NEW!!!! "Car décalé légèrement - version Kutsugurui" video is up! (scroll down)
About o.blaat
o.blaat was named after 'oblaat' - flavourless, melting, semi-transparant thin edible paper, exists only to melt and disappear. In Japan, it was used to wrap bitter medicine (esp. for children easy to swallow it), and candies (not to stick together in hot climate.) o.blaat creates environment and situations where sounds being heard, sounds for circumstances, sounds for bones and spines. o.blaat is curious to experiment one's relationship with sounds. o.blaat is personal, and love to create massive mess to disappear into.
o.blaat video interviewed by tobias c. van Veen, during Mutek 2007
Monogoto (o.blaat + Toshio Kajiwara) @ Issue Project Room, 9/14/07, video documentation by Peter Shapiro - caution! it's really long (may take time to load.) i'm doing all the feedbacks with positions and objects.
Solo - "Car décalé légèrement - version Kutsugurui" @City of Women festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ... I used 100 pairs of women's shoes to experiment my feedback piece. High heels raise my height and vision, and of course hard sounds of their heels whilst the flats are closest to my usual 'level' yet different flats (esp. the fancy types) would give me unexpected loss of balance. Finally, all of the shoes would resonate in combination by making small semi-chambers. It was as if going through women's many phases of lives.
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, Miguel Frasconi, Marina Rosenfeld, Lary 7, Eyvind Kang, Sachiko M, Tetsuji Akiyama, Aki Onda, Kaffe Matthews, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Anthony Coleman, Kurt Ralske, Lukasz Lysakowski, HC Gilje, Klaus Filip, Ilan Katin, Katherine Liberovskaya, Nobukazu Takemura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, among many others.
Performed at :: venues including recent MUTEK 07 festival, Montreal, Canada; Ultrahang 07 festival, Budapest, Hungary; Whitney Museum
of Art, NYC; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Museum, Tonic, Issue Project Room, Chelsea Art Museum, Sculpture Center, SHARE, The Stone, Walter Reade Theater of Lincoln Center, NYC; 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 project includes a concert at ICA Philadelphia curated by Christian Marclay, and a project with Merce Cunningham Dance Company at
DIA/Beacon.
Thank you! I have seen your show show in Prag,National gallery.Its a long time ago,but I stil remember it.I liked it a lot.All the best in this new year! Greetings from CZ.
keiko,
thanks
for
the
add.
I
picked
up
Gaze
/
In
the
Cochlea
recently.
i'm
really
diggin'
it.
i
think
nightvision
is
my
favorite.
i
hope
to
be
able
to
check
out
a
gig
some
time.
keep
up
with
the
freaky
frequencies.
cheers,
FReAM.
hi, i was looking forward to your performance at uh fest in budapest. and it was great to have you here and hear you live, thank you! and thank you for your effort in SHARE, too. it's a very good initiative! and needed, i think. all the best from here, edit
Happy new year 2008 Miss Keiko!!!^__^
Yeah!!^ ^
doomo arigatoo
