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Live: Oren Ambarchi + Jim O'Rourke Oren Ambarchi + Joe Talia Artist Information: 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. [Oren Ambarchi Homepage](http://www.orenambarchi.com) Jim O'Rourke  Joe Talia  Joe Talia is a drummer, percussionist and electro-acoustic performer based in Melbourne, Australia. Never satisfied with containment to any one style or discipline, He plays drums, percussion, amplified objects electronics and tape machines. After studying improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts, Talia went on to become involved in the Australian jazz and improv scene. As well as being a respected drummer, Talia also works in the realm of electro-acoustic music, both live and studio based. His debut solo work, in/exterior, a four part suite of musique concrète compositions, was released in 2006 and since then he has formed an electro-acoustic duo with composer James Rushford, together they have completed two albums, Palisades (sabbatical records 2009) and the upcoming paper fault line, a through-composed tour-de-force of instrumental concrète, blistering noise and contemporary classical virtuosity. He also has a long standing musical partnership with singer-songwriter Ned Collette, working as both a drummer and producer/engineer on Collette's album Future Suture (Dot Dash 2007) and with Wirewalker, on Over the Stones, Under the Stars (Dot Dash 2009) and performing on several European tours. Talia is also member of the ARIA award winning Andrea Keller Quartet. Talia has performed, recording and toured with diverse range of musicians and ensembles, including Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim, Anthony Pateras, Francis Plagne, Thembi Soddell, Sean Baxter, David Shea, Marco Fusinato, The Bartok Project, Rand and Holland, Erik Griswold, Adam Simmons, and countless others. [Joe Talia Homepage](http://www.joetalia.com/) ##Previous releases: Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia Hit & Run  (C) 2011 Touch Music [Touch Music ](http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/news/tone_453_oren_ambarchi_joe_tal.html) Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke Indeed  (C) 2011 Editions Mego [Editions Mego](http://editionsmego.com/release/DeMEGO+021)