THURSDAY 9th July 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6
Anote-san is a Japanese trio including composer Makoto NOMURA (piano, melodica, etc.), Hiroshi OBIKI (khoomei, igil, Jews harp, stones, balloon, etc.) and improvising percussionist Yusuke
KATAOKA (percussion, stones, balloon, etc).
Ainote-san’s repertoire includes "STONES TECHNO" techno music played with plastic bottles, stones, melodica, Jews harp and piano and "BALLOON FREE JAZZ".
All these pieces were composed for "AINOTE", a series of eccentric TV programmes of experimental music for children. Each programme explored sounds of one material such as stones, balloons, table, plastic bags, etc. In many of Ainote-san's pieces the found objects and traditional musical instruments are mixed together to produce unique music.
Makoto Nomura has composed for orchestra, Javanese gamelan, Japanese traditional instruments, melodicas, chamber music, etc. Nomura always extends the boundary of composition in his projects such as "Music with animals", "Keyboard Choreography Collection (co-directed by Hugh Nankivell)", "i-picnic", "melodica orchestra" etc.
Hiroshi Obiki is a musician who had played in various pop/rock band as a vocalist. He is interested in overtones and influenced by the music of Tuva. He specialises in khoomei (overtone throat singing), the igil string instrument of Tuva and Jews harp. He uses these traditional instruments as a kind of synthesizer.
Yusuke Kataoka is a percussionist who studied percussion at Tokyo College of Music. After that he quite studying classical music and worked as a session musician before becoming a research fellow at the Gifu Music Therapy Institute and exploring free improvisation.
LINKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwD3N2Q0QKI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAmK8auwexg&feature=related
Clive Bell is a musician and composer specialising in East Asian musics.
He studied the shakuhachi (Japanese flute) in Tokyo, and the khène (Lao mouthorgan) in Laos and Thailand.
Recently he has worked with Jah Wobble, David Sylvian, David Toop, Complicite Theatre, the BBC Singers, Sylvia Hallett, Karl Jenkins, Okeanos (contemporary music), Jochen Irmler (of Faust) and The Whalley Range All Stars (children’s street theatre). He writes for The Wire magazine.
LINKS
http://www.clivebell.co.uk
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