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Events. Yoshio Machida in Moscow.
Клубные российские · 29.05.2003
On May 28 (Wednesday) and May 30 (Friday), Yoshio Machida will perform at the Muha club.
Yoshio Machida is a musician and professional artist. Born in Japan in 1967, he has been engaged in creative activities since 1986. Yoshio Machida is the owner of the recording company "Amorfon." Since 1999, he has released two albums - one in Europe and one in Japan. A third full-length album "KONYANKO" is soon to be released on the German label "Softl." Tracks by the musician are featured in compilations from the Belgian label "Sub Rosa," the French "Even Stilte," and the Japanese "Improvised Music from Japan" and "Cubic Music." With his visual and audio works, Machida has toured Japan, Russia, Yugoslavia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Yoshio's works have received great recognition from lovers of contemporary music and have generated live responses from the press. According to Machida, his work can be united by the theme: "light, memory, and echo." Both his visual works and his music are permeated with Japanese aesthetics. Like ancient Japanese musicians, Machida has a fragile sense of delicacy, attention to pauses, and details. In his music, he uses documentary audio recordings of the surrounding world, ethnic and electronic instruments, noises, and computers. The audio material of the musician can be characterized as a mix of ambient, electro-acoustic, ethnic, and modern improvisational music. For live concerts, the musician uses the amorphone, an instrument of his own invention, which is a concave steel plate; striking different parts creates a sound of a certain tonality. The sound of the amorphone is processed in real-time on a computer using the audio programming environment Max/MSP. As a result, a beautiful organic flow of smooth, resonating sound is produced.
As an artist, Yoshio Machida works in his own style, which he calls Photobatik. Photobatik is a special drawing technique. For obtaining an image, photo paper is exposed and developed without the use of a camera. An image is created using large sheets of photosensitive paper, developer, and light. Unlike classical photography, the entire sheet of photo paper is exposed, while only its individual areas are developed. As a result, abstract patterns, certain light clumps, are born on photo paper.
Yoshio Machida comes to Russia as part of the spring tour of 2003, which will include exhibitions and concerts in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Yugoslavia, and Macedonia. His visit to Moscow will conclude his tour. The capital will see the works of Yoshio Machida for the second time. In 2000, his visual works were exhibited at the Moscow gallery "A3." This time, all exhibitions in Moscow will be accompanied by a live concert on amorphone + Max/MSP.
www.yoshiomachida.com
www.amorfon.com
www.softlmusic.com
Press quotes about Yoshio Machida’s music:
"Acoustic research of selected places in time and space. No, the idea is not new, but Machida develops it subtly and intelligently." The Wire, issue 212, October 2001
"Machida's pieces do not provoke a stormy reaction but create a sense of smart and interesting avant-garde music for a refined ear." Francois Couture, the All-Music Guide, 2001
"A beautiful simplicity." www.ambientrance.org, February 2002
"The music of Japanese Yoshio Machida flows in slow circles; it rises slowly and descends just as slowly - as if someone is playing slowly on a huge cello. However, it often behaves more actively - it clangs, crackles, hums, and converses in human voices." Andrey Gorokhov, Muzprosvet, Deutsche Welle, April 2002
Exhibitions:
1986 Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Method Takaido Club (Art SOKO), Tokyo, Japan
Shinjuku Lumine 2, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Gallery, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Lobby Gallery, Tokyo Int'l Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Twin 21 Gallery, Osaka Business Park, Osaka, Japan
1999 Gallery B-One, Tokyo
Gallery Ono 2, Tokyo, Japan
2000 A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Focom2000 website, online
Adan, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Izba, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Concerts:
2001 Aoyama CAY, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Art Klub, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
CKZD Pavillion Veljkovic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Cuba, Muenster, Germany
Gallery Schneiderei, Cologne, Germany
Extrapool, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cafe Independent, Kyoto, Japan
Futuro, Osaka, Japan
Canolfan, Nagoya, Japan
Kanazawa Citizen's Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan
OFF SITE, Tokyo, Japan
"sonarsound", Roppongi Hills Information Center, Tokyo, Japan
super deluxe, Tokyo, Japan
Discography:
1999 CD Box Set: HYPERNATURAL
FD Single: AMORPHOUS
(Koan Pieces with Koan software by SSEYO Ltd.)
2001 CD: HYPERNATURAL #2 from softl music, Germany
2002 CD: compilation album from sub rosa, Belgium
CD: compilation album from Improvised Music from Japan, Japan
Upcoming releases:
2003 CD: compilation album from Even Stilte, France
CD: compilation album from cubic music, Japan
LP: KONYANKO from softl music, Germany
Yoshio Machida is a musician and professional artist. Born in Japan in 1967, he has been engaged in creative activities since 1986. Yoshio Machida is the owner of the recording company "Amorfon." Since 1999, he has released two albums - one in Europe and one in Japan. A third full-length album "KONYANKO" is soon to be released on the German label "Softl." Tracks by the musician are featured in compilations from the Belgian label "Sub Rosa," the French "Even Stilte," and the Japanese "Improvised Music from Japan" and "Cubic Music." With his visual and audio works, Machida has toured Japan, Russia, Yugoslavia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Yoshio's works have received great recognition from lovers of contemporary music and have generated live responses from the press. According to Machida, his work can be united by the theme: "light, memory, and echo." Both his visual works and his music are permeated with Japanese aesthetics. Like ancient Japanese musicians, Machida has a fragile sense of delicacy, attention to pauses, and details. In his music, he uses documentary audio recordings of the surrounding world, ethnic and electronic instruments, noises, and computers. The audio material of the musician can be characterized as a mix of ambient, electro-acoustic, ethnic, and modern improvisational music. For live concerts, the musician uses the amorphone, an instrument of his own invention, which is a concave steel plate; striking different parts creates a sound of a certain tonality. The sound of the amorphone is processed in real-time on a computer using the audio programming environment Max/MSP. As a result, a beautiful organic flow of smooth, resonating sound is produced.
As an artist, Yoshio Machida works in his own style, which he calls Photobatik. Photobatik is a special drawing technique. For obtaining an image, photo paper is exposed and developed without the use of a camera. An image is created using large sheets of photosensitive paper, developer, and light. Unlike classical photography, the entire sheet of photo paper is exposed, while only its individual areas are developed. As a result, abstract patterns, certain light clumps, are born on photo paper.
Yoshio Machida comes to Russia as part of the spring tour of 2003, which will include exhibitions and concerts in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Yugoslavia, and Macedonia. His visit to Moscow will conclude his tour. The capital will see the works of Yoshio Machida for the second time. In 2000, his visual works were exhibited at the Moscow gallery "A3." This time, all exhibitions in Moscow will be accompanied by a live concert on amorphone + Max/MSP.
www.yoshiomachida.com
www.amorfon.com
www.softlmusic.com
Press quotes about Yoshio Machida’s music:
"Acoustic research of selected places in time and space. No, the idea is not new, but Machida develops it subtly and intelligently." The Wire, issue 212, October 2001
"Machida's pieces do not provoke a stormy reaction but create a sense of smart and interesting avant-garde music for a refined ear." Francois Couture, the All-Music Guide, 2001
"A beautiful simplicity." www.ambientrance.org, February 2002
"The music of Japanese Yoshio Machida flows in slow circles; it rises slowly and descends just as slowly - as if someone is playing slowly on a huge cello. However, it often behaves more actively - it clangs, crackles, hums, and converses in human voices." Andrey Gorokhov, Muzprosvet, Deutsche Welle, April 2002
Exhibitions:
1986 Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Method Takaido Club (Art SOKO), Tokyo, Japan
Shinjuku Lumine 2, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Gallery, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Lobby Gallery, Tokyo Int'l Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Twin 21 Gallery, Osaka Business Park, Osaka, Japan
1999 Gallery B-One, Tokyo
Gallery Ono 2, Tokyo, Japan
2000 A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Focom2000 website, online
Adan, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Izba, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Concerts:
2001 Aoyama CAY, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Art Klub, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
CKZD Pavillion Veljkovic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Cuba, Muenster, Germany
Gallery Schneiderei, Cologne, Germany
Extrapool, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cafe Independent, Kyoto, Japan
Futuro, Osaka, Japan
Canolfan, Nagoya, Japan
Kanazawa Citizen's Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan
OFF SITE, Tokyo, Japan
"sonarsound", Roppongi Hills Information Center, Tokyo, Japan
super deluxe, Tokyo, Japan
Discography:
1999 CD Box Set: HYPERNATURAL
FD Single: AMORPHOUS
(Koan Pieces with Koan software by SSEYO Ltd.)
2001 CD: HYPERNATURAL #2 from softl music, Germany
2002 CD: compilation album from sub rosa, Belgium
CD: compilation album from Improvised Music from Japan, Japan
Upcoming releases:
2003 CD: compilation album from Even Stilte, France
CD: compilation album from cubic music, Japan
LP: KONYANKO from softl music, Germany