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yuji kondo at Deep Listening Kyoto vol.1
Deep Listening Kyoto 2009
17. 3. 2009 @ cafe independants
"DEEP LISTENING CHAIR" is a unique installation-festival in Tokyo, Japan. But this time we are going to Kyoto!!!! Edition NIkO is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. And this festival is based on various programs joined together to form a trajectory over 2 days (not this time) but the festival explores the many facets of cutting-edge live electronic music and art. It provides a forum to exchange about the artistic practice underlying the electronic music scene. Festival brings together the artists that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for the international scene of digital creation. NIkO festival provides insight into all culture media platforms. And featured a notable quantity of well known electronic artists over the world, while also reserving a special place for emergent laptop artists and installation artists. Dadaism, Surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, minimalism, actionism, those artists with this wonderful abstract identity, will perform and show how we can express our strong electronic arts. So, this live digital audiovisual performances and abstract installations are one of the important dimensions for this festival.
Edition NIkOはSurrealistic Minimalismを掲げ、パリ、ベルリン、バルセロナ、ロンドン、ニューヨークそしてここ日本と、世界中の電子音響家を擁する電子音響系レーベルである。コンピューターで生成されるマイクロスコピックな電子音を構成素とし、抽象的な音響空間を創出するため、個々のそのデジタルクリエーションの中に「常識を外れた奇妙で既存の状態を超越している状況」を提示し続けるsurrealisticなartistが集まる。
オーナーはダダやバウハウスなどの反社会主義性と合理主義的な思想を掲げスペインやロンドンを中心にヨーロッパでのリリースを続け、ENGまたはJANDEATHという名義にてzbigniew karkowskiやincapacitantsなどとライブを行うshotahiramaで、２００７年に設立、non profitで運営している。
そして今回のDeep Listening Kyotoでは、京都のオーディエンスのためにレーベルのショーケース的ラインナップとなっている。
enormous 0'clockはロンドンのAi Recordsからの最新作INFORMATION WARFAREを含む最新のライブセット。オーナーであるshotahiramaはJandeath名義にて現代音楽のシンボルであるリズムを自身が開発したプログラムソフト、R systemでそれを具象化、映像化するインスタレーションを。その他にも、幽玄な持続音響にて世界を魅了し続けるHakobuneをはじめ、現音作曲新人賞など数々の受賞経歴を持ち、ジャズやクラシックをエレクトロニカへアップデートし続けるユニットProvoke。またミニマルデザイン、アートの分野においても評価の高いyuji kondoによるサウンドインスタレーション、実験音楽家ishimuraはループのオーヴァーラップによるズレを伴った電子的なリズムパターンが美しい新ユニットSHARPでのライブを。
以上の豪華メンバーによる、シュールレアリズムな電子音響イベントを披露する。
Deep Listening Kyoto vol.1 "Surrealistic Minimalism" presented by Edition NIkO
17th. Mar. 2009
18:00-23:00
free (1 drink please)
at cafe independants
出演者
enormous O'clock (Kyoto)
□) www.myspace.com/enormousoclock
国内外問わず数々のリリースを続けるなか、昨年イギリスのレーベルAI RECORDSから"INFORMATION WARFARE"を発表しBBC RADIO 1やその他でのオンエアーにより話題となったのが切掛で、今年も既に数々のリリースが海外等で決定している。今回"cafe independants"でのライヴセットでは彼特有の季節感を演出するだろう。
enormous O'clock is an electronic music producer who lives and works in Kyoto. A rarity in the world of beat-driven electronic music, and he is known for contributing to the development of surrealistic minimal techno with his 2008 album INFORMATION WARFAR from Ai Records (London, UK). 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. eO' explain him self as "ELECTRO AMBIENCE DRENCHED IN DISTORTION AND PRIMED FOR THE FLOOR".
Hakobune (Kyoto)
□) www.myspace.com/hakobunemusic
京都市在住の音楽家。ギターを軸としたタピストリーを用いソニックランドスケープを構築する。国内外のレーベルから音源をリリース。08年7月に2ndアルバム"We Left The Window Open Sometimes"をリリースし、後にイギリスのレコードショップSmallfish Recordsが発表した2008年度ベストアルバム20に選ばれる。09年にはニューアルバムのリリースを予定。
Hakobune aka Takahiro Yorifuji (b.1986.4), inspired by minimalism, drone and concentrated on sound landscape, Yorifuji is best known as the father of ambient music in "Kyoto new-age". Using guitar and makes deep appreciation of harmonic structure, layering sounds in textures that seem to leave the listener suspended in time. He has been released out a number of titles, and working with David Tagg in 2008 was one of his best work in his discography. Yorifuji is from a small town in Hyogo, Japan and currently resides in Kyoto.
JANDEATH (Tokyo)
□) www.myspace.com/industrialensemble
ダダやバウハウスなどの反社会主義性と合理主義的な思想を掲げ２００６年にENG (electronoise group)を結成したshotahirama。スペインやロンドンを中心にヨーロッパでのリリース、ライブ活動を行う傍ら、JANDEATHという別名義を２００８年に始動。産業主義を連想させる金属音や破壊音的コンクレート電子音響に、２台のエレクトロンを扱い現代音楽のシンボルであるリズムを複雑に溶け込ませたネオテクノイズを提案する。Edition NIkO (旧NIkO Label)のオーナーでもある。
Under the name of JANDEATH, which is "Edition NIkO" founder-shotahirama' solo project. Produced sounds of vaguely danceable noise and power-electronics noise using complex mono and poly-rhythm, driving percussion, and meticulous sequencing. His main influences are from the early 1980s, with industrial acts like Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten and also from mille plateaux artists like SND, Alva noto, Pan sonic. JANDEATH also made extensive use of a variety of computer based sequencers, softsynths, and other applications as a means of controlling those synths and processing the synthesized sounds, using Reaktor, Processing and Elektron. He has been working with this kind of computer music, independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Incapacitants, ASTRO, since 2008. Also work with an organizing member of the Shinjuku-based Soup collective, MICLODIET in 2008, project was named MICLODEATH.
PROVOKE (Osaka)
□) www.myspace.com/provoke2000
森崇博と三上良太によるユニット。音楽大学で現代音楽を学び、その後コンピューターベースでの制作に移行。映画音楽、舞台音楽なども手がけて来た。
PROVOKE is a multi-media group consisting of Moze and Ryota Mikami. Introduce a "political" "inaudible" "experimental" form of electronica music. Combines themes of gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race.... This diversity of themes is matched by PROVOKE' wide range of production styles, which include film music, Sine-wave, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed neo-expressionist piano solos.
SHARP (Osaka)
□) www.myspace.com/sharpsoundproject
石村晋也と筒井一隆は、それぞれがでフィールドレコーディングや音響生成による楽曲、インスタレーションを制作してきた。SHARPは自分たちのソロ活動とは違ったアプローチで楽曲を制作し、ライブパフォーマンス、ダイナミズムへと回帰することを目
的に2008年に結成した不定期に活動するユニット。現在までに、2007年度IMI修了展オープニングイベント、NIkO label Nl003-NEUBAUTEN- に参加。
SHARP is an experimental music group from Osaka consisting of shinya ishimura , kazutaka tsutsui. Music without sequencers, clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to the compositions but make up the essential elements of the work and these sound sources are applied to the rhythmic groove. Disparate beats and quirky samples are carefully distilled in the frequency lab, then scientifically arranged for maximum cerebral massage.
yuji kondo (Osaka)
□) yujikondo.wordpress.com/
ベーシストとして活動する傍ら、徐々に騒音学に傾倒。2005年に本名義を始動、現在に至る。主にフィールドレコーディングなどの素材を扱い、それらを和音化したものを複数のチャンネルで走らせ、壮大かつ幽玄な故障音響を生成、さらに時間化する。Jun Nishimura aka JadeGardenの楽曲リミックス、ENGのオーディオヴィジュアル作品等に参加、関西を中心にライヴを行うなど精力的にその独自のサウンドを展開中。Edition NIkOからリリースされているコンピレーションへの楽曲提供もしている。
yuji kondo (b. 1986) is a sound artist and composer from japan. in late 2005, he started his solo project, and currently based in osaka, kyoto,,, the kansai region. he makes compositions using computer programs, and restructure the sounds such as snow noise, sine wave, stylus tip noise, tape hiss, impulse click, field recording sources, acoustic percussion instruments, random tuning electric bass guitar tones, and voices in unconventional ways. generated materials are fed back by the matrix-switch system on daw software, and are used in music. the grand feedback landscape woven by frequency operation is as beautiful as the fog, subtle and profound. his sound is a unique blend of electronic sounds and acoustic instruments, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. the electronics function just as any other instruments. he skillfully shifts the brokendown sound to listening music.
Edition NIkO
Edition NIkO was founded/curated and art directed by Japanese-American sound artist shotahirama in 2007. It is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. The main interest was to give uniting sound and art design with strong attention to scientific sequences, Dada, Bauhaus, and drone ambient sound scapes. A surrealistic minimalism. So, priority is to publish series with focus on a specific philosophy of music/ sound/ art composing. Also it is a platform for conceptional and experimental related projects in music, art and sciencemusic both by myself (shotahirama) and by other artists and musicians. All NIkO releases have been on either CD or CDr or MP3 as I feel that these formats currently offer the most appropriate form of reproduction. But its basically, a non-profit label..... NIkO Label was closed down at the end of 2008 and reopened in January 2009 as Edition NIkO.
Edition NIkO mixi community
□) mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=1077804
flier everywhere!
Art rock (Kyoto), cafe independants (Kyoto), COMPUFUNK RECORDS (Osaka), CYDER RECORDS (Osaka), Disk Union Shibuya Club-Music Shop (Tokyo), Disk Union Shinjuku (Tokyo), Disk Union Shinjuku Club-Music Shop (Tokyo), FLAKE RECORDS (Osaka), FUKUGAN GALLERY (Osaka), Graf media gm (Osaka), HMV Abeno (Osaka), HMV TEMMABASHI (Osaka), K2 RECORDS (Osaka), KINGKONG RECORDS (Osaka), Nanba ROCKETS (Osaka), Parallax Records (Kyoto), NEWTONE RECORDS (Osaka), Riverside records (Kyoto), Shin-bi (Kyoto), Tower Records Shibuya (Tokyo), Tower Records Umeda Marubiru (Osaka), Tower Records NU chayamachi (Osaka), Tower Records Nanba (Osaka), Unagidani Sunsui (Osaka), Warzsawa Shibuya (Tokyo), Workshop Records (Kyoto)
yuji kondo at Deep Listening Kyoto vol.1
Deep Listening Kyoto 2009
17. 3. 2009 @ cafe independants
"DEEP LISTENING CHAIR" is a unique installation-festival in Tokyo, Japan. But this time we are going to Kyoto!!!! Edition NIkO is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. And this festival is based on various programs joined together to form a trajectory over 2 days (not this time) but the festival explores the many facets of cutting-edge live electronic music and art. It provides a forum to exchange about the artistic practice underlying the electronic music scene. Festival brings together the artists that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for the international scene of digital creation. NIkO festival provides insight into all culture media platforms. And featured a notable quantity of well known electronic artists over the world, while also reserving a special place for emergent laptop artists and installation artists. Dadaism, Surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, minimalism, actionism, those artists with this wonderful abstract identity, will perform and show how we can express our strong electronic arts. So, this live digital audiovisual performances and abstract installations are one of the important dimensions for this festival.
Edition NIkOはSurrealistic Minimalismを掲げ、パリ、ベルリン、バルセロナ、ロンドン、ニューヨークそしてここ日本と、世界中の電子音響家を擁する電子音響系レーベルである。コンピューターで生成されるマイクロスコピックな電子音を構成素とし、抽象的な音響空間を創出するため、個々のそのデジタルクリエーションの中に「常識を外れた奇妙で既存の状態を超越している状況」を提示し続けるsurrealisticなartistが集まる。
オーナーはダダやバウハウスなどの反社会主義性と合理主義的な思想を掲げスペインやロンドンを中心にヨーロッパでのリリースを続け、ENGまたはJANDEATHという名義にてzbigniew karkowskiやincapacitantsなどとライブを行うshotahiramaで、２００７年に設立、non profitで運営している。
そして今回のDeep Listening Kyotoでは、京都のオーディエンスのためにレーベルのショーケース的ラインナップとなっている。
enormous 0'clockはロンドンのAi Recordsからの最新作INFORMATION WARFAREを含む最新のライブセット。オーナーであるshotahiramaはJandeath名義にて現代音楽のシンボルであるリズムを自身が開発したプログラムソフト、R systemでそれを具象化、映像化するインスタレーションを。その他にも、幽玄な持続音響にて世界を魅了し続けるHakobuneをはじめ、現音作曲新人賞など数々の受賞経歴を持ち、ジャズやクラシックをエレクトロニカへアップデートし続けるユニットProvoke。またミニマルデザイン、アートの分野においても評価の高いyuji kondoによるサウンドインスタレーション、実験音楽家ishimuraはループのオーヴァーラップによるズレを伴った電子的なリズムパターンが美しい新ユニットSHARPでのライブを。
以上の豪華メンバーによる、シュールレアリズムな電子音響イベントを披露する。
Deep Listening Kyoto vol.1 "Surrealistic Minimalism" presented by Edition NIkO
17th. Mar. 2009
18:00-23:00
free (1 drink please)
at cafe independants
出演者
enormous O'clock (Kyoto)
□) www.myspace.com/enormousoclock
国内外問わず数々のリリースを続けるなか、昨年イギリスのレーベルAI RECORDSから"INFORMATION WARFARE"を発表しBBC RADIO 1やその他でのオンエアーにより話題となったのが切掛で、今年も既に数々のリリースが海外等で決定している。今回"cafe independants"でのライヴセットでは彼特有の季節感を演出するだろう。
enormous O'clock is an electronic music producer who lives and works in Kyoto. A rarity in the world of beat-driven electronic music, and he is known for contributing to the development of surrealistic minimal techno with his 2008 album INFORMATION WARFAR from Ai Records (London, UK). 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. eO' explain him self as "ELECTRO AMBIENCE DRENCHED IN DISTORTION AND PRIMED FOR THE FLOOR".
Hakobune (Kyoto)
□) www.myspace.com/hakobunemusic
京都市在住の音楽家。ギターを軸としたタピストリーを用いソニックランドスケープを構築する。国内外のレーベルから音源をリリース。08年7月に2ndアルバム"We Left The Window Open Sometimes"をリリースし、後にイギリスのレコードショップSmallfish Recordsが発表した2008年度ベストアルバム20に選ばれる。09年にはニューアルバムのリリースを予定。
Hakobune aka Takahiro Yorifuji (b.1986.4), inspired by minimalism, drone and concentrated on sound landscape, Yorifuji is best known as the father of ambient music in "Kyoto new-age". Using guitar and makes deep appreciation of harmonic structure, layering sounds in textures that seem to leave the listener suspended in time. He has been released out a number of titles, and working with David Tagg in 2008 was one of his best work in his discography. Yorifuji is from a small town in Hyogo, Japan and currently resides in Kyoto.
JANDEATH (Tokyo)
□) www.myspace.com/industrialensemble
ダダやバウハウスなどの反社会主義性と合理主義的な思想を掲げ２００６年にENG (electronoise group)を結成したshotahirama。スペインやロンドンを中心にヨーロッパでのリリース、ライブ活動を行う傍ら、JANDEATHという別名義を２００８年に始動。産業主義を連想させる金属音や破壊音的コンクレート電子音響に、２台のエレクトロンを扱い現代音楽のシンボルであるリズムを複雑に溶け込ませたネオテクノイズを提案する。Edition NIkO (旧NIkO Label)のオーナーでもある。
Under the name of JANDEATH, which is "Edition NIkO" founder-shotahirama' solo project. Produced sounds of vaguely danceable noise and power-electronics noise using complex mono and poly-rhythm, driving percussion, and meticulous sequencing. His main influences are from the early 1980s, with industrial acts like Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten and also from mille plateaux artists like SND, Alva noto, Pan sonic. JANDEATH also made extensive use of a variety of computer based sequencers, softsynths, and other applications as a means of controlling those synths and processing the synthesized sounds, using Reaktor, Processing and Elektron. He has been working with this kind of computer music, independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Incapacitants, ASTRO, since 2008. Also work with an organizing member of the Shinjuku-based Soup collective, MICLODIET in 2008, project was named MICLODEATH.
PROVOKE (Osaka)
□) www.myspace.com/provoke2000
森崇博と三上良太によるユニット。音楽大学で現代音楽を学び、その後コンピューターベースでの制作に移行。映画音楽、舞台音楽なども手がけて来た。
PROVOKE is a multi-media group consisting of Moze and Ryota Mikami. Introduce a "political" "inaudible" "experimental" form of electronica music. Combines themes of gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race.... This diversity of themes is matched by PROVOKE' wide range of production styles, which include film music, Sine-wave, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed neo-expressionist piano solos.
SHARP (Osaka)
□) www.myspace.com/sharpsoundproject
石村晋也と筒井一隆は、それぞれがでフィールドレコーディングや音響生成による楽曲、インスタレーションを制作してきた。SHARPは自分たちのソロ活動とは違ったアプローチで楽曲を制作し、ライブパフォーマンス、ダイナミズムへと回帰することを目
的に2008年に結成した不定期に活動するユニット。現在までに、2007年度IMI修了展オープニングイベント、NIkO label Nl003-NEUBAUTEN- に参加。
SHARP is an experimental music group from Osaka consisting of shinya ishimura , kazutaka tsutsui. Music without sequencers, clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to the compositions but make up the essential elements of the work and these sound sources are applied to the rhythmic groove. Disparate beats and quirky samples are carefully distilled in the frequency lab, then scientifically arranged for maximum cerebral massage.
yuji kondo (Osaka)
□) yujikondo.wordpress.com/
ベーシストとして活動する傍ら、徐々に騒音学に傾倒。2005年に本名義を始動、現在に至る。主にフィールドレコーディングなどの素材を扱い、それらを和音化したものを複数のチャンネルで走らせ、壮大かつ幽玄な故障音響を生成、さらに時間化する。Jun Nishimura aka JadeGardenの楽曲リミックス、ENGのオーディオヴィジュアル作品等に参加、関西を中心にライヴを行うなど精力的にその独自のサウンドを展開中。Edition NIkOからリリースされているコンピレーションへの楽曲提供もしている。
yuji kondo (b. 1986) is a sound artist and composer from japan. in late 2005, he started his solo project, and currently based in osaka, kyoto,,, the kansai region. he makes compositions using computer programs, and restructure the sounds such as snow noise, sine wave, stylus tip noise, tape hiss, impulse click, field recording sources, acoustic percussion instruments, random tuning electric bass guitar tones, and voices in unconventional ways. generated materials are fed back by the matrix-switch system on daw software, and are used in music. the grand feedback landscape woven by frequency operation is as beautiful as the fog, subtle and profound. his sound is a unique blend of electronic sounds and acoustic instruments, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. the electronics function just as any other instruments. he skillfully shifts the brokendown sound to listening music.
Edition NIkO
Edition NIkO was founded/curated and art directed by Japanese-American sound artist shotahirama in 2007. It is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. The main interest was to give uniting sound and art design with strong attention to scientific sequences, Dada, Bauhaus, and drone ambient sound scapes. A surrealistic minimalism. So, priority is to publish series with focus on a specific philosophy of music/ sound/ art composing. Also it is a platform for conceptional and experimental related projects in music, art and sciencemusic both by myself (shotahirama) and by other artists and musicians. All NIkO releases have been on either CD or CDr or MP3 as I feel that these formats currently offer the most appropriate form of reproduction. But its basically, a non-profit label..... NIkO Label was closed down at the end of 2008 and reopened in January 2009 as Edition NIkO.
Edition NIkO mixi community
□) mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=1077804
flier everywhere!
Art rock (Kyoto), cafe independants (Kyoto), COMPUFUNK RECORDS (Osaka), CYDER RECORDS (Osaka), Disk Union Shibuya Club-Music Shop (Tokyo), Disk Union Shinjuku (Tokyo), Disk Union Shinjuku Club-Music Shop (Tokyo), FLAKE RECORDS (Osaka), FUKUGAN GALLERY (Osaka), Graf media gm (Osaka), HMV Abeno (Osaka), HMV TEMMABASHI (Osaka), K2 RECORDS (Osaka), KINGKONG RECORDS (Osaka), Nanba ROCKETS (Osaka), Parallax Records (Kyoto), NEWTONE RECORDS (Osaka), Riverside records (Kyoto), Shin-bi (Kyoto), Tower Records Shibuya (Tokyo), Tower Records Umeda Marubiru (Osaka), Tower Records NU chayamachi (Osaka), Tower Records Nanba (Osaka), Unagidani Sunsui (Osaka), Warzsawa Shibuya (Tokyo), Workshop Records (Kyoto)