Oo is an Instrument
Oo is a bricolage multidisciplinary Surrealist art instrument. She
collects sounds, objects, images, dreams and ideas, and changes them
into animations, songs, movies, installations and performances:
interperceptive poetic reflections expressing the magic, beauty and
humour of everyday life.
Inspired by the London dub and drum&bass scene, children toys, broken laptops, Indonesia, love, she also started a project, Polichinelle, with musical partner (drummer and multi instrumentalist) Bubu. They played various gigs & festivals across Europe, one of the highlights being the main dance stage at Glastonbury 2007, and released several tracks on Canada based label Peppermill Records.
In 2007 she graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy of fine
arts, and with Kai Nobuko and Bubu founded the art collective Dream
Society. Together they made a movie called Chant down Babylon which
has been screened at several arts exhibitions and festivals in Europe.
They also create live performances of music and visuals putting into
use whatever they can find [e.g. kitchen utensils, vegetables,
tricycles, etc] .
In Oo’s work, music and animation and drawing merge, and in her music, different musical genres from the present and the past have always been present. Lately, she has been studying harmonium, piano & Indonesian gamelan music in London.
Currently Oo is working on two albums; Kaleidophone
and the Song the Ship, to be released by Gattoblaster Records. The first is a mostly instrumental danceable electronic diary, the latter a collection of acoustic intimate songs of voice, piano & harmonium.
A long player of her musical adventures can be found at her own website for full enjoyment.
www.gattoblaster.com/oo
check also her art and trip stuff/clips at her art collective:
www.dreamsociety.co.uk
ah and she got more music on her myspace too!!
www.myspace.com/ooisaninstrument