Ollie Bown and Isambard Khroustaliov will be joining forces with a number of computer musicians and researchers, and acclaimed improvising percussionist Eddie Prévost, to produce an evening of improvisations using Live Algorithms: software designed to interact with an instrumental musician without direct control. The concert will be held at Cafe Oto on August 6th.
Category: Ollie Bown
Icarus – Copenhagen
Icarus play live (accompanied by a specially commissioned film by Martin Hampton) at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse with support from Opiate.
Hard Format
Colin Buttimer has posted about the album artwork for Carnivalesque by Icarus on his site Hard Format. The site is a great overwiew of some of the more idiosyncratic approaches to graphics and album artwork and serves as a great reminder that records can sometimes be so much more intriguing and pleasuarble than simply owning a data file.
Appliances #8
For Appliance #8 on Friday 21st November at Cafe OTO, to celebrate the release of our recent FREE compilation, we will be presenting a programme themed more specifically around our work with film. Britt Hatzius will be presenting new work ‘The Film’ with a live sountrack by Adem Ilhan and there will be screenings of recent work by Martin Hampton and Alice Scott with live soundtracks provided by Isambard Khroustaliov, Maurizio Ravalico and Dominic Lash. The evening will also premiere a new film by Candas Sisman, set to a soundtrack by Isambard Khroustaliov and present Joji Koyamas recent animation ‘First Place’. Finally (as if all this wasn’t enough!) there will also be a chance to see some installation work in the early evening and a banging dancefloor set by Rumpistol to keep you reveling late into the night. If you’re interested in the current shape of experimental film and music, this is an evening not to be missed…
8pm – 9pm
Zittern Installation (Britt Hatzius / Fred Labbe)
‘Air Squint Opera’ Video Installation for 3 projectors (Squint/Opera)9pm
Cat on the Piano (Misha Mengelberg)
First Place (Joji Koyama)
The Audience… (Ant Hampton)
Drift (Martin Hampton)
Edicisum (Candas Sisman) – World Premiere9:45pm
Pink (Alice Scott) – live soundtrack – (Maurizio Ravalico / Isambard Khroustaliov)
Schneefall (Britt Hatzius) – live soundtrack – (Ollie Bown)10:30pm
Traum (Martin Hampton) – live soundtrack – (Dominic Lash / Isambard Khroustaliov)
The Film (Britt Hatzius) – live soundtrack – (Adem Ilhan)11:30pm
Rumpistol (visuals by Brittski / Squint)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21ST @ Cafe OTO, 18 – 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL.
£5 on the door
(photo by Hiroshi Sugimoto)
Icarus in Padua and Amsterdam
Icarus (Ollie Bown and Isambard Khroustaliov) play live in Padua on the 2nd June (as part of the Padua Summer Festival) and Amsterdam an the 23rd June (as part of the Viral Radio Festival).