• Doors: 20:00
• Start time: 20:30
• Entrance: 6-10 € (up to your offer)

Sound art night with performances by Ōtone and Nina Pixel
curated by Antonino Modica

Ōtone - aka Pablo Diserens - sound artist, field recordist, performer and record label YGAM founder, explores the relationship between bodies and spaces. With a wide variety of found sounds and objects, self-built metallic instruments and microphones at the core of his conceptions, the artist elaborates abstract industrial landscapes that take form in experimental, contemporary and ‘musique concrète’ compositions. With a background in film directing, Ōtone proposes highly narrative and contemplative pieces. He weaves with the mind of the listeners, emphasizing the power of imagination and memory within an elaborated time frame made of carefully selected sounds, to stimulate a whole new range of images and thoughts. The artist’s focus on the sonic properties of specific environments, spaces and matter inspires him to use various types of acoustic phenomena and recording devices (such as tape/digital field recorders, coil and contact microphones) as a crucial part of his creative process. He employs this equipment as a way to capture sounds from his surroundings but also in scenographic ways, as objects to play with, a machinery with its own set of distinctive properties and constraints. His work is also characterized by an ongoing investigation of noise and industrial soundscapes, using found but also self-built metallic objects as tools of composition and performative instruments. Ōtone engages with several sites, contexts and textures with a certain physical and listening state to refine the quality of his presence and attention towards what is already there, and then modifies it to create new spaces and sceneries for the audience to explore.

When performing, Ōtone manipulates material from his field recordings archive and metallic instruments from his Tetsu series. He plays with the listeners’ acoustic memory to create new sonic combinations and associations until another landscape emerges. Venues are plunged into darkness in order to diminish everyday sight's saturation and allow the audience to enter a state of highly focused listening and engage in their sonic experiences. In 2017, the artist performed several times his project entitled Recollections in Berlin.

Since 2015, Ōtone is the founder and curator of YGAM, an independent record label and space for sound experimentation and exploration which develops and supports a plurality of projects in the field of electro-acoustic and electronic music. He is also the co-founder of Ambire, a collective which develops performances, sound installations and listening sessions dedicated to the surrounding and transportive qualities of ambient, drone and experimental music.
Ōtone often collaborates with sound or visual artists and dancers, such as PRoche, Burkhard von Harder, Thiago Granato, Vincent Bozek, Catartsis, cplt, among others.
Ōtone on Bandcamp

 

Nina Pixel is obsessed by hoarding sounds, noises, pictures, videos and using them as a material for creating her own magical realities. Often works with topics of occult possession, rituals, fear, pain, depression, time, self-constructed religions, myths, spirits. Each of her performance has a personal story or topic in the background so the sound becomes a soundtrack to them. Sometimes is using a weird discovered objects, sent from the universe to her, as a source of material and processed field recordings or recorded talks and voices.
Nina Pixel on Soundcloud