Concert: Yutaka Makino / dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) / Alberto de Campo
Saturday, 30/6/2012, 20h doors
FEED SOUNDSPACE
Hobrechtstraße 65 | Hinterhaus, Etage 4 | 12047 Berlin-Neukölln
U-Bahnhof Hermannplatz
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ARTIST BIOS:
Yutaka Makino was born in 1976 in Japan and lives in Berlin. Active
primarily in the field of computer music, Makino also uses
installations and performances to explore the various dimensions of
human perception. On the basis of his investigations into spatial
perception and new methods of sound synthesis, his works make use of
concepts inspired by his current research into areas such as
phenomenology, experimental psychology and complex dynamic systems.
Makino?s recent works provide environments in flux to experience
shifting modes of perception. He works with computational dynamic
systems to generate and control elements such as sound, light or fog.
These pseudo matters lay out the environments of which the audience
becomes an active part.
He presented his works internationally such as DAAD Gallery (Germany),
Clubtransmediale (Germany), Akademie der Künste (Germany), Kontraste
(Austria), Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetics of Space (The Netherlands),
STRP Festival (The Netherlands), and Japan Society (USA). He has had
extended residencies at the MacDowell Colony (USA), STEIM (The
Netherlands), Technical University Berlin (Germany) and ZKM (Germany).
He has been received prizes and grants from DAAD Artists-in-Berlin
Program (Germany), Prix Ton Bruynèl (The Netherlands), Agency of
Cultural Affairs (Japan), Pola Art Foundation (Japan) among others and
commissions from Foundation Ton Bruynèl (The Netherlands), STRP
Festival (The Netherlands), STEIM (The Netherlands) and DAAD
Artists-in-Berlin Program (Germany). He also has given lectures and
presentations at numerous institutions and festivals.
In 2009, he founded an independent computer music label, Strukto.
http://www.yutakamakino.com
Alberto de Campo is a musician, composer, artist and educator working
in many different contexts: among other things, he plays in several
improvisation ensembles, composes, creates sound-based installations,
and designs software instruments.
After studying composition and jazz guitar in Austria, he focused on
electronic/computer music while being Visiting Scholar and later
Research Director at CREATE (UC Santa Barbara). After teaching at IEM
Graz and Media Arts Academy Cologne (KHM), he held the Edgard Varèse
Guest Professorship for Electronic Music at TU Berlin, kindly funded
by DAAD Berlin, in 2005.
From 2005-2007 he was lead researcher in ?SonEnvir? (at IEM Graz), an
interdisciplinary project which experimented with possible
applications of sonification of scientific data with a team of
scientists from several different disciplines. From 2007-2009 he was
Professor for Music Informatics at the Institut Fuer Musik Und Medien
at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, and since 2009 he is
Professor for Gnerative Art / Computational Art at the University of
the Arts Berlin.
He works with the artist collective ?Society for Nontrivial Pursuits?,
the ensembles powerbooks_unplugged, Quiet Noise Quartet,
realtime_research, with Elisabeth Harnik, Florian Hecker, Marcus
Schmickler, Mario de Vega, Hannes Hoelzl, Andres Bosshard, and others.
His artistic and research interests include algorithmic art,
just-in-time programming, practices of improvisation, and performance
and interaction with complex systems.
Recent publications: Chapters in The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press,
2011), on Microsound, Object Modeling, Sonification and Auditory
Display, Just in Time Programming, and Systems within Systems; Varia
Zoosystematica Profundorum (installation, group project with students,
2010); Reversing Pendulum Music (composition/performance, 2010),
Science By Ear ? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sonifying Scientific
Data (dissertation, 2009).
http://albertodecampo.net
http://medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/pages/Kunst_und_Medien
Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka DJ Sniff) is a musician, curator and
producer in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised
music.
His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing,
instrument design and free improvisation. He is interested in how a
mediated musical memory, from archival collections of vinyl records to
digitally captured sound events during a performance, can be used to
create a new sonic reality that emerges through the fleeting notion of
the ?now.? This pursuit has led him to create customized instruments
that allow him to intuitively access and re-play these different
temporalities ingrained in our listening consciousness. His live
performances range from carefully constructed solo sets to
improvisational groups with virtuosic instrumentalists.
His curatorial work aims to present a global overview on new
experimental approaches to music, sound and performance. He is often
involved in facilitating the technical or conceptual development of
the works that he features, and his network is built from being an
active artist in the field. As Artistic Director of STEIM in
Amsterdam, he has curated and produced over 100 projects including
large scale international festivals and award winning art works.
Born in 1978, Mizuta Lippit spent most of his formative years in
Tokyo. He studied Art History and Philosophy at Keio University, where
his graduating thesis was on concepts of the frame and the sublime,
based on a critical reading of Kant, Derrida and Lyotard. During this
time, he was also active as a DJ in the underground electronic music
scene and formed a collective called smashTV productions which
organized club events and salon style gatherings. After professionally
working as a translator, researcher on alternative art spaces, DJ and
construction worker, he moved to New York to pursue graduate studies
at NYU?s Interactive Telecommunications Program where he received his
Master?s degree in Physical Computing and Interaction Design.
Since 2005 he has been involved with STEIM?s (Studio for
Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam) R&D lab. From 2007 on, he is
STEIM?s Artistic Director, guiding the institution?s creative output
and representing it?s activities through performing, curating and
lecturing around the world.
He has performed throughout Europe, Asia and The United States at
various venues and international festivals including Club Transmediale
Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, Japan Society NYC, The Roy and Edna
Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) Los Angeles and FLOW Festival
Helsinki. He has released 12 DJ mixes and 2 solo albums from labels in
Lebanon and the UK and his work has been reviewed in the New York
Times, All About Jazz, The WIRE and createdigitalmusic.com. He has
received grants from Tisch School of the Arts, Japan Agency for
Cultural Affairs, Performing Arts Fund NL (FPK), Amsterdam Arts Fund
(AFK), and Dutch Consulates in various countries.
takuromizutalippitisdjsniff
http://djsniff.com
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