STRING-O-TRONICS: Rian Treanor & Ocen James + теплота (Teplota) + Rian Treanor (DJ Set)

STRING-O-TRONICS: Rian Treanor

Ocen James

теплота (Teplota)

Rian Treanor (DJ Set)

Presented by les ateliers claus and Music on A Whim

Strings and Electronics à STRING-O-TRONICS

After the spectacular audience response to an evening of Iranian electronic music, Music on a Whim is back in collaboration with Les Ateliers Claus to present a thematic evening of two acts exploring different shades of String instruments and Electronics.

We call it STRING-O-TRONICS.

RIAN TREANOR (UK) & OCEN JAMES (UG)

British artist Rian Treanor's music is complex yet highly kinetic, reflecting equal interest in club culture and experimental sound design. He has released records on Planet Mu, Nyege Nyege Tapes, The Death of Rave and Warp sub-label Arcola. Using the programming language Max/MSP he develops bespoke software to explore extended rhythmic techniques and algorithmic processes, building devices that enable spontaneous pattern modulation within various collaborations, workshops, live performances and installations.

Ocen James, a master Acholi fiddle player and is part of the Nyege Nyege music collective based in Uganda. He works with traditional acoustic instruments, playing Udungu, Naga, Rigirgi and is a pioneer of Acholitronix, an electronic remaking of traditional Acholi ceremonial music. He takes Acholi wedding music, weaving its traditional, see-sawing folk fiddles and call-and-response vocals with stripped, pounding drum machine polyrhythms in a sort of hypnotic, minimalist delirium.

In 2018 Rian took part in a month long residency at Nyege Nyege studio in Kampala Uganda, working closely with Ocen James to develop a new collaborative performance which was released as an LP ('Saccades') on Nyege Nyege Tapes in 2023 and which they will present this evening.

"A masterclass in modern folk-techno fusion, pitting Acholi fiddle virtuoso Ocen in the turbulent yet disciplined computer matrices of Rian Treanor with jaw-dropping effect for East African powerhouse", Boomkat

https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/saccades

http://www.riantreanor.com/projects/ocen_collab/

теплота (TEPLOTA) (UK)

теплота is the London-based duo of Grundik Kasyansky & Tom Wheatley. Their work interrogates the haptic, social and liberating relationships with technologies old and new; using feedback synthesizer and computer-acoustic bass, they fuse a spontaneous interplay orthogonally over cyclical structures, with techno as perpetual fulcrum.

Following their debut HEAT/WORK on Cafe OTO's TakuRoku label and the monthly ЭС research series, Skynned was released in early 2023 on Accidental Meetings. Half techno, half free jazz, the music is both hypnotic and open-ended, relentless and ephemeral.

"Kasyansky and Wheatley weave danceable electronics and the organic pluck'n'saw of double bass in a way that deviates from other, often overly tasteful meetings of jazz and electronica" - Noel Gardner (The Quietus)

https://teplota-tennota.bandcamp.com/album/skynned

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/heatwork/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSthr21h7A...

RIAN TREANOR (DJ SET)

We finish the evening with a hyperdynamic DJ set by Rian Treanor where you may encounter "the loss of control of bodily movements"(ATAXIA)! Rian Treanor re-imagines club culture, experimental art and computer music, presenting an insightful and compelling musical world of fractured and interlocking components.

"Lit by musical curiosity but still promise to take over your body - and dance music doesn't get much better than that" MixMag

https://riantreanor.bandcamp.com/album/ataxia

https://riantreanor.bandcamp.com/.../file-under-uk-metaplasm