Oliver Coates in concerto
Oliver Coates uses the cello as a driver for melody, soundtrack and distorted textures. His work for film and television underscores, particularly horror and sci-fi, is counterbalanced by his abstract and fantasy soundtrack work, where he composes and improvises music to nonexistent narratives. This 60-minute performance will be mixed loud, with sweet romantic and baroque cello melodies giving way to doom metal drones, and a variety of 1980s New Age and gothic themes and drum machine manipulations falling in between. The presence of absence lingers in both Mike Nelson's art and Coates' music, and here live string playing, layers of synth and percussion will light up the numerous doorways to meaning contained in Nelson's work L’Atteso.
The performance will take place in the exhibition spaces.
Background:
Mike Nelson has been directly and indirectly influencing the course of Oliver Coates' live music and recorded work since the early 2000s. Nelson’s installations such as The Coral Reef (Tate Britain, 2000), To the Memory of H.P. Lovecraft (Hayward Gallery, 2008) and 408 Tons of Imperfect Geometry (Malmö Konsthall, 2012) shaped Coates’ long-running concert series Harmonic Series, which explored the forbidden access points of concert halls in Southbank Centre London, where the audience lost all sense of attending a concert at all. They have also impacted Coates’ dark cello and computer soundcraft of drones, tunnels of sound processing, and musical strategies which lead to a multi-layered approach to genre and theme within albums or performances.
Conversations and collaboration with Nelson have led to a performance by Coates on the fabricated artist workshop floor which Nelson created for his curation of Moscow’s V-A-C collection at Whitechapel Gallery London in 2015, an essay by Coates on the resonance of rooms in Nelson’s work for the same exhibition, and an article by Coates on the overlapping themes of Nelson’s Triple Bluff Canyon (Modern Art Oxford, 2004) for The Wire magazine in 2016.
Oliver Coates is a cellist and producer from London. His concerts and records move through different areas of music. His releases include a solo electronic dance record, Upstepping, on PRAH, a record of improvisations, Remain Calm, with Mica Levi on Slip, and a recording of John Luther Adams’ Canticles of the Sky on RVNG Intl. His most recent solo record is Shelley's on Zenn-La, also on RVNG Intl.
For many years he has collaborated with the visual artist Lawrence Lek, for whom he scored the award-winning video pieces Unreal Estate and QE3. He conceived and programmed the Southbank Centre’s first DEEP∞MINIMALISM festival in 2016, which featured Pauline Oliveros’ last public Tuning Meditation.
He has performed with Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi and Actress, and is currently working with Laurie Spiegel and John Luther Adams. He has
Capacity: 300 seats
All events are free, with mandatory reservation.
For further information: ogrpublicprogram@fondazioneartecrt.it
The performance will take place in the exhibition spaces.
Background:
Mike Nelson has been directly and indirectly influencing the course of Oliver Coates' live music and recorded work since the early 2000s. Nelson’s installations such as The Coral Reef (Tate Britain, 2000), To the Memory of H.P. Lovecraft (Hayward Gallery, 2008) and 408 Tons of Imperfect Geometry (Malmö Konsthall, 2012) shaped Coates’ long-running concert series Harmonic Series, which explored the forbidden access points of concert halls in Southbank Centre London, where the audience lost all sense of attending a concert at all. They have also impacted Coates’ dark cello and computer soundcraft of drones, tunnels of sound processing, and musical strategies which lead to a multi-layered approach to genre and theme within albums or performances.
Conversations and collaboration with Nelson have led to a performance by Coates on the fabricated artist workshop floor which Nelson created for his curation of Moscow’s V-A-C collection at Whitechapel Gallery London in 2015, an essay by Coates on the resonance of rooms in Nelson’s work for the same exhibition, and an article by Coates on the overlapping themes of Nelson’s Triple Bluff Canyon (Modern Art Oxford, 2004) for The Wire magazine in 2016.
Oliver Coates is a cellist and producer from London. His concerts and records move through different areas of music. His releases include a solo electronic dance record, Upstepping, on PRAH, a record of improvisations, Remain Calm, with Mica Levi on Slip, and a recording of John Luther Adams’ Canticles of the Sky on RVNG Intl. His most recent solo record is Shelley's on Zenn-La, also on RVNG Intl.
For many years he has collaborated with the visual artist Lawrence Lek, for whom he scored the award-winning video pieces Unreal Estate and QE3. He conceived and programmed the Southbank Centre’s first DEEP∞MINIMALISM festival in 2016, which featured Pauline Oliveros’ last public Tuning Meditation.
He has performed with Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi and Actress, and is currently working with Laurie Spiegel and John Luther Adams. He has
Capacity: 300 seats
All events are free, with mandatory reservation.
For further information: ogrpublicprogram@fondazioneartecrt.it