mAtter

Broadcasting of mAtter works with RADIO ALTERNATOR from Poland.
Please check RADIO ALTERNATOR

Featuring Artist ::
Yukitomo Hamasaki
Go Koyashiki
shotahirama
Pe Lang
pleq

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SOUNDROOM vol.45 - Sound Trip TOKYO- at SuperDeluxe

Live :: Yukitomo Hamasaki (mAtter) + shotahirama (SIGNAL DADA)

MORE INFORMATION >> CLICK HERE

The interview with Shinkei and  mise_en_scene for MATTER004 is published on tokafi.com

Thanks Tobias for both review and interview.

The interview with Shinkei >> CLICK HERE

The interview with mise_en_scene >> CLICK HERE

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2010 / 05 / 18

Works of Yukitomo Hamasaki(MATTER001), Shinkei+mise_en_scene(MATTER002) are played on Internet radio program "slow-audycja" by radio-alternator.

slow-audycja playlist May 18, 2010　and more information >> CLICK HERE

Yukitomo Hamasaki :: d+p - MATTER001 >> more information
Shinkei + mise_en_scene :: scytale -MATTER004 >> more information

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mAtter website renewal　ver.0.4

mAtterのwebsiteをリニューアルしました。

website design by Junji Koyanagi

+LUS installation

"flex acoustics" - Augmented Perception is predetermined according to the ideal way of the space. We execute a live installation that changes the ideal way of the sounds in the space by performing the space that uses Sound Object.


EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, ART & PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL - 2009 -

Date: February 20(Sat.),2010 Start 14:00 (Door Open 13:30)
Admission: 1,000 yen

>>more informations : JAPANESE
>>more informations : ENGLISH


About : +LUS

+LUS
is an ART GROUP by Yui Onodera, Junji Koyanagi,Taishi Kamiya and Yukitomo Hamasaki. They present the expression as MIXED MEDIA while catching the design area of various media from the sound, the image, and the products to the space in equivalence.

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Yui Onodera
is a composer, sound artist and sound space designer based inTokyo, Japan. In terms of environmental functions and spacial relationships of sound,he employs materials from various sources ranging from field recordings, electronics,voices, to instruments, for process-based restrained electroacoustic pieces. Onodera's recordings have been released from labels in different countries such as France, Germany,Belgium, the US, and Japan.

Besides working on a solo basis, Onodera keeps collaborative recordings with othersound artists and musicians since around 2007. As of September 2009, a full-length CD with The Beautiful Schizophonic has been in public. A two-year-long collaborative CD album with Celer is slated for winter 2009.

>>www.critical-path.info

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Junji Koyanagi
was completed Graduate School of Musashino Art University.He is creating image
works, sound works and media art works (use image  and sound chiefly) basede in Tokyo. And He play audio_visual live too.His works concept is composed space and designed environment by image and sound.

And he is active as "pico pico stomachs" (audio improvisation unit consist of 4 member) and other audio_visual unit. He collaborate with dance, performance and butou (Japanese contemporary dance), and he create music video too.

He manage "ONZO" (sound, image, performance, and design of space group) and "Phantom Bug" (audio_visual and performance event). And he manege "Atsumari" (with each other) and
"celescape" (re-cognizance project from wide range of environment) too.

>>www.celescape.org/koyanagi/

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Taishi Kamiya
is sound artist,Musical instrument developer based in Tokyo.
He is pursuing the moment when the sound becomes music by producing the performance or the acoustic system. He does the performance activity that in real time composes the sound work while the processing of the sound of the saxophone. And, the system that observes the
appearance of the sound that cannot usually be experienced by using the sound in the place is produced. he is producing the installation works that composes music through the experience of those systems.

>>www.windtail.com

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Yukitomo Hamasaki
is composer, sound artist and he has managing sound label "mAtter" besed in Tokyo.
his music career at the age of 18,  taking his cues from djing.His interested are light, a cloud,
and the collision that has happened by micro space. And his theme is to compose them as a musical composition. Moreover, he produces the installation work and the graphic design.

about mAtter : mAtter is a sound & design label, with works centering around Yukitomo Hamasaki.  The label take an approach to various types of media, such as sound design, architecture, and product design. It interprets/restructures these concepts in a lot of different ways, based on mAtter's own perspective, with the goal of  constructing  dense space. The members of the project aren't specified, and they switch depending on the various projects. The members mainly consist of musicians, architects, video artists, and writers. 
 
>>www.matter.jp

 
 

 

störung radio 　plays works of mAtter.

störung radio
>> http://www.storung.com/index.php?section=radio&type=playlists&a=43

>> Review of "Shinkei + mise_en_scene :: scytale " on the Tokafi

Rare Frequency  plays works of mAtter

>>Rare Frequency
http://spinitron.com/public/index.php?station=wzbc&month=Dec&year=2009&playlist=15752

New Release . Dec 16,2009 - MATTER004

artist :: Shinkei + mise_en_scene
title :: scytale

1.Cryptology
2.Cuts
3.Remodelled I
4.Remodelled II
5.Cryptology [agrandissement] _remixed by Luigi Turra
6. Dreaming Assent_remixed by Michael Hartman
7.Abstr.B.,No2_remixed by Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)

Mastering : Taylor Deupree (12K) at 12K MASTERING

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ARTIST :: Shinkei + mise_en_scene
TITLE :: scytale
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER004
PRICE :: 2,100 yen(2,000 yen without tax)
FORMAT :: CD
RELEASE DATE :: 2009.06.17

-link

shinkei : www.koyuki-sound.org
mise_en_scene : www.myspace.com/miseenscene11
Luigi Turra : www.navenight.com
Michael Hartman : www.kuronekomusic.com
Yukitomo Hamasaki : www.matter.jp
Taylor Deupree (12K) : www.12kmastering.com

Test Tone Anthology Disc 1

Texture, rhythm and movement in all of its guises, this anthology disc captures the myriad of expression that has become the hallmark of the Test Tone series at Tokyo's SuperDeluxe. Focusing on riveting improvisation and stark electronica, the music collected here covers a lot of ground, from balloon duets to helicopter compositions and other experiments in noise. Challenging and evocative, this presents wide-angle snapshot of Japan's current wave of international sound pioneers.




Track 1: Yukitomo Hamasaki
Track 2: Shintaro Miyazaki
Track 3: Almglocken
Track 4: Meri Nikula
Track 5: Government Alpha
Track 6: Scriptones
Track 7: Toque (Kelly Churko+Tim Olive)
Track 8: EVOL
Track 9: Zbigniew Karkowski + Christophe Charles
Track 10: Go Koyashiki
Track 11: Missing Man Foundation
Track 12: Masaya Sasaki
Track 13: Shintaro Aoki
Track 14: Henna Dress

more information ::
http://www.soundispatch.com/ttsnews/test-tone-cds/test-tone-anthology-disc-1/

mAtter new contents"image" start on our website


visionary - issue #01-

-other side of Geomancy-

photo : Tomo Asano (mAtter)
visual : Andy Graydon :: Geomancy (MATTER003)
direction : Yukitomo Hamasaki (mAtter)
web design : Junji Koyanagi (mAtter)
special thanks to Ushikubo-san , Horiuchi-san , HOTEL CLASKA

"moire"

2009/09/27(sun) at Ottomainzheim Gallery (Tokyo)
OPEN 17:00 START 18:00
adv. / door. 2,000 yen
Live :
Yves De Mey (12K/LINE)
Yui Onodera (CRITICAL PATH) + yukitomo hamasaki (mAtter)
exportion (xs record / 77color symphony)

presented by CMFLG

more information >>CMFLG

>>Yves De Mey

>>Yui Onodera

>>Yukitomo Hamasaki (mAtter)

Andy Graydon, Untitled (plate tectonics) :: September 10 ? October 10, 2009
+opening this Thursday September 10, 19:00





By installing excavated stones from New Jersey in a gallery, Robert Smithson, in the late 1960s, revealed the dialectic between abstract and actual locations. Sometimes in containers, sometimes piled, the stones in the gallery represented a far away location without resembling it. Something of New Jersey, Smithson maintained, was held in those rocks and their displacement resulted in the expansion of the original site, both physically and conceptually. The Site Non-Site dialectic, as Smithson called it, feels particularly familiar today as our daily lives are continually reshaped by place-defying technologies in communication, information and travel.

With Untitled (plate tectonics), Andy Graydon similarly explores the physical dimensions of location in contrast to its perception. After obtaining the ambient sounds of eleven “natural” art locations in New York ? museums, fairs, galleries ? Graydon cut the recordings onto unique acetate phonograph records, dubplates, that allow visitors to reshape PROGRAM’s gallery space with sound. Environment is used as a material. Replaying the sounds of these New York institutions as they intermix with the ambient sounds of PROGRAM, space is at once extended and collapsed. Dubplates, for the music industry, are used in mastering studios before the final master. They are meant for temporary use, they deteriorate over time. The sounds recorded on its surface are lost after about fifty plays.


Artist's statement:

What is a visitor to the Met doing when she views the Greek sculpture garden almost exclusively through the LCD panel of her camera? What kind of experience is being produced? It is a familiar lament that our culture is losing its ability to attend, to look with engagement at art and at everyday experience. But that lament overlooks a compeling fact: the visitor is composing.

In those photos, sounds, or videos, the art and the surrounding space are collapsed together (i.e. onto a picture plane) and rendered plastic, malleable, in a sense modular. Most importantly they are incorporated into the world of the viewer, rather than the reverse. In this sense there are few more democratic gestures in an exhibition than to point a device and make a recording, not to preserve a record of the place, but to impose upon it a unique continuity, a contour of oneís own experience; to sculpt with it.

A museum or exhibition space aims to present a coherent itinerary of (largely visual) experience. Sound tends to tell a different story, revealing places and intervals that are disruptive, distracted, intense, or diffuse, but rarely discrete. Indeed, sound abhors discretion. It can only exist through disruption and agitation. Sound is inclusive and immersive: if you hear it, it is vibrating you. This helps to explain the conflicted relationship contemporary art exhibition has had with sound work, in which playing pieces on headphones has become the favored way of taming sound into an ideally discrete sound-object.

With this in mind, Untitled (plate tectonics) works with the exhibition space (both recorded and present) not as a resolved environment for the reception and contemplation of works, but rather as both an impulse (as in electrical energy) and as a material, a moldable substance useful in the creation of other ideas, further experiences, alternate places.


+ about the artist

Andy Graydon (1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. His work focuses on the relationship between media and environment. In 2008 Graydon was part of the New Museum’s inaugural exhibition Unmonumental, and his installation Untitled (Ground) was presented at LMAKprojects gallery in New York. In 2007 his installation Room Works was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Portland Art Center (Oregon). Geomancy, a new collection of film and sound works, was released on cd and dvd by the Tokyo label mAtter in June 2009. [www.andygraydon.net]


+download press release 06.09.2009 [pdf]


Thanks to Michael Connor, Lauren Cornell, Heike Fetzer and Christoph Grote-Beverborg at Dubplates and Mastering, and Holger de Buhr at Just Music. Special thanks to Ben Owen, Andrea Williams, sawako, Richard Garet, and Pe Lang who contributed recordings and compositions to this work.


The exhibition is kindly supported by justmusic, Rhizome and beamAround

Selection of ORiental TRaffic's Shop B.G.M.-2009 Autmn & Winter-



>>ORiental TRaffic

Geometrik Vol1.

07.10. Fri. 2009
at SOUP
1000YEN
OPEN 20:00 CLOSE 23:00

performances;

Go Koyashiki
MICLO DIET
JANDEATH
enormous O'clock
Ducerey Ada Nexin

more information
http://shotahirama.blogspot.com/2009/06/geometrik-vol1-presented-by-jandeath.html

Go Koyashiki's works of mAtter :: slit - MATTER002
Go Koyashiki's website :: http://www.gokoyashiki.jp/

mAtter shop page  update.

09.06.17 on sale

Andy Graydon :: Geomancy
CD + DVD works 　2, 625yen

ARTIST :: Andy Graydon
TITLE :: Geomancy
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER003
PRICE :: 2,625 yen(2,500 yen without tax)
FORMAT :: CD + DVD
BARCODE :: 4941135990155
RELEASE DATE :: 2009.06.17

Geomancy

CD : Untitled (geomancy)

01. untitled_12'12　
02. untitled_02'11
03. untitled_04'38
04. untitled_03'32
05. untitled_04'40
06. untitled_03'09
07. untitled_21'47

DVD

01.Farwanderer [2009] _08'43
02.Surroundings (the ship,the shoal,the shore) [2005] _06'47
03.Focal Plane (ten frames aligh on the) [2006] _23'29
04.Untitled (aina) [2008] _ 26'22


picture + sound : Andy Graydon
mix : Andy Graydon
mastering : Naph at NATURE BLISS STUDIO
photography : Andy Graydon
sleeve design : mAtter

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Andy Graydon

Andy Graydon (b. 1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin.
His work focuses on the interaction of sound, image, and environment. In his recent work Andy is interested in creating what he calls "Science Fiction Ecologies" by engaging with the speculative and transformational qualities within an environment. Taking the form of videos, sound works, media objects and installations this work explores the boundary zones between performance and exhibition, presence and deferral, liveness and mediation.

Graydon has presented work nationally and internationally in programs such as Ausland, Berlin, the Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam, and the Portland Art Center, Oregon. Recent exhibitions and performances in New York City include work at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, LMAKprojects gallery, Diapason, Art In General, Participant Inc gallery, Galeria Galou, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, White Box gallery, and Tonic. In 2005/2006 he was the visiting artist at the Center for Computer Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Recent sound releases are available on Non Visual Objects (Vienna), Winds Measure Recordings (Brooklyn), 12k/Term (New York), EKO (Paris), On;(do) Music (Miami), The NY Society for Acoustic Ecology, and forthcoming from White_Line Editions (UK). Collaborations include performances and recordings with John Hudak, Kato Hideki, Kenneth Kirschner, sawako, Amnon Wolman, David Grubbs, Ben Owen, Zach Layton, Andre Golcalves, Brendan Murray, mpld, and Richard Garet. He is the co-founder and curator of three media and performance series in New York City: Becoming, Sonogrammar, and the upcoming LMAKseries.

www.andygraydon.ne

mAtter presents
Geomancy dvd+cd by Andy Graydon

Release Party and Performance Event
Wednesday, June 17, 8pm
Special performances and presentations by:
Pe Lang
Jacob Kirkegaard
Yukitomo Hamasaki

with screenings from Geomancy by Andy Graydon

Staalplaat
Flughafenstrasse 38
Berlin Neuko¨lln
admission 4 EUR

http://staalplaat.wordpress.com/
http://www.andygraydon.net/
http://www.pelang.ch/
http://fonik.dk/

High photo Awards 2009
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter) + NOIR Sound Production

Lieil
        
GUEST LIVE    
yukitomo hamasaki (mAtter)
miyachan akichan (rain music)
naoto taguchi (lieil)
po[k]hra (osss, tmug)
junichi watanabe (asian dynasty records)
fugenn (trench warfare)

DJ    
lieilworks
dj hirow (anything ri-on)

VJ    
voice.zero

ART    
nozomi
masatoshi tago

18:00 - 23:00
at Koenji Salon By Marbletron
Charge: ￥2000(with 1 drink)

"TOKYO BY TOKYO" release party at HOTEL CLASKA

sound installation : HOTEL CLASKA 2F floor

NOIR Sound Productin presents " TOKYO IS..."

Sound Installation :

NOIR Sound Production
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Yukitomo Hamasaki (mAtter)
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Yui Onodera
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Junji Koyanagi
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Chihei Hatakeyama

Sound System Design : On-Coo
Visual : mount, Humany Earthy
Space Design : WATOWA
Art Direction : GLAMBEAST

NOIR Sound Production : http://www.noirsoundproduction.com/
Yui Onodera : http://www.critical-path.info/
Junji Koyanagi : http://www.geocities.jp/koyanagi_junji/
Chihei Hatakeyama : http://www.chihei.org/
On-Coo : http://on-coo.com/
WATOWA : http://www.watowa.jp/
GLAMBEAST : http://www.glambeast.com/

slit　Go Koyashiki

DJ     
Wataru Oikawa(Lunch For Ear)
Kazuhiro Baba
Go Koyashiki
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)
      
SPECIAL GUEST DJ : BLACK SEBBATH
MOTIVA名義で音による空間演出などを手掛ける黒瀧節也（クロタキセツヤ）が2008年に新しく立ち上げたプロジェクト。
石橋楽器とパイオニアが主催した、日本初のCDJバトルである【CSN BATTLE 2008】においてグランドチャンピオンとなる。
今後はDJイベントを中心とした活動や自身のオリジナル音源の制作、REMIXなどを行っていく。
9月にBLACK SEBBATH名義で初のDJ MIX音源【BLKSBTH DJ MIXXX】をMYSPACE 上で公開するので要チェック
http://www.myspace.com/blacksebbath

start 21:00-close 05:00
at KOARA_Shibuya
Entrance Free
   
MOTIVA    http://www.motiva.in
KOARA     http://www.koara-tokyo.com/
Lunch For Ear     http://hw001.gate01.com/radio3/radio_lfe.htm

DJ
Wataru Oikawa(Lunch For Ear)   
Kazuhiro Baba
Go Koyashiki
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)
    
SPECIAL GUEST DJ
DJ JIMIHENDRIXXX(ATAK)
   
start 21:00-close 05:00
at KOARA_Shibuya
Entrance Free
   
ATAK       http://www.atak.jp
KOARA    http://www.koara-tokyo.com/

DJ    
Saegusa & Hamasaki
    
start 20:00-close 26:00
CLASKA
Entrance Free
   
CLASKA     http://www.claska.com/

DJ
Wataru Oikawa(Lunch For Ear)
Kazuhiro Baba
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)
    
SPECIAL GUEST DJ
HUTCHUCK
   
start 21:00-close 05:00
at KOARA_Shibuya
Entrance Free
   
KOARA     http://www.koara-tokyo.com/

obake yashiki vol.6
       
live
improvizationic roma (mayuri/voice + junyay/fiddle)
Yukitomo Hamasaki and Call LyallN
kitsch hittori gakudan and jahiliyyah + ... aka nikola mounoud (from switzerland)
   
open : 18:30
start : 19:00
Entrance Free
   
garigari, ikenoue     www.cinemabokan.com/
more info soundispatch.com/

DJ
Wataru Oikawa(Lunch For Ear)
Kazuhiro Baba
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)
    
start 21:00-close 05:00
at KOARA_Shibuya
Entrance Free
   
KOARA     http://www.koara-tokyo.com/

DJ   
Wataru Oikawa(Lunch For Ear)
Kazuhiro Baba
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)
   
Sign daikanyama
Entrance Free

Sign daikanyama     http://www.transit-web.com/01/0103/

    
DJ
Wataru Oikawa(Lunch For Ear)
Kazuhiro Baba
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)
   
start 21:00-close 05:00
at KOARA_Shibuya
Entrance Free
   
KOARA     http://www.koara-tokyo.com/

DJ
Wataru Oikawa(Lunch For Ear)
Kazuhiro Baba
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)
    
SPECIAL GUEST : LIVE
uhitokiyosue-on;(do)
    
start 21:00-close 05:00
at KOARA_Shibuya
Entrance Free
    
on;(do)     http://ondomusic.com/
KOARA    http://www.koara-tokyo.com/
    
GUEST INFO : uhitokiyosue_on;(do)
    
シカゴ音楽院にてPatricia Moreheadに作曲を、バークリー音楽院にてCsoundで良く知られるRichard Boulangerに音響合成を学ぶ。

その後、シカゴ、ニューヨーク、マイアミと、ラップトップ・アーティストとして、そしてレコーディング・エンジニアとして活動する。
アーティストとしてはTV PowやJason Solidayと共演し、またエンジニアとしては、Black SheepやToday's My Spaceout Dayの録音/ミックスを手がける。

また自ら「ポスト・ケージアン」を自称し、現代におけるプロセスとしての作曲を実践し、ソフトウェア作品も多くある。

2003年より、Koutarou Fukuiとオンラインレーベル、on;(do)を運営。
Jake ElliottやAram Sheltonなどの意欲的なリリースを続ける。
抽象音楽だけでなく、HIPHOPにも造詣が深く、Meswy、Mick Bolgard等の海外アーティストのリミックスも多く手がける。

DJ

DJ

on;(do) presents

DJ