KK NULL's Blog

 

KAZUYUKI KISHINO (KK NULL)

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Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1961. Electroacoustic music composer/performer, and guitarist, singer, mastermind of avantgarde rock band ZENI GEVA.
In 1981 studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka's "MaiJuku" workshop and started performing guitar improvisation in Tokyo, and collaborated with MERZBOW for two years, and joined the band YBO2 (with Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and started the improvized rock trio ABSOLUT NULL PUNKT (with Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino's FUSHITSUSHA).
In the 90's ZENI GEVA released five albums produced by STEVE ALBINI. Also recorded twice for JOHN PEEL SESSION on BBC, and immensely toured throughout Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, playing hundreds of concerts.
All the while, KK NULL has been working on his solo career and collaborated with other musical innovators from all over the globe such as CHRIS WATSON (UK), Z'EV (USA/UK), JOHN ZORN (USA), FRED FRITH (USA/UK), MATMOS (USA), KEIJI HAINO (Japan), JON ROSE (Australia), PHILIP SAMARTZIS (Australia), ALEXEI BORISOV (Russia), ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI (Poland) to name a few, and has been invited to perform at prestigious international festivals. Especially, KK NULL has been invited by GRM (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales) to perform at Presences Électronique in Paris, France successively 2008 and 2009.
In recent years KK NULL has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing wave of noise, structured electroacoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material, which could be described "cosmic noise maximal/minimalism".
Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL)

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JULIEN OTTAVI (THE NOISER)


the noiser

A mediactivist, artist-researcher, composer / musician, poet and tongues destroyer, experimental film maker and anarchitect, founder and member of Apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining sound art, real-time video, new technologies and body performances. Since 1997, he develops a composition work using voice and its transformation through computer. Active developer of audio/visual programs with Puredata, he has also developed since many years DIY electronics (radio transmitters, oscillators, mixers, amplifiers, video transmitters...etc) in the perspective of knowledge sharing on technological development. Main developer for the Gnu/Linux operating system APODIO for digital art and A/V & streaming diffusion. His practices is not limited to the art spheres but crosses different fields from technological development to philosophy / theoretical research, biomimetic analysis & experimentation. Since many years he reflects on the relations between experimental practices and collective practices within the creation of autonomous collective groups, putting in question the authorship strategy of the "art ideology".
Julien Ottavi is part of a generation of audio artists to emerge in the 90..'s that indicated some of the directions that music and soundart is taking. While at art school, he organized a series of concerts, bringing international artists from the experimental scene to Nantes, drawing touring musicians to movements happening outside of Paris. This became not just a destination but a nexus for collaborations. This resulted for example in the group Formanex to perform graphical scores of electro-acoustic music, and in Apo33, an artists collective to facilitate, nurture, and disseminate creative audio practice. In this way, Julien represents the energy and initiative of a present day artist - activist through practice, organizing as performance, publishing as networking, open source and open aesthetic. This fluidity of working across boundaries of style and role are seen in his music, physical with computer, performative and reflective. (introduction by Atau Tanaka)

Regular collaborators of reconized artists : Jenny Pickett, Brandon Labelle, Keith Rowe, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Jerome Joy, Ryan Jordan, Joachim Montessuis, Christian Galarretta, Achim Wollscheid, Elpueblodelchina, Zbigniew Karkowski, Randy Yau, Ilios, Philippe Roux, Dominique Leroy, Dion Workman, Yvan Etienne, Mike Bullock, Phill Niblock, Seth Cluett, KKnull, Jean-Louis Costes...etc.

Julien Ottavi has exhibited, performed and presented his work extensively over the last 15 years : STEIM – Amsterdam, Junctions/Verbidingen Festival – Brussels, Piksel festival – Bergen – Norway, Knitting Factory Old Office, NYC, Art museum of Nantes – France, DEAF (V2.nl) Rotterdam, Salon Bruit - Berlin,, TWEAK FESTIVAL- Limerick/Ireland, PDCONF09 - Sao Paulo / Brazil, Subtle Technologies Festival - Toronto / Canada, MAL AU PIXEL - Paris / FR, Goldsmiths College / London - UK, Riam Festival - Marseille - France, MobilFest III - Sao Paulo / B&razil, Bandits-mages Bourges - France, RadiaLx2008 - Lisbon, European Sound Delta - Bulgaria/Roumania, Architectones & Nuit Bleues - Arc & Senans/France, Aloardi todo es chevere!! Festival - Peru, sound art festival - Krakow/Poland - novembre 2006, Arteleku Saint Sébastien / Spain, Earthsquake Festival – New-York/US, radioqualia - Amsterdam, residency at Festival Parochial - Berlin, Montevidéo - Marseille, Festival Musique Action - Nancy, CCN - Belfort, CCN - Rennes, Le centre d’Art la Criée - Rennes, La Halle aux Grains - Blois, Festival La batie - Genéve, Festival Dança Na Cidade - Lisbone, Festival Fast Forward - Salzbourg, La ménagerie de Verre - Paris, Kunsten Festival Des Arts - Bruxelles, ZDB Lisbonne - Portugal, Electronic Orphanage - Chinatown - Los Angeles, Fitigogo Gallery - Albuquerque - New Mexico, Dodorama - Rotterdam - Hollande, Recyclart - Bruxelles - Belgique, Musée d’art Contemporain – Strasbourg...etc

contact APO33 : info@apo33.org

 

TERMINAL HZ =

DAVID BROWN : (guitar)  
SEAN BAXTER : (drums/percussion)
KK NULL : (electronics/voice)

Originally TERMINAL HZ started as a free improvised jazz rock trio
with DAVID BROWN (guitar), SEAN BAXTER (drums) and KK NULL (guitar)
in Melbourne, Australia in 1996. They made some studio recordings
with this format but not released. In 2000 DAVID BROWN & KK NULL
made an electro-acoustic recording and released it as "TERMINAL HZ"
CD on the USA label Ground Fault. The trio did a reunion concert
in Melbourne 2010 and then made a new start with a bit different
music style as DAVID BROWN (guitar), SEAN BAXTER (drums & percussion)
and KK NULL (electronics & voice).

-- TERMINAL HZ European tour--

((( CDs & T-Shirts are available at each venue! )))

Wed 09 Feb --- @ Rhiz | Vienna, AT | + ID / DJ DDKERN (AT)

Thu 10 Feb --- @ Forum Keller | Graz, AT | + ID (AT) / DJ SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

Fri 11 Feb --- @ Stadt Werk Statt | Linz, AT | + ID / SAMPLE SLAYA (AT)

Sat 12 Feb --- @ Menza Pri Koritu | Ljubljana, SI | + ID (AT)

Mon 14 Feb --- @ Szabad az A | Budapest, HU | + ID (AT)

Wed 16 Feb --- @ Tetris Club | Trieste, IT | + ID (AT)

Thu 17 Feb --- @ United Club | Torino, IT | + ID (AT)

Fri 18 Feb --- @ Libreria Perditempo | Napoli, IT | + ID (AT)
Sat 19 Feb --- @ Antenna Lab | Padova, IT | + ID (AT)

Sun 20 Feb --- @ Kaserne | Basel, CH | + MIR (CH) / MONNO (CH/DE)

Mon 21 Feb --- @ L'Usine | Geneva, CH | + MIR (CH) / MONNO (CH/DE)

Tue 22 Feb --- @ Grnd Zero Gerland | Lyon, FR |

Wed 23 Feb --- @ Instants Chavires | Paris, FR |

Thu 24 Feb --- Heliosphere Festival @ Von Krahl Theatre | Tallinn, EE

Sat 26 Feb --- @ Magasin 4 | Brussels, BE | + ID (AT) + L'OEILLeRE (BE)

Sun 27 Feb --- @ Poortgebouw | Rotterdam, NL | + ID (AT)

Wed 02 Mar --- @ Art School | Gent, BE | + ID (AT)

Thu 03 Mar --- @ NK | Berlin, DE | + ID (AT)

Fri 04 Mar --- @ A4 - Zero Space | Bratislava, SK | + ID (AT)