Mono Space presents Gallery Hours as curated by Musique Plastique, bringing the eclectic taste and avant garde spirit of Tony Remple’s label and record shop to the Saturday listening experience.
Photograph Guarionex Rodriguez Jr
Musique Plastique is known for a refined selection of ambient, synth-heavy electronic, dub, experimental, and left-field jazz. When prompted about his curatorial approach for November 22nd, Tony offered:
“I look forward to selecting music for Mono Space's sound system that I strongly respond to emotionally. Not genre specific at all, but looking to share music which can be appreciated from sublime to joyful to visceral, and which will be complemented by being heard on such a transparent apparatus.
Lately, I have been particularly attracted to music which has a deep sense of tradition while being crafted with modern/electronic instrumentation, capturing a certain liminal space found between the past and the future. I hope to highlight some of this within the day's program.”
About Gallery Hours
On Saturdays throughout each season, Mono Space presents a program for curious listeners and readers alike. Guests are welcomed into the gallery to experience the OJAS sound system, gift shop, and library from 11am to 5pm. Each Gallery Hours is centered around a thematic set of recordings curated by special guests. This program is free and open to the public.
About Tony Remple of Musique Plastique
“My approach to sound has gone through many changes over the years, from performing with circuit bent electronic instruments in the late 1990s to opening a record shop and label in 2015. Rather than rest on an accumulation of knowledge, I am interested in an intuitive approach to engaging with music as ultimately it connects at an emotional level and is part of the way we communicate with one another about our experiences. It is a language (or a multitude of languages) in and of itself, able to tell stories that words alone cannot.
Olympia, Minneapolis and Portland have all been incredibly formative places to engage with art/music. In the late 1990s, I regularly saw punk shows while studying for my BA at Evergreen and learning about experimental/structuralist film as well as artists like John Cage, and found connective tissue amongst it all.
Moving to Minneapolis and performing within the midwest noise scene in the early/mid 2000s only furthered an interest in underground music, which was pushed even further with my relocation to Portland in 2007. Here I was able to make more connections with punk/DIY ideas as they were evident in underground dance music, and finding that same spirit in the house and techno music from Chicago and Detroit.
This barely covers my relationship with music, or the appeal that a broad variety of sounds have to me; from minimal, ambient and avant garde composition to synth pop, psych and folk. Every time a new avenue reveals itself to explore, I am shown how much I have to learn about our relationship to music and just how expansive it is. It will continue to be a joy to participate in this journey for as long as I am alive.”
— Tony Remple, 2025
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