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Counterflows at Cafe OTO – Day 2

Date

13 September 2024

Venue

Cafe OTO

Programme

Doors
19:30
Conal Blake & Hannan Jones
20:30 – 21:00
Nakul Krishnamurthy
21:15 – 21:45
Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor
22:00 – 22:30

Tickets

Cafe OTO £6/10 ↗
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Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental music, Counterflows, lands in London’s cauldron of creativity that is Café Oto for 3 days of exciting performances. Featuring Scottish and Scottish-based artists either in solo or in collaboration, the mini festival gives a snapshot of the wide-range of innovative music being made today from the land of haggis, irn bru and tattie scones.

The 3 day event is made possible by support from Creative Scotland.

For tonight we welcome performances by Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor, Nakul Krishnamurthy and Conal Blake & Hannan Jones.

 

Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor

This new collaboration between Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor is a highly kinetic and playful endeavour. Body centric vocal explorations, meet with intricate rhythmic systems in an otherworldly space occupied by sounding inhalations, hedonistic swells, dissociative beats, mimicked samples and meandering word play. Focusing on the expanded edges of voice and computer music and how […]
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Nakul Krishnamurthy

Nakul Krishnamurthy is an Indian artist who works with Indian Classical music and explores new ways of conceiving it at the intersection of Western Classical, experimental and electronic music traditions. Using procedural approaches and electronic music making techniques, his work experiments with and attempts to reconfigure the structural foundations of Carnatic and Hindustani musics to […]

Conal Blake

Conal Blake is a musician from Glasgow. He currently plays solo and improvises with Li Song and Regan Bowering, using electronics and percussion. He also runs the Feedback Moves label.   Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers by Conal Blake / Regan Bowering / Li Song

Hannan Jones

(Scotland/Australia)

Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose research motivations encompass side-lined narratives, often drawing parallels between personal and collective histories, and navigating this from the perspective of hybridity and mixed origin.