Experimental Music Oxford: GROWTH feat. Mariam Rezaei and Pat Thomas

Free entry, registration required.

Rezaei-Thomas Duo

Pat Thomas (piano and electronics) and Mariam Rezaei (turntables) are radical composers unbound by genre. Informed by jazz, free improvisation, dub, footwork, avant-garde electronics, noise and chamber music, they create a new kind of electro-acoustic music.

Using specially prepared samples, Rezaei will employ a range of techniques, including free juggling, turntable sines (controlling sine waves using the pitch slider), needle dripping and needle weaving - two new methods she debuted on FRACTURED. The former involves composing music made specifically for needle dropping on multiple decks at once. The latter is a way of using a digital vinyl system to loop music live using two decks, with nothing predetermined.

This is the first time Rezaei and Thomas have performed as a duo. In November 2022, Rezaei played two concerts as a guest of Black Top, Thomas’s freewheeling project with Orphy Robinson. Earlier that year, she performed a Thomas composition/conduction alongside Mopcut, Yeah You, Bohman Brothers, Petronn Sphene and Odie J Ghast.

This event takes place in the Garden Quad Auditorium at St John's College, Oxford. Enter at the Porter's Lodge and follow the signs through the college.

Doors will open at 7:00pm and music will start at 7:30pm.

Experimental Music Oxford is a series supported by St John's College at the University of Oxford. All events are free and open to the public.

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