Sunday 7 May 2023, 8pm
Michiko Ogawa is a performer-composer specialising in the clarinet, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She performs not only classical repertoire but also contemporary and experimental musics, including free improvisation and film soundtrack work. She is also working with Hammond organ and "sho"; Japanese bamboo organ.
She also has been collaborating with musicians Samuel Dunscombe, Taku Sugimoto, James Rushford, Carolyn Chen, Golden Fur, Manuel Lima, Lucy Railton, Jonny Chang and Klaus Lang. She also frequently collaborates with visual artists, such Angela Jennings, Lindsay Bloom, Brianna Rigg, Laurence Favre and Sabina Maselli. She is one of the core members of the collectively oriented Harmonic Space Orchestra in Berlin since 2019.
As a researcher, she has been researching about Teiji Ito, a Japanese-American performer and composer based in New York City since 2015, and received a DMA for his dissertation focusing on Teiji Ito's film music. She is currently working on his biography.
Li Yilei is a Chinese artist and composer working and living in London.
With a background in fine art and sound art, Li’s body of work sought to investigate alternative modes of listening, reflecting upon the tacitness and transience of existential occurrences.
Li’s work often incorporates with sound, body, found materials, poetry, events, daily objects and broken/damaged instruments.
Investigating serendipitous encounters between beings and their environment, the muted state, the unheard, the disabled and untrained voices.
The overarching dialogue around the tacit and the disabled state stems from Li’s idiosyncratic relationship with the outside world as a person on the autistic spectrum.
Their early classical training in violin sparked an interest in the physique of instruments, and the interests in the alternative use of conventional instruments due to the rejection of the Eurocentric formalities of classical music.
In 2016, Li founded Non Dual Collective, focusing on curating live events for ESEA emerging artists. Li has been releasing records and performing internationally since 2018.
Website: liyilei.me
Instagram: li_yi_lei_
