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live: yoshio machida , atsuhiro ito , tetsuro yasunaga (electronics), keiichi sugimoto(guitar) (J)
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 Yoshio Machida is a musician and a visual artist. Born in Japan in 1967. He has been working since 1986, in his theme about "light, echo and possibility." He uses sound of field recordings in several countries, ethnic musical instruments which he plays, noise, some electoronics and computer in his audio art. The pieces in his "HYPERNATURAL" series include those various sounds. It means that Hypernatural sound is straddling fields, such as ambient, experimental music, electro-acoustic, noise, electronics, and contemporary music. That is, Hypernatural is music which is not bound by the specific genre.
Machida is tackling not only audio art but also music activities of live performance . Machida performs "AMORPHONE" (which he made by his own hand) as solo and with a realtime processing system of Max/MSP. Amorphone is a kind of steel pan, but the timbre is different from normal one. And the intonation is also original one, not 12-tone Equal Temperament or Just Intonation.
Atsuhiro Ito was born in 1965. In the late '80s he began creating visual art works, and in '98 started putting on sound performances in contexts such as art exhibitions. He made use of the fluorescent lighting that is an element of his art work to create a new musical device he called the optron. Adding more and more innovations to the optron, he continues to approach sound and music from the perspective of contemporary art. Currently, he produces sound/music/imagery and live performance events at the gallery/free space Off Site in Yoyogi, Tokyo.
Tetsuro Yasunaga(electronics), Keiichi Sugimoto(guitar):
In 1999, the electro-acoustic group minamo was formed by Keiichi Sugimoto and Tetsuro Yasunaga.
In 2000, minamo's self-released CD-R "wakka" was reissued by the New York label Quakebasket.
this was selected Matmos' one of best sounds in 2001 on Wire magazine.
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