Live Events
8 April 2008 (tue)
Test Tone vol. 32 || Adventures in Audiovisual
Resonance
— Legofriendly, Instant Places, Yukitomo Hamasaki, Tripon
—
Venue: Super Deluxe (map),
open: 20:00, door: free (+1D)
Super Deluxe: 106-0031東京都 港区 西麻布3.1.25 B1F
Tel: 03.5412.0515 | http://www.super-deluxe.com
For more detail, please refer to
the event info further down.
Legofriendly (electronic music)
Electronica can get pretty dull. In an age of laptop-produced boredom,
it's fortunate we have artists who take the time for quality control.
A unit with its roots in Tokyo, Germany and England, Legofriendly
seems to take the best aspects of all three. Disparate beats and
quirky samples are carefully distilled in the frequency lab, then
scientifically arranged for maximum cerebral massage. Playfully
eccentric yet always accessible, the music strikes the perfect balance
between harmonic subtlety and head-nodding rhythms. Tokyo-based
ex-pats Stan Eberlein and Peter Slade first formed this unit in
2002, and this night will serve as a pre-release for their second
album on the Intervall-audio imprint, Egg
Beater. With a full working setup, this performance will be
a truly live experience, and surely the best chance to hear their
distinct sound before the album release in June.
Legofriendly
Instant Places (audio/video
project)
Using a plethora of sources, Ian Birse and Laura Cavanaugh aka Instant
Places create captivating works that reinterpret the sights, sounds
and spaces of our environments. As a working unit, they investigate
how we impose ourselves in our interactions with our surroundings.
As artists, they have have a remarkable sense for finding the extraordinary
in our everyday experiences, piecing together tapestries of sound
and image that interrupt our sense of space. With a number of projects
to their credit, including everything from large installation works
to noise opera, it's difficult to predict what they have in store.
They are going with the theme of 'Tokyo Rodeo' for this month's
Test Tone, so it's fair to say that there might be a few accidents.
Wear your snakeskin kimono if you've got one.
Instant Places
Yukitomo Hamasaki (sound
& design)
We first found out about Yukitomo Hamasaki through Philippe Chatelain's
Laptop Orchestra, an experiment in collective improvisation where
a single sound source is manipulated by a group of laptop-wielding
musicians. What we didn't know was that Hamasaki is in fact a musician
in the truest sense. His own compositions reveal a deep appreciation
of harmonic structure, layering sounds in textures that seem to
leave the listener suspended in time. Interspersed with irregular
clicks, pops and beeps, the minimal breaks in time reveal the careful
attention to detail in the depth and dynamics of his music. Hamasaki
also heads up the the splendorific Tokyo-based label 'matter', which
seems to act as an extension of his own rarified musical sensibilities.
Yukitomo Hamasaki
Tripon (visual performance)
A dynamic visual group who have gained a reputation for the quality,
originality and breadth of their work, we are overjoyed to have
them back at Test Tone this month. Vokoi, Satoshi Horii and Daito
Manabe are not only adept artists, but have truly embodied the spirit
of creating unexpected instruments out of new technologies. You
can be sure that they will bring a dose of this vision to cover
the walls throughout the evening.
Tripon
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28 November 2007 (wed)
Worldtronics 2007 (Japan)
Line-up: Kama Aina - Takeo Toyama - Nobukazu Takemura - Miho Folio
Venue: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
Germany
Miho Folio performs at the Worldtronics 2007 festival
which "tries to find the most innovative hotspots for electronic
music as well as the most exciting musical developments in the wide
world outside Europe and the United States."
For more detail, please refer to the HKW
Web site.
10 May 2007 (thu)
Intervall-audio || four solo performances
in electronic music
Line-up: Dill, Shigehiro Tsubota, Scriptones, Xyramat (Japan Tour
2007)
Venue: Loop Line (see map),
open: 7pm, door: 1500 yen (+1D)
Loop Line: B1, 1-21-6, Sendagaya, Shibuyaku, Tokyo 151-0051
Tel & Fax: 03-5411-1312 | http://www.loop-line.jp/
For more detail, please refer to the event
info further down.
Dill (flyrec, weather/headz)
Yuji Inoue released his groundbreaking debut album "WYHIWYG"
on flyrec in 2003 and has since been making music for the contemporary
dance music scene, with a release on Weather/Headz in 2006. The
name Dill comes from the garden herb of the same name, with its
characteristic, strangely sweet taste.
IA artist || Dill
Shigehiro Tsubota (intervall-audio)
Improvisations with a microphone. The music by Tokyo-based musician
Shigehiro Tsubota is known to push the aesthetic limits of the traditionally
beautiful. His free improvisation performances are known to span
from the tenderest sound experiments to sudden outbreaks of energy-laden,
bizarre beauty.
IA artist || Shigehiro Tsubota
Scriptones (intervall-audio)
Scriptones is a solo project by one half of the Tokyo-based electronic
music duo Legofriendly. In an "instrument-interactive"
approach, the performance explores the internal modulation matrix
of a hardware synth. Occasionally triggered by a chord on a keyboard,
the synth runs wild on cross-modulated arpeggios producing unpredictable
sound textures.
IA artist || Scriptones
Xyramat – Japan
Tour 2007
Ambient glitchy experimental music by German electronic musician
Xyramat. Now based in Hamburg, Xyramat is a member of the networks
Female Pressure and Electronic Ladiez, moderates the monthly radio
show "Radio Gagarin" together with Jetzman and Asmus Tietchens
at FSK, and contributed to the CD sampler "Women take back
the Noise".
Xyramat on
myspace
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