A night of eclectic avant sound & performance curated by Eric Laska. (http://ericlaska.com/)
Ora Clementi (crys cole + James Rushford)
Ora Clementi is the duo of Canadian sound artist crys cole and Australian composer-performer James Rushford. cole is known for her solo work in live performance and sound installations as well as innumerable improvised collaborations with artists that includes Oren Ambarchi, Keith Rowe, Tim Olive, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lance Austin Olsen, Jamie Drouin and MathieuRuhlmann. Rushford has an established career as a composer of contemporary classical music, as well as various projects with Joe Talia, Oren Ambarchi, Jon Rose, Michael Pisaro, Graham Lambkin and Iancu Dumitrescu.
Ora Clementi is a unique investigation of liminal performance states in an interpersonal context, often focusing on text and speech as preconscious thought processes. Central to cole and Rushford’s duo are questions surrounding interpretation, the function of memory, semiotics, and the syntactical discipline of sound within both listener and performer.
Their work utilizes numerous musical tropes in unorthodox and disorienting ways and often incorporates organ/piano, field recordings, voice, electronics, contact mics, flutes, ocarinas and numerous percussive tools. Using movement and amplified and acoustic sound, they seek to create a dreamlike context hovering between musical moments and pure abstraction.
Their first LP release, Cover you will softer me, was released in late 2014 on UK label Penultimate Press.
Mike Bullock
Mike Bullock is a composer and intermedia artist based in Philadelphia, PA. He works with modular synthesizers, computer sound and video, contrabass, and drawing.
He has performed across the US and in Europe, at venues such as Philadelphia Museum of Art; Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden; ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn; and EMPAC in Troy, NY. Collaborators include King Britt, HPrizm, Bertrand Gauguet, Andy Guhl, Mazen Kerbaj, Pauline Oliveros, Bhob Rainey, Steve Roden, Keith Rowe, and Christian Wolff.
Mike has taught and lectured in the US and abroad on field recording and improvisation, and teaches courses in electronic and computer music at Ramapo College in New Jersey.
