New Departures: Thursday 4th December
Doors: 8pm
Price: £5
Venue: Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, E8 3DL [Map]
Featuring:
Jason Kahn
Jason Kahn is an American sound and visual artist based in Zurich. His output includes sound installation, performance and composition. Working with amplified percussion and analogue synthesiser, Kahn creates deep drones, sheets of static and harsh shards of sound.
He was born in New York in 1960, grew up in Los Angeles and relocated to Europe in 1990. He currently lives in Zürich. He has given concerts and exhibited sound installations throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. Kahn performs both solo and in collaborations, using percussion, analog synthesizer or computer in different combinations. He composes for electronics, acoustic instruments and environmental recordings. For larger groups of directed improvsation he has devised a system of graphical scores. Kahn creates his sound installations for specific spaces. The focus of these primarily non-visual works lies in the perception of a space through sound. In 1997 Kahn founded the independent CD label “Cut,” producing to date twenty-five CD’s, both of Kahn’s own work and other artists.
Lee Hangjun / Hong Chulki
‘Metaphysics of Sound’ (Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph)]
UK premiere of ‘Metaphysics of Sound’, taken from the DVD release ‘Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph’ on the Korean label ‘Balloon & Needle’.
“Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues of fixed light and chemical elements of transformed from living organisms” - Carl E. Brown
“I have been waiting for more than 20 years for those who create music and video just like Lee Hangjun and Hong Chulki.” - Otomo Yoshihide
Lee Hangjun
He is an experimental film artist from Seoul, Korea. He collects film footage and does chemical work to oxidize emulsion on film surface. He also does contact printing work by copying film into blank film to make distorted images. His performance are shown by multiple projection with at least two analog projectors in various places such as galleries and theaters.
Hong Chulki
Since 1996, Hong Chulki from Seoul, Korea has been the founder and the member of the first Korean noise music group Astronoise (with Choi Joonyong). As a noise improviser, he has been playing mainly with feedback, amplifying the audio signal that passes through the audio devices, such as turntable, MD player, and laptop computer, and etc.
Nos Phillipé
Combining claustrophobic dense drones and detailed layered textures, Nos Phillipé create a highly immersive and visceral sonic landscape.
“They create highly ambiguous and cavenous imaginary space in your mind using only electronics, turntable and prepared guitar” - The Sound Projector
