Vladislav Delay – Toive and EVOL on Soundfollies6

Amazing video from Vladislav Delay, with his new track "Toive"

Vladislav Delay - Toive from Leaf Label on Vimeo.

Video by Carolina Melis & Lorenzo Sportiello
Finnish composer Sasu Ripatti made the album Tummaa while living on a remote island in the Arctic Circle during Finland’s “kaamos” season, when there are only a few hours of light a day. “Tummaa means dark or darkness, which reflects the music on the album,” he says. Part of this track’s darkness is born of confusion: “Toive” sounds electronic, but it isn’t. Tummaa features Ripatti on percussion, Agentina’s Lucio Capece on clarinet and saxophone, and Scotland’s soundtrack composer Craig Armstrong on piano and Rhodes. This particular track is a melding of percussion, Rhodes and creepy feedback.
In keeping with this disorienting effect, directors Carolina Melis (who has directed videos for other Leaf Label artists including Efterklang and Colleen) and Lorenzo Sportiello fuse natural and artificial elements. The music starts off tinkling and repetitive to build into an ominous hammering, with neon lights cutting through crystals, beads, eggs, stones, shards of glass, pyramids and the like. Forming the central motif, snowballs and icicles move backward from fractured to whole form, and it’s somehow terrifying. Trick or treat. (Witten by Jenna Humphrey. Published at Prefix Magazine.)

And some good shows in tokyo, coming up next weekend and coming up on new month.

cyclo.-ryoji ikeda+carsten nicolai- will be perform at De La FANTASIA
ジャンルや地域、有名無名を問わず、独自の個性をもった新しいサウンドを創り続けるアーティストたちをクローズ・アップする、新しい音楽フェスティバルが、”De La FANTASIA –デ・ラ・ファンタジア-”です。ということらしいのだが、Sonar Tokyo的な雰囲気はともあれ、Cycloが登場します。上の写真は最近行われたmutek10でのCyclo.
10/31(土) OPEN 16:30 / START 17:00
東京 恵比寿LIQUIDROOM
cyclo.-ryoji ikeda+carsten nicolai-
高橋幸宏 Guest:小山田圭吾(Cornelius)
[高橋幸宏(Vo,Dr)・権藤知彦(Euphonium, Manipulator)・高田漣(G,Electronics)
堀江博久(Key)・鈴木正人(B)・千住宗臣(Dr)・小山田圭吾(G)・伊瀬聖子(Visuals)]
Ametsub

それからその後の夜、FANTASIA Nightと題してAOKItakamasaが登場。

10/31(土)
東京 恵比寿LIQUIDROOM
TOWA TEI(DJ) / Lindstrøm(Live Set) / EYE(DJ) / MOODMAN(DJ)
Nikakoi aka Erast(Live Set) / AOKI takamasa(Live Set) / d.v.d(Live)

さらには、
そんなメジャー級の陰に隠れて男らしく生きるアウトローな連中が集うSOUPにて11月8日には僕もお世話になったSoundfolliesの6が開催されます。

大好きなKellyがやすくん(MICLO DIET)とコンビを組みます。それからこれまた僕もお世話になったクリストフ(Christophe Charles)も参加します。で、特筆すべきはこの２人。EVOLとKiyoshi Mizutaniです。

僕がJANDEATH名義で活動する時にはそのすべてにおいてロールモデルにしていたSND、そのMark Fellとのコラボでも話題になったMegoの異端児集団、泣く子も黙るEVOL。ナードな故障音響と少しのハッキングが売りだったfarmers manualに対してこちらは気違いのデカダンスピエロか狂った非線形関数によるデジタル・サウンド・シンセシスについての理論、黒魔術音響。確かSpainからの来日です。
EVOL is a computer music cell started in 1996. At the core of the project is Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, a musician and composer living and working in Barcelona. Occasional EVOL members and/or collaborators include Aarhus-based sound artist Rubén Patiño, Danish composer and multi-instrumentist Jakob Draminsky Højmark, English sound artist Joe Gilmore, Spanish writer and sound artist Anna María Ramos, English video artist Andy Davies, and Scottish sound artist Joel Ongthorne. Their work have been released on internationally acclaimed record labels such as Mego, Entr'acte, Lucky Kitchen, Diskono, Scarcelight, Antifrost, fals.ch or their very own ALKU.
In 2003 the group started a series of electroacoustic pieces entitled 'Punani' which addresses some of the main aspects of their work, namely: algorithmic composition, noise, psychedelia, system trajectories and the musical application of fractal geometry and other mathematical phenomena, somewhere in between Denis Smalley's concept of "spectromorphology" and what Agostino Di Scipio called "functional iteration synthesis".

絶対見たい。これだけでは終わらない、泣く子もさらに泣くKiyoshi Mizutaniです。今や伝説の”元”Merzbow、が久しぶりにメディアへ現れます。

Miztutani was a member of Merzbow in the 80’s and has done solo work since 1989. He has recordings on Ulcer House, ZSF Produkt, Shirocoal Recordings, NEdS, Sounds For Consciousness Rape, Pure, Artware, Kaon, e(r)ostrate, Povertech Industries and Flenix Records.

Sound Follies 6
Date: １１月８日（日）Nov. 8 (Sun)
Place: Ochiai SOUP
Time: open 18:00
Charge: 1500 yen
EVOL (Spain)
Kiyoshi Mizutani
Christophe Charles
miclodiet/Kelly Churko
Abarenbow Teng


しかし俺は行けない。fuck. can't go.... cause I've this coming up show on same date with soundfollies6,　ということで残念ながらsoundfolliesとはかぶってしまうも僕はこちらの素敵なイベントに出演させて頂きます。大好きなfunckarmaや友人のDarren McClureらがリリースをしている国内唯一の優良アンビエントレーベル、symbolic interactionがお届けするレーベルショーケース、the silence was warm nightです。個人的に楽しみにしているMille PlateauxのYu Miyashitaさん(Yaporigami)がロンドンから緊急帰国に、所謂”タワレコで激売れしているエレクトロニカアーティスト”で国内一の知名度か、おなじみFjordneの２人はもちろん他にも豪華な出演者。

symbolic interaction presents "the silence was warm night" 2009. 11.08
at Loopline Tokyo
Artists are:
yaporigami (aka Yu Miyashita)
fjordne
shota hirama
joseph auer
shreber harber mole flying wheel


最後に個人的に楽しみにしてるのがもうひとつ。
Thomas Fehlmann is coming!!!!!!! with his friends, The Orb!!!!!!!



LIQUIDROOM and root & branch presents THE ORB – BAGHDAD BATTERIES JAPAN TOUR
セカンド・サマー・オブ・ラブ～テクノ・シーン黎明期から約20年以上に渡りエレクトロニック・ミュージック・シーンを牽引しきたマエストロ、大御所ジ・オーブの待望のクラブ・ギグが遂に決定！！ということで、個人的に大興奮している（結局行かないだろうけど）ライブがこちら。
OPEN / START / -
ADV / DOOR ￥4,000(税込) / -
LINEUP live:THE ORB
djs:ALEX PATERSON/THOMAS FEHLMANN/and more to be announced.
LIQUIDLOFT:DJ YOGURT and more to be announced.

Thomas Fehlmann (born in Zürich), who lives in Berlin has been active in electronic music as far back as the 1980s. He is currently active on the Kompakt record label based in Germany. He is an on and off member of The Orb.
Notable releases include Visions of Blah on the Kompakt label, and The Orb's 1995: Orbus Terrarum (Island Records)
His 2007 album Honigpumpe was rated 8.6 on the Pitchfork Media music review site.
See also Palais Schaumburg: He was a founding member of the group with holger hiller.



年末だし、服がないし、炊飯器に変な蟲がいるし。でも引っ越しがあります。。負けない。

shotahirama his solo myspace is now open!

"shotahirama" by Shota Hirama. His solo official myspace is now open:))

shotahirama is a Japanese-American Sound Artist located in Tokyo, inspired by Modern Art, Dada and Bauhaus. Also known for the founding of the Edition NIkO (NIkO Label), ENG (electronoise group) and JANDEATH. His musical focus is characterized by digital synth and field recording with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; grainy textures, complex patterns of smooth drones, and microscopic clicks and cuts. shota' music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital worlds are fused into one.

Shota, as a solo artist or in other project, has released music on the following record labels: Improvised Music From Japan (Japan. coming soon), Re-Records (Hongkong. coming soon), Under The Spire Recordings (UK, coming soon), and net labels: TecnoNucleo (Spain), Alg-a (Spain), NTNS Radio (Netherlands). He has toured throughout England, and Japan in 2008. He has played the same events with Christophe Charles (Mille Plateaux), Chihei Hatakeyama (Kranky), Tetsuo Furudate (Subrosa), MICLODIET (SOUP), Kelly Churko, Cal Lyall (testtone), Monooka, Yuji Kondo, enormous O'clock (AI Records), Hakobune (U-Cover)...

shotahirama official myspace
shotahirama dot com

In early 2006 he founded his main project, radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG). It is a group that are making concrete drone sounds with their free-improv expression and the ideas from "laptop" "noise" and "Art". Using laptop, tape-operation, and tape-loop, generated guitar, the project ideal is to express the content of various psycho pathological conditions, especially depressive psychosis, and paranoia. And also making an art design, a photomontage with strong attention to Dada and Bauhaus.
ENG/electronoise group official myspace
ENG was initially composed of shotahirama on tape-operation, Toshitaka Ikeda on guitar and shunjiTAKAMI on laptop. Musicians were free to join in, but such collaborations were often short-lived if the contributions were lacking the proper spirit or whatever. No ENG performance is ever planned; each is unique and spontaneous. The musicians vowed never to rehearse and never to discuss what they had played.
And the artists who joined in ENG were: shotahirama (2006-2009) Toshitaka Ikeda (2006-2008) shunjiTAKAMI (2006-2007) Kelly Churko (2009) Cal Lyall (2009) Taishin Inoue (2009) Blackphone666 (2009) Daisuke Kitabayashi from FPB (2008-2009) Monooka (2008) Darren McClure (2008) Yuji Kondo (2008) Emiko Shirayama (2008) Okamoto (2006-2007) shimizu aka Karel (2006-2007) Hasegawa (2006) Sachio Matsuda (2006) Linda Bjalla (2007) Sanpo Matsumoto (2007) Matsuoka from BAAAK BONKDOM (2007) Kendrien (2006-2007) Takano from APAP (2008) Gunji from Disk3 (2006)

(pic: ENG/electronoise group with Monooka at Shunt Club, London)

In 2007, shota founded a non profit label, Edition NIkO. 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 himself (shotahirama) and by other artists and musicians. Jerome Faria (NNY), Kasper T Toeplitz, Shoeb Ahmad, Nicolas Wiese, SIFIR, Kim_Nasung, SIN:NED, Edwin Lo...etc.
Edition NIkO official website
Edition NIkO official myspace
He also curate "Deep Listening Chair Festival". It is one of most famous Tokyo's festival for Experimental Digital Music and related Visual Arts. Festival takes place under the theme Surrealistic Minimalism. Sound and other media since 2007 at various venues in Tokyo. DLC will address both theoretical and practical aspects of today’s independent and experimental music production at the intersections of digital music and sound & media arts. Artists, experts and theorists will present their work as a means to pool knowledge and sketch out the sector’s future prospects. Visitors can hone their personal skills in workshops designed to encourage and support DIY experimentation. Selected projects and initiatives will demonstrate what they do in a hybrid formats fusing exhibitions and work-in-progress sessions that engage visitors’ participation. Actions and installations will illustrate further examples of creative output wiring music, art and digital culture.

(pic: Deep Listening Chair Festival 2008 presented by Edition NIkO)

In 2008, shota started his new project, JANDEATH. It was a stage name for shota using art and music as complementary tools to create rhythmic, minimal electronic music. Sometimes harsh, sometimes remarkably gentle but danceable, his music has a strong focus on complex and chaotic rhythm, driving percussion, and meticulous sequencing. Many of his tracks contain chaotic rhythms and close harmonies which some hear as random and noisy. True to his early techno roots, JANDEATH use a wide array of analog synths in their production, as well as analog and digital drum machines, mixers, effects units and samplers. JANDEATH have experimented in depth with development environments such as Reaktor, and Processing. He also used the Elektron Machinedrum and Monomachine in his live performances.
JANDEATH official myspace
Also work with an organizing member of the Shinjuku-based Soup collective, MICLO DIET in 2008, project was named MICLODEATH.

(pic: shota as JANDEATH live at cafe independants, Kyoto)

And finally, 2009, shota started his real name project "shotahirama".

His upcoming releases are...
New CD and new BOOK available soon from "Improvised Music from Japan" (Japan). More info coming.

New CDR Album "Unhappy American Lost in Tokyo" from "Re-Records" (Hong Kong). More info coming.

New CDR Album "On high in blue tomorrows" from "Under The Spire Recordings" (UK). More info coming.




And if u need more info/news, booking/events, or anyother questions... follow this:)
shotahirama dot com
myspace
facebook
flickr
blogspot

shotahirama solo performing at "the silence was warm night"

shotahirama, solo, performing at symbolic interaction festival, "the silence was warm night".


symbolic interaction presents "the silence was warm night"
11.08.2009
at Loopline Tokyo
Artists are:
yaporigami
fjordne
shota hirama
joseph auer



yaporigami from London, UK
奇怪な,だが洗練された博物陳列室を歩く時,その時目に浮かぶ光景を音楽にするとしたら. 其処には誰かの意図がなければ決して連なる事のなかった--明らかな断絶を持った--音の連鎖が生まれる. しかし其処に存在するのは断絶を超越した新たな構造図であり,形態の伝統的概念は,常に脱構築されて「他なる形態」へと変態する. 此れは最早 ハウス・ミュージックでは無い.（文 : 沼倉康介）


fjordne from Tokyo, JPN
東京を拠点に活動するshunichiro fujimotoによるソロユニット。幼少年期を海外で過ごす。「音のテクスチュア」、「時間のねじれ」に焦点を当て、自然界で日々鳴らされる大きな「うねり」を表現。アコースティック楽器の有機的な音と、コンピューターから生成される電子音との対話がもたらす音響空間の追求を続ける。そして、現在は"FJORDNE"としての活動以外にも、"starke"としての活動も行っている。2007年12月U-cover（ベルギー）からアルバム"Unmoving"をリリース。2008年6月dynamophone(アメリカ)から"The Last 3 Days of Time"をリリース 。2008年7月 涼音堂茶舗（日本）から"Stories Apart From The World"をリリース。2009年8月Kitchen.（シンガポール）から4thアルバム"The Setting Sun"をリリース。2009年9月mu-nest （マレーシア）からstarke として1st アルバム"a letter from yesterday"をリリース。


shotahirama from Tokyo, JPN
ダダイズムの既成の秩序や常識に対する、否定、攻撃、破壊といった思想やバウハウスに見られる合理主義的、機能主義的な芸術に強く興味を持ち、電子機材を用いた幾何学的な持続音響作品の制作、またその演出、表現への応用可能性、方法を探っている電子音響家、shotahirama (平間翔太。1984年アメリカ、ニューヨーク生まれ)。これまでにzbigniew karkowski (mego)、christophe charles (mille plateaux)、Toshiji Mikawa (ex-incapacitants)、Tetsuo Furudate (Sub rosa)、Hiroshi Hasegawa (Ant-zen)、Adachi Tomomi (Tzadik)、等の多くの電子音響家、ノイジシャンとのライブを行う。06年にはENG (electronoise group)を結成しロンドンでのインスタレーションフェスティバルへの出演、07年にはnon profitのネットレーベル、Edition NIkOを設立。08年にはJANDEATH名義、そして09年にはshotahiramaソロ名義での活動を開始しそれまでのライブ活動から離れる事となった。


joseph auer from Tokyo, JPN
U-coverやBoltfish、Redneticなど著名なエレクトロニカレーベルから多数リリースを持つ、アメリカシカゴ生まれ・イギリス育ち・現東京在住のアーティスト。心地良いメロディックなシンセとディープなベースとが絶妙に絡み合う、極上のアンビエントテクノは彼の洗練された技術と美しいグルーヴでしか生み出せない。


shreber harber mole flying wheel from Tokyo, JPN
東京在住のSaitoh Tomohiroのソロプロジェクト。美しく柔らかなシンセのメロディが浮遊する、アトモスフェリックで緩やかな水の流れのようなサウンドと、時にタイトに、時に微細なクリスプビートで刻むリズムが繰り出す、シネマティック・アンビエント・エレクトロニカ。u-coverやrednetics、octoberman recordingsなどからリリースを持つ。


all text from symbolic interaction official website and Realtokyo Magazine.