Ambarchi+ O'Rourke+Haino

Oren Ambarchi + Jim O'Rourke + Keiji Haino TRIO

opening act: Marco Fusinato SOLO

Open: 19:00 / Start: 19:30

Artist Information:

Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal.
Ambarchi has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Pimmon, Keiji Haino, John Zorn, Rizili, Voice Crack, Jim O'Rourke, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Dave Grohl, Gunter Muller, Evan Parker, z'ev, Toshimaru Nakamura, Peter Rehberg, Merzbow and many more. Since 2004 Ambarchi has worked with American avant metal outfit Sunn 0))) contributing to many of their releases and side-projects including their Black One album from 2005 and the recent Monoliths & Dimensions release.
For 10 years together with Robbie Avenaim, Ambarchi was the co-organiser of the What Is Music? festival, Australia’s premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music. The festival hosted over 200 local and international performers. Ambarchi now curates the Maximum Arousal series at The Toff In Town in Melbourne and has recently co-produced an Australian television series on experimental music called Subsonics. Ambarchi recently co-curated the sound program for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale.
www.orenambarchi.com oren myspace

Jim O'Rourke

Keiji Haino

fushitsusha.com

Marco Fusinato

Marco Fusinato is a multidisciplinary artist whose work ranges from installations in galleries to performances in venues. Alongside his gallery practice, Fusinato has a long history of working with (and making) experimental music. His sound works explore the language of noise. His primary focus is on the unconventional use and abuse of the electric guitar and related electronic devices. ‘He extends the traditional language of the guitar to distressed oblivion, compounding deracinated electronic detritus into over-amplified dreamweapons, unleashing tsunamis of ecstatic free noise’. His new solo record Ripping Skies on US noise label No Fun Productions has just been released. Apart from his solo performances Fusinato also plays in the duo POLETOPRA (with composer Anthony Pateras).
Presented as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Fusinato co-curated the major international exhibition 21:100:100 which featured 100 sound works by 100 artists from the 21st Century. He is also currently curating an ongoing series titled YOU DON’T HAVE TO CALL IT MUSIC: music by visual artists and the noise festival HATRED OF FANTASTIC.
www.marcofusinato.com

Presented by:

SuperDeluxe, CCA, Kitakyushu, Black Truffle

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New Release! (Jan 2010)

OREN AMBARCHI / JIM O'ROURKE / KEIJI HAINO

"TIMA FORMOSA"

Recorded live at the Playhouse, Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center, Japan January 8, 2009. Concert produced by Akiko Miyake, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu. A Black Truffle / CCA co-release. BT04 ©2010 Black Truffle, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu