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Some Cats from Japan|Tonight|T:BA Festival|Portland
StoreTags: PDX, Japanese Experi, PICA
Author: mapmap on September 16 2007 Viewed 1196 times. 11 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Hey guys. I went to a lecture/panel discussion featuring these guys this afternoon.
the show should be awesome. unless you are going to see Animal Collective, i can't think of a better thing to see in Portland on a Sunday night.
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cloudburst
hey, welcome back. how was japan??
i noticed this show in the tba brochure, but summarily forgot about it.
i did however, take my daughter and wife to 'jace gace' or whatever, the new waffle joint on belmont. cool spot.
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mapmap
thanks, Japan was great. that's actually how i hear about that dude Optron (see photo above).
One of the guys from Kihirito said i shouldn't miss him.
this was such a fucking good show. Totally amazing performance experience!
Fuyuki Yamakawa stole the show. the guy can control his heartbeat like a jazz drummer. totally incredible.
i can honestly say that it was the most amazing thing i have ever seen.
hope some of you got to see it.
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dach
what's the fluorescent light do?
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Fredo
what was amazing about it, mapmap? I don't get around to too many shows and am starting to think about my own show... what made the performance so great? Was it their actual playing? Was it some extra-musical conception? Was it the interaction with the audience?
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jogn
I saw fuyuki when he was performing d.d.d. His voice and throat singing really is really crazy. Yeah how does the mikes on the light tube work out?
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skab
That sounded like a lot of fun! How was Kyoto? Sorry I didn't send that link to you - but I figured your mate would be able to sort it out
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mapmap
Fuyuki played with an electronic stethoscope taped to his chest, then hooked up to both an Ampeg SVT 8x10 bass cabinet and an voltage controller that lit up a cluster of incandescent light bulbs that would pulse along with his heart beat. He also had a small condenser mic stuck to the side of his nose that picked up vibrations in his skull. He had an incredible amount of control over his heartbeats.... speeding up, slowing down, skipping beat, rapid pulsing (like a solid tone) and most incredible of all.... Stopping his HEART very intense to watch. be also played with taping his head, chomping his teeth and throat singing. it was one of the most jarring and intense performances that i have ever seen. a tough act to follow as an opener.
Kanta Horio played next... he used a small table top (maybe 10"x10") with electronically controlled magnets above and below. there was a small light bulb and video camera mounted on an armature above the platform, pointed at its center. using these magnets he was able to make small clipping from paperclips stand upright, dance, tap and scrape along the platform. there were a set of contact mic mounted to the surface that amplified these small noises. the video was fed to three projectors around the venue so that people could watch this tiny magnetic ballet taking place. he was also able to engage a motor that rotated the camera around the platform, following the fragments as the moved around in a circle. It was a nice light contrast to Fuyuki's opener. Very much like watching a stopmotion movie take place before your eyes.
Aki Onda played a pile of field recordings that he has been collecting since the 80's through a set of walkman and processed though a string of those green line 6 delays. The sounds moved from a marching band to aircraft to cars in the rain and then became so heavily processed that the audience could no longer separate the sounds. While Aki's portion of the show was interesting, it was the least compelling of the night. I understand he is also a visual artist. I have seen a slide show of his that was very nice.
Last up was Atsuhiro Ito playing the Optron. It is basically a 4' fluorescent light tube with buttons on it to control the voltage and microphones implanted to pick up the hum and crackle of the light being tuned on, turned off and the in-between stages when it just flickered. The sounds were fed into a series of pedal and then into three amps... SVT, fender twin and fender super reverb. Ito played this thing with the intensity of a fierce metal guitarist. The mixture of light and sound was incredibly intense. the harshness of the fluorescent light was such a stark contrast to Fuyuki's warm incandescent heart beat.
i would write more but i have to leave for work.
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adcBicycle
Holy crap, is that for real? Can you really slow down and stop your heart. Insane, I want to see this!
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