Squardi Sonori 2008

Festival of Media and Time Based Art

My short video piece should be presented in an art festival in Italy now. Since I am in Mongolia, Unfortunately I don't know how it's presented. If you would have chance to see it, let me know how did it looked like.

The schedule of the festival is available from >> here.

Found-Sound Workshop

19 April - Khovd University (Mongolia)

My current residence city Khovd is difficult place to find a particular thing that you need. But junks are everywhere in the city and the circumference. So, I made a sound workshop with those found-objects. Most of partcipants were students of Japanese department of the university. But the number was surprisingly around 50!

The objects which we used were bones of cow(those are everywhere), stones, dried branches(it's a precious at here), metal hangers, pipe chairs, empty bottles, empty cans, metal sheets, broken cups, etc... First, I made a demonstration to play those materials. Then we made an improvisation with all together by my conduct. At the end, we had a free time that everyone could use and play whatever they want.

From an improvisaiton conducted by Kojo

Sample MP3 (128kbps - 2.6mb)

Stay in Mongolia

I've been visiting in Mongolia since beginning of March. The stronghold is in a city in the West called "Khovd" (might be written as Hovd on some maps). It's a small city, but a center for manufactureing and trade in Western Mongolia, also a meltingpot of many ethnic groups.

I'm working at a musical theater of this city as a technical adviser for sound engineering, and will make perfromances and workshops with folks at here.

Since the internet connection is limited, the update of report won't be so often though... there are some more photos and reports at my partner's blog

>> Heidi In Endless Steppes Land

Radical Zero

Live Performance

Collaboration with Manu Holterbach

19 January - Lyon (France)

Manu Holterbach is a French sound artist who has been familiar with me since 2004 when I moved to Europe. We have shared the sense in not only music but also literature, and other fields of art as well.
First official collaboration was my participation to glass-harmonica project "Orbes" which is his permanent project with his partner Sophie Durand. We're also planning to make a recording of the project together in near future.

In this performance, we'll tune found objects, home-made and exotic instruments, electric fountains and field recordings to sculpt the sound in its matter, to open harmonic horizons and to draw lines of hypnotic drones.

Live Recording at Grrrnd Zero Gerland, Lyon

Sample MP3-1 (128kbps - 1.8mb)

Sample MP3-2 (128kbps - 1.8mb)