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JOÃO RENATO ORECCHIA ZÚÑIGA. Artist | Composer | Musician.
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João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga was born in Brooklyn, NY to a...
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João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga was born in Brooklyn, NY to a Peruvian mother and an Italian father. He grew up in the city’s mixed immigrant communities, in all their contradictory beauty, displacement and unsettledness.
Through experimentation and improvisation Orecchia investigates the materiality of sound, seeking a balance between computer technology, hand-made electronics and real world sounds such as the human voice and traditional musical instruments.
João Orecchia and Sicker Man have been working together since 2003, when they met through a classified ad in a Berlin newspaper. They immediately connected through improvisation and analogue electronics, forming a vast and intricate musical communication style.
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.
João Orecchia is an artist who makes things with sound. These things take the form of music, installation, performance, pirate radio and events. João performs globally as a solo artist, as an improvisor in various configurations and with his band Motèl Mari. His discography spans more than a decade of albums, remixes and film scores.
João Orecchia is a multi-faceted musician based in Johannesburg, South Africa. His is a process- orientated approach, mixing improvisation with loosely pre-composed material,...
