Otomo Yoshihide ++ Live Show

Co-Organized by: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Subjam

Supported by: Japan Foundation, ArtHub

Date: April 12, 2009 (Sunday) 15:30-22:00

Venue: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art

Address: E06, 798 Art Zone, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, P.  O. Box 100015 – 87, Beijing, P.R.China

Tel: 010-59789530，59789030

info@iberiart.org   www.iberiart.org     

Event Schedule:

Artists’ biography:

Otomo Yoshihide

Otomo Yoshihide is one of the most acclaimed international experimental musicians. He is a guitarist, turntablist, electronics player and film music composer. He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the noise rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise, jazz and contemporary classical. He is also a pioneering figure in the EAI-scene. In recent 10 years he became a leading figure of “onkyo” movement and Japanese improvisation music. With innumerable releases and concert around the world, he gains a great honor in contemporary music world.

Finds more about the artist:

Otomo Yoshihide’s wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomo_Yoshihide

Otomo Yoshihide’s myspace pages:

http://myspace.com/otomoyoshihideoffical
http://myspace.com/otomoyoshihide

Otomo Yoshihide’s another page:

http://www.japanimprov.com/yotomo/

Sachiko M

Sachiko M has been active as a sampler player since 1994. In 1998, in a drastic departure from those approaches, she originated the revolutionary method she uses to this day–manipulating the sampler’s internal test tones. With the 2000 release of Sine Wave Solo, her extreme solo recording consisting entirely of sine waves, Sachiko M suddenly became the focus of intense interest on the international scene and a representative figure of onkyo movement. Sachiko M was awarded the Ars Electronica 2003 Golden Nica prize in the digital music category. Latest solo CD “salon de sachiko” [hitorri-111], sound installation “I’m Here”.

Filament
(Otomo Yoshihide + Sachiko M)

Filament was formed in 1997. This unit was a product of the endless and thorough analyses and examinations of listening and pronunciation as a testing ground of post-electronics music. With Sachiko M’s original composition method as a core, it brings about sound experience that is totally different from music made by conventional “composition” or “improvisation,” going beyond the auditory limits ranging from faint to roaring sound. So far, it performed in more than ten countries in the world and often stirred argument.

FEN（Far East Network）
FEN is a totally new project by Otomo Yoshihide. Musicians of the similar kind who live in big cities in East Asia such as Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, and Seoul have had few opportunities to come together so far. “MIMI Festival,” an experimental music festival held annually in Marseille has provided them with an unexpected opportunity. Then they performed at Yamaguchi Center for Arts And Media (YCAM) and “Asian Meeting” music festival in Tokyo. What FEN aims to do is not to produce such and such music but what such a network can produce. Then you will see, with the start of this project, how musicians who have seldom met together living in different cities will develop their network.  

Yuen Chee Wai

Yuen Chee Wai’s work explores how image, sound and text can occur spontaneously as symbiotic mental productions. Known for his drone/ambient/field recording approaches and live performances, the photographic elements in his installations reflect also on the theme of sound and silence as a visual lens. In encountering a surrounding soundscape, its objects and architecture, imprints of images recur on the mind’s eye, almost as if in stasis. Visual/verbal patterns or perimeters, their time sequences and frequencies become collapsible around memory, even the very attempt to recall a lost, unnamed, undeterminable subject. He has been exhibited at VENICE BIENNALE, and currently works and lives in Singapore and Thailand.

 Ryu Hankil

Born in 1975 in Seoul, South Korea. Hankil uses clockworks，non-instruments，abandoned objects like old telephones and typewriters as an instrument. He is interested in finding musical structures and so on in the vibration of objects. He was a keyboard player in two famous Korean indie pop groups, but eventually left the groups because he was tired of typical music making and sounds. At that time, he saw a concert by Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Axel Dörner, and Taku Unami in Seoul. He changed his musical instrument and concentrated more and more on improvised music and sound related works. Hankil has organised a monthly concert series called RELAY since 2005. He established his own publishing office called Manual, and releases improvised music and magazines. In 2008 he toured around Europe for two times and made his third visit to Japan.

Yan Jun

Yan Jun, Beijing based sound artist and poet. as well as a music critic and organizer. Yan’s live performance engages space feedback, loop and voice/language to make hypnotic noise. He also use concepts of recycling, feedback and reduction to creates sound art work, which related to field recording, installation, image, video, publishing and multiple forms. He had performed and participated exhibitions internationally.
Artist’s website:

www.yanjun.org,

www.subjam.org

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