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Analog fetishists and sonic spectacle-makers Aki Onda and MV Carbon combine forces, cassettes, cellos, synths, mics, amps, magnets, wires and echoes in unique experimental electronic collaboration.



Aki Onda is an electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project - works compiled from a "sound diary" of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda's musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noel Akchoté, Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch.



MV Carbon is a Brooklyn based musician and artist. She is recognized for her unconventional approach to music and her use of tape machines,
cello and circuit bent devices. Her orchestrations are designed to form visualizations as the woven sounds swell, stutter, and contort.
She collects field recordings and combines them with samples built from guitars and analog synthesizers. She is interested in discovering the place in music that flutters between the serene and the overwhelming. She has performed nationally and internationally with her solo project as well as in collaborations with Tony Conrad, Zach Layton, Okkyung Lee, Aki Onda, Evan Parker, John Wiese, Alex Waterman, Spencer Yeh, and with the dark wave duo, Metalux. She
has work released on Atavistic (Bride of No No), LOAD, 5RC, Hanson, Veglia, No Fun, Rampage and Nihilist (Metalux). Upcoming solo releases coming on Ecstatic Peace and Obsolete Units.




http://www.akionda.net/

http://mvcarbon.wordpress.com/

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Live computer music pioneer, Carl Stone, hailed by the Village Voice to be the "King of Sampling" teams up with New York based composer, photographer, and musician Aki Onda for an evening of experimental sampling.

"One of American experimental music's most eloquent advocates"  -- Steve Smith, Time Out New York

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling." and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University in Japan.

Aki Onda is an electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project - works compiled from a "sound diary" of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda's musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noel Akchoté, Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch.

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Starting as a professional jazz pianist in the 50s, Canadian Michael Snow has since achieved fame as a visual artist, creating the iconic "Walking Woman" image in the 60s as well as the genre-defining structural film Wavelength. He has continued to pursue music as a free improvisor, after arguably mid-wifing the form in the sessions for the soundtrack to his 1964 film New York Eye and Ear Control with Albert Ayler and others. Snow has performed with Evan Parker, Roswell Rudd, Derek Bailey and Tony Conrad as well as being a founding member of the CCMC (Snow, Paul Dutton and John Oswald) and playing frequent solo concerts. His photography, videos, films, paintings, and sculpture continue to be exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide.

Since he established himself as a producer in Audio Sports with Eye Yamatsuka and Nobukazu Takemura, Japanese composer Aki Onda has released a string of exquisite solo albums featuring contributions from musicians as diverse as Blixa Bargeld and Linda Sharrock. These include 2003's Cassette Memories series and the highly acclaimed albums Ancient & Modern and Bon Voyage! on which Onda performs with multiple cassette recorders and electronics, using sounds he has field-recorded himself as a diary. Most recently, he started an audio-visual project, Cinemage, images for cinema or homage for cinema, which is consisted of slide projections of still photograhs and improvised music.

Guitarist and improvisor Alan Licht has performed with legends of underground rock (Arthur Lee, Tom Verlaine, Royal Trux, Arto Lindsay, Jandek) as well as some of the foremost jazz and experimental musicians (Rashied Ali, Peter Brotzmann, Keith Rowe, Christian Marclay, Ken Vandermark, Phill Niblock). He currently co-leads Text of Light with Lee Ranaldo, in which they and other musicians improvise concerts as classic experimental films screen behind them. A long-time fan of Michael Snow's, he interviewed him in the late 90s and subsequently performed with him at festivals in Canada and Chicago. He has been performing duos with Aki Onda for the past five years, and was reminded of Snow's filmmaking when he heard Onda's album Bon Voyage!

Thus, a trio was formed which achieves the all-too-rare alchemy of strong separate identities and shared aesthetics into a holistic unit. It made its debut at Tonic in New York in December 2005.

Tonight they will perform two sets of not-totally-indeterminate improvisations, utlilizing synthesizer, shortwave radio, cassettes, electronics, guitar, piano, guitar and bass amplifiers, glissandos, dynamics, hiss, electrical interference, feedback, feedback loops, and tools.

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"Something which wasn't Said" Aki Onda, a composer and photographer, makes autobiographical works which imprints his personal memories. "Something which wasn't Said" is an audio-visual piece, which he calls Cinemage (image for cinema, or homage for cinema). It's composed of slide projection of still photo images and improvised music. What we experience in his work is immersing ourselves in a kinematic state which transcends both reality and imagination mutually. Sensual and hypnotic, words are not necessary. On this occasion, Alan Licht and Loren Conners play guitar along with Aki Onda's visual images.