Sylvain Monchocé (gayageum), Daniel Studer (double bass), Kiyomitsu Odai (piano & computer)

Sylvain Monchocé, gayageum

Daniel Studer, double bass

Kiyomitsu Odai, piano & computer

4/22 (Wed.) 2026 open 19:00 | start 19:30

¥2,500 (door) | ¥2,300 (advance)

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東京都台東区松が谷4-1-8 1F

4-1-8 Matsugaya Taito-ku, Tokyo

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Daniel Studer, double bass

Daniel Studer was born in Zürich in 1961, lived and worked in Rome from 1981 to 1995,

is now living with his family in Zurich.

Master of arts in Music Pedagogy, guest composer at the Elektronisches Studio in Basel,

studied composition with Johannes Schöllhorn.

2010 award from the city of Zurich.

 His focus lies on improvisation and mixed forms of improvisation and composition.

He participated in various projects involving space – and projects with live electronics;

further fields of interest are music and language, music and dance, music and video poetry.

The constant exploration of his instrument has led to performances as a soloist, too.

 For years he has been working with Peter K Frey, Mischa Käser, Katharina Klement,

Giancarlo Schiaffini, Dieter Ulrich and Alfred Zimmerlin.

Presently he is part of the Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey, Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin,

III-VII-XII (with Mischa Käser and Urs Haenggli) and the trio Gabriela Friedli Trio.

 Concepts and compositions mainly for own bands including musicians like Jürg Frey,

Harald Kimmig, Frantz Loriot, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Silvia Schiavoni, Alfred Zimmerlin,

Philip Zoubek. Collective works with Misch Käser and Urs Haenggli (Trio III-VII-XII),

Peter K Frey (Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey) and Kaharina Klement.

 Concerts and radio recordings in Europe, Japan and USA.

Among others he played with Lester Bowie, John Butcher, Massimo Coen,

Jacques Demierre, eRikm, Paolo Fresu, Gabriela Friedli, Steve Grossmann,

Gerry Hemingway, Barney Kessel, Katharina Klement, Hans Koch, Joëlle Léandre,

Urs Leimgruber, George Lewis, Kirk Lightsey, Paul Lovens, Franz Loriot, Fredi Lüscher,

Magda Mayas, Mike Melillo, Don Moye, Pascal Niggenkemper, Evan Parker,

Eddie Prévost, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Tony Scott, Elliott Sharp, John Tilbury,

Massimo Urbani, Urs Voerkel, Bobby Watson, Chris Wiesendanger, Philip Zoubek and many others.

 Records with the Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey, Trio Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin,

Trio Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin and John Butcher, Giancarlo Schiaffini Quintet,

Gabriela Friedli Trio, Solo, In Transit, Eichenbergers Domino, Day & Taxi, Käppeli-Lüscher-Studer,

Streichtrio Coen-Penazzi-Studer on labels as hat[now]ART, Intakt,

Unit Records, EMANEM, Konnex, Percaso, Creative Sources, Edition RZ.

Festivals: Festival New Music Ostrava, Tage für Neue Musik Zurich,

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen,

Festival Densités Fresnes Fresnes-en-Woëvre, Controindicazioni Roma,

Le Mans Jazz Festival, Südtirol Jazz Festival Bozen, Clusone Jazz,

Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Unerhört! Zürcher Jazzfestival,

Willisau Jazz Festival, Zoom in Bern, Schaffhauser Jazzfestival,

Limmitantiones, Romaeuropa, Zürcher Theaterspektakel,

World New Music Days, Honmoku Jazz Festival Yokohama,

Jazz and more München, Siena Jazz, Progetto Musica Roma.

 He has been teaching improvisation at different music schools so at the Bern University of the Arts since 2006.

Sylvain Monchocé, gayageum

Sylvain Monchocé is a multi-instrumentalist improviser playing the flutes, saxophones, gayageum and the daegeum.

Interested in "musique concrète instrumentale", he developed unique extended techniques for each one of his instruments, producing sounds that are in between electronics and acoustic, with a special interest in breathing granular sounds, multiphonics, overtones and silence.

Playing mostly free improvised musique, he also plays the contemporary and classical music flute repertoire. He performed in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Canada, South Korea and Japan. He plays with Bart Maris, Andrea Tonero, Paula Sanchez, Jacek Chmiel, Daniel Studer, Christian Moser, and performs with the dancer Abigail Aleksander as well as in the duo Yeosyl with the dancer Han Yeonji.

He studied the flute at the Mons conservatory in Belgium in the class of Marc Grauwels and specialized in contemporary music with Helen Bledsoe, Mike Schmid and Wil Offermans. He studied free improvisation at the Musik Akademie Basel, with Alfred Zimmerlin, Andrea Neumann and Fred Frith. Interested also in dance and movement, he studied dance improvisation with Han Yeonji, butoh with Susanne Daeppen and followed masterclasses with Harald Kimmig and Atsushi Takenouchi. He also followed workshops given by Thomas Hauert, Maya Carroll as well as the 5 weeks intensive workshop of David Zambrano.

Besides his musical studies and work, he also holds an engineering degree in Optics, a master in Physics and a PhD in Plasma Physics and Attosecond science.

Kiyomitsu Odai, piano & computer

Kiyomitsu Odai is a composer/improviser born and brought up in Tokyo, Japan.

After receiving a B.A. in law from Waseda University (Tokyo),

he moved to the U.S. and started his artistic career.

As an improviser (piano and computer), he has performed at numerous venues including Hotti Biscotti,

WNUR (Chicago), Muddy Waters (Santa Barbara), Dům kultury Vítkovice (Ostrava, Czech Republic),

Ftarri, and OTOOTO (Tokyo).

Journalist Josef Woodard mentions him as a “striking musically neo-expressionist keyboardist”

in Santa Barbara News-Press.

As a composer, he has adopted multidisciplinary (mathematical, psychoacoustic, linguistic, algorithmic, etc.)

approaches to his own music, pursuing the “transcendental structures” that spiritually overcome the systems within themselves.

He has participated in a number of music festivals and international conferences

including Ostrava Days and ICMC, and worked with both professional and non-professional orchestras;

Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, for example, featured his Passacaglia di Fibonacci in 2011.

The recording of another orchestral piece of his, Menetekel：「あー、いぬ。アーメン。」,

as well as his own paper on it, was published in the 22nd volume of Leonardo Music Journal in 2012.

He has studied with Don Malone, Hilda Paredes, Roscoe Mitchell, Curtis Roads,

and Clarence Barlow.

He holds a Ph.D. in music composition from University of California, Santa Barbara.