This Week at Cafe OTO

From London’s Cafe OTO:

LEAN LEFT // KEN VANDERMARK, PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE, ANDY MOOR, TERRIE HESSELLS
WED 19 SEPT ’12 • 8PM • £12 advance / £14 on the door

Lean Left return to OTO for a one-off night following their storming two day residency here in 2011.

MATS GUSTAFSSON & THURSTON MOORE
TWO DAY RESIDENCY
SAT 22 SEPTEMBER ’12 • 8PM • SOLD OUT
with Kiku Day & Philip Wachsmann
SUN 23 SEPTEMBER ’12 • 8PM • SOLD OUT
with Pat Thomas & John Russell

Massively heavy weekend residency with two of the world’s foremost improvisers. Neither need much introduction. Mats Gustafsson is one of the most distinctive saxophonists of his generation – a player of impossible physical power and constant invention as a soloist, collaborator and group player in The Thing, Fire!, Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet and countless other configurations. Here he’s joined by his Discaholics Anonymous cohort Thurston Moore. An inventive and instantly recognisable guitarist both in his solo work and as a member of Sonic Youth, Thurston has also been a long running participant in and champion of much of the music that we hold dear. It’s a pleasure to have him back here with Mats for what promises to be two fantastic days of music…..

THE WORKSHOP SERIES
MON 24 SEPT ’12 • 8PM • £5/£4 concs

September’s concert of experimental improvised music drawn from participants of Eddie Prévost’s weekly workshop. This month’s musicians are Seymour Wright (alto saxophone), John Wollaston (computer/electronics), Matt Olczak (acoustic guitar), Visa Kuoppala (computer), Sebastian Lexer (piano+), Ross Lambert (guitar and objects)….

STEWART LEE, TANIA CHEN AND STEVE BERESFORD PERFORM ‘INDETERMINACY’ BY JOHN CAGE + ALAN TOMLINSON PERFORMS CAGE’S ‘SOLO FOR SLIDING TROMBONE’
TUES 25 SEPT ’12 • 8PM • SOLD OUT

‘Indeterminacy’ was a 1959 double LP on the Folkways label by John Cage and David Tudor. Cage read ninety of his stories, each one, whether long or short, lasting one minute. Unheard by Cage, Tudor simultaneously played the piano and other things in another room. For this performance the text will be read by Stewart Lee whilst Tania Chen and Steve Beresford play in and outside the piano. The evening will open with Alan Tomlinson performing Cage’s Solo for Sliding Trombone and an improvisation by Beresford, Chen and Tomlinson……

THE LANGHAM RESEARCH CENTRE PRESENTS
“JOHN CAGE – WORKS FOR TAPE AND ELECTRONICS”
WED 26 SEPT ’12 • 8PM • £7 / £8 on the door

To mark the centenary of John Cage’s birth, the Langham Research Centre – Britain’s leading musique concrete performing group – realise a selection of Cage’s rarely heard electronic works using obsolete analogue devices. The programme will include Variations 1 (1958), 0’00” (1962), Fontana Mix (1958), Cartridge Music (1960), Speech for Newsreader and 5 Radios (1955), and WBAI (1960). The Langham Research Centre is a group devoted to authentic performances of classic electronic music, and the creation of new music from their instrumentarium of vintage analogue devices. Founded in 2003, their new music employs open reel tape, sine wave oscillators and other discarded technology……

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