27–29 June 2023
Cafe OTO presents SLIP, a three day residency with musician and drummer Paul Abbott.
SLIP is a series of three interrelated events across three evenings, developed especially for this residency, loosely and irreverently following on from Paul's Tender Interval 2015 Cafe OTO residency.
Following Paul's recent work, the residency will explore music as a complex ecology of the real and imaginary, physical and affective, improvised and written: through a number of fictional characters and dramatic environments.
Three interconnected, overlapping performances, across three evenings will focus on playing the drum kit as a specific, subjective way to experiment with and learn about the sounds, emotions and ideas which emerge through music making in general.
LINKS
OTO 2015 Residency (video documentation, extensive notes):
Tender Interval Archive
Recent Solo Recordings:
Growl, Rubs, Drops, Claps (Live Growth: Atelier Claus) (2022)
NSULAR (2021)
DUCTUS (2019)
Other links:
Paul Abbott's website
Bandcamp
Soundcloud
INTRODUCTION
SLIP is a liquid which dissolves performers.
The residency performances take place in this liquid. Among other things, this liquid-dramatic environment rejects novelty, encourages the pleasure of unstable edges and enhances a profound suspicion of what is fixed, limited.
The residency starts - soaked in this liquid - by responding to a "Fish Glue Invitation" written in (an unpublished) document called Gyri by the character Small, and others. The invitation proposes conditions for a live performance: "an alter-practice of ongoing unlearning; organic & synthetic movements: dissolving together somewhere between the truck joke and a heartbeat."
Paul Abbott is a musician and drummer. He plays with real and imaginary drums, synthetic sounds, performance and writing.
Recent and ongoing collaborations include: XT with Seymour Wright; XT+Pat Thomas; XT+Anne Gillis; X Ray Hex Tet; F.R.David, very good* & Rosmarie with Will Holder; film sound for Keira Greene; Rian Treanor Duo; RP Boo Trio with XT; The Creaking Breeze Ensemble with Nathaniel Mackey; yPLO with Micheal Speers and performances with Cara Tolmie.
Paul has performed at venues and festivals internationally. He was a co-founder and co-editor of Cesura//Acceso journal for music, politics and poetics, and SAM resident artist at Cafe OTO 2015. In 2022 he completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Florian Hecker and Nikki Moran. He is currently undertaking research at Royal Conservatoire/Academy Fine Arts Antwerp.
Recent releases include: solos Nsular, Ductus; XT+Pat Thomas “Akisakila” / Attitudes of Preparation (Mountains, Oceans, Trees); XT Deorlaf X, Palina’Tufa; Creaking Breeze Ensemble & Nathaniel Mackey Fugitive Equation; F.R.David very good*; RP Boo Trio 31.12.18.
