japan
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Takanobu Hoshino – Untitled
At one time Japanese sound artist Takanobu Hoshino’s art was seemingly concerned with the crackling Geiger counter air of his home city Fukushima. The ubiquitous residual glint of radioactivity permeated his creations, for example the CD ‘Fukushima’, a collaboration with Roel Meelkop,…
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Interview with Ryoko Akama
On August of 2016 I had the privilege to meet, share the bill and play with Japanese artist Ryoko Akama in the cozy venue of Fuse in Bradford, England. Ryoko is a very active artist who has played in concerts…
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Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission) David Novak Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between…
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oto-megane
“Oto-megane” (sound monocle) is an interactive art work presented as a part of the “Design Ah” Exhibition at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo from February to June 2013. This work is intended for visitors to experience an element of surprise achieved…
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bwave – pixels echo
pixels echo project 2015 | sound & visual: a ming, hong qile | edit: mao by bwave
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ueno – variations of weeds
Nature is fragmented, projecting reality in different scales of time, making it possible to relate with sounds in other realms; as ueno, who plays guitar in a microsonic land, pointing to subtle faculties of timbre, calling for the intimacy present in the universes found in…