Beatific Soul - Visuals By kenhirama
Beatific Soul - Visuals By ken hirama
with Yuki Amemiya
Music by Pleq and Anna Rose Carter
Natalia Noelia Siebuła & Bartosz Dziadosz - Þetta er staður þar sem ég vil ver -visuals by kenhirama
Pleq+Anna Rose Carter and kenhirama
This will be my second collaboration with pleq and my first with Anna Rose Carter! http://www.myspace.com/annarosecarter
Music by Anna Rose Carter (Piano) Music by Pleq (Glitch, Experimental, Noise, Cuts) Video by ken hirama
mAtter Hong Kong Live
Date: 17 December 2010 (Friday)
Time: 9:15 - 11 pm
Venue: Videotage
Address: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln. HK
FREE ADMISSION (Seats are limited, RSVP at info@videotage.org.hk）
*Alongside with Videotage’s Christmas gathering
Artists:
mAtter from Tokyo, featuring Yukitomo Hamasaki + shotahirama (Electronics),
Go Koyashiki (Electronics), Toshikazu Goto (Electronics) + Fumiko Ikeda (Voice) + Ken Hirama (Live Visuals)
&
Alok (Electronics), KWC (Electronics), Sin:Ned (Silence, Live Visuals) From Hong Kong
As the second gig of the series Sound Friction, The Zen Ensemble will be the most noiseless and tranquil sound performance of this year.
Inspired by the concept of emptiness in Zen Buddhism, the dynamic Japanese multi-disciplinary group mAtter, together with selected Hong Kong sound artists, will bring us 'The Zen Ensemble' - a conceptual group that explores the composition and performance of silence.
For this special performance, a set of rules is composed to guide the artists to play ‘silence’ rather than making sound. In Zen Buddhism (an adaptation of Chinese Buddhism), it is said that our existence can only be found in the silence of the mind (or in fact, no-mind). The Zen Ensemble will be the first and only sound performance in Hong Kong that invites you to experience the absence of sound.
Together with stunning live visuals, this quiet sound revolution of The Zen Ensemble at Videotage is definitely a must-go for electronics and sound art lovers.
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mAtter is a Japanese design group and independent music label that combines talents from various disciplines, including the acclaimed designer and sound composer Yukitomo Hamasaki, in which he draws his inspirations through nature elements such as light and space. Together the group blends sound and produce projects that integrate architecture, image-making and design. The tranquil sound quality contains layered waves of irregular clicks, pops, beeps and breaks, which brings the noise listening experience and sound art to a new level. For example the high frequency sound used in the album "d+p", some listeners claimed that it has an effect to distort their perspective on surrounding environmental noise.
Jointly presented by Videotage and Re-records, the Sound Friction series take sonic art as the anchor point and develop a creative performance platform for cross-cultural, cross-media, cross-disciplinary and cross-genres collaboration between artists.
About the Artists
mAtter
mAtter is a sound & design project, with works centering around Yukitomo Hamasaki. The label takes approaches from various media such as sound design, architecture, and product design, in which the members interpret and restructures these concepts in different ways based on their own perspection, and try to achieve the goal of constructing dense space. The members of mAtter are not fixed, they collaborate depend on the projects. Its members consist of musicians, architects, video artists, and writers. Current members include:
Yukitomo Hamasaki: www.myspace.com/nothingsclear
Go Koyashiki: www.myspace.com/gokoyashiki
Junji Koyanagi: celescape.org/koyanagi
shotahirama: www.signaldada.com
Ken Hirama: www.kenhirama.com
www.matter.jp
Sin:Ned
Sin:Ned is an idiosyncratic audio experimentalist, writer and live visualist. He is also a member of No One Pulse and the co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records.
sin-ned.blogspot.com
KWC
While not designing, KWC spends time cutting loops and recording with his non-standard portable devices, he's 1/2 of the electro-acoustic improvisation duo No One Pulse. While not making sounds, KWC spends time designing under the alias of Sleepatwork and occasionally curating art projects as well.
www.myspace.com/anytonekwc
Alok
Sound artist, guitarist and bassist. In 2002, he set up his own record label Lona Records, and started working as a producer. From the end of 2002 to 2009, he released 5 albums and 5 cd singles. He has played and participated in more than 100 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong and China.
www.myspace.com/alokhk
About the Organizers
Re-Records
[Doc: Documentary/Documents] - archiving art related projects, exhibitions, and installations.
[On: On Location] - an attempt to focus on field recordings and other site specific recordings.
www.re-records.com
Videotage
Videotage is a leading non-profit organization in facilitation, promoting and presenting new media art in Hong Kong. Since 1986, Videotage has developed itself from an umbrella for media artists to a media art and culture network for cross-disciplinary cultural productions and international exchange of ideas and knowledge.
www.videotage.org.hk
"Metamorphosis Pt. 1" pleq + kenhirama
"Metamorphosis Pt. 1" pleq + kenhirama from Ken Hirama on Vimeo.
I got the chance to work with a great sound artist pleq from Poland. We met through his label mAtter and decided that it would be interesting to work together. he sent me this music and I was amazed and at the same time, I had this image in my head that I thought would match this sound. I would love to work with pleq again and maybe in the near future we would do a installation somewhere.
shotahirama and kenhirama
On October 8th, sound artist shotahirama will perform live improvisation "movement and variation" along with visual artist kenhirama and his short film "sight before death" at Roppongi SuperDeluxe!!!!
more info at SuperDelux websitewww.super-deluxe.com/2010
/10/8/soundfollies-11/Soundfollies 11 at SuperDelux!!!開場 ... 19:30開演 ... 19:30料金... ...1500円live: miclodiet, Yousuke Fuyama, shota hirama..and more!! / DJ Evil Penguin and more..ochiaisoupで開催中の実験音楽イベントsoundfolliesがsuperdeluxeに出張！？今夜、大都会のど真ん中、六本木が新世代アーティスト最前線と化す!! 2010年型エレクトロニクスミュージックの「生」進化系の波動を感じて下さい。
shotahirama: www.signaldada.com
shotahirama
is a Sound Artist/novelist from New York, US and currently live in
Tokyo, Japan. Inspired by Modern Art, Dada, Bauhaus and Postmodern
literature. Also known for the founding of the SIGNAL DADA, Edition
NIkO (NIkO Label), ENG (electronoise group) and JANDEATH. His musical
focus is characterized by digital synth and field recording with
computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large
palette of possible sounds including; grainy textures, complex patterns
of smooth drones, and microscopic clicks and cuts. Shota, as a
solo artist or in other project, has released music on the following
record labels: Improvised Music From Japan (Japan. BOOK/CD compilation,
2009), Re-Records (Hongkong. CDR album, 2010), mAtter (Japan. BOOK/CDR,
BOOK/DVD, coming 2010), Symbolic Interaction (Japan. CD compilation,
coming 2010), and more.アートレーベルmAtterのパブリケーションに携わり、自らもshotahiramaの
名義にて執筆やオペラ脚本（古舘徹夫氏作品）の英訳、サウンドクリエーション等、文学から音楽へと「スリップストリーム」な作品／活動を多く展開する
ニューヨーク出身の作家、平間翔太。2010年にはセルフレーベルとなるSIGNALDADAを設立、ダダイズムの既成の秩序や常識に対する否定、攻撃、
破壊といった思想や、一部のポストモダン文学に見られる病的な反リアル、認知不協和（アムニジア、テンポラルディストーション）さらにはSF特有のテーマ
やモチーフに言語、シンボルやイメージの使用法等それらリット的ファクターに強くリンクしたデバイス作品を多く発表する。現在はfennesz
sakamotoの"cendre"ヨーロッパツアーの映像を担当したイタリア人映像作家Giuseppe la
spadaとのDVD作品がmAtterよりリリースを控えている。また今回は実の弟でありNHKフィルムフェスティバルやカンヌライオンズにてランナー
アップ賞を受賞、アムステルダムのHuis
Marseille美術館では蜷川実花や川内倫子らと共に作品展示を果たした映像作家kenhiramaとの兄弟ユニットでsound
folliesに出演する。
kenhirama: www.kenhirama.com/
Ken Hirama is a Japanese-American Visual Artist whose works concentrates
mainly on short films, experimental videos, and photography.
In the
past he has been nominated for the NHK film festival,chosen as the best video done with the D90 on d90plus.com and recently won runner-up prize at Canne Lions.His film was shown at Huis Maresille Museum in Amsterdam along With Rinko Kawauchi,
Mika Ninagawa.
Ken Hirama Films
