Saturday 4 April 2015, 7pm, OTO Project Space
Free early evening double bill in the Project Space from Squares and Triangles and O Yama O. Music from 8pm.
Formed in 2007, Squares and Triangles consists of Jason Dungan, Dustin Ericksen, Anthony Faroux, Sam Porritt, and Maria Zahle. Recordings and performances explore the possibilities of song-oriented improvisation, with Anthony Braxton, the Frogs, and Whitney Houston cited as inspiration, as well as the collective-minded work of the Red Krayola and the AACM. The band has performed live in music venues and art spaces in the UK, Switzerland, and Unnaryd, Sweden.
Squares and Triangles have released their music for free on their website for several years. Later this year, they will issue their first full-length LP on Oh. They will be performing at the Wysing Arts Centre Music Festival in September, and in October they will stage an exhibition at Haut in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Formed of musician and artist Rie Nakajima, Cafe OTO co-founder Keiko Yamamoto, percussionist and photographer Marie Roux and violin player Billy Steiger, O Yama O explores a certain domestic and democratic quality of everyday life, born through associations to folk music of Japan and a folding of myth, tradition, and routine; the non-spectacular and the sublime. They move between pop and the philosophical, defined by the overall space afforded to texture and movement. In small, delicate sound an intimate musical climate is established that reflects on life, telling stories of improvised clockwork, whispered dreams, small movements of the hand and the rhythm to be found in the shuffle of a deck of cards.
The group have performed since 2014 at venues and festivals such as noshowspace, Ikon Gallery, Wysing Arts Centre, Supernormal, Borealis Festival, Mayhem, and allEars Festival.
