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Last year's Live Images headliner Aki Onda returns to
the festival as organizer of this special live event, featuring three
of the most urgent, inventive performers now operating in Tokyo's
notoriously agitated underground electronic art and music scene.
Taeji Sawai, Audio performance
The sounds of our multi-functional daily existence are supplied by
various information systems. Sawai explores the possibilities of a
total auditory design derived from these unconsciously experienced
sounds by mixing and amplifying them into extreme ultra- or infrasonic
frequencies, confounding our usual sensory division of sound into
"waves perceptible by hearing" and "vibration perceptible through
touch."
As a participant in portable [k]ommunity, Taeji Sawai
creates electronic art "with the use of bugs or effects like bugs
produced by large amounts of high quality data." Sawai has also
performed with cell/66b and aeo, along with EYE from Boredoms/V∞redoms
and Kazuhiro Jo of SWQ, appearing at venues ranging from Ars
Electronica to John Zorn's birthday party.
Kanta Horio, EM#2 A
large electromagnet is connected to an audio amplifier used as an
electric power amplifier. The audio signals input into the amplifier
cause a significant rise in the magnetic field. A large number of paper
clips are set under the electromagnet that is dangled on a mic stand
and audio signals actuate the paperclips. Various patterns of paperclip
motion are generated by different frequencies of the audio signal. The
state of the paperclips is recorded with a video camera and displayed
in real time on a screen behind the performer.
Kanta Horio
studied acoustics and sound art at the Kyushu Institute of Design in
Fukuoka. He builds various junk gadgets and contraptions with or
without electronic devices and presents sound/visual performances with
them and a laptop computer.
Atsuhiro Ito, Optron
"Whirr Extreme Optical Noise Core that consists of Anomaly Hardcore
Punk approach, and the original sound optical instrument, OPTRON, that
outputs amplified noise discharged by fluorescent lights. Thoroughly
original in the respects of without using melody playing instruments
and live performance that is not gentle to the eyes or ears either." —
Atsuhiro Ito
Atsuhiro Ito
is perhaps best known as the founder and organizer of the Tokyo
gallery/free space Off Site, a crucial venue for the Japanese onkyo
music scene. Since 1998 he has been presenting sound performances with
fluorescent lighting using a musical device of his own invention, the
optron.
