MOLTO OHM

Matteo Liberatore’s new project Molto Ohm is a sonic and visual exploration of the interplay between digital life and social decay on an emotional level. In today's alluring digital world, we are merely users, to whom health, beauty, love, and connection are promised. But at what cost? In the end, we find ourselves alone, void of purpose yet still mindlessly scrolling, pulling furtively on a pane of glass, unable to break through.

Utilizing a mixed palette of sporadic dance beats, seductive voices, synthetic melodies and environmental sound, the music deftly distills these experiences into arresting aural scenes. Liberatore’s prior prolific work in the realms of improvised and creative music is combined with his experience working as a freelance sound recordist in the advertising industry, as well as memories of dancing in nightclubs as a teenager in Italy, to assemble a work that is at once profoundly alienating and deeply intimate.

For the live experience, Molto Ohm plays next to a vertical screen projection that is complementing (or not…) the ideas expressed in the music, creating an immersive world of screen recordings, 360 footage, iPhone footage, and stock footage, in which the audience can get lost, amused, bewildered.

A third absurdist club night, a third art experience, a third movie, you won’t be disappointed.

Molto Ohm started performing live in 2023 and since then worked on commissions for Composers Now and Metropolis Ensemble, as well as collaborations with artists such as Taja Cheek of L’Rain, Lester St Louis of HxH, Alyse Lamb of Parlor Walls, Tanners, Brian Wenner. 

Below are quotes from audience members:

Katyann Gonzalez 

Molto Ohm is a visual journey as much as it is a sonic one. It’s an incisive exposure of the commodification of every element of our daily lives. At times it’s also a meditative ride through NYC at night with its dizzying heights and bright illumination. The score feels like a modern soundtrack to what it feels like to exist in 2023 in a state of constant advertisement, surveillance and over-stimulation.

Vicky Forsyth-Smith 

Experiencing a Molto Ohm show is like being part of a social experiment… one we all realized mid-show that we were already living in. MO executes a truly visceral experience that feels like it needs to exist in museums, public spaces, and maybe even just on my phone every few hours 

Ben Nimkin 

Molto Ohm has achieved a rare sweet spot in the world of avant-garde music. There is a narrative, there is humor, and there is complexity and depth. I found myself deeply engaged during the show and craved to see more.

James Daniel 

Molto Ohm builds an audio visual black mirror experience and welcomes you into it with a playfulness and humor that is irresistible. My first time watching was a joyful experience, while my second viewing gave me space to settle into some of the darker sides of the observations Molto Ohm makes about our digital lives, aging, and an avatar’s desperate desire to exist. 

John Parsaie 

Molto Ohm strikes a chord for anyone disgusted by the reaches of corporate greed into the corners of everyday life

Jacqueline Davis 

Molto Ohm confronts the world we live in by breaking down the funny, macabre, and beautiful elements that make us human. Strange, disorienting, and completely satisfying 

Meg McConville

Molto Ohm provided a sensory experience that pushed conventional boundaries and kept the audience engaged with mixed media messaging and a dynamic set. successful innovative storytelling. 

Emily Liu

Molto Ohm combines great music with a unique sensitivity to the absurdities and estrangements of modern life. There’s something about it that feels more real than real, a kind of hyper realism that demands introspection, but the sensory experience of it somehow remains downright fun: every show I’ve been to has gotten people rapt and laughing. I find it all very special and inspiring as an artist, engineer and human and I can’t wait to see what Molto Ohm does next!

Sam Wheeler 

I found Molto Ohm’s performances simultaneously entertaining, funny, and thought provoking. The experience invokes a universal mood of anxiety, FOMO, and internet-driven overindulgence

Julia Zell

A completely immersive art experience. Using technology as both tool and instrument to explore how we connect and communicate sonically and visually. I love Molto Ohm

Devan Musser 

The Molto Ohm show was fascinating and captivating. I found myself at times lost in the music and visuals and at other times confronting my relationship with my phone, capitalism, and how technology affects the way I experience life as a modern subject.  It inspired me to think more about how to use media to reflect back to people their own conscious experience and how interdependent it is with the world, social institutions, and technology - and how its changing faster than we have time to fully appreciate because we are too immersed in it on a daily basis.  I’d love to see more Molto Ohm shows, larger-scale and even more immersive 

Grant Davis 

Have already recommended to many friends. At times hilarious satire that still makes one reflect, at other times just great electronic music