YOTA MORIMOTO: 'Why not?'
At tonights edition Yota will perform part of a set titled 'why not?' Composed using samples from the 1981 film “Eejanaika (Why Not?)” by Shohei Imamura
Yota Morimoto (JP/NL) is a Japanese composer, sound artist and researcher born in Brazil. He holds a master’s degree in Sonology from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and Ph.D. in composition from the University of Birmingham, UK.
He has been commissioned by Paradiso Amsterdam, Ensemble Vortex [CH], Plus-Minus Ensemble [UK], SonoLab [NL], Duo Cristobal - Takada [NL], and his sound installations/audio-visual works have been presented at festivals such as TodaysArt [The Hague, Kawasaki], GOGBOT [Enschede], NWEAMO [Morelia], Transmediale [Berlin], ISEA [Dortmund, Istanbul], makeart [Poitier], EMUfest [Rome], ICMC [Belfast, Perth, Athens], SMC [Porto, Barcelona] and SICMF [Seoul].
Alongside his own works, as a dj / synthesist he has performed with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, New European Ensemble, Frances-Marie Uitti, Yann Marussich and Tomoko Mukaiyama. He is also active in sound design working for industrial and institutional commissioners such as Filmmuseum Amsterdam, LUSTlab, Hokkaido University, University of Tsukuba, AIST, Shiseido Co., Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
GERRI JÄGER
Percussionist Gerri Jäger (AT/NL) is known nationally and internationally for his many diverse groups, ranging from free-improvisation, alt-rock, experimental electronic club music to avant-pop. He has played with Fred Firth (Brian Eno), Eirikur Olaffsson (Mum, Sigur Ros), Shahzad Ismaily (Tom Waits, Bonny Prince Billy), Graduale Nobili (Björk), Joachim Badenhorst (Carate Urio), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle), Han Bennink and Jasper Stadhouders among many others. Currently active bands include Knalpot, Naked Wolf, STUG, Poker and Gerri Jäger’s Double Duo. Gerri is interested in playing in different ways to expand boundaries in music and its genres. His solo-performance is based around semi-structured improvisations, using drums, percussion, electronics, vintage keyboards and synthesizers. Gerri uses his drum-set to trigger synthesizers and manipulates it by wiring it onto a bunch of effect pedals originally made for DJ’s and guitar players. For every concert he prepares a new set of music.
JAN TV FALKESTEIN
Jan TV Falkenstein works at intersection of computer music, media art and coding. He produces sonic installations and performs crispy sound collages using novel and custom made interfaces. In his work he explores processes which lead to movements of spatial sound structures.
His radio programs can be listened to every third Tuesday of the month on The Hague’s Radio Tonka and on irregular basis on the Concertzender (Electronic Frequencies).
The music apps SQRT and fluXpad, a collaboration with Mouse On Mars, are under his development and can be found on the App Store. Currently he works as a software developer in Amsterdam.
Post code 2 : For the concert at Loos Jan prepared a slightly extended version of his live setup using the Manta and SuperCollider.