Sunday 22 November 2015, 8pm
Kostis Kilymis and Miguel Prado (aka: Nzʉmbe), UK-based expatriates from Greece and Spain respectively, launch their two recent solo albums with a double-bill at OTO.
On his Rekem Records LP, 'Bethnal Greener', Kilymis weaves together a mesh of improvised electronics, fragments of field recordings and noise into an immersive whole that draws its inspiration from urban explorations and psychogeography. Referencing both improvised electronic music as well as drone-based approaches, his sets are captivating slices of abstract electroacoustic experimentation. For his Nzʉmbe project, Miguel Prado pens unusual, dramatic and very often romantic songs that delve into feelings of disenchantment, affection and humiliation. Built upon a musical bed of modular electronics and instrumental fragments, his recordings push forward the sound of the disembodied voice, laid bare in isolation, vulnerability and exposure. Joining the two, will be South-London based Scrase, presenting a special tape-based set for the evening.
Entertainment to be provided by Louie Rice (Hideous Replica) on cassette-only dj duties.
Kostis Kilymis is a Bristol-based artist. He performs electronic and noise music based on live synthesis, rhythm and found sound. His work focuses on immersive environments, feedback systems and the notion of representation. He has been an improviser, performer and collaborator – his encounters including Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Greg Pope, Leif Elggren, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Cornford and Phil Julian amongst others. He has published work on labels such as Rekem, I Dischi del Barone, Strange Rules and Coherent States.
Miguel Prado is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE. His main work resides at the intersection of philosophy, sound art, science & technology. He responds to the technoscientific and social conditions around the notions of control, uncertainty and information theory. He researches the problems of the metascientific and ideological foundations of diverse projects of prediction and control of uncertainty. From algorithmic surveillance back to cybernetics and how these render noise “informationally heretical”.
Scrase is an electronic musician based in South London. For over ten years he has been creating many forms of electronic music, while recent work of his has been documented across two 12"s for Love Love Records. At Café Oto he will perform using cassette tapes of pieces selected from hours of improvisations in his studio, which will be fed into his custom software for further manipulation.
