Bill Orcutt
Bush Hall, London.
16+ only. 16s to 18s must be accompanied by an adult. No refunds will be given for incorrectly booked tickets.
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Upset the Rhythm presents...
BILL ORCUTT is a guitarist and composer. He has been described as "thrillingly original" (Will Ainsley, Bandcamp Daily) as "a go-for-broke guitar improviser," (Ben Ratliff, New York Times) "creating a new language" (Marc Masters, Pitchfork) whose playing would "make Derek Bailey do a double-take" (Lars Gotrich, NPR). Orcutt tours actively, appearing at festivals worldwide, including Rewire (The Hague), Presences Electronique (Paris), Jazz em Agosto (Lisbon), Goner Fest (Memphis), Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville), Big Ears (Knoxville), Music Unlimited (Wels), Le Guess Who? (Utrecht), Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou (Paris), Unsound (Krakow), a Maida Vale session for BBC 3 (London) and a Tiny Desk concert for NPR.
"The San Francisco-based guitarist has been on one of the great creative tears in his chosen instrument's vaunted history."
Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork
"Quite awe-inspiring, and unlike anything else I can think of."
Byron Coley, The Wire Magazine
"When Bill Orcutt starts playing the acoustic guitar, it's clear there are still so many new things to be said with it." Ben Beaumont-Thomas, The Guardian
With support from Alexander Tucker
ALEXANDER TUCKER returns to the guitar, after spending the last few years focusing on his modular experimental techno guise MICROCORPS. Since the early 2000s Tucker has released solo guitar and cello based albums on Thrill Jockey Records, Subtext, and ATP Recordings, blending songs, electronics, strings, vocals and extended techniques. Creating music that sits between structured song writing, composition, drone and noise, Tucker is also a prolific collaborator, with projects that include tape-loop duo Imbogodom, and electronic pop with Grumbling Fur and Charlemagne Palestine. More recent live collaborations include work with Lasse Marhaug, Kenichi Iwasa, and Elvin Brandhi.
2026 sees Tucker melding his past work with acoustic guitar, and his present explorations with modular synth systems and electronics, processing minimal steel string guitar into unrecognisable sonic forms through improvisation, synthesis and electronic manipulation. Tucker's investigations into electroacoustic and music concrete composition has led him to seek out ways to warp, stretch and mangle this own guitar playing beyond its original form, revelling in the sheer pleasure of transforming sound and creating imaginary and unspoken spaces.