Klaas Hübner & Lysandre Coutu­-Sauvé

German sound sculptor, improviser and instrument­maker Klaas Hübner has developed a body of work which honours sound as a live­ medium with which to craft, shape and play in real­time. His playful punk and Flux inspired practice ranges from installation based works, to live improv, to theatre and sound design. Hübner’s first Oto visit is also the UK debut for his tape installation Schwarzwald, which will be installed in Oto’s project space, and Performance For Ceiling Fan & Tubes, created with contemporary dancer and regular collaborator Lysandre Coutu­-Sauvé (CA). The pair have created numerous pieces together, most recently for Duwamish Revealed in Seattle in 2015, alongside solo shows in Kairo, Venice, New Orleans, and most regularly in Berlin, where they are based.

http://matchees.blogspot.de/
http://cargocollective.com/lysandre

Aaron Parker & Susie Whaites

British composer Aaron Parker’s pieces are as much ‘environments’ as ‘compositions’: rich ecosystems where strata of fibrous acoustic and electronic sound are overlaid in undulating cycles at once mechanical and utterly natural. Parker’s OTO debut sees the premieres of yevrano & raoveny, chamber works which launch processed terracotta scrapes, sighing machines, and snatches of field recording into strange, artificial acoustics. In the project space, British visual artist Susie Whaites presents a selection of photography produced in collaboration with Parker in completion of forthcoming Slip release Storage. Whaites’ photos, where simple simple wire structures intersect with dense thickets or thriving undergrowth, work with the skewed depths and scales which arise from capturing the complexity of natural environments.

http://www.aaron-parker.com/
http://cargocollective.com/SusieWhaites/