MUTEK 2024 | Octo Octa at Full Speed

Part of the Nocturne 3 program, Maya Bouldry-Morrison aka Octo Octa, is an American house producer and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York, after studying at university in New Hampshire. Musically, this gifted trans-genre comes from IDM, the classics of the Warp repertoire having had a profound effect on her, as well as jungle/drum’n’bass.

After a few years of research, Octo Octa moved on to house music, emerging from the shadows to make the international circuit of electronic clubs and festivals.

Assisted by a colleague with mostly tasteful visual projections, Hailey Guzik of Memory Management Unit, Octo Octa offered an intense concert on Thursday, to put it mildly. Certainly housy, but peppered with personal proposals against a backdrop of humanistic and emotional themes, certainly therapeutic. Clearly, she knows how to whip up a batch of eggs and throw the meringue in our faces until we’re satiated.

The intensity curve is perfect, and the audience becomes paroxysmal after being won over, warmly applauding the tandem on stage at the end of this generous performance.

Octo Octa is said to have become a “central figure” on the house scene. Exaggerated? As far as I’m concerned, no. At the end of this excellent set from the Nocturne 3 program at the SAT, the leap of faith is instantaneous!

Photo Credit: Vivien Gaumand