Location :: Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
Member since :: March 2006
Sounds like :: crackles of radiator, vibration of the small bones in your ears, sounds in J-train when going above-ground, unlocked snare left on stage...
Record Label :: cronica, improvised music from Japan
Type of Label/music :: Experimental, Electronica, Noise, Minimal, and maybe tiny-weenie-bit of Onkyo?? (or not.)
Collaborated with :: Ikue Mori, Christian Marclay, DJ Olive, Toshio Kajiwara, Marina Rosenfeld, Lary 7, Eyvind Kang, Sachiko M, Tetsuji Akiyama, Aki Onda, Kaffe Matthews, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Miguel Frasconi, Ricardo Arias, Anthony Coleman, Kurt Ralske, Lukasz Lysakowski, HC Gilje, Klaus Filip, Ilan Katin, Katherine Liberovskaya, Kosugi Takehisa, Nobukazu Takemura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, among many others.
Performed at :: venues including recent MUTEK 07 festival, Montreal, Canada; Ultrahang 07 festival, Budapest, Hungary; Whitney Museum
of Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Museum, Tonic, Issue Project Room, Chelsea Art Museum, Sculpture Center, SHARE, The Stone, Walter Reade Theater of Lincoln Center, DIA/Beacon. NY; ICA Philadelphia, PA; Netmage 06 festival and Interferenze Festival 2006 in Italy; City Sonic 06 festival in Belgium; Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria; National Gallery as a part of Prague Biennale 2005 in Czech Republic; Tate Britain and Fortescue Avenue Gallery in UK. Upcoming activities include a lecture/presentation at Institut Intermedii, Prague Czech Republic; a collaboration with Klaus Filip and Noid for a networked composition by Filip "tripple duo" in three locations in Vienna; a site-specific performance at Alte-Schmiede, Vienna; and an installation "The ROOM/SOUNDLEAK" at Medien Kultur Haus, Wels, Austria with funding from Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture.
Recent updates!
Closing this weekend! "The ROOM" by o.blaat
@Medien Kultur Haus, Wels, Austria.
Thanks so much!!! to those who contributed sounds & texts!!
The opening was a wonderful success!!!
Now I'm back home in Brooklyn, struggling to finalize my long-stretched thesis paper... so please allow me to update the soundleak.org site:
soundleak.org/theroom
It's my first wp page. So, forgive me the ugliness of the layout... I'm working on it;)
Anyways, it will be the place where all the information will be updated re: TheROOM. So, please keep checking back!
If you're one of the contributors, you'll hear from me via email in early May (after my paper due.) Besides, all the contributors' soundfiles were already uploaded at archive.org!
------ Schedule of upcomings in early-summer 2009 -------
June 7, 09 - "LISTEN 2009 - Remote Access" (homage to Neuhaus' renown work "Listen"), as a part of Soundwalk-a-thon fundraiser for Issue Project Room. IPR announced today that it removed the minimum contribution requirement. Capacity for 'LISTEN 2009' is only 10! Sign-up a.s.a.p.!! And also check out many other (over 20!) soundwalks available at the IPR link above. Check out, sign up, and support!!
June 12, 09 - Solo gig as a part of "FLOW" (day 2) at Front Room, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Also on the bill is: David Linton, Patrick Todd, Bubblyfish + CHiKA
June 20, 09 - Debut of Installation/Performance work "Landfilles" in collaboration with Katherine Liberovskaya, @Experimental Intermedia, NYC. 17:00-23:00
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Updated: 'Share' flickr photos in slideshow!
Scroll down please. Share.nyc's more recent photos are there. (2008-current) We are currently located @Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, every Sunday. Please come down. It's FREE as always!
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Merce Cunningham Dance Company - Beacon Events @DIA:Beacon, Beacon, NY
went well + fun :))
musicians: Takehisa Kosugi, Alex Waterman, Curtis Bahn, Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat)
o.blaat during rehearsal... (taken by sawako. <<-- thank u!!!)
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More info at 'Object' (Frasconi/Arias/Uenishi(o.blaat)) @Eyesore/Eh!
The live recording made in 2004 at Sculpture Center, NYC, as 'Object (Trio)' with Miguel Frasconi and Ricardo Arias, is finally out on "Eyesore" label's new "Eh? Aural Depository" catalog!!
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Broadway Dreams (w/ lots of mini video clips & documentations links) / o.blaat
Conflux 08 link is here.
and i love your new Pic of course !
KeikoooO!*.
MeaooOw Noel!
