walkmans, tape recorders) as well as acoustic objects and addresses the performativity of the musical act, the perception of it, and the obscurity that emanates from it.
His main interests include mechanisms of sound diffusion, performance, repetition, endurance, non-human animal languages, dance, and folklore.
http://lucianomaggiore.blogspot.com/
https://edizioniluma.bandcamp.com/
https://lucianomaggiore.bandcamp.com
London-based multidisciplinary artist and cook On Yee Lo (b. Hong Kong), creates and constructs ‘Cooking Instruments’- physical systems where common meals are prepared and consumed which encompass gestures, labour and hospitality. Her performances fold together with experiences of working as both cook and musician within the experimental music communities. These systems unravel her research in culinary techniques and open transformative processes across a variety of social settings. She has exhibited and performed her work at Counterflows Festival Glasgow, LUFF - Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Cafe OTO, Ikon Gallery, ICA London, Camden Art Centre, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and ARTISSIMA Turin.
Ash Reid is a performer and sometime writer, avid texter, current bar tender and former thought owner
