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Amongst the shows over the next seven days, Maria Chavez presents a new piece – The Rain of Applause – an ongoing multi-channel sound installation containing the playback audio of applause, recorded from live events at Cafe Oto from the past month. This sound installation series aims to view the sound of applause as a sound source, separating it from the role of applause as a reaction after a performance/presentation. By utilizing a 4.1 speaker configuration, Cafe Oto will transform into a room full of non-stop applause, with Maria mixing and performing the piece on site from 7pm to 10pm. All are welcome to come and go as they please.

This week’s digital release is Evan Parker’s legendary recording The Snake Decides. Featuring 4 solos recorded in 1986 in St. Paul’s Church, Oxford by the late Michael Gerzon, the album is one of the final Incus releases and was written up in The Penguin Guide to Jazz as ‘an essential document of modern music’. The Snake Decides is a groundbreaking example how far the language of a particular instrument can be taken.

Full listings and all new shows below. We look forward to seeing you here.

Cafe OTO

– 21+22 NOVEMBER – SERIOUS & CAFE OTO PRESENT: JAIMIE BRANCH: FLY OR DIE
– 23 NOVEMBER – BCOSOF: SUSO SÁIZ LIVE
– 24 NOVEMBER: ASTRAL INDUSTRIES WITH MONOLAKE & SONMI451
– 25 NOVEMBER – SLIP PRESENTS: GWILLY EDMONDEZ – MILITANT SEED – MATINEE
– 25 NOVEMBER – OMNII COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: BARBARA MORGENSTERN + MIEKO SHIMIZU
– 26 NOVEMBER: GLORIAS NAVALES + BEN PRITCHARD & SHOLTO DOBIE & FRIENDS

– 11 DECEMBER: LANGHAM RESEARCH CENTRE + HOWLROUND
– 14 DECEMBER – DAMNABLY + ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PRESENT: GAELYNN LEA
– 22 DECEMBER: PEOPLE BAND + ROSEY CHAN + THE GEORGE KAHN QUARTET
– 9 JANUARY: MARIANNE SCHUPPE – SLOW SONGS, NOSONGS
– 23 JANUARY: THALIA ZEDEK BAND + BRIDGET HAYDEN
– 27 JANUARY: JÜRG FREY – ONE-DAY RESIDENCY
– 31 JAN + 1 FEB: DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞIMŞEK – TWO-DAY RESIDENCY
– 19 FEBRUARY: JOANA GAMA / LUÍS FERNANDES

EVAN PARKER –
THE SNAKE DECIDES

£6 (£5 Venue Members) /
Digital Members: Download with credits

This week’s digital release is Evan Parker’s legendary recording The Snake Decides. Featuring 4 solos recorded in 1986 in St. Paul’s Church, Oxford by the late Michael Gerzon, the album is one of the final Incus releases and was written up in The Penguin Guide to Jazz as ‘an essential document of modern music’. The Snake Decides is a groundbreaking example how far the language of a particular instrument can be taken.

Available as 320k MP3 / 24 bit FLAC

EVAN PARKER –
THE SNAKE DECIDES

£15 / £13 members

One of the final Incus releases and one that was written up in The Penguin Guide to Jazz as ‘an essential document of modern music’. Otoroku is proud to release the first ever vinyl re-issue of Evan Parker’s legendary recording The Snake Decides. Featuring 4  solos recorded in 1986 in St. Paul’s Church, Oxford by the late Michael Gerzon. The Snake Decides is a groundbreaking example how far the language of a particular instrument can be taken.

From Brian Morton’s liner new notes:

“The Snake Decides attracts a certain array of adjectives – intense, radical, fearsome, hypnotic, virtuosic – and occasionally allows a more ambitious reviewer to avoid platitude by talking more specifically about 32nd harmonics, circular breathing, multiphonics and Gerson’s exact choice and placement of microphones. But this misses a point, too. Listening to this record, either for the first or the fortieth time, is an arousing experience.”