About
“Otto’s music challenges the role a recorder plays in an ensemble”
I am a recorder player and solo artist from London. My most recent EP ‘Music for the End Times’ fuses sounds of the post-covid London club scene with recorder harmonies inspired by early music and was followed by UK and EU performances including supporting acclaimed jazz musician Shabaka Hutchings’ for his first solo set on indigenous flutes.
My work is inspired by the uncertainty of our modern times, with the purity of acoustic sound taking equal importance alongside technological accelerationism in contradictory and progressive sound worlds. My work with the recorder makes frequent use of rare instruments such as the contrabass recorder and eCorder electronic recorder instrument.
I use social media to share short-form content bringing the recorder into new contexts, exposing wider audiences to this vastly underappreciated and misunderstood instrument.
So far in 2024 I have composed and performed the original soundtrack for FORAGING directed by Matthew Jacobs Morgan, and recorded on soundtracks for BBC and ZDF broadcasts.
I am a final year master's student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I received my BA (Hons) Music from the University of Bristol, with an extended focus on performance and musicology.
I am a member of the early music ensemble ‘Londinium Consort’.
The Londinium Consort is formed of current students and alumni from London's world-leading conservatoires, who seek to bring new life into the rich tradition of early music performance. Unafraid to explore new perspectives, their 2023 Brighton Festival performance saw the premiere of composer Antonino Abate's work "Chi'l Pensò Mai", and the ensemble will incorporate tape and live electronics into their upcoming work in 2024.