Ora Clementi

Ora Clementi is the duo of Canadian sound artist crys cole and Australian composer/performer James Rushford. The collaboration is a unique investigation into liminal performance states in an interpersonal context, often focusing on text and speech as preconscious thought processes. Central to cole and Rushford's duo are questions surrounding interpretation, the function of memory, semiotics, and the syntactical discipline of sound within both listener and performer. Utilizing various musical approaches in unorthodox and disorienting ways, their work often incorporates field recordings, electronics, contact mics, various wind and keyboard instruments, percussion and voice. Using movement, conceptual performance practice and both amplified and acoustic sound, Ora Clementi plays with the subtleties of sensory perception, seeking to create a dreamlike context hovering between musical performance and pure abstraction.