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2010

[FUROSHIKI Project]!   Techno-tokyohop-hip-eleki-snap-spanksters - EP comimg...

[Shamisen: New Forms]

  I'm currently developing a basic instruction manual
  on a series of new playing techniques for the Japanese
  shamisen. The first draft should shortly be published,
  and will be used to help form a new musical expression
  for shamisen quartet. More info coming soon.

   image: omm

NEW CD ALBUM! [Sangen]

  A collection of 10 intimate shamisen improvisations
  exploring various extended techniques and acoustic
  preparations. Recorded in Tokyo late 2009.

  Mp3 excerpts: one and two and three

  

Free Culture * ~ This album can be yours - the real, physical thing - for free.
Send your name and postal address to the email address in the profile page
and I'll have one in the post for you.

2009

NEW CD ALBUM! [Assemblage]

  Assemblage represents my early sound explorations
  through digital and analogue technology. A dense
  soundscape journey through signal and noise, meaning
  and non-meaning, contextual sound spaces and solid
  sonic matter. The work was recorded and edited
  between 2004 and 2009 in UK, Indonesia, India and
  Japan.

  Mp3 excerpts: one and two and three

Free Culture * ~ This album can also be yours. Again, your name and postal
address to the email address in the profile page and I'll pop one in the
red box for you.

* Why free? More to follow...

 

[Tokyo Soundscape Research] 2009

 image: omm

In 2009 I spent time at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music researching
soundscapes. My work was divided into two parts. I first investigated IPOD
technology and its use as tool for mediating the experiences of everyday life
through a seamless flow of sound. This was inspired by the work of Michael
Bull and his seminal text on IPOD culture 'Sound Moves' (2007). As an artist
I was interested in the potential for a new kind of interactive IPOD sound-
art expression. I briefly outlined some of these ideas in a text entitled
'The Private Soundscape' which can be downloaded here (PDF).

The second part of the research program was inspired by soundscape expert
Keiko Torigoe, and the use of soundscape studies as a tool for community art
and development. I centred my project around the conceps of sound memories
and the imagination of sound, and how these interact to produce meaning and
narrative. The work was later presented as a radio sound installation /
sound diary exhibited at the universities annual ART-PASS event. A text
describing the project in full can be downloaded here (PDF).

[Tokyo Dialogues] 2009 / a collaborative chat with Sebastian Löwe

Tokyo Dialogues is a sound work of field recordings set under a spoken
dialogue. The dialogue supports and frames the various audio recordings,
while also providing a commentary on the cities sonic structure through an
exchange of ideas, personal experiences and convictions. The piece can be
downloaded and listened to here.

Total length: 23:18

2009. Creative Commons
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License

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