New Sound Sanctuary
Produced by SuperDeluxe
Live Performance
Monday (national holiday), November 23 | 18:00 open, 18:30 start
Adv 1,500 yen / Door 2,000 yen (incl. one drink)
Advance tickets available at Peatix and SuperDeluxe (payment at door)
Guest artists: Masami Tada, Joe Morris
Introducing: Gaiamamoo, ana-g, Takehito Kinoshita
Sound: Toru Ikegami
Lighting: Hiroshi Kato
Documentation: Kenta Matsuo (video), Hideto Maezawa (photo)
Sound Installation
Tuesday, December 8 – Thursday, December 10 | 14:00–22:00
Door 500 yen (audience of Live Performance are granted free admission)
Tatsuhiko Asano, Eiko Ishibashi, Cal Lyall, Takako Minekawa, Jim O’Rourke, Phew, Takuro Shibayama and Taro Yoshihara
System designed by Taro Yoshihara, Takuro Shibayama and Hayato Ichimura
The quest for new music and sound continues!
Live Performance
Eager to discover new music that we had never experienced, we established “New Sound Sanctuary” in 2013 and expanded it 2014. We envisioned it as a place for both new and experienced artists to share a stage and stimulate new forms of expression. We are excited to open the gate to the Sanctuary again this year for its third installment.
For the past two years we have encouraged musicians from throughout Japan regardless of career or genre to apply and perform on the stage at SuperDeluxe for New Sound Sanctuary. Since we received such a large number of quality applications during the first two years, this year we’ve decided to select new artists from the deep pool of 2013 and 2014 applications.
We are also excited to present two world-class innovators as guest artists: Joe Morris (first performance in Japan) and Masami Tada.
Please come to our haven and experience new worlds of sound as emerging artists join an intense history of musical expression!
Masami Tada | 1974–79: Formed an improvisation group; LP GAP. 1975: Took part in Takehisa Kosugi’s workshop at Bigakko. 1978: Shot the same tree everyday for 365 days, which would be exhibited in the Netherland 22 years later. 1994: Solo exhibition and performance at Het Apollohuis and CD Ne. 1996: Serious Circus exhibition, where audience peeped into a tent in a gallery. Since 2002: Stayed in Nepal during the Rato Machhendranath festival, and 2006: “Art-Full Nepal” with local artists. 2012: A photobook/essay, Is Landscape Photography? (Kyuryudo). “What is it to establish the fundamentals of art? The act to gravitate to sound itself, or to be nonverbally and properly thorough about an idea. What has been left from used and broken Western-folklore instruments: materials such as Japanese bamboo, dead branches (stems), round stones, pieces of wood, rubber bands or piano wires. There is air, when touching and giving vibrations to these materials: the body, sense of touch and hearing. It is impossible to explain the balance between them and how to take ‘pauses.’ Presentation of a “space” in the total environmentm, rather than creating ecoes in the electronic circuit, by grabbing the experience: that happens only for a moment.”
Gaiamamoo | An improvisation unit formed in 2012 by two young musicians based in Tokyo, Shogo Haraguchi and Mehata Sentimental Legend. They started to play around Koenji, toured four nothern and southern cities in Spain next year, and was featured by Spanish TV and radio. In 2013, a Spanish art magazine “ARTICULATE” introduced their activity. Employing diverse technologies and expressions and exploring visual images inspired by “abstract” colors, shapes, patterns and movements as well as synchronization of sonic stimulations from tones and noises, they musically compose through improvisation.
ana-g | “We bask in and are washed off by chaos of sounds that spontaneously emerge from daily life and cluster around us. We want to find music that is floral and aromatic like a commercial film of new cosmetics.” Although they are inclined to electronica, in live performances, they play in a light style like Peruvian street musicians or shishi-mai (lion dance) door-to-door entertainers. Chaotic sampling tracks, vocals in between poetry reading and rap, and comfortable sonic image that is rather drowsy than psychedelic. Apparently avant-garde, neither aggressive nor complicated, and uniquely gentle. You have to listen to it anyway, since their music cannot be compared to anything else. (Atsushi Horibe, Seikosha)
Takehito Kinoshita | Influenced by electronica and improvisation scenes, he started in 2005 to create tracks and perform mainly in Tokyo and Yokohama. He has also contributed compositions to visual and dance works and performed as an actor in contemporary dance, theatre and visual works.
Joe Morris | He began playing guitar in 1969, double bass in 2000. He co-founded Boston Improvisers Group (BIG) in 1981, then started Riti Records and released his first recording in 1983. He cites Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Leroy Jenkins, Thelonious Monk, Jimi Hendrix, Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Lyons, Ornette Coleman and traditional West African string music as major influences. He has performed and recorded with many of the leading figures in free music. Morris has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe. He currently leads various groups and performs in collective ensembles, as well as performing solo, and as a freelance guitarist and double bassist. He is featured as leader, co-leader, and sideman on more than 120 recordings to date. In addition to his own Riti Records, he has recorded for Soul Note, AUM Fidelity, Incus, Hat Hut, ECM, Clean Feed, ESPdisk, and many more. He is the author of the book, Perpetual Frontier: The Properties of Free Music. He is currently on the faculty at New England Conservatory, and Longy School of Music of Bard College.
Sound Installation
By presenting the sound installation program separately from the live performance, we aim to explore new sonic experiences beyond the traditional boundaries of “music,” “art,” and “entertainment.”
Artists from diverse backgrounds — Tatsuhiko Asano, Eiko Ishibashi, Cal Lyall, Takako Minekawa, Jim O’Rourke, Phew, Takuro Shibayama and Taro Yoshihara — will present their work through an original multi-speaker & multi-channel system to deliver rich and inspiring experiences unavailable from standard sound configurations. All works will utilize the same multi-speaker system, with each artist choosing the combination of speakers best suited to realize their unique sound.
During the three days, the venue will be divided into a space for deep sonic experiences and a lounge to offer a more relaxed environment. The installation program will present a series of palpable sonic encounters that can only be appreciated through the direct exposure of physically being in the space. Please visit the venue to have the experience!
Artists from diverse backgrounds will present their work through an original multi-speaker & multi-channel system to deliver rich and inspiring experiences unavailable from standard sound configurations. All works will utilize the same multi-speaker system, with each artist choosing the combination of speakers best suited to realize their unique sound.
During the three days, the venue will be divided into a space for deep sonic experiences and a lounge to offer a more relaxed environment. The installation program will present a series of palpable sonic encounters that can only be appreciated through the direct exposure of physically being in the space. Please visit the venue to have the experience!