The selected projects of different fields and sound performed at "EXPERIMENTAL SOUND & ART FESTIVAL" in January 2009. Two projects for Grand Prize, one project for Special Prize and four projects for Encouragement Prize were selected. We will support continuously and provide the opportunity to play the performance as the next step. This time, we are hosting the performance by the Encouragement Prize winners at TWS Hongo.

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[ Encouragement Prize ]

◆The bird fights its way out of the egg
     "shoot the prepared world"

Date: September 26 (Sat.) & 27 (Sun.), 2009  
          15:00 Start  (door open 14:30)　　　*Finished.
Admission: 1,000 yen
Performer: The bird fights its way out of the egg

■Program:
A space filled with sound and performance. Experience the "sound" of alternative expression.

<Profile>
 "The bird fights its way out of the egg" had the first performance in open campus at Tama Art University. The group consists of artists and musicians.
■Click the play button to watch the video of "shoot the prepared world"　performed by The bird fights its way out of the egg ↓

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 ◆Tomomi Shimizu 
     "Fragments du journal intime 
      - Hommage à Luc Ferrari -" <Revised Edition>

Date: October 10 (Sat.), 11 (Sun.), 2009 
          15:00 Start  (door open 14:30)　　*Finished.
Admission: 2,000 yen
Performer: Tomomi Shimizu / Yoshimi Shimizu (Video) /
                  Sumihisa Arima (Sound)

■Program:
Memorial solo performance dedicated to French composer Luc Ferrari who suddenly passed away in 2005. The performance centers on piano plays of Luc's works in combination with dancing, reciting of text、motion pictures, lighting, art objects, and electronic sound, thus producing an original format of expressing precious memories Luc left.

Luc Ferrari  "Fragments du journal intime"
Luc Ferrari  "Collection de petites pièces ou 36 Enfilades pour piano
                    et magnétophone(Selected)"
Luc Ferrari  "Saliceburry Cockteil"

<Profile>
Prizewinner (Bronze) at The 6th Competition for Contemporary Music Players "KYOUGAKU VI" ISCM Japanese Section in 2004, and at other competitions. Hold solo piano recital under the auspices of "The Art Festival for New Generation", featuring Luc Ferrari with his direct attendance while his first visiting Japan in 2002. The fields of activities encompass concerts of newly composed works, recordings of CD and radio programs as well as rock musician and dancer.

■Click the play button to watch the video of "Fragments du journal intime - Hommage à Luc Ferrari -" performed by Tomomi Shimizu ↓

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 ◆Tsubasa Tanaka 
     "Redefinition of Variation Ver.3 :
       What the Schrödinger's cat says"

Date: October 17 (Sat.), 18 (Sun.), 2009  
          15:00 Start (door open 14:30)
Admission: 2,000 yen
Performer: Tsubasa Tanaka(Composition, Piano), Koichiro Mori(Video Programming), Hitomi Tada(Sound Programming)
Equipment Cooperation: Art & Media Course, Department of Information Design, Tama Art University

■Program:
Beyond Glenn Gould, we express the fundamental multiplicity of writing music and existence in addition to recording. For that purpose we redefine variation as the form to represent the quantum theoretical superposition and construct the super-polyphonic acoustical space.

Tsubasa Tanaka  "Variation is the Superimposability
                             between compositions
                             (Realization by the Goldberg Variations)"

<Profile>
Composer - pianist. Graduated from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. Studied art at Yotsuya Art Studium under Kenjiro Okazaki, Yuji Takahashi and Masahiro Miwa. Currently he is studying about contrapuntal automatic composition at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.

■Click the play button to watch the video of "Redefinition of Variation Ver.3 : What the Schrödinger's cat says" performed by Tsubasa Tanaka↓

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 ◆Asuka Hatanaka 
    "A Happy New Ear!!"

Date: October 25 (Sun.), 2009  18:00 Start (door open 17:30)
Admission: 1,000 yen
Performer: Asuka Hatanaka (Perc.)
                  + ROSCO (Fumiko Kai, Violin / Kaori Ohsuga, Piano)

■Program:
This is a energetic concert of "contemporary music" to be able to enjoy.
You may discover your new ear/hearing.

Mauricio　Kagel  "Klangwölfe" (1978/79) for Vl.Piano
Simon Steen-Andersen  "Splitpoint" (2002)  for percussion solo
Simon Steen-Andersen  "rerendered" (2004) 
                                       for piano solo + 2 Asistants

<Profile>
She graduated from Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts at Kyoto in 2000. After she studied in the "Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in KARLSRUHE", she obtained her Diplom "ausgezeichnet" in 2004. She got a scholarship from <Kunststiftung des Bundes> and played it as a member of the <International Ensemble Modern Akademie> 2006/07 in Frankfurt Germany. She won the "Kranichsteiner Musikprice" in Internationale Ferienkursen für Neuemusik Darmstadt in 2006.

■Click the play button to watch the video of "A Happy New Ear!!" performed by Asuka Hatanaka ↓

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◆◆Click following titles for the brief summaries & movie of the past concerts◆◆

・Date: May 23 (Sat.) & 24 (Sun.), 2009
[ Grand Prize & Special Prize ]
"EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, ART & PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL -Award Winners' Performance 2008-"