CUSP Presents: Molto Ohm // Ótal with visuals by Ella Medicus
Schedule
Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1433 E 33rd St, Cleveland, OH 44114-4031, United States | Cleveland, OH
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Friday, March 271433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, music 8PM
$15 suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Advanced tickets available:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/molto-ohm-otal
Matteo Liberatore is an artist and composer working in experimental music and intermedia art. Now based in Brooklyn, Liberatore spent much of his life in the medieval region of Abruzzo, Italy, amidst dramatic landscapes that are reflected through a performance and composition style of “unsettling beauty” and “striking physicality” (The New York City Jazz Record).
Since 2018, he has released several records that dance between free improvisation, contemporary classical music, noise and electronic music, including Solos (2018, Innova Recordings), Neutral Love (Duo with Amirtha Kidambi, 2021, Astral Editions), Death In The Gilded Age (Quartet with Ava Mendoza, gabby fluke-mogul, and Joanna Mattrey, 2021, Tripticks Tapes), Lacquer (2022, Tripticks Tapes) and FEED (New Focus Recordings).
Since 2015, he has collaborated with a wide variety of artists and musicians such as Mark Kelley, Brian Chase, Elliott Sharp, Taja Cheek, Gold Dime, and many more. Over the years, he has played hundreds of shows, from DIY venues, museums and colleges to festivals and landmark stages such as The Stone and King’s Theatre.
His work has been reviewed and featured in Entertainment Weekly, All About Jazz, Paste Magazine, WNYC, The Quietus, Free Jazz Blog, and many more. His first solo guitar album Solos was included in Ted Gioia’s 100 best albums of 2018.
Matteo Liberatore’s project, Molto Ohm, is a sonic and visual exploration of the fragmentation and alienation of modern life.
Through a juxtaposition of dance beats, seductive voices, synthetic melodies, and environmental sounds, the music captures the tension between the magnetic pull of consumerism, commodification, anxiety, and affect regulation; and our profound yearning for calm, joy, and human connection.
Equally at home in smoky late-night venues as well as museums and galleries, Molto Ohm’s live performance consists of improvised sound collages made using 4 DJ decks played simultaneously. The music is fragmented, layered, and recombined, blurring the lines between club music and sound art. Molto Ohm integrates a screen projection that expands on the ideas expressed in the music, immersing audiences in a world of screen recordings, 360-degree footage, iPhone footage, and stock imagery that recontextualize the detachment and digitization of the online experience.
Since its debut in 2023, Molto Ohm has released its first album FEED, performed live, received grants and commissions from organizations such as Foundation For Contemporary Arts, Composers Now and Metropolis Ensemble, and collaborated with artists including Ka Baird, Taja Cheek (L’Rain), Lester St. Louis (HxH), more eaze, Alyse Lamb (Parlor Walls), Brian Wenner, and more.
https://moltoohm.bandcamp.com/album/reality-pills
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Ótal is the work of Icelandic artist Óskar Þór Arngrímsson, based in Akron. He creates hypnotic soundscapes from layers of texture and tone, with traces of Icelandic mysticism. Influenced by minimalist composers, Ótal’s music moves between the tangible and the abstract. Using synthesizers and field recordings, each piece unfolds slowly, creating intimate atmospheres meant for deep listening.
https://otal.bandcamp.com/album/heyr
Ella Medicus, an Akron-based artist is providing an immersive visual projection, using abstracted footage to pair with the performance.
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