O'Rourke + Ambarchiオルーク・アンバーチ

Live: ##Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi Duo ##crys cole + Tetuzi Akiyama Duo ##Jim O'Rourke  ##Oren Ambarchi  Oren Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal. Ambarchi has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Pimmon, Keiji Haino, John Zorn, Rizili, Voice Crack, Jim O'Rourke, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Dave Grohl, Gunter Muller, Evan Parker, z'ev, Toshimaru Nakamura, Peter Rehberg, Merzbow and many more. Since 2004 Ambarchi has worked with American avant metal outfit Sunn 0))) contributing to many of their releases and side-projects including their Black One album from 2005 and the recent Monoliths & Dimensions release. For 10 years together with Robbie Avenaim, Ambarchi was the co-organiser of the What Is Music? festival, Australia’s premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music. The festival hosted over 200 local and international performers. Ambarchi now curates the Maximum Arousal series at The Toff In Town in Melbourne and has recently co-produced an Australian television series on experimental music called Subsonics. Ambarchi recently co-curated the sound program for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale. [Homepage](http://www.orenambarchi.com/) / [MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/45213783) ##crys cole  Canadian sound artist crys cole has worked and performed extensively as a solo artist and in free improvisation settings across Canada over the past 10 years, and has also performed in NYC, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium. She works predominantly with contact microphones, objects and no-input mixing board. Her approach to sound emphasizes subtlety and discretion, guided by a fascination with microsonics that test the limits of audibility and intentionality. By drawing attention to the texture and delicacy of minimal sonic environments, crys aims to create a heightened sense of awareness not only of the sounds she creates, but of the environmental sounds that arise during listening - and ideally, of the listener’s own self-consciousness as a perceptual body and agent as well. [MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/cryscole) ##Tetuzi Akiyama  ##[Tetuzi Akiyama](http://www.japanimprov.com/takiyama/index.html) Photo © 2008 Peter Gossweiler