Event

Ora Clementi / Vito Ricci

Tuesday, August 11th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room presents performances by electronics pioneer Vito Ricci and Ora Clementi at Artists Space Books and Talks. A duo of Canadian sound artist crys cole and Australian composer-performer James Rushford, Ora Clementi is a unique investigation into liminal performance states, with a focus on text and speech as preconscious thought processes. Central to cole and Rushford's duo are questions surrounding interpretation, the function of memory, semiotics, and the syntactical discipline of sound within both listener and performer. Utilizing various musical approaches in unorthodox and disorienting ways, their work incorporates field recordings, electronics, contact mics, various wind and keyboard instruments, percussion and voice. Using movement, conceptual performance practice and both amplified and acoustic sound, Ora Clementi play with subtleties of sensory perception, invoking a dreamlike context that hovers between musical performance and pure abstraction.

Originally a percussionist, Vito Ricci has crossed paths within the experimental jazz, avant-garde and punk scenes of downtown New York for decades. His pioneering experiments in electronic music are recently experiencing a resurgence thanks to a retrospective 2xLP set, I Was Crossing A Bridge released by Music From Memory this spring (a label named after Ricci's 1985 album). Tonight Ricci combines his recordings with live sound, performing on computer, modular, and "wrench guitar" with special guests Lise Vachon and Steve Dalachinsky.

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