Collaboration History
The first project João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga did with David Krut Projects (DKP) was a performance at its Parkwood location in 2011. He was joined by German musician Joseph Suchy to combine for Intermittent.
Many years later, in 2019, Orecchia collaborated with David Krut Workshop (DKW) to produce a body of work visually exploring sound and music, resulting in his first solo exhibition, Instruction, which was accompanied by performances and a children’s workshop.
Biography
João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga is a Peruvian Italian Brooklyn-born Johannesburg based artist, composer and maker of physical and virtual “things” that play with reality by deconstructing it, shifting expectations of standard uses or purposes of objects and processes.
Through experimentation and improvisation Orecchia explores sound’s connective capacities through both its physical properties and material preconscious properties, seeking a balance between computer technology, hand-made electronics and real world sounds like the human voice, field recordings and traditional musical instruments.
Orecchia’s background as a self-taught musician is in improvised performance and composition for video art, film and theatre. His practice extends to public performance and intervention and his recently completed master’s degree in Digital Arts brought a shift towards a more spatial and physical approach to composition, where sound, vibration, space, music and audience become connected in experience.
(Biography taken from his website)
Additional Media
João Orecchia: Instruction – Scores, Collaboration and Printmaking | Listening time 25 min