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 TETUZI AKIYAMA & TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA DUO
The duo was born in the course of a concert series called
"improvisation meeting at Bar Aoyama" ~ "meeting at Off SIte," in
Tokyo from 1997 to 2003. Akiyama and Nakamura organised and hosted
the improvised meeting, playing with one or two invited performer(s)
per evening. So, the duo has rarely played as a duo itself alone
actually, but mostly functioned with other players. The two is
seeking for more opportunities to play with other musicians by
travelling around and away from their base Tokyo this time around.
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TETUZI AKIYAMA
(Guitar, electronics, viola, and self-made instrument player)
Tetuzi Akiyama is a highly unique and experimental guitarist heavily applying free improvisation and noise. Besides guitar, he also plays electronics, viola, and self-made instruments.
He formed the improvised music band Madhar in 1987. He also started playing viola, and formed the Hikyo String Quintet in 1994.
From 1998-2003, together with Sugimoto and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-imput mixing board), he organized an inspiring monthly concert series, The Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama (renamed The Experimental Meeting in '99, and Meeting at Off Site in 2000).
Akiyama released his first solo album Relator [slub music] in 2001. Using a prepared resonator guitar with a Samurai sword, Akiyama recorded his second solo album Resophonie (a bruit secret, 2002) which can be described as sonic sculpture with guitar. In 2003, his third solo album Don't Forget to Boogie! was released. Performed in a minimal one chord Boogie/Rock/Blues style with vintage electric guitars, Akiyama sees this LP as a tribute to the guitar. A live album from 2005, Route 13 to the Gates of Hell: Live in Tokyo (headz) was selected in the 50 albums of the year by The Wire magazine. Pre-Existence, an album of acoustic guitar solos, was released on Locust Music in the winter of 2005. Recently Akiyama started releasing an "official bootleg series" with the labels Esquilo (Portugal) and Utech Records (Milwaukee). His latest band is Satanic Abandoned Rock'n'Roll Society with Utah Kawasaki, Atsuhiro Ito and Naoaki Miyamoto.
Akiyama is a frequent guest at international music festivals and in recent years has performed at What is Music? (Australia, 2002), Alt Music (New Zealand, 2002 & 2004), Amplify (Tokyo, 2002 & New York, 2003), Musique Action (France, 2003 & 2005), Musiques Innovatrices (France, 2003), Uchiage (Berlin & Vienna, 2004) and Instal (Glasgow, 2005).
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TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA
(no-input mixingboard)
Guitar and no-input mixing board player
Toshimaru Nakamura has been producing electronic music on self-named "no-input mixing board," after long unhappy years with the electric guitar. The name describes the method of his music. "No" external sound source is connected to "inputs" of the "mixing board." Mostly an improviser, occasionally a composer for dancers, an instrumentalist for compositions.
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SILLY
Silvia Fässler (lloopp, electronics)
Billy Roisz (kluppe, turntable)
... your CD sounds like insects beatboxing! (pumice)
...Ideas in the purest possible form: All elements are engaged
in a pristine dance of abstractions... review on tokafi.com
...This is noise music that opts for detail and sophistication
over brute force, so you won't find yourself fatigued by overblown
distortion or twittering modulations. Instead, you can expect an
album of adventurous, impeccably engineered sound that harkens back
to a golden age of laptop music, while still thinking ahead.
Very highly recommended....
review on boomkat.com
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SILVIA FÄSSLER
Tätig u.a. als Musik-Veranstalterin und Kuratorin (z.B. rhiz), in den 90ern Schlagzeugerin des Rocktrios "8 Finnen". Hinwendung zur Elektronik, Auftritte u.a. beim Zeitfluss Festival/Salzburg, Unlimited/Wels, Porgy&Bess/Wien, solo oder im Duo mit "silly" (mit billy roisz). Kooperationen u.a. mit Manon Liu-Winter, Cordula Bösze, Klaus Filip, Otomo Yoshihide, Arnold Haberl.
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BILLY ROISZ
Spezialisiert in Feedbackvideo und Video / Sound - Interaktion.
Sie benützt zur Bild- und Tongenerierung Monitore, Kameras, Videomischpulte, einen selbstgebauten Videosynthesizer,Computer and Plattenspieler.
Mitglied u.a. von NotTheSameColor (/w dieb13), AVVA (/w Toshimaru Nakamura), subshrubs (/w Katharina Klement/Maja Osojnik/Angelica Castello), eh (/w dieb13/Burkhard Stangl) und silly (/w Silvia Fässler).
Kollaborationen u.a. mit Nicolas Collins, Sachiko M., Martin Brandlmayr, Alvin Lucier, Werner Moebius, Otomo Yoshihide, Axel Dörner, Metamkine, eRikm.
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