Yasuaki Shimizu × Carl Stone, Hair Stylistics × Foodman, Party Killers!, Akiko Nakayama, Akey

Live:
Yasuaki Shimizu × Carl Stone

Hair Stylistics × Foodman

Party Killers! (Jin Harada + Suppa Micro Pamchopp + Shogo Haraguchi) 

Alive Painting:
Akiko Nakayama

DJ:
Akey
Dj healthy

Artist information: 

Yasuaki Shimizu

Yasuaki Shimizu is a maverick saxophonist, composer and producer whose 40-year career spans an impossibly broad range of genres. He is recognized for his crossover albums, film soundtrack work and a host of high profile live commissions, installations and collaborations with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Van Dyke Parks, DJ Tei Towa, Manu Dibango, David Cunningham, Carl Stone and Elvin Jones. His peerless back catalogue has finally reached a wider audience following the 2015 reissue of his band Mariah's classic 1983 record Utakata no Hibi (on Palto Flats), a masterful hybrid of Japanese folk and pop idioms filtered via a honed electronic/disco production aesthetic that makes it sound fresher than ever today. 2017 saw two further reissues: Originally released in 1982, Shimizu's cult album Kakashi (reissued by Palto Flats) playfully weaves together joyous vocals, minimal dub and music concrete. Meanwhile Music for Commercials (1987) released from Crammed Discs showcases his crystalline electronic production style across 20+ impeccable miniatures. In the mid-90s, his passion for the music of J.S. Bach surfaced in two groundbreaking recordings of the entire Cello Suites – the first-ever tenor saxophone interpretations of these pieces. Since 1983 Shimizu has also recorded as Yasuaki Shimizu & Saxophonettes, though for a long time the name stood only for his solo project. In 2006 he re-launched the Saxophonettes as a saxophone quintet. Following the release of Pentatonica (2007), an album of original and traditional pentatonic tunes, Shimizu returned his focus to Bach, releasing his arrangement for five saxophones and four contrabasses of the Goldberg Variations in 2015. Shimizu’s approach to music goes beyond composition and performance. He views physical space as an extension of his instrument, and often makes use of unique acoustic environments in which to record and play.
Yasuaki Shimizu official site

Carl Stone

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between Los Angeles and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Department of Media Engineering at Chukyo University in Japan. A winner of numerous awards for his compositions, including the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken, Carl Stone is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Performance Arts. In 1984 he was commissioned to compose a new work premiered as part of the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles. His music was selected by the dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones for the production 1-2-3. in that same year. In 1989 he resided for 6 months in Japan under a grant from the Asian Cultural Council and in that same year, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles commissioned a new work, Thonburi as part of the radio series “Territory of Art”. In 1990 he was commissioned to create music for a 60-minute program for ZDF Television in West Germany entitled Made in Hollywood. In 1991 he received separate commissions from Michiko Akao (She Gol Jib, for traditional Japanese flute and electronics), Sumire Yoshihara (for percussionist and electronics) and Sony PCL (Recurring Cosmos, for High Definition video and electronics), which was awarded special honors at the International Electric Cinema Festival in Switzerland in 1991. In 1993, he was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble to create a new work, Ruen Pair, with funds from the Meet the Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program. In 1994 he was commissioned by the Strings Plus Festival, Kobe to create Mae Ploy, for string quartet and electronics. In that same year he also created Banh Mi So, for ondes martenot and piano, at the request of Takashi Harada and Aki Takahashi. In 1995, he was commissioned by NTT/Japan to create a new work for the internet , Yam Vun Sen, as part of IC95. In 1996, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, he created music for The Noh Project, a collaboration with choreographer June Watanabe and Noh master Anshin Uchida. In 1997 he was commissioned by Bay Area Pianists and Cal Performances to create a new work, Sa Rit Gol, for disklavier and pianist, as part of the Henry Cowell Centennial Celebration at UC Berkeley. Other festival performances in 1997 included Other Minds (San Francisco) and TonArt (Bern). In 1999 he was invited as Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center. In 2001 he served as Artist-in-Residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Japan, and in that same year he joined the faculty of Chukyo University’s School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences.In 20011 he was named an Artist Fellow by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. Recordings of Carl Stone’s music has been released on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-EMI, EAM Discs, Wizard Records, Trigram, t:me recordings, New Tone/Robi Droli, Unseen World and various other labels. Carl Stone’s music has been used by numerous theater directors and choreographers including Hiroshi Koike, Akira Kasai, Bill T. Jones, Setsuko Yamada, Ping Chong, June Watanabe, Kuniko Kisanuki, Rudy Perez, Hae Kyung Lee, and Blondell Cummings. Musical collaborations include those with Akaihirume, Michiko Akao, Pearl Alexander, Samm Bennett, Sarah Cahill, Gianni Gebbia, Mineko Grimmer, Haco, Alfred Harth, Madoka Kono, Gil Kuno, Min Xiao-Fen, Otomo Yoshihide, Kazue Sawai, Elliot Sharp, Yasuaki Shimizu, Stelarc, Aki Takahashi, Yuji Takahashi, Tosha Meisho, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Wu Na, Wu Wei, Michiyo Yagi, Miki Yui and z’ev. Carl Stone served as President of the American Music Center from 1992-95. He was the Director of Meet the Composer/California from 1981-1997, and Music Director of KPFK-fm in Los Angeles from 1978-1981. He often hosts a weekly program on KPFA-fm in the Bay Area USA. Other activities have included serving as a regular columnist for Sound & Recording Magazine in Japan, serving as web editor for Other Minds, a world wide web site devoted to New Music, and for the official web site of the John Cage Trust.
Carl Stone official site

Hair Stylistics

Hair Stylistics also known by his stage names Violent Onsen Geisha, is a Japanese musician, writer and actor. He was described by Allmusic as "one of those musical entities that defy categorization. He co-starred in Shinji Aoyama's 2005 film My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me with Tadanobu Asano. (Photo by Hideto Maezawa) 

Foodman

His debut work 'Shokuhin' was released from NY's 'Orange Milk' in 2012. After that, he's been releasing on several labels both domestic and foreign including Dipole's 'Good Enuff'. Especially 'Ez Minzoku' in 2016 got year's best of Experimental field of Pitchfork, FACT Magazine and Tiny Mix Tapes. And He played at Unsound, Boiler Room and Low End Theory. He produced his own original tracks through the hybrid sense of his background of Okinawa, inspiring from Chicago footwork and later post internet. 


Party Killers!
(Jin Harada + Suppa Micro Pamchopp + Shogo Haraguchi)
Jin Harada

Since the mid-1990s, Jin started activities with BAZOOKA JOE with SO SHUJI, and KICKS with Yuji Katsui. Experience in numerous sessions and overseas tours. He has been a guitarist for many years on the Koenji Hyakkei led by Tatsuya Yoshida. Formed ROVO in the late 1990s. The band has taken three world tours and eight albums, several pieces of live album and DVD released so far. He also has started the US tour as a solo didjeridu player since 2004, then from 2013 he developed solo activities centered on voice in the name of Hearts & Minds. Released his solo album from doubtmusic in 2014.
Jin Harada official site

Suppa Micro Pamchopp

Since 1998, he has released seven electronics music albums from Label Childisc of Nobukazu Takemura. From 2013, he is a representative of Record Mizukoshi. DJ, composer, song, drum, producer, design, illustration, nude model etc...
Suppa Micro Pamchopp
レコード水越

Shogo Haraguchi

A noise bassist. Live and recording activities based in Germany from the middle of 2000s. After that, moved to base in Tokyo and formed the experimental　improvisation unit Gaiamamoo with Hiroshi Mehata in 2012. Tour the countries abroad such as Spain and US. In 2017, the band appeared in Noise / Experimental Liberation Festival Ende Tymes 7 in NY. He is also a host and curator of sounds battle session event “Buzz On Kai” in Tokyo.
Gaiamamoo official site
Buzz音会

Akiko Nakayama

Visual artist Akiko Nakayama creates installations, live performance and photographic works dealing with energy cycles, movement and colors. Employing a wide range of techniques, her unique approach to live painting results in melting landscapes, kaleidoscopic patterns and surreal and saturated vistas. Working in collaboration with some of Japan’s most distinctive improvising artists, including Keiji Haino, Akira Sakata and Hiromichi Sakamoto, she pursues what she titles ‘alive painting’, in which she aims to find the ‘existence of life’ in the act of creating out of nothingness.
Akiko Nakayama official site

Akey

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