Best known as one of the geniuses behind Sunn O))), Stephen O’Malley returns to Portugal in his own right.
Active since the mid-1990s, he has linked dense, intense sounds to the drawn-out atmospheres of drone music, weaving layers of distortion and experimenting with the physics of sound and sound waves. A few months ago, he unveiled But remember what you have had, a piece commissioned by INA-GRM, the research group in the field of sound and electroacoustic music, currently under the auspices of the French National Audiovisual Institute. To this end, O’Malley drew on his very personal sound universe, where amplified textures and a raw energy reign supreme, as evidenced by his collaborative work with a wide range of artists, including Kali Malone, Merzbow, Scott Walker, Thurston Moore, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jim O’Rourke, among others.