The world makes music, remember to listen.
The Field Effects series showcase the use of found sound, found
materials, and field recordings in media art, presented in a uniquely comfortable environment.
Field Effects 21 features sound and video work from:
Yuko Nexus6 & Mariko Tijiri
YukoMariko, the working name for the collaboration of Yuko Nexus6
(sound) and Mariko Tajiri (image). Together, the duo explore the
inevitable gaps, delusions, gaga thoughts, postcards, and
stereotypes had by visitors in foreign places. Their sound and
video work is based on the many field recordings gathered in
their travels.
For Field Effects 21 YukoMariko will present 'MicrOLive', on
which they comment that in the performance's title, 'O' means
'eau' means water. Of the piece Yuko writes, 'The audience can
enjoy sounds of water and many scenes of water in real-time video, in the relaxed feeling of Aaron's series of events as always...'
Yuko Nexus6 is a prolific and internationally recognized sound
artist who embraces both hi-tech (laptop) and lo-tech (cassette)
sound-making methods. She has been the subject of numerous
interviews and citations, most recently in David Toop's historical survey of electronic music, Haunted Weather. In 2003 she received an honorable mention for digital music in the Prix Ars Electronica for 'Journal de Tokyo' (Sonore Records).
When interviewed in The Japan Times by Suzannah Tartan, Yuko said,
'When people take a photo, the framing and trimming are important. When we shoot the photo, the ordinary thing becomes a framed fact. That is almost like my music. The ordinary sound is framed and trimmed.
In my style [of music], people can make very beautiful things from noise. And from this experience, my ear has become open to all sounds. Good, bad, noisy, calm become equal.
People think that birds singing are beautiful, but that the exhaust noise of a bosozoku [motorbike gangs] is bad. But to my ear, everything is beautiful.
I want my music to reflect my daily life. Sometimes I compose my
music with kitchen noise -- washing dishes, washing rice. They make such nice sounds...'
Mariko Tajiri is a visual artist specializing in installation and
video art. She studied art at the Kyoto College of Art and the
Ecole Nationale d'Art at Cergy-Pontoise, Paris. A recipient of a
Philip Morris Art Award in 2000 and 2004, Mariko lives in Kobe and has shown widely in Japan and Europe.
http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~nexus6/index_e.html
http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~nexus6/article.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fm20030323st.htm
http://www.kcc.zaq.ne.jp/dfbdt009/oeufpoche/index.html
Scott Arford
Of 'The Song of the Station,' the work he will present at Field
Effects, Arford writes:
'The title is borrowed from Giorgio de Chirico's 1912 poem. The
inspiration for this work is a remark made by my friend Sukhwant
Jhaj some eleven or more years ago. We were standing in front of
7hz, when he pointed to the immense metal warehouse building several hundred feet distant, resting silently on Pier 82.
"That," he said, "is the Little Station."'
The poem reads:
The Song of The Station
Giorgio de Chirico, 1912
Little station, little station, what happiness I owe you. You look around, to left, and right, also behind you. Your flags snap distractedly, why suffer; let us go in, aren't we already numerous enough? With white chalk or black coal let us trace happiness and its enigma, the enigma and its affirmation. Beneath porticoes are windows, from each window an eye looks at us, and from the depths voices call to us. The happiness of the station comes to us, and goes from us transfigured. Little station, little station, you are a divine toy. What distraught Zeus forgot you on this square-geometric and yellow-near this limpid, disturbing fountain? All your little flags crackle together under the intoxication of the luminous sky. Behind walls life proceeds like a catastrophe. What does it all
matter to you? Little station, little station, what happiness I
owe you.
Scott Arford is one of the leading figures of new media arts in
the San Francisco Bay area. His works include sound and visual
performances, fully immersive multichannel sound and video
installations, and (as Infrasound) low frequency spacial-acoustic
explorations with Randy H.Y. Yau.
Arford has presented his works throughout the US, Europe, Japan,
Australia, China, Tiawan, and South America. Arford received a
Bachelor of Architecture from the College of Architecture and
Design at Kansas State University in 1991. Arford has presented
dozens of performances by interntationally acclaimed sound and
media artists at his warehouse studio/performance space, 7hz.
http://www.7hz.org
Depending on audience interest, I may also screen the first year of my own 30 frames-per-day project, which if you've been to events in the last two years, you may find yourself appearing in, if only for 1/30th of a second (cf http://www.quietamerican.org/related_mnem.html).
The Field Effects series showcases artists who are interested in
framing the hidden beauty of the everyday world: beauty on the surface, awaiting our attention. Beauty that must be delicately extracted. And beauty in potential, awaiting juxtaposition, collage, repetition and mutilation.
Seating mostly on futons and our new flock of beanbags, to encourage comfortable deep listening. You are always welcome to bring pajamas or a pillow.
Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available on a
donation-based honor system. With luck, someone will bake cookies.
Cost: $6-10 sliding scale, notaflof