Aural Excavation

Aural Excavation

form :: sound :: art

Featuring: Minoru Sato -m/s, SASW, Jacob Kirkegaard, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jean-François Laporte, Cal Lyall (multi-channel installation)

Artist information:

Minoru Sato -m/s, SASW

in 1989, he started activities under the name "m/s". he established a label called "WrK" for creative activities in 1994, and had been running the label until 2006. he has an interest in a relationship between a description of nature and an art representation. his research and creative activities are explored in the form of installations, multiples, performances and written text. in addition, he is organizing contemporary art exhibitions and various events as curator.

selected exhibition
2009 ARTeSONoro, Spain
2008 Happy New Ears, Belgium
2008 Transmediale, Berlin
2002 BEELDEN BUITEN/ FRACTALS, Belgium
2000 Sound Art Sound as Media, ICC Tokyo
1991 SoundCulture, Sydney

selected publication
LP, with ASUNA "One as Two" (senufo editions,2010)
CD, with ASUNA "Texture in glass tubes and reed organ" (Spekk,2007)
CD, with Ami Yoshida "COMPOSITION for voice performer 1997,2007" (aotoao,2007)
CD, "NRF Amplification" (ms-wrok,2007)
BOOK+CD, "Social Music" (USA,2002)
Book+DVD-ROM, "Amplitude of Chance" (Japan, 2001)
BOOK+CD, "Site of Sound" (USA,1999)

ms-wrk.com

Jacob Kirkegaard

Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish artist who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound and hearing. His installations, compositions and performances deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. Using unorthodox recording tools, including accelerometers, hydrophones and home-built electromagnetic receivers, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of environments : a geyser, a sand dune, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, a TV tower, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself.

Now based in Berlin, Kirkegaard is a graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. Over the last fifteen years, Kirkegaard has presented his works at exhibitions and at festivals and conferences throughout the world such as Club Transmediale in Berlin, James Cohan Gallery and Diapason in New York as well as Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles and Museum of Contemorary Art in Denmark. He has released five albums (mostly on the British label Touch). Among his numerous collaborators are JG Thirlwell, Philip Jeck and Lydia Lunch. He is also a member of the sound art collective freq_out.

fonik.dk
BANDERA (2010) - most recent piece
ELDFJALL (2005) based on recordings of Icelandic volcanic vibrations

Zbigniew Karkowski

Zbigniew Karkowski studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He has written pieces for large orchestra (commissioned and performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra), plus an opera and several chamber music pieces that were performed by professional ensembles in Sweden, Poland, and Germany. He is a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio "Sensorband."

myspace

Jean-François Laporte

As a Quebec artist, Jean-François Laporte has been an active member of the contemporary art's scene since the mid-1990's. He pursues a hybrid approach integrating visual arts and sound exploration. Taking an intuitive approach to create music, Laporte learns art through concrete experimentation on matter. His unique artistic vision relies on an active listening of each sound, object, material, etc.
Thus his art is the result of working in complicity with raw material , proposing constructions born of each material he explores. His work is characterized by a large diversity of sound sources, aesthetic quality concerns, as well as an undeniable peculiarity.
Last year, Laporte was named "Facteur d'Instrument de musique de l'année" by the CQM (Conseil Québécois de la Musique), thus receiving his fifth "prix Opus". This prize aims at the recognition of the quality of Laporte's work and the importance of the invention of his own musical instruments.

jflaporte.net

Cal Lyall

Cal Lyall (b. Montreal, Canada) is an improvising artist and electronic musician based in Tokyo, Japan.Constructing a musical universe from field recordings, stringed instruments, microphone systems and other electronic debris, his diverse contributions to numerous projects reflect a bevy of influences, ranging from traditional forms to free-flowing drone and ecstatic improvisation. Currently active in the drone-psych trio Tetragrammaton, ecstatic choral unit Jahiliyyah, and performs as a solo artist with a number of distinctive artists such as Tetuzi Akiyama, Chie Mukai, Government Alpha and Kelly Churko among others. Civic duties entail heading up the Subvalent label and organizing the long-running Test Tone series at Super-Deluxe in Nishi-Azabu.

myspace
subvalent.com

Supported by EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee