PENULTIMATE PRESS AND KYE PRESENT: MATTHEW P.HOPKINS / MONIEK DARGE / CALL BACK THE GIANTS

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Two days from two great labels Penultimate Press (UK) and Kye (USA) who've put out some fantastic releases from the likes of Graham Lambkin, Henning Christian, Stefan Jaworzyn, Jacques Brodier and Matthew P. Hopkins in recent years.

On the Friday, OTO hosts Tim Goss' macabre pop art project Call Back The Giants - who has carved out a unique musical vision over his past four LPs, composer/violinist/performer/audio artist Moniek Darge - who specialises in both soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined and in interactional improvisation on violin, and Matthew P. Hopkins - whose solo work is characterised by processed voice, crude electronics, tape manipulation and found sounds.

MATTHEW P. HOPKINS

Matthew P. Hopkins may be familiar courtesy of a diverse range of projects including Half High, Vincent Over the Sink and the Bowles. Hopkins's solo work is characterised by processed voice, crude electronics, tape manipulation and found sounds. This hybrid cocktail populates spacious planes of unsettling drone based orbits. Employing a somewhat crumpled logic, Hopkins' maps out a place somewhere between the ambient and the uncanny.

MONIEK DARGE

Moniek Darge is active as composer, violinist, performer and audio artist. She has built light- and soundsculptures, installations, musical instruments and for many years has been constructing a series of alternative music boxes, with which she also performs. Darge has specialised in both soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined and in interactional improvisation on violin. Since 1970 she has performed around the world and has been active on stage, first with the Logos Ensemble, then with Logos Duo, and more recently with the M&M robot ensemble. She also founded Logos Women, a small group specialised in intermedia improvisations performing their own compositions for various instruments, voices and music boxes.

CALL BACK THE GIANTS

Call Back The Giants is the current project of Tim Goss. Goss began his musical career as the electronics / keyboardist for the influential underground group, ‘The Shadow Ring’. As ‘Call Back The Giants’, Goss, along with some times collaborator (& step daughter) Chloë Mutter, has continued to carve a unique musical vision over three LP’s. His forth LP, the forthcoming double album ‘Goldsmith’ is an original piece of musical theatre, distinctive and expansive in both tone and vision. Call Back The Giants exist in their own macabre pop art environment, unsettling yet familiar.