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<FONT COLOR="#0C0C0C"><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>STEIM presents: <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0C0C0C"><B>Jac Berrocal (FR) / Aki Onda (US/JP) / Dan Warburton (UK) trio<BR>
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<B>Atsuhiro Ito (JP)<BR>
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<B>DoraVideo (JP)<BR>
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<B>Date: Thursday, June 21<BR>
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam<BR>
Time: 20.30 hrs.<BR>
Entrance: 5 euros<BR>
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690<BR>
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</B>The fascination with Japan and its music is often puzzling to the Japanese artists themselves, and common characterizations such as "extreme, subtle, poetic, minimal, loud, Zen, eclectic, pop, cute" are rarely intended. Despite what it may seem from the outside - most Japanese musicians will tell you that Japan is not an underground music utopia, if anything, it is the complete opposite. Consumerism is the nation's driving force, pushing non-commercially minded artists to the fringes of society. These artists often need international recognition before receiving domestic acceptance, making the utopian perception even more ironic. What is fascinating, however, is that a country with so little governmental and social support for the arts has managed to produce a steady stream of interesting artists over the years.<BR>
For the next STEIM concert we are very happy to present some of the best and most respected musicians from the Japanese music scene. A Japanese musician playing cassette tapes with an anarchist French trumpeter and a free jazz British violinist, a Japanese musician who plays a very loud, flickering, florescent light, and a Japanese musician who controls videos of a samurai dancing to samba with his drums - this may not be your usual musical experience, but the intentions are quite simple: to perform good music. <BR>
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Here are some links to videos of their performances.<BR>
Jac Berrocal/Aki Onda/Dan Warburton trio http://www.kokeko.net/panique_onda_berrocal_warburton.mov<BR>
Atsuhiro Ito http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pEKORM-sbc<BR>
Doravideo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asEdEDV--Tk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF7iN95Jkn8&NR<BR>
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- Takuro Mizuta Lippit<BR>
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<B>Artist Biography:<BR>
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<B>Jac Berrocal/Aki Onda/Dan Warburton trio<BR>
</B>Merely describing Jac Berrocal as a "trumpeter" does justice neither to the adopted Burgundian's legendary live performances with Michel Potage, Roger Ferlet and cult groups such as Catalogue (with Gilbert Artman and Jean-François Pauvros) nor his mythic albums Musiq Musik and Parallèles and his recorded work with the likes of Steven "Nurse With Wound" Stapleton and James Chance. Berrocal is quite simply one of the most exciting and charismatic performers of his generation, as anyone who caught his bloodcurdling performance with Aki Onda in Paris in 2003 will testify.<BR>
Since he established himself as a spectacularly original producer in Audio Sports with Eye Yamatsuka and Nobukazu Takemura, Nara-born Aki Onda has released a string of exquisite solo albums featuring contributions from musicians as diverse as Blixa Bargeld and Linda Sharrock, culminating in 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.<BR>
In addition to editing the cult internet magazine Paris Transatlantic and writing for The Wire, Paris-based British violinist, pianist and composer<BR>
Dan Warburton has played and recorded free jazz with Arthur Doyle, ultra minimal improv with Radu Malfatti and psychedelic musique concrète with Reynols, in addition to releases on labels as diverse as Tzadik, Wergo and Durtro and numerous other collaborations with the likes of Jean-Luc Guionnet, Edward Perraud, Ralf Wehowsky, Tu m', Jac Berrocal and Aki Onda.<BR>
In November 2005 the Berrocal/Onda/Warburton trio toured France, Sweden and Switzerland, performing six shows to great public acclaim in Tours, Paris, Stockholm, Norrköping, Geneva and Nice.<BR>
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<B>Atsuhiro Ito <BR>
</B>Atsuhiro Ito launched his career as a visual artist in the late 1980s, and in 1998 began presenting sound performances at art exhibitions, most notably using a musical device of his own invention, the Optron. A fluorescent light tube stuffed with small microphones, when played like a guitar and plugged into an amplifier, the optron generates both epileptic noises and flickering lights to create a truly audio-visual experience. He continues to refine the instrument while approaching sound and music from a contemporary-art-based perspective. In addition to his solo exhibition and performance projects, Ito is active in a number of musical units. Between 2000 - 2005, Ito presented various sound (music)/visual image-related events at Off Site, the now-defunct gallery/free space in Yoyogi, Tokyo.<BR>
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<B>DoraVideo<BR>
</B>DoraVideo is the brain child of Yoshimitsu Ichiraku (drums and computer), who appeared in the 2005 summer grand bazaar commercial for the department store Laforet Harajuku, won an honorary mention in the Digital Music division of Europe's largest media art festival, ARS Electronica, and has been active as the drummer in the band Yamaguchi, which has stirred up quite a storm of prizes and awards world wide. He has created a very exciting and fun group which involves a drum and computer controlled system. He placed impact sensors all over the drum set, creating a huge video deck, and allowing him to using the drum set to control the video image. As a drummer, he not only creates first class works, but also has a highly developed sense of nonsensical fun and entertainment. Ichiraku and Ito have already toured France and Korea to great acclaim, and this year plan to tour Europe, England, and America. The DVD released in July of this year, 'DoraVideo Volume 1', managed to violate every imaginable law, committing copyright infringement, slander, indecent exposure, has been awarded a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for offensiveness, and went out of print just before release.<BR>
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</FONT>This concert series is partly funded by Gemeente Amsterdam.<BR>
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STEIM <BR>
(studio for electro instrumental music)<BR>
(studio voor elektro instrumentale muziek) <BR>
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1017 WL Amsterdam<BR>
The Netherlands<BR>
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Tel: 020-6228690<BR>
Fax: 020-6264262<BR>
Email: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>knock@steim.nl<BR>
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