John Krausbauer and Kaori Suzuki will present an improvisational-composition with voices, amplified strings, electronics, and bell percussion. Their work originates from their shared interest in ancient and spiritual musics as much as the western “avant-garde”. Their performance utilizes sustained tones (drone), long durations, and playing endurance, aiming to create environments that are ‘experiential’ in nature, more than exclusively ‘musical’.
Tetuzi Akiyama, on tour from Tokyo, will begin the evening with a solo performance.
Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar)
Tetuzi Akiyama plays the guitar with primitive and practical implications, by adding a desire of own to the instrument's characteristic nature in minimal and straight method. He delicately and sometimes boldly controls the volume of the sound from micro to macro level, and tries to quantize his physical system. Akiyama is a frequent guest at international music festivals in Asia, East & West Europe, North & South America, Australia and New Zealand in recent years.
http://www.otooto.jp/tetuzi-akiyama
http://www.japanimprov.com/takiyama/
Cost: included w/ admission