Ryoko Akama / Gerard Lebik - What Are They Doing? TPAM/Yokohama
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Ryoko Akama / Gerard Lebik
What Are They Doing?
sound objects
air objects
Is their sound performance combining the elements of individual aesthetics: Whilst Akama deals with motors, magnets, fans, bowls or other found materials, Lebik participates with rotating air cans. Layers of subtle sounds intertwine each other to create a collage of acoustic vibrations and air fluctuations, changing space into an acousmatic instrument and changes the conventional properties of listeners’ perceptions. This collaboration is a preserving and recasting act of identity. The objects collaborate and intermingle as a whole as well as independently and concurrently. It is a situation‘ where space is to be experienced.
Ryoko Akama is a sound artist/composer/performer, who approaches minimalistic compositions that magnify silence, time, and space and offer quiet temporal/spatial experiences. Her works examine delicate and fragile objects such as paper balloons and glass bottles, creating tiny occurrences that embody ‘almost nothing’ aesthetics. She runs melange edition label, amespace and co-edits mumei publishing.
Huddersfield in association with HCMF
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Ryoko Akama /Gerard Lebik – 11,433 KM distance
The sound gestures used for this performance were recorded in two different parts of the world, Ryoko Akama worked with sound objects in his studio in Huddersfield, UK, while Gerard Lebik recorded his sound interventions in Jambami, Tanzania during residency at the Pamoja Zanzibar Festival. Video work is a sonic reflection on the eternal and unchanging nature of being. The ancient Greeks argued that the structure of cosmic and human life was inhabited by the spirits of two worlds, waging a mortal battle with each other. This fight is so powerful and so vast that we have no way of predicting its outcome. The growing spirit is the spirit of civilization – it constantly strives to create forms in which life can expand, create and secure itself. On the other hand, the burning spirit seeks life in motion, change, but also in a battle of conflict and violence. Both forces are part of the natural order. War and peace, preservation and destruction, constructive evolution and destructive revolution are all part of nature.
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