Releases - Lethe / Kuwayama Kiyoharu...........
Lethe / Catastrophe Point 1 & 2 (2CD COS05.01)..........
Lethe / Catastrophe Point 3 (3 inch cd-r Locust Media )..........
Lethe / Catastrophe Point 6 CD (SR-001)..........
Jonathan Coleclough & Lethe / Long Heat CD (ICR43)..........
Kapotte Musiek & Lethe / Tsurumai CD (int025)..........
lethe / sleep dIgest (cd by pale - diac)..........
toy bizarre + lethe / kdi dctb 115a - 000731 (7 inch by 20 city) ..........
kneale - kuwayama / bottom of the motorway (10 inch lathe cut record by pale - disc)..........
kneale - kuwayama / under nagoya (cdr by Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)..........
Leif Elggren - Kwayama Kiyoharu - brent gutzeit / International Art Exhibition
(3 inch cdr by boxmedia)..........
Releases - Kuwayama-Kijima..........
kuwayama - kijima / st (cd by gg records)..........
kuwayama - kijima / 00.10.17 (7inch by 20 city)..........
kuwayama - kijima with matthew heyner / 02.02.18 (cd-r by boxmedia)..........
kuwayama - kijima / 01.05.10 (cd by alluvial recordings)..........
kuwayama - kijima / 01.06.16 (cd by trente oiseaux)..........
kuwayama - kijima / 02.08.31 (cd by trente oiseaux)..........
kuwayama - kijima with carter thornton / shrine LP(conduit creations 007)..........
Collaboration..........
Jonathan Coleclough, Kapotte Musiek, Toy BizarreI, Rick Reed, BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, Antony Milton, Sean Meehan, Matt Heyner, Sabir Mateen, Chris Corsano, Same Girl, Buttercup Metal Polish, Jacques Demierre, Norbert Moslang, Gunter Muller, Tomas Korber, Christian Weber, Jason Kahn,Michel Henritzi, Urabe Masayoshi, Mukai Chie, Suzuki Akio, Shimada Hideaki, Mizutani Kiyoshi, Otomo Yoshihide, Junko,
Sounds Like
Lethe / Catastrophe Point 6 SR-001 CD Nagoya based Kiyoharu Kuwayama has an interest in reverberant spaces, recording under bridges and flyovers as well as in warehouse and shinto temples at night. Although he occasionally employs cello, his works tends to explore space and perspective in utterly unconventional ways. Typically, he favours objects found in situ to sound the acoustic enviroment and is as likely to use a chair scraped along the floor as a standard musical instrument. But music this most definitely is. The first piece on offer here foregrounds what sounds like a handful of pebbles being clicked together against a distant backdrop of scraped sheet metal. The thickness of the room's acoustics lends the whole an almost frightening clarity, and there's an unreality to the way the two different reverberant layers combine that only adds to the sense of unease. We're thrown into a subtly heightened acoustic realm, in which scale and perspective are altered, to disquieting psychological effect. The second piece heightens and complicates the acoustic picture even further, and increases the density of the sonic activity. The sound sources here seem to be bundles of sticks, bottles, tea trays and iron girders thrown down lift shafts. Once again the ear tries to make sense of the altered relationships Kuwayama set up between loud and soft, close and distant. Slowly, the piece starts to focus more and more strongly on a huge, dark vibration at the furthest end of the acoustic spectrum, which builds in intensity, racking up the tension and subtly disturbing the mind's equilibrium. By this point, the music sounds like it's taking piece in a vast, pitch black aircraft hangar of the soul. by Keith Moline (WIRE No.264)
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Lethe / Kuwayama Kiyoharu well known for finding intensely resonant spaces or charged atmospheres: abandoned warehouses, Shinto temples.
For it's in those kind of super resonant spaces that Kuwayama has recorded his best works, the Catastrophe Point series;
full of the empty rattle of abandoned industrial space, and the carefully constructed scrape and clang of objects found around each location.
[Arika.org]
Kuwayama - Kijima _____
Kiyoharu Kuwayama (cello) and Rina Kijima (violin) are formidable players, and so well attuned to each other that their improvisations cannot be distinguished from highly
complex compositions. With a particular interest in ambient sound, and locations that inspire improvisation, that can be worked with, they take advantage
of the natural reverb of each location (under a bridge at night, an abandoned warehouse), and changing their position in it while playing create beautiful and charged performances[Arika.org]
Hi Kuwayama, Thanks for finding me on myspace. It was great talking with you yesterday (don't worry, your english is great). I like your tracks here. I shall keep an eye out for opportunities/aifrares to Australia!. Gail
What to expect? For sure it won't be a regular evening of field recordings: This evening will focus on the imitation of nature. And nature is the great reservoir of sounds. Scholars are talking about caves and the pictogrammes on the walls: deer and buffles, hunting and dancing. ..Caves with resonances that would carry the sounds into nature.
Did they imitate those sounds at those times? Would they have done it for artistic reasons?
sat . 16 august kule auguststrasse 10 berlin mitte doors open 21. 00
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