Live

sound tectonics #9

2011-04-25T02:27:37Z

In connection with the main exhibition, YCAM will host another installment of the "sound tectonics" live concert series introducing works of sound art incorporating media technology, realized with the Center's own world class audiovisual technology and equipment. A solo performance by Michale Rother, who has been exerting immeasurable influence on the current electro pop scene both as a guitarist for German rock bands such as NEU! and Harmonia, and as a solo musician and composer. One of special guests will be Jim O'Rourke, an internationally operating artist and part-time member of the band Sonic Youth. The other will be Y.Sunahara, a Japanese electro pop musician, composer, and producer, who released several outstanding albums including DENKI GROOVE. Look forward to a set of top quality, cutting-edge sound and music that you will only be able to experience at YCAM.

sound tectonics #10

2011-04-25T02:25:17Z

In combination with the exhibition of Ryoichi Kurokawa's new work, the artist himself will give a live concert with special guests. Kurokawa skillfully incorporates in his performance synchronized and reciprocal action of digitally generated material and audiovisual field recordings. YCAM's architectural characteristics will help magnify the beauty and vigor of electronic sound, to be experienced in spatially shifting sound images and large screen projections.
[Details will be available from announced in late July]

Demonstrative PerformanceFujiko Nakaya + Shiro Takatani "CLOUD FOREST"

2010-04-14T15:15:13Z

In addition to Fujiko Nakaya and Shiro Takatani, the members of Kyoto-based art/design collective softpad, who took charge of the sound design for this exhibition, participate in a special experimental live performance incorporating the fog, light and sound installations in the patios and foyer.

Demonstrative Performance
August 7 (sat) 19:00-20:00
Venue: Foyer, Patios Admission free
Performance: Fujiko Nakaya, Shiro Takatani, softpad (Takuya Minami, Tomohiro Ueshiba, Hiroshi Toyama)

YCAM sound tectonics #8audio-visual concert performances "raster-noton evening"

2010-04-14T15:15:12Z

The ultimate electronic sound experience offered by a supreme team of artists in an ideal environment

The "polar" project observing natural and informational environments, initiated by two internationally renowned artists, resurfaces after ten years in the form of the "polar^m" exhibition. Via an original platform developed in order to monitor the invisible world of data, the visitor can experience polar electromagnetic force from a unique perspective on the environment.
An exquisite lineup of artists from the field of electronic sound art/music will get together at YCAM to celebrate the exhibition's opening. Look forward to an overwhelming display of visuals and sound, designed with YCAM's own high-end technical equipment and setting.

Opening sound live "fmtm"

2010-04-10T02:28:00Z

* Please note that the exhibition of "MTM" in the Foyer will be close on the following opening events: 20th of March from 18:00 till 19:00 and 21st of March from 13:00 till 16:30.

sound tectonics #7 "ATAK NIGHT 4"

2009-03-26T11:39:32Z

Artist change "ATAK NIGHT 4"
Due to member Mika Vainio's sudden illness, Pan sonic, who were scheduled to appear at the "ATAK NIGHT 4" event on April 29 (Wed/holiday), were forced to cancel their Japan tour.
We apologize sincerely for the inconvenience to all those who have been looking forward to Pan sonic's performance in particular, as well as to the members of the press and other related individuals and institutions.

As a substitute for Pan sonic, Ryoji Ikeda confirmed his appearance at the event.

For more information on tickets and refunds, please contact the Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion ticket counter (at YCAM): TEL +81-83-920-6111

We are looking forward to seeing you at YCAM.

ATAK NIGHT 4 - Top sound artists touring the world
A group of renowned artists stop over at YCAM to challenge the Center's top-notch sound and video facilities.

This is the seventh installment of "sound tectonics", a series of concerts of sound art created using media technology, designed top quality of the world-class sound and video technical facilities of YCAM. Artists this time are Keiichiro Shibuya, who returns to Yamaguchi after touring Europe with the ATAK Night 4, as well as New York-based legendary sound artist Yasunao Tone, who makes his belated YCAM debut. Completing the lineup are Finnish duo Pan sonic, and Japanese artist Evala. Look forward to a festival of sharp-pointed audio-visual expression as it is possible only in the high-quality sound environment of YCAM.

]]> ATAK NIGHT 4
Four highly original sound artists come to put YCAM's high-quality acoustic facilities to a test in a sensational joint live performance.

After finishing a celebrated tour around Italy, Germany, Switzerland and France, the ATAK Night 4 live concert lands at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]. Four world-renowned artists gather at YCAM, a reputed stage for the production and presentation of novel forms of electronic music and outstanding sound art.
The event's main attraction is the appearance of Yasunao Tone, a Japanese artist who moved to New York in the '70s, and keeps operating in the forefront of experimental music even now that he is in his 70s. Also appearing is the Berlin resident Finnish duo Pan sonic, a leading name in cutting-edge electronic music for over a decade, and ATAK members Keiichiro Shibuya and Evala, both of whom created and unveiled the sound installation piece filmachine at YCAM in 2006, before presenting it in Berlin two years later.

YCAM has been showcasing electronic music made with computers and other devices, reproduced in the highest possible sound quality thanks to the Center's cutting-edge technology and top-notch acoustic environment. Making use of the construction's architectural characteristics, these events are realized with the help of a technical team of experts specializing in the synchronization of acoustic and optical images. Only at this YCAM date of the ATAK Night 4 tour, the audience will be surrounded by an elliptical 8-channel setup that allows for detailed reproduction of computer-generated sounds. Enjoy this long-awaited performance of the celebrated "ATAK Night 4", staged by outstanding sound artists together with YCAM.

YCAM Concert Series "sound tectonics"
Sound art as a manifestation of originality: a station on YCAM's pursuit of new expression and technique

Since its opening, YCAM has been exploring the original expressive potential of electronic music and sound art. When focusing on the usage of media technology not only in video and other forms of visual expression, but especially also on its function in the realm of sound, we can perceive acoustically temporal and spatial qualities that haven't previously existed in art. It has been our mission to explore possible new forms of artistic expression that emerge when reevaluating the human senses of vision, hearing and touch on an equal basis.

Organized by Keiichiro Shibuya (ATAK)
Co-sponsor: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Support: Yamaguchi City, The Board of Education of Yamaguchi City
Produced by ATAK, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media[YCAM]

ENSEMBLES closing live "Networks"

2008-06-13T04:12:33Z

1st set
Choi Joon-Yong(opened cdplayer/Seoul), Hong Chulki(turntable/Seoul), Jin Sangtae(hard-disk drives, laptop/Seoul), Otomo Yoshihide(turntable/Tokyo)

2nd set
Yamamoto Seiichi + Otomo Yoshihide Project

3rd set
FEN [Yuen Chee Wai(laptop, piano/Singapore), Ryu Hankil(inside clock/Seoul), Yan Jun(laptop, voice/Beijing), Otomo Yoshihide(guitar, turntable/Tokyo)], Yamamoto Seiichi(guitar/Kyoto)
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［Organizer］ Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
［Support］ Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education, UK-JAPAN2008
［Co -sponsor］ Asahi Beer Arts Foundation, The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2008
［Cooperation］ sendai mediatheque, CALLITHUMP
［Special Thanks］ NHK ENTERPRISES, OFFICE SHIROUS
［Sponsorship］ Acoustic Technical Laboratory, Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc.
［Produced by］ Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
［Technical Support］ YCAM InterLab
［Project Curator］ Kazunao Abe (YCAM)

orchestras opening live "Musics"

2008-06-13T04:02:58Z

1st set: OTOMORCHESTRA

The first set is a session in which participating musicians perform pieces of music simultaneously in many different places in the building of YCAM. Elementary school children and junior high school students participating in the sound workshop join this performance.

Performers: ONJO, Takamine Tadasu, Ameya Norimizu, sound workshop participants, Oto-asobi-no-kai, rewall, Ogawa Kimiyo, Watanabe Hideki, Makino Takuma, Mohri Yuko, Gosho Junko, Yuasa Manabu,
Matsushima Tamasaburo, and many others

2nd set: ONJO(otomo yoshihide's new jazz orchestra)

In the second set, musicians give competitive performances in an installation of scrap materials in Studio A.

2nd set: ONJO(otomo yoshihide's new jazz orchestra)
Performers: ONJO [Otomo Yoshihide(g, perc, tt), Kahimi Karie(vo), Okura Masahiko(as, bcl, tubes), Aoki Taisei(tb, flute), Ishikawa Ko(shou), Sachiko M(sinewaves), Unami Taku(computer with objects), Takara Kumiko(vib), Mizutani Hiroaki(b), Yoshigaki Yasuhiro(ds, tp), Kondoh Yoshiaki(live sound engineering)], Ameya Norimizu(noise), UNO-MAN(tentekomai）etc

]]> ［Organizer］ Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
［Support］ Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education, UK-JAPAN2008
［Co -sponsor］ Asahi Beer Arts Foundation, The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2008
［Cooperation］ sendai mediatheque, CALLITHUMP
［Special Thanks］ NHK ENTERPRISES, OFFICE SHIROUS
［Sponsorship］ Acoustic Technical Laboratory, Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc.
［Produced by］ Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
［Technical Support］ YCAM InterLab
［Project Curator］ Kazunao Abe (YCAM)

ENSEMBLES opening live "Songs"

2008-06-13T03:15:04Z

1st set:    Kahimi Karie's Invisible Songs
2nd set:    without songs
3rd set:    Otomo Yoshihide's Invisible Songs ]]>

［Organizer］ Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
［Support］ Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education, UK-JAPAN2008
［Co-sponsor］ Asahi Beer Arts Foundation, The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2008
［Cooperation］ sendai mediatheque, CALLITHUMP
［Special Thanks］ NHK ENTERPRISES, OFFICE SHIROUS
［Sponsorship］ Acoustic Technical Laboratory, Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc.
［Produced by］ Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
［Technical Support］ YCAM InterLab
［Project Curator］ Kazunao Abe (YCAM)

Ryoji Ikeda audiovisual concert "datamatics［ver.2.0］

2008-01-09T06:17:04Z

Ryoji Ikeda's project datamatics is an art project that explores the potentials to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world.

datamatics [ver 2.0] is the new, fullﾐlength version of Ryoji Ikeda's acclaimed audiovisual concert. Ikeda has significantly developed the earlier version of this piece (premiered in March 2006), adding a newly commissioned second part.

Driven by the primary principles of datamatics, but objectively deconstructing its original elements - sound, visuals and even source codes - this new work creates a kind of meta-datamatics. Ikeda employs real-time programme computations and data scanning to create an extended new sequence that is a further abstraction of the original work.

The technical dynamics of the piece, such as its extremely fast frame rates and variable bit depths, continue to challenge and explore the thresholds of our perceptions.

"datamatics [prototype] showed Ikeda at the height of his powers, building on his own unique and unmistakable artistic language." -The Wire, 2006

MOVIE
extracted from datamatics [ver.1.0] © Ryoji Ikeda 2006-08

concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda
computer graphics, programming: Shohei Matsukawa, Daisuke Tsunoda, Norimichi Hirakawa, Tomonaga Tokuyama
co-commissioned by AV Festival 06, ZeroOne San Jose & ISEA 2006
produced by Forma
co-produced by Les Spectacles Vivants-Centre Pompidou and YCAM
supported by Recombinant Media Labs

YCAM performance lounge #2 / Rogues' Gallery Gasoline Music & Cruising in Yamaguchi

2007-10-26T02:51:12Z

You can drive through familiar sights in town while time is felt alive with realistic soundsÑüthe scenery seen from a car window with sound effects of the engine, turn signal, etc.

]]> Citroen XM-X is used, and only two people can experience this drive at a time. Participants experience the drive looking at the scenery in town with not only eyes and ears but also the whole body, along the driving route selected from the artist's point of view.

Please enjoy the art of "space" and "time" as well as the possibility of performing art away from the theater space in YCAM's second Performance Lounge in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Official website: Rogues' Gallery

● Demonstration + Passenger registration
Saturday, December 1, 2007; 17:00~17:30
Venue: Near by the parking lot entrance

"Gasoline Music & Cruising" is demonstrated.
Everyone who is interested in "Gasoline Music and Cruising" and those who want to board the car are invited to attend.
Note: If there are more boarding applicants than the capacity, they are selected by drawing lots.

● Gasoline Music & Cruising in Yamaguchi
December 8 (Sat.) ~ December 16 (Sun.), 2007
(Closed one day during this period)

Admission: Free

The drive is conducted eight times all together.
(One drive per day: the number of participants is up to two each day.)
The drive is conducted approximately for one hour in the evening.
Each participant will be informed of the details of the drive after participants are decided.
Note: Participants of junior high school students and under must be accompanied by their guardians.

● You are invited to send in information on attractive driving routes in Yamaguchi!
Application period: November 1 (Thurs.) ~ December 6 (Thurs.), 2007

Roguesﾕ Gallery office in YCAM
http://rogues.ycam.jp/ (available from November 1)
You are invited to introduce attractive driving routes and spots in Yamaguchi, online or at Roguesﾕ Gallery office in YCAM.

Please send us information about attractive driving spots for the night that you would recommend among familiar sights, such as a night view with bright lights of a shopping center seen from a highway, or a hill where night view is beautiful. Roguesﾕ Gallery will produce Yamaguchiﾕs original driving routes referring to your information.

Note:
_Your information is used only as a good guide to Roguesﾕ Gallery works, and will not be open to the public.
_We might make a request that you accompany Roguesﾕ Gallery to visit a specific spot to make a preliminary inspection some day from December 1st to sixth. In that case, we will inform you directly.
_Your personal information is not used for the purpose other than Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion and this project of Roguesﾕ Gallery.

*YCAM Performance Lounge
This series introduces artists who are searching for potentials of new performing art. You can enjoy a great line-up of artists trying to communicate ﾒthe presentﾓ through a good command of different ways of expression, including theater and dance.

opening event "Corpora in Si(gh)te" laptop sound concert

2007-09-24T12:58:30Z

laptop sound concert
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Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion (in YCAM):083-920-6111

The ticket booking system is available only in Japanese. To use the online ticket booking service, membership registration (free of charge) is required. To register online membership and book ticket(s), please click here.(only in Japanese)
At the window / by phone (only in Japanese)
Ticket information, Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion (in YCAM)
Tel: 083-920-6111
(Office hours: 10:00 - 19:00 / Closed on Tuesday, or the following day in case of holiday)

Organizer: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Support: Embassy of Switzerland, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Tokyo, Yamaguchi City, The Board of Education of Yamaguchi City
Special Cooperation: University of the Arts Zurich (ZHdK), Department Interaction Design, Zurich Switzerland, Nextlab, Budapest Hungary
Cooperation: The Asahi Shimbun
Produced by: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
Co-production: YCAM InterLab
Project Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)

サン・ラ・アーケストラ / 太陽が招く宇宙のドラマ

2007-09-04T15:06:27Z

JAZZから実験音楽まで、世界のあらゆる音楽シーンから多大なリスペクトを浴びているサン・ラー・アーケストラ。サン・ラー存命中に制作された秘蔵映像とともについにYCAM来演。

サン・ラー・アーケストラのリーダー、マーシャル・アレンと、ギタリストR.E.マホニー、映像作家ジェームズ・ハラーが繰り広げる映像×音楽によるスペシャルプログラム。太陽系と深い宇宙の闇を突き抜けてたどり着いた美しい旅が、ついにYCAMに舞い降ります。

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今回の公演は、ジェームズ・ハラーが作り出したミステリアスな映像が、マーシャル×R.E.マホニーによる即興演奏にジョイント。ネイティブアメリカンの彼の本名は、現地の言葉でライジング・サンの意味を持ち、ジェームズとマーシャルの出会いは運命に導かれた出会いともいえるでしょう。さらに今回は、60年代末〜70年代前半にアーケストラが遊び心たっぷりに撮影し撮りためていた日本未公開フィルムの上映も敢行!公演時間中ひと時も目を離す事のできない注目のプログラム。しかもスペシャルゲストは山本精一(BOREDOMS、ROVO)という豪華ナイトです。

"YCAM Foyer Concert" by Tokyo Metroporitan Brass Quintet

2007-08-01T08:39:29Z

*This event also will be held from 16:00 on the same day.

"Street Concert" by Tokyo Metroporitan Brass Quintet

Venue : Front of Chimakiya Department Store
Admission : Free

Organization : Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion