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Every day this month, for three minutes before midnight, some of the giant electronic billboards in Times Square flicker violently in rectangular sequences of black and white. This is not a glitch. It's test pattern [times square], an electronic piece by Paris-based Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, reworked for 47 screens across five blocks of one of the most iconic and irritating places in the world. This is the soundtrack that was played on October 16 as part of the installation.

Ryoji Ikeda - test pattern [times square]

Island Nation

Ellen Arkbro - Ellenmusic (excerpt, from rehearsal)

Red River from The Thing 'BOOT!' remixed by Shit and Shine.

http://thethingrecords.com/
http://www.trost.at/

RED RIVER. SHIT AND SHINE RMX

CD "Una Corda" (2011)
Ester Mägi (1922) "A tre" for violin, guitar and cello, Una Corda´s  arrengement. 
Ester Mägi is one of a few outstanding female composers from her generation in Estonian music, whose music is primarly characterised ny clear logic of form, transparent sound and laconic motifs that mainly stem from or resemble Estonian folk music.
The chamber work "A tre", which was composed in the year Estonia regained its independence, received the award for Estonia´s best chamber composition in 1991.

Ester Mägi "A Tre"(1991), 1 part,  Una Corda´s arrangement

Ryoji Ikeda - data.superhelix

Ryoji Ikeda  - Data.Vertex

Unter the Concept of "and, makes you interesting"


AMYI_02

AMYI_03

AMYI_05

15min live mix by Junichi Akagawa.
It has a 100 downloads limit.
please enjoy it!

LIVE mix (Nov '12)

This track is included in a free EP "Nil Bit Berg Horn", that was released on Hz-records in 2012. 
This EP is a split work of Junichi Akagawa & Yaporigami.
Download it from the link below.
www.hz-records.com/releases/hz-010/

Nest - [Hz-010]"Nil Bit Berg Horn"

http://shop.raster-noton.net/?pid=275

with kuopio, we release the second full length album by vladislav delay aka sasu ripatti. the record features eight new songs which allow the listener to dive into delay’s cosmos of deep and likewise organic sounds. subtle yet complex electronic manipulations are used, resulting in a high degree of variation within every single track and a nearly imperceptible intensification of their density.

progressive and energetic rhythms play an important role as already indicated in his recent release espoo (r-n141), the EP which forms a bridge between his former album vantaa (r-n136) and kuopio, best illustrated by the track “kulkee”, meaning “to move forward”.

kuopio clearly represents a further attempt to depict the finnish landscape as well as its isolated charm, which is also obvious from its design and conceptional approach by referring to the city of kuopio.


vladislav delay. hitto (excerpt). taken from vladislav delay. kuopio

with RV8, the osaka-based producer and musician AOKI takamasa continues his long- term project that focuses on the modulation of rhythms and grooves. it began with his first ep ‚rhythm variations‘ in 2009, released as part three of the unun-series. besides his collaboration with raster-noton, he released records on several labels like commmons, progressive form and op.disc, produced remixes for well-known musicians like ryuichi sakamoto or yoshihiro hanno and played performances at, for example, elektra/montreal and club transmediale/ berlin, all in all making him a renowned producer in japan and beyond.

starting with a firework of bleeps and bops, already the very first minutes of his new record reveal aoki‘s preference for vibrating beats and likewise his playful approach to music, generating a sound that is aiming at the dance floor.

like the first ones, almost all tracks of the record are characterized by a constant modulation of chords and lines that sometimes appears somehow hyperactive, but nevertheless results in a natural flow that perfectly reflects AOKI‘s laid-back attitude combined with his will to produce danceable and funky music.

the fluent arrangement is only interrupted by the third track which forms a caesura by being more reduced and slower. in contrast to this, the following tracks present a faster tempo and an increased intensity; and whereas the first tracks reflect downbeat and r‘n‘b influences due to their broken beats and chunky sound, the later songs are characterized by a more sleek and technoid style, incorporating dribbling basses, clappy sounding snares and modulated voice snippets.

although all of the musical components are constantly broken down, modulated, and rearranged, the overall sound of the record is dense and compact, featuring a groove made up of numerous elements that are complexly intertwined. the eight tracks of the record fit seamlessly together and create a composition that nearly functions like a dj set.

the album was mastered by yoshinori sunahara. needless to say that RV8 will be released as cd and lp.

AOKI takamasa. rhythm variation 06 (excerpt). taken from AOKI takamasa. RV8

Junichi Akagawa

Audio/Visual artist and Ableton Certified Trainer.
From 2010 to 2013 he lived in Berlin, presently living in Kyoto Japan.
By programming and using sensor data, he is making live performances, dance pieces and installations.
In 2012 he made a contemporary dance piece “Figure”, which is composed with dynamic images, sharp sounds and human body.
This piece won the Tel Aviv-Yafo•Yokohama Prize in Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2014.
In 2019, he was invited to the collaboration event between MUTEK.JP and 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival.
His first full-length album “Consistency Test” was released on Hz-records in 2017, a single “Dice from the Window” on the label Shrine.jp in 2018.

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オーディオビジュアルアーティスト・Ableton認定トレーナー。
2010年から2013年までベルリンを拠点に活動し、現在は京都在住。
Ableton Liveとmax for live、またopenFrameworksやtouchdesigner等を用い舞台作品のリアルタイム演出やインタラクティブな体験システムの設計から実装を行う。
これまで日本、ドイツ、オランダ、イスラエル、中国など国内外で公演を行い、身体、映像、音を基調としたダンス作品”Figure”では横浜ダンスコレクションEX2014にてイスラエル テルアビブ-ヤフォ・横浜文化交流賞を受賞。2019年には文化庁メディア芸術祭とMUTEK.JPのコラボレーションイベントに出演。
2017年にHz-recordsよりフルアルバム“Consistency Test”、2018年にはShrine.jpより“Dice from the Window”をリリース。
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