Curveball presents: Ollie Cox's Objects In Mirror EP Launch, with support from Imogen Cygler & Joe Talia.

Ollie Cox is a Melbourne-based composer, drummer and improvisor, who works in the liminal spaces between constructs of sound and music. Drawing in equal measure from his jazz-centric background and love of experimentalism, Cox seeks to craft emotive compositions that flicker between spans of contemplative ambience to frenetic sonic chaos.

An album made primarily with objects passed through a tunnel of acoustic treatment, resampling and processing, Objects in Mirror asks what is the link between synthetic and natural, and how long the cycle is that connects and reconnects them. To reanimate the EP live, Ollie will be joined by Robert P. Downie, Theo Carbo, and Zela Papageorgiou, reversing the dense production on the record into a lively, breathing performance.

Also performing on the night is Imogen Cygler!! Imogen was classically trained in piano, violin and voice before shifting focus to more contemporary composition and performance. As a songwriter, she is invested in observational songwriting and draws inspiration from Norwegian art song practice.

And also Joe Talia!!! Joe Talia is an improviser and composer who works with percussion, tape and electronics. Focussing on the use of Revox tape machine and analogue synthesizers in combination with instruments and field recordings, Talia’s electronic works patiently build up sparkling, detail-rich sound worlds of gliding tones, skittering percussion and burbling location atmospherics. In live situations, Talia often uses tape and effects to process and warp his own and others’ playing into uncanny chains of echoes and spectral smears of sound.

Sounds like a curveball kinda night. APAX Warehouse, 213a High St, Preston VIC 3072. Saturday, March 18.

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