Claude & Ola

Claude and Ola Aldous are experimental musicians residing in the northern reaches of New York state in the US. They have released music on the Steep Gloss, TQN-Aut, and Tone Burst labels as a duo and have performed throughout the northeast of the US. They also publish the experimental music zine periodical Deft Esoterica.

Ola Aldous, a native of Kharkiv, Ukraine, studied piano as a child at the Kharkiv Special School of Music for Gifted Children before emigrating to the US as the Soviet Union collapsed. Ola earned degrees in piano performance and fine art, finding her voice outside the conventions of the western classical world. Ola maintains an active practice as a musician and multi-media artist working in sound, paint, video, and illustration.

Claude Aldous, a native of northern New York state, has a background in electronic music composition and an extensive resume as performer, cutting his teeth in the underground hardcore punk music scene and even weathering forays into string band and bluegrass music, before graduating to experimental electronic music on the modular synthesizer and acoustic drums in the avant-garde style. He is active as an audio mastering engineer, “sometimes recordist”, and as a writer.

www.claudeandola.com