2009/12/31 ::
Rare Frequency plays works of mAtter
>>Rare Frequency
http://spinitron.com/public/index.php?station=wzbc&month=Dec&year=2009&playlist=15752
radio on air | Rare Frequency
Rare Frequency plays works of mAtter
>>Rare Frequency
http://spinitron.com/public/index.php?station=wzbc&month=Dec&year=2009&playlist=15752
2009/11/13 ::
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
-
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
CD | scytale :: Shinkei + mise_en_scene - MATTER004
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
-
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
2009/10/30 ::
Compilation CD | Test Tone Anthology Disc 1
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/
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/
2009/10/20 ::
new contents start | image - visionary
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
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
2009/09/27 ::
"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)
Live peformance | Yukitomo Hamasaki - moire
"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)
2009/09/10 ::
Exhibitions | Andy Graydon :: UNTITLED (PLATE TECTONICS)
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
+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
2009/07/10 ::
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/
Live peformance | Go Koyashiki - Geometrik Vol1.
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/
2009/06/17 ::
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
=
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
new release | CD+DVD | Geomancy/Andy Graydon | MATTER003
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
=
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
2009/06/17 ::
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/
release party and performance event | Andy Graydon::Geomancy
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/
2009/03/27 ::
sound design | High photo Awards 2009
High photo Awards 2009
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter) + NOIR Sound Production
Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter) + NOIR Sound Production
2009/03/13 ::
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)
live performance | Lieil
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)
2009/02/20 ::
"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
+
Yukitomo Hamasaki (mAtter)
+
Yui Onodera
+
Junji Koyanagi
+
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/
installation | TOKYO BY TOKYO release party at HOTEL CLASKA
"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
+
Yukitomo Hamasaki (mAtter)
+
Yui Onodera
+
Junji Koyanagi
+
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/
