Akihiro Kubota LapTop Jazz Quartet (akLTJQ) started out as a Tokyo-based audio-visual "onkyo" jazz ensemble in 2002. The members of the band are Akihiro Kubota, Atsushi Yamaji, Atsushi Tadokoro and Keiichi Nakano. The fundamental concept of the ensemble is real-time "Algorithmic Improvization" based on the jazz spirits of the post-digital era. The challenge of akLTJQ is the higher levels of integration between dynamical algorithmic structures and groovy human improvisations. The execution of accumulated coded procedures by daily programmings of computers are equivalent to the acquired human skills by harsh practices of musical instruments. Joe Zawinul(Weather Report) said "We always solo and we never solo". Now akLTJQ says "We always algorithmic and we never algorithmic!".
Previous Live Performances
2002.07.24 SOUND POST OFFICE at the Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2003.01.28 SAWP02 at Five to Five, Tokyo, Japan
2003.03.01 Graduation Works Exhibition of Tama Art University at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Japan
2003.03.31 EVENING FOR ~ Sound Picnic at Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
2003.09.27 EVENING FOR ~ Sound Picnic at Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
2004.03.28 EVENING FOR ~ Sound Picnic at Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
2004.07.09 Phraz at Fourth Floor, Tokyo, Japan
2004.09.05 EVENING FOR ~ Sound Picnic at Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
2006.03.26 EVENING FOR ~ Sound Picnic at Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
2006.05.29 ENBAN, Tokyo, Japan
2006.07.19 ENBAN, Tokyo, Japan
2007.04.02 ENBAN, Tokyo, Japan
2007.04.21 SONORITIES 2007, Belfast, Nothern Ireland
2007.07.06 Insight Vision II, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Akihiro Kubota Laptop Jazz Quartet's Friend Space (Top 5)
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thank you for adding me. very nice your works. i really like your sounds. its amazing...respect. i wish you keep up your style. a-ri-ga-to. from osaka japan yuji kondo
We are in a picnic with sounds and arts at TAMA-river.
This is neither TAMA biennale, nor TAMA Rock Festival,
.... and a thing that is called "sound picnic", Yeah!!!
detail is here
come on!
kubota-san, I look forward to hear your sound!!
Thank you for permitting information to be put :-)
