Friday 13 October 2023, 7.30pm
Kūkangendai - formed in 2006 with Noguchi Junya on guitar and vocals, Koyano Keisuke on bass guitar, and Yamada Hideaki on drums. Performing as a three-piece, its tracks are made through a process of editing, replicating, and deliberate error. The music played in the form of three piece band (guitar, bass and drums) is created based on their idea of mixing edit, copy, repeat and error. Such twist and musical restraint in live performance makes their music to be strict, but humorous. The trio has proactively worked with various artists who are cutting-edge in their own genre. In October 2015, they organize an event ‘Kūkangendai Collaborations’ to present the culmination of these activities. The event aims for rebuilding the live performance from the point of view of words / sound / technology. The band is in charge of music for Brecht’s play Fatzer performed by a Chiten Theatre Company Kyoto since its premiere in 2013. The play which is staged with their live performance enjoys good reputation, and tours in Moscow, Beijing and Germany. They collaborate with Chiten and its director Miura Motoi on different occasions and projects, including: Mystery-Bouffe, Goodbye or Gambler.
a.P.A.t.T. are an English art collective best known for its avant-garde music and multimedia works.
Since their first release, (e.P.) in 2002 a.P.A.t.T. has released 7 albums, numerous singles, endless music videos and short films, received commissions from a Smörgåsbord of leading arts organisations, made a full feature film and even starred and composed for a BBC TV Sitcom.
a.P.A.t.T. and its nomenclature began with a master tape of ‘anyone in the room’ recordings made at the dawn of the Mini-Disc 4 track era around 1998/99..the music was collage in a way and potentially influenced the non-linear ‘genre-less’ approach and sidestepped into the somewhat anti-hierarchical line-up of the act.
The last album Fun with Music (2016) sees the band more refined and focussed than ever...”Their most accessible work yet..in a freaky kinda way.” says BBC's Stuart Maconie. Consider it their White Album. “a.P.A.t.T.'s suitably madcap musical mix lives up to its title and is the definition of the word 'progressive' with a quintessentially British humour” (Prog Magazine)
