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Interface as Notation /​/​/ Music with Self​-​made Instruments

by Tomomi Adachi

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Music with electronic and amplified acoustic self-made instruments.

Tomomi Adachi is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and visual artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed his own voice and electronics pieces, sound poetry, improvised music and contemporary music, also presented site-specific compositions, compositions for classical ensembles, theatre pieces, choir pieces for untrained musicians and sculptural poetry pieces in all over the world including Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Tate Modern, Maerzmusik, Centre Pompidou, ZKM, Palais de Tokyo, Akademie der Kuenste Berlin and Walker Art Center. He has interpreted historical experimental music works by Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff and notably “Europera 5” and “Variation VII” by John Cage as Japan premieres. He has been working with a wide range of materials; self-made physical interfaces and instruments, artificial intelligence, brainwave, artificial satellite, twitter texts, fracture and even paranormal phenomenas. He has performed with numerous musicians including Jaap Blonk, Nicolas Collins, Jennifer Walshe, TAKAHASHI Yuji, Carl Stone, Ute Wassermann, SAKATA Akira, ICHIYANAGI Toshi, Zbigniew Karkowski and OTOMO Yoshihide. As the only Japanese performer of sound poetry, he performed Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" as a Japan premiere in 1996. CDs include the solo album from Tzadik, Fontec, Omegapoint and naya records. He stayed in New York from 2009 to 2010 as a grantee of Asian Cultural Council. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD for 2012. He receive the Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica 2019.

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released October 15, 2011

All compositions and recordings by Tomomi Adachi

All tracks were recorded on a 2 channel recorder directly without overdubs and any prepared sound samples. A computer were used as a real-time signal processor for instruments and voice.

Recorded from 2005 to 2011.

Originally released from naya records, naya-0004

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Tomomi Adachi Berlin, Germany

Tomomi Adachi is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and visual artist. Known for his versatile style, especially working with voice and electronics. CDs include the solo album from Tzadik, Fontec, Omegapoint and naya records. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD for 2012. He received the Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica 2019. ... more

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