Eroteme presents a co/production of Black Truffle artists with the collaborative layered sound palette of Crys Cole & James Rushford’s 'Ora Clementi' alongside the unorthodox and emotive microtonal 12-string guitar playing of Jules Reidy.
Distinct, disorienting and highly performative, Ora Clementi examines voice and vocal mirroring through preconscious speech processes and the codified abstraction of found texts, supported by a vast battery of handmade instruments, electronics and hyper-colour processing.
Crys Cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, improvised performance and sound installation. Generating subtle and imperfect sounds through haptic gestures and seemingly mundane materials, she creates textural works that continuously retune the ear.
cole has ongoing collaborations with James Rushford (AU) (as Ora Clementi) and Oren Ambarchi (AU) and has worked recently with Francis Plagne (AU), Leif Elggren (SW), Tetuzi Akiyama (JP), David Rosenboom (US), Keith Rowe (UK), Seiji Morimoto (JP/DE), Jessika Kenney (US), Tim Olive (JP/CA) and many more. Her work has been published by Black Truffle (AU), Penultimate Press (UK), Ultra Eczema (BE), caduc. (CA), Bocian (PL), Another Timbre (UK) and Infrequency editions (CA/DE). She has performed and exhibited her work worldwide.
James Rushford is an Australian composer-performer. His work is drawn from a familiarity with specific concrète, improvised, avant-garde and collagist languages. Currently, his work deals with the aesthetic concept of musical shadow.
James has collaborative projects with Joe Talia, Golden Fur (with Samuel Dunscombe & Judith Hamann), Ora Clementi (with crys cole), Will Guthrie, Oren Ambarchi, Klaus Lang, Kassel Jaeger, Annea Lockwood, Graham Lambkin, Francis Plagne, Tashi Wada, the visual artist Michael Salerno and the writer Dennis Cooper.
His music has been published by Pogus (US), Prisma (Norway), Bocian (Poland), Penultimate Press (UK), Black Truffle (AUS), Holidays (IT) and KYE (US).
James holds a Doctorate from the California Institute of the Arts, and was a 2018 fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
Jules Reidy makes song cycles which abstractly deal with devotional love, transcendence and
death of the self. They use materials such as guitars, voice, percussion and found sounds, deconstructing and augmenting them through non-standard tuning systems, polyrhythmic structures, electronic processing and spatialisation. They aim to express and invoke states of uncanniness, dissociation, dys/euphoria, imagination and void.
They’ve released on Thrill Jockey, Black Truffle, Shelter Press, Editions Mego and Longform Editions.
Their current collaborations include projects with Sun Kit (shoegazey pop), Judith Hamann (deconstructed karaoke “songs”), Morten Joh (re-tuned guitar + vibraphone through analogue tape delays), Sam Dunscombe (psychedelic environments made of synthesis, clarinets and guitars) , Andrea Belfi (post-rock jam duo) and Ivan Cheng (sincere, maudlin, twee, fabulous). They have written for ensembles such as Zinc&Copper (DE), the Australian Art Orchestra (AUS), Splitter Orchester (DE), the Pitch (DE), and are currently writing for JACK Quartet (USA).
They are originally from Australia, and are currently based in Berlin.
They host Local Heroes on Cashmere Radio, a bi-monthly show which features Berlin-based artists presenting and discussing their work. They run a regular karaoke series at anorak e.V. which riffs on poetics of memory, dedicated amateurism and entanglement with failure.
Black Truffle Records is an Australian experimental/improv/noise/abstract/etc. music label, founded in 2009 by Oren Ambarchi.
The French black truffle is considered the finest of the edible fungi and has a place in gastronomy alongside saffron, caviar, foie gras and the finest of wines. Widely considered as the jewel of French cooking it is prized for its unique flavour and intoxicating aroma. The resident chef at Black Truffle Records has found that the best method for finding the "diamond of the kitchen" requires the use of a divining stick and facing into the sun.
Eroteme is a Manchester based concert series championing experimental music from the hinterlands. Home of the Uncategorizable. Foraging new sonic territories in electronics, improvisation and beyond.