Rie Nakajima has been a key figure in our OTO community for over a decade now, treating us to countless solo sets and collaborative work in O Yama O and with David Toop and many more. Rie's practice is situated here in her abode in London, where she whips the objects around her off the ground and sends them spiralling into the magic realm. Using kinetic machines, she taps, rattles and scrapes rhythms, melodies and phrases. What sounds like a china dish is lifted into the air on a little propeller. Gentle ascending melodies emerge from tickling small bits of metal onto glass. As the piece develops, Rie transfers her dancing brainwaves into the physical world, bringing to life a small legion of kinetic drummers in a tribal cacophony. Her work here - like Bachelard or Proust - attributes an acute sense of awareness to the beauty and possibility of what is around us in our homes.

"I really try to look for something between what I’ve known and what I don't know. I wanted to have some order, some sense of constant movement but don’t want to be given any pressure from them. The structure should be kept open, but how? The only way to get closer there is to start, get involved, and finish." - Rie Nakajima

TR033 - Rie Nakajima - 'Karu Kuru' [sample]

As you can imagine we are under huge pressure at the moment and are working flat out to ensure Cafe OTO survives this. The impact of this situation is extremely acute for small venues like ours and we need all the support we can get to pull through. Please donate what you can, if you can. Thank you. 

Cafe OTO opened in April 2008 with the aim of providing a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream. It comprises one large cafe/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music almost seven nights a week. 

OTOROKU is part of OTOProjects - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been set up to manage the programme at Café Oto. Any profits from OTOROKU are put back into supporting what we do and will help us to continue programming the best musicians and performers from all over the world.

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TR033 - Rie Nakajima - 'Karu Kuru' [sample]

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