About

João Orecchia is a Johannesburg-based artist and composer. Through his musical and visual compositions, Orrechia playfully deconstructs standard uses of symbols and processes traditionally found in musical scores. In 2019 Orecchia collaborated with the David Krut Workshop on a series of etchings and woodcuts that are a visual exploration of a playful and intuitive process of working with sound and music. In the prints, Orecchia charts sonic movements on to paper, developing a unique written musical language and creating experimental music scores which are intentionally left open to the …