New announcement from Shota. Italian film artist giuseppe la spada and Sound artist shotahirama, launched a collaborative project "Giuseppe La Spada + shotahirama". Film work by Giuseppe La Spada, Sound work by shotahirama. Please wait for more information...
for Japanese. 2007年にCommmons（英.Touch）よりリリースされたfennesz sakamotoの作品"cendre"そのヨーロッパツアーにフィルムアーティストとして参加し、Powerstock FestivalでのChristian Fenneszとの共演や坂本龍一主宰のStop RokkashoでのMono No Aware参加、また2007年Webby AwardsにてDavid BowieやThe Beastie Boysと並び、その年唯一のイタリア人受賞者となった経歴も持つ、現在最も多くの電子音響家から支持を受けるイタリア人映像作家、Giuseppe la spada。そのGiuseppeとshotahiramaの２人が、それぞれ映像と音響を担当し新たな映像作品をコラボレーションプロジェクトとして制作します。詳細は随時発表致しますので、お楽しみにお待ちください。
Giuseppe La Spada shotahirama
Giuseppe La Spada "Giuseppe La Spada is one of the most highly rated artist of the moment. Born in Palermo in 1974. In 2006 he met Ryuichi Sakamoto and created the noprofit project 'Mono No Aware'. In 2007 he is the only italian winner of the Webby awards (“The Internet's highest honor” The New York Times). In 2008 he strengthened the collaboration with Sakamoto and Fennesz following the two artists with his visual comments during the tournèe Cendre." (from Drome Magazine)
(pic: Christian Fennesz + Giuseppe La Spada during the show. taken from geuseppe' flickr) (pic: Sakamoto - Fennesz / cendre tour. taken from giuseppe' flickr)
And his recent works were, from Sakamoto + Fennesz "Kokoro" Film by giuseppe la spada, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto + Christian Fennesz
shotahirama 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.
(pic: shotahirama as ENG/electronoise group at Shunt Club, London.) Shota, as a solo artist or in other project, has released music on the following record labels: Improvised Music From Japan (Japan. CD/BOOK, coming Dec. 2009), Re-Records (Hongkong. CDR album, coming 2010), Under The Spire Recordings (UK. CDR album, coming 2010), and net labels: TecnoNucleo (Spain. mp3 album, 2007), Alg-a (Spain. mp3 album, 2008), NTNS Radio (Netherlands. mp3 compilation, 2009).
(pic: shotahirama as ENG/electronoise group at Shunt Club, London.) 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)...
ENG, formed in 2006 in Tokyo, Japan, was early 2000s electronic improvised music and noise music group. And today ENG will announce, the end of its project and this will be the last message from ENG. Final Report. They really like to say thank you who support their Dadaistic music and their propaganda message. Dada siegt! and good bye.-ENG head, shotahirama ENG (electronoise group) official myspace
(ENG at Shunt Club, London. pic by sebastian heroiu)
History: In early 2006, the group was formed when Shota (aka shotahirama, JANDEATH) met up with Toshitaka Ikeda and Shota Shimizu (aka Karel). They were all working at same vinyl store in tokyo when they became inspired by the manifesto of the British figurative painter Francis Bacon, his bold, austere, homoerotic and often violent or nightmarish imagery. An ideas of Francis Bacon gave these three young Japanese musician to formed radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG). The 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. But Shimizu left the band in 2007 when founder member Shota wanted to take the band in more free improvisation direction.
The band also recruited two laptop artists, Okamoto and Sachio Matsuda (both left the band in 2007), who helped create the first installations of ENG in 2006 at BankART 1929 museum, Yokohama (main curator was Toshitaka Ikeda). Shunji Takami (aka shunjiTAKAMI, sighkam) joined in 2007, and was later to concentrate on the band's notorious electronic content. And first recordings of ENG in 2007, "Barcelona" was released from TecnoNucleo Label, which was a non profit label in Barcelona, Spain. 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.
Other musicians working with ENG included Kenta Otsuka (aka Kendrien), who were on the band's first recordings that were done in 2007, Monica Madas (aka Monooka), who toured the U.K. in 2008 with Shota and Toshitaka Ikeda, Kendrien. And the other artists who joined in ENG were: Kelly Churko (at Loop line, Tokyo 2009) Cal Lyall (at Loop line, Tokyo 2009) Taishin Inoue (at Loop line, Tokyo 2009) Blackphone666 (at Loop line, Tokyo 2009) Daisuke Kitabayashi from FPB (2008-2009) Darren McClure (at Loop line, Tokyo 2008) Yuji Kondo (at Loop line, Tokyo 2008) Emiko Shirayama (at Loop line, Tokyo 2008) Hasegawa (designing ENG's first self made cdr in 2006) Linda Bjalla (at Kasama Museum, Ibaragi 2007) Sanpo Matsumoto (at T&G Arts gallery, Tokyo 2007) Matsuoka from BAAAK BONKDOM (2007) Takano from APAP (2008) Gunji from Disk3 (at Bullet's, Tokyo 2006).
Works: The most notable recordings of ENG is "Kollaps" released on Alg-a Label in 2008. The album was dedicated to Tom Recchion (founder of L.A.F.M.S), and Steven Stapleton (Nurse with wound). Who were the most influential musicians and outsider-artists for Shota. Contains 6 tracks and mainly those were all written by Shota and Toshitaka Ikeda. ENG's music is best described as disturbing and psychologically disorienting, in noise/sound with their dadaistic, subversive philosophy. Live performances included video backing, represent surrealistic minimalism attempts to make the audience uncomfortable. Inspired by 70's 80's noise/industrial music, SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Maurizio Bianchi, Nocturnal Emissions, Esplendor Geometrico. And some Dadaistic concrete music like Nurse with wound, Smegma, AIRWAY, Tom Recchion, The Legendary Pink Dots. When shunjiTAKAMI brings in technological ideas and futurism ideas, they started to making more electro-noise, but in minimal sound. Asmus Tietchens, David Toop, some mille plateaux artists were their new ideas.
ENG' discography: "Dokument 2006-2009" -2CDR Album Release, Edition NIkO (Japan) 2009 "TAO"-MP3 Compilation Release, TecnoNucleo (Spain) 2009 "The Best Of NTNS Radio"-MP3 Compilation Release, NTNS Radio (Netherlands) 2009 "Kollaps"-MP3 Album Release, Alg-a Label (Spain) 2008 "monographic9"-MP3 Compilation Release, TecnoNucleo (Spain) 2008 "Barcelona"-MP3 Album Release, TecnoNucleo (Spain) 2007 "2nd"-CDR Album Release, Room Label (Japan) 2006 "Electronoise Group"-CDR Album Release, Room Label (Japan) 2006
Selected Shows: 2009. 07.11. ENG @ Loop Line, Tokyo. "Deep Listening Chair Festival 2009" Deep Listening Chair 2009, the 3rd edition of Tokyo's festival for Experimental Digital Music and related Visual Arts will take place under the theme Surrealistic Minimalism. Sound and other media from July 10 till July 11, 2009 at various venues in Tokyo. An ambient showcase featuring ENG/electronoise group (shotahirama, Cal Lyall, Taishin Inoue, Kelly Churko, Blackphone666, Daisuke Kitabayashi), presenting projects that technologically alter the shape and sound of our relationship with industrial.
2008. 09.10-15. ENG @ "YESYES5956, ENG London Tour" Collaboration tour with surreal mysterious voice performance by Monooka from UK, making concrete drone sounds with their strong attention to Dada and Bauhaus, and the ideas from "laptop" "ambient" and "noise"... They performed this dark ambient/illbient music for the first time together after one year of collabolation. Touring London, 2 days for Shunt Club London bridge station, Cafe Inspiral Camden, Monooka Studio Angel.
2008. 07.19. ENG @ Loop Line, Tokyo. "Deep Listening Chair Festival 2008 Day1" Deep Listening Chair 2008, presented by NIkO label (Edition NIkO), it is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. And this festival was based on various programs joined together to form a trajectory over 2 days, 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. And ENG were playing improvisation session with Darren McClure, Yuji Kondo, Emiko Shirayama, Toshitaka Ikeda, Kendrien, and provoke.
2008. 07.01~06. ENG @ Cafe PARADA, Tokyo. "DER DADA photomontage exhibition" shotahirama his first photomontage exhibition with Toshitaka Ikeda, Takano.
2006. 10.1-31. ENG @ BankART 1929 museum, Yokohama. 1 month installation hosted by Toshitaka Ikeda at BankART 1929 hall.
shotahirama, some new collaboration with some great artists in the world... And this will be his first announcement.... London-based Romanian singer-songwriter Monooka (also known as Monica Madas) and Tokyo-based Japanese American sound-artist shotahirama, their new works (after ENG/electronoise group works in 2008, London), coming soon...
Monooka Amazing vocals, clean chords, rhymes full of feeling. Monooka is a singer-songwriter and puppeteer. She graduated the University of Theatre and Film, UNATC-Bucharest, 2003. Between 2003-2005 she made an MA in animation movie at the same university. She worked in puppet theatres in Oradea and at ‘Tandarica’ Theatre in Bucharest, Romania, for a couple of years. In 2006 she made her first public appearance as a singer at the Art Jazz Club in Bucharest. After that she came with her first project, ‘Doina Jazzului’ with two talented musicians: Arthur Balogh (double bass) and George Dumitriu (guitar and violin). In the same year, they were nominated for the debut award in Romanian jazz. Monica’s music is a very original mix of pop, folk, jazz and traditional Romanian songs. Other projects include Groovy Mama, where she approached acid jazz, and Jazz Do It, an experimental performance involving poetry, choreography and jazz improvisations. Since moving to London, Monica Madas / Monooka performed in various venues, such as Battersea Barge-on-Thames, Cafe Royal at Piccadilly, Proud Gallery Camden Town, Pangea Project, Cellar Door, or Spice of Life Soho, to name just a few.
shotahirama 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. CD/BOOK, coming Dec. 2009), Re-Records (Hongkong. CDR album, coming 2010), Under The Spire Recordings (UK. CDR album, coming 2010), and net labels: TecnoNucleo (Spain. mp3 album, 2007), Alg-a (Spain. mp3 album, 2008), NTNS Radio (Netherlands. mp3 compilation, 2009). 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), MICLO DIET (SOUP), Kelly Churko, Cal Lyall (testtone), Monooka, Yuji Kondo, enormous O'clock (AI Records), Hakobune (U-Cover)...
stay tuned for their new album....
Their recent collab was....
09.15. 2008. shotahirama as ENG/electronoise group @ Monooka's Studio, London. "YESYES5956" ENG London Tour
３ヶ月ぶりかな、夏のGeometrik以来、久しぶりのライブ。しかも贅沢にもお呼ばれだったのでいつになく上機嫌でlooplineに向かって。自分のオーガナイズや仲間のイベントに出る時とは訳が違う。このクソ重たい荷物もすっごい軽い。でも一応shotahirama名義では初となるライブだったので、それはそれなりに緊張感があって。 (all pics by my little bro, ken. thanks!) shotahirama at "the silence was warm night" presented by symbolic interaction. 2009. 11.08 at Loopline Tokyo
[すると突如何かの物音が会場で鳴った。それはまるで何か大きなものを鎖で引っ張っているかのような空気の音と金属音が溶け合った鉱物的な音で、スピーカーを通して再生されていなかったかのようであった。その不思議さと言えば、まるでテーブルに置いていたグラスが目を逸らした瞬間に形を保ったまま粉々に割れているとでもいうような感じ。一番最初に場に大きな音が自然なタイミングで鳴った瞬間、何か大きなものが舞台の中央で倒れてしまい、鎖でそれを引っ張っているのかと思ってしまった。空間内で人間が鎖を引きずっているのだと勘違いしてしまうくらい会場の建築構造上の音響と違和感無く溶け合っていたその音は、第一音目の数秒間では電子的な音なのか空間内で物と物が接触した音なのかの区別がつかなかった。耳を澄ませていると僅かに音色が変化していくのが聞き取れ、単なるフィールドレコーディング素材の加工音垂れ流し再生ではない電子音楽的なギミックが散りばめられている事に徐々に気が付く。具体音がホワイトノイズのような音の成分に解体され、それらのノイズが変質しながらさらなる音の形を纏う。音の輪廻転生に立ち会ったかのようであった。立体的な音像が人為的なタイミングで静寂を挟んでぽつりぽつりと発音される。「耳が聞こえる人ならば人生経験上獲得することとなる具体的な音から想起されるイメージの順序(例えば:グラスが割れる←→物理的衝撃に付随するイメージ←→グラスが割れる音)」と「ギミックによってリアリティを獲得しようとする音」の間で認識の整合性が危うくなり、思わずゲシュタルト崩壊的イメージの再生と修正のサイクルを高速に繰り返させられ、有り得ない音を聞いているかのような錯覚を感じる。まるで音だけで人間の動作をイメージさせる見えない演劇でも見ているかのような奇妙な聴覚体験だった。それらの音がごく自然な間隔で鳴った後、突如に空気の音やアンビエンス、薄暗いのに煌煌とした音色でリリースが長めの電子音が鳴り、人間の話し声とピアノの楽曲(恐らくベートーヴェンのピアノソナタ第14番嬰ハ短調『月光』の主旋律部分)と大量の鳥の鳴き声が渾然一体となって映画的なイメージを放つドローンを形成する。ピアノの音は空気の音やドローンと馴染み、極めて鉱物的なテクスチャを獲得していた。鳥の鳴き声は妙であった。自然界では聞いた事の無い鳴き方をしており、人間の身体感覚に起因するエモーションに近いタイミングや強弱感覚で鳴いている。極めて人間的で情感的な鳥の鳴き声が音の現象にとけ込んでいたのだ。もしかしたらバードコール(バードウォッチャーが鳥を呼ぶ時に使用する道具)のようなものを演奏しているのではないかと思った(座席が最後部だったため確認は出来なかった)が、バードコールの演奏であれ再生或は音の電子的アプローチによるプロセッシングであれ、音のギミックは人間の解釈を隠蔽した上で擬態(ミミック)化していた！筋書きの無い物語のような時間の中で電子的ギミック音と自然界の音の主体と客体の関係が入れ替わり、音の塊は頑固一徹系轟音演奏家によるサウンドの方法とは正反対に多くのイメージ発露の切っ掛けを含みつつ、解釈可能な景色を出現させ限りなくリアルに近いリアリティを獲得していく。メロディと音色と音の疎密はloop-lineを箱庭化し、少なくともその場に居た自分自身がミニチュア化したかのようだった。]-text by Taishin Inoue
taishinくんの素敵な所は隣にいる時も、この魔法がかった褒め言葉を囁いてくれるので、、鼻血出そう。taishinくん本当にありがとうございました！ とにかく色んな再会や新しい出会いがあって人間味溢れるとっても健康的な一日。俺に毒っけがなくなってきてるのか、単に秋とか冬とかの例の寂しい的な雰囲気からなのか、優しさがしみじみと心に染みるイベントでした。お、イベント名そのまま！今気づいた！"the silence was warm night" ほんとそんな夜だった気がする。それから余談、補足、メインだな、この日一番ありがとうと伝えたいのは、やっぱり仕事仲間、どっさり来てくれた事が一番嬉しかった。近藤さん&伊藤さん&sweet girls3人衆、ほんとうに嬉しかった。thank u and thank u!!!!
アートレーベル mAtter のパブリケーションに携わり、自らも shotahirama 名義にて執筆や翻訳／英訳そしてサウンドクリエーション等、文学から音楽へとスリップストリームな活動を展開するニューヨーク出身の作家、平間翔太。2010年には音楽レーベルとして原盤の企画制作及び音楽出版他、公共施設へのサウンドデザインを提供する等の事業を展開するインディペンデント・レーベル SIGNALDADA を設立。 2011年3月には「エレメント同士の衝突」をテーマに、42曲20分という独特のエディットの中で壮大な音響ヴァリエーションを描いたCDアルバム Sad Vacation を発表。そのフィールドレコーディングのコンセプチュアルな位相変換とトポロジカルな音響フォルムが「ノイズ、具体音が曲想的な音楽に」（Sound&Recording 5月号）「ドラスティックに引き裂かれる時間と空間」（音楽家 evala /port, ATAK）などと評され、大きな話題を呼ぶ。同作品のリリースツアーとして2011年9月に開催された東京公演を皮切りに京都、香港と世界各地で演奏が行われた。
また翻訳家／通訳としても活動を行う。これまでに2011年ドイツ・ビーレフェルトで劇場公開された古舘徹夫氏による演劇作品 Death Fragments - Buchner, 23 years old にて脚本英訳を担当、スイスで国内最高峰と呼ばれる芸術賞スイス・アートアワードを受賞したアーティスト Pe Lang の日本初展示にてインタビュアー／通訳として参加。2012年には東京都写真美術館が主宰する第4回恵比寿映像祭に出展された mAtter キュレーション展示 Between VISUAL and SPATIAL にインタビュアー／通訳として参加している。その他、幾つかのCD作品にてライナー、歌詞翻訳等も担当する。
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