PROGRAMME: KUMIKO OKAMURA PHILIPPE CHATELAIN CHRISTOPHE CHARLES
KUMIKO OKAMURA, voice and guitar, 30 mn
PHILIPPE CHATELAIN, " les 3 genres ", voice/field recordings/ electronic, 30mn
CHRISTOPHE CHARLES, live electronic, 30 mn
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introduction: We invite you for a unique music experience in one of the most quiet and peaceful place of Tokyo, the tea house of Kyosumi garden. Sound Gardening is a showcase of experimental and contemporary music, presenting each time 3 composers/sound artists.
The 2nd volume introduced the work of Kumiko Okamura, Christophe Charles and Philippe Chatelain, each one performing a solo 30 minutes headphones concert. Our partner Laurent-Perrier will offer a tasting of its delicate Ultra Brut champagne. The power for the concert is delivered by Taguchi-craft 's mobile solar system. Due to the limitation of 35 seats, reservation is required for the afternoon or evening session.
Reservation and advance payment required, inquiry by email philippe@tokyo.com or phone 090 8552 9995 (Philippe Chatelain)
Power solar system by Taguchi-Craft Champagne tasting by Laurent-Perrier (Ultra Brut)
PROGRAMME: KUMIKO OKAMURA PHILIPPE CHATELAIN CHRISTOPHE CHARLES
KUMIKO OKAMURA, voice and guitar, 30 mn
Composer, Improviser. Born in 1975 in Niigata, based in Tokyo. Kumiko performs without a mission, and in no specific genre. There are neither conscious influences nor obvious sources of inspiration. The performance can be very wild or sensitive and delicate. It may sound optimistic or pessimistic and move into unexplored territory. It might value simplicity over complexity, and shifts the emphasis from what an artist 'makes' to the artist's creative practice, personality and actions.
les 3 genres (the three levels), 30mn, 2009 Sound piece for spoken voices, field recordings et electronic sounds in french and japanese, translation: Yasuhiro Matshushita
the 3 levels is based on a recording of Gilles Deleuze lesson about Spinoza's three levels of knowledge. Using fragments of the recording, the progression of the discourse goes through 3 different sound environment, 3 climates where the relation between sounds is made, untied and changed. and change.
Born in France in 1971, Philippe Chatelain lives and works in Tokyo. He develops a transdiscipline research in the fields of video installation, process painting, digital drawing, and sound art. He has shown his works in several international art festivals, galleries and museums. In 2002, he has initiated the Laptop Orchestra and has collaborated with an international network of sound artists and musicians. Has performend in Japan, France, Holland, Korea, and the U.S. In 2007, P. Chatelain has received the innovation award from the Joan Miro Foundation for his project "Line, Surface, Noise".
I am trying to provide a music where past, present and future can be heard simultaneously, that is, where everything is given at once and where we can hear the primary chaos, the nothingness at the origin of all things.
(born Marseille-France 1964) works with found sounds, and makes compositions using computer programs, insisting on the autonomy of each sound and the absence of hierarchical structure. Currently Associate Professor at Musashino Art University (Tokyo), has released music ("undirected" series) on Mille Plateaux, Ritornell, Subrosa, Code, Cirque, Cross, X-tract, CCI, ICC, etc. Collaborations with Henning Christiansen, Shiomi Mieko, Chino Shuichi, Markus Popp, Hanno Yoshihiro/hoon, Kako Yuzo, Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Yamamoto Keigo, Visual Brains, Osaka Takuro, Ishii Mitsutaka, Kazakura Sho, Osanai Mari, Ishikawa Fukurow, Salvanilla, etc.