Interpretations Presents:
Yasunao Tone // Tomomi Adachi
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8PM
Roulette 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand)
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Contemporary music from two generations
of Japan’s experimental music community. Yasunao
Tone became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and moved to the
United States in 1972. Tone will premiere his MP3 Corruption Piece,
a new system for live performance, based on the real-time corruption of mp3
files to generate data that controls the playback of various audio materials.
Japanese performer/composer, sound poet, and installation artist Adachi
Tomomi will present musical interpretations of sound poetry, including
works by renowned Dadaist Hugo Ball and Japanese 60's concrete poetry proponent
Niikuni Seiichi, using voice, laptop, original interfaces, and homemade instruments.
“Tone has effectively pushed the idea of indeterminacy
into the 21st century”
– Chris Buck and Alan Licht, The Wire
A pioneer since the early 1960s in sound art and digital composition, Yasunao
Tone has composed for Merce Cunningham (alongside John Cage). His dedication
to experimentation continues to engage questions of noise, language and systems
of representation. He has been recognized by the Austrian Prix Ars Electronica,
who awarded Tone the 2002 prize for digital music.
Known for his versatile style, Adachi
Tomomi has performed improvised music and contemporary music in many kind
venues in Japan, Europe, United States, and elsewhere. As the only Japanese
performer of sound poetry, he performed Kurt Schwitters's Ursonate as a Japan
premiere in 1996. Also he directed Japanese premiere of John Cage's Europera5
in 2007. CDs include the solo album, Sparkling Materialism (naya
records), and the Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus release Yo (Tzadik).
Adachi is currently visiting the United States as a grantee of the Asian Cultural
Council.
For more information on the artists:
www.adachitomomi.com
www.lovely.com/bios/tone.html
For more information on Interpretations:
| Office Phone: | 212-627-0990 |
| Interpretations Online: | www.interpretations.info |
| James Ilgenfritz, Publicist: | james@mutablemusic.com |
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| 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand) | |