Alessandro Librio, Makoto Oshiro, suzueri, Tomoe Takizawa

Avant-pop and experimental sound arts night inviting Italian composer, sound artist and violinist Alessandro Libro.

Performance:

-Alessandro Librio (violin, viola, etc) Solo
-Makoto Oshiro (handmade instruments) + Tomoe Takizawa (guitar, vo, etc) Duo
-Suzueri (prepared piano, handmade instruments) Solo

■Profile

- Alessandro Librio http://www.alessandrolibrio.com/

His activity is involved on visual arts and music too.  He studied violin, alto, electronic music and composition, writing and conducting theatral performances Operazione Zero and Don’t Panic. He also collaborated with Patti Smith, Michael Moore, Wim Wenders. Since 2005 he has been working with Curva Minore contemporary sounds playing with many musicians of the international scene as Barre Phillips, Peter Evans, Mary Olivier, Tristan Honsinger, Gianni Gebbia, and recently Ernst Reijseger. In according to the Strade del Cinema International Film Festival based at Aosta (Italy) he realized the soundtrack Ground Zero in Europe and the USA. He also realized at the Open House Gallery in New York for Oliviero Toscani the installation Skin. He composes and performs at the French National Choreographic Center Preljocaj; composes the music for the movie La Cause et l'Usage winner of Cinéma du Réel 2012 at the Pompidou Center in Paris, is selected at the Rotterdam Film Festival for the EU 013 film The last frontier. He exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale Art with Palermo in Venice, an installation which for 24 hours let the citizen walking at Venice listen to the Palermo soundscape in real time; he exhibits for the EB & Flow Gallery in London, the Museum of the Landscape of Salemi and the Galleria 400 MQ of Ancona; for architects Pagliaro / Cantoni realizes post-frontier sound installation at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (Padiglione Italia), performs at MAXXI in Rome. For EXPO MILANO 2015 he created the Recondito sound installation, he participated in the "A Sicilian Walk" (FAM) exhibition, in 2016 he realized the installation for Music for the Queen for piano and bees at Villa Borghese (Roma) and NESXT (Turin). He recorded for BBC, RAI, SKY Arte

- Makoto Oshiro  http://multipletap.com/2014_london/lineup/makoto_oshiro/index.html

Born in Okinawa, 1978.Makoto Oshiro graduated from the Musicology Department, Osaka University of Arts.For live performances, he uses instruments and implements for playing and composing, which he makes by combining electronic devices, junk, and everyday materials.He also creates installation works using sound, light, and movement.

- Tomoe Takizawa  http://takizawatomoe.tumblr.com

Born in Hokkaido. Tomoe is SSW and improviser/sound artist. She graduated from Musashino art university.She released 1st Album[Watashi-Kona-Ni-Natte], and 2nd Album [a b c b] from HEADZ. She has also formed avan-pop duo Florida with Tentenko.

- suzueri  http://suzueri.org/

Elico Suzuki (aka. suzueri) is a Tokyo based sound artist. She studied Fine Art at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and Media Art at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Ōgaki,Gifu, Japan. Her recent interests have centred on the exploration of the gaps and narrative aspects between the interaction of instruments and particular embodiments, for which she both performs and makes art work - these involve her making complex interfaces with various handmade devices that play with pianos and other instruments .