ŌTOMO / ŠKRIJELJ / MALMENDIER + AB:SO:LUT:SPACE

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In Situ Art Society presents The Dissonant Series 165
Double concert

ŌTOMO / ŠKRIJELJ / MALMENDIER

Ōtomo Yoshihide (JP) - Turntables
Emilie Škrijelj (FR) - Turntable
Tom Malmendier (FR) - drums

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AB:SO:LUT:SPACE

Fred Frith (GB/US) - electric guitar, voice
Russudan Meipariani (GE/DE) - piano, synthesizer, voice

Ōtomo Yoshihide is to turntablists what Platini isto Juventus Turin - a perfectly striped zebra who hits the top corner. A great adventurer of the Japanese scene and founder of the legendary Ground Zero, Yoshihide is a cornerstone of the global noise movement, equally comfortable in electronic litany, raw pop or sharp-edged improvisation, all with a crash. Emilie Škrijelj is also a turntablist and favors bold volleys. Tom Malmendier is a drummer whose energy is designed to be unleashed. Their music is full of veins and textures. This trio presents itself like a DJ set for contemporary turntables, creating hyper-inventive, handmade noise with impressive dexterity. The future can wait - this music lives in the present. In white noise and its unfolding perspectives. Concretely abstract, evocative, radical and furiously alive.

The first live musical encounter between Fred Frith and Russudan Meipariani took place in spring 2025 at the Laboratorium Stuttgart - a successful, celebrated premiere that felt like a long-standing and intimate collaboration.
Both musicians drew on an incredible wealth of skills and experience from their musical lives.

Fred Frith, a legend of improvised music, has worked with a wide variety of musicians, composed for various renowned ensembles and written music for award-winning films. Frith has had a significant influence on the development of experimental and improvised music worldwide since the 1960s.

Russudan Meipariani's starting points are classical music and the polyphonic music of Georgia. She has been developing her very own musical language from this for years through her experimental approach, playing in a wide variety of formations and combining the worlds of academic and non-academic music, archaic Caucasian chants and Western musical tradition, composed and improvised music.

Price information:

Admission: 21 € | 15 € reduced (for members of the In Situ Art Society: 14 € | 10 € reduced)