Edition NIkO was founded/curated and art directed by Japanese-American sound artist shotahirama in 2007. It is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. The main interest was to give uniting sound and art design with strong attention to scientific sequences, Dada, Bauhaus, and drone ambient sound scapes. A surrealistic minimalism. So, priority is to publish series with focus on a specific philosophy of music/ sound/ art composing. Also it is a platform for conceptional and experimental related projects in music, art and sciencemusic both by myself (shotahirama) and by other artists and musicians. All NIkO releases have been on either CD or CDr or MP3 as I feel that these formats currently offer the most appropriate form of reproduction. But its basically, a non-profit label….. NIkO Label was closed down at the end of 2008 and reopened in January 2009 as Edition NIkO.
official website
www.chainreductionism.com
official myspace
www.myspace.com/nikolabel
and we are now going to have a special festival at Kyoto, Japan.
Deep Listening Kyoto 2009
17. 3. 2009 @ cafe independants
"DEEP LISTENING CHAIR" is a unique installation-festival in Tokyo, Japan. But this time we are going to Kyoto!!!! Edition NIkO is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. And this festival is based on various programs joined together to form a trajectory over 2 days (not this time) but the festival explores the many facets of cutting-edge live electronic music and art. It provides a forum to exchange about the artistic practice underlying the electronic music scene. Festival brings together the artists that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for the international scene of digital creation. NIkO festival provides insight into all culture media platforms. And featured a notable quantity of well known electronic artists over the world, while also reserving a special place for emergent laptop artists and installation artists. Dadaism, Surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, minimalism, actionism, those artists with this wonderful abstract identity, will perform and show how we can express our strong electronic arts. So, this live digital audiovisual performances and abstract installations are one of the important dimensions for this festival.
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Deep Listening Kyoto vol.1 "Surrealistic Minimalism" presented by Edition NIkO
17th. Mar. 2009
18:00-23:00
free (1 drink please)
at cafe independants
www.cafe-independants.com/
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enormous O’clock is an electronic music producer who lives and works in Kyoto. A rarity in the world of beat-driven electronic music, and he is known for contributing to the development of surrealistic minimal techno with his 2008 album INFORMATION WARFAR from Ai Records (London, UK). Interspersed with irregular clicks, pops and beeps, the minimal breaks in time reveal the careful attention to detail in the depth and dynamics of his music. eO’ explain him self as "ELECTRO AMBIENCE DRENCHED IN DISTORTION AND PRIMED FOR THE FLOOR".
Hakobune (Kyoto)
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Hakobune aka Takahiro Yorifuji (b.1986.4), inspired by minimalism, drone and concentrated on sound landscape, Yorifuji is best known as the father of ambient music in "Kyoto new-age". Using guitar and makes deep appreciation of harmonic structure, layering sounds in textures that seem to leave the listener suspended in time. He has been released out a number of titles, and working with David Tagg in 2008 was one of his best work in his discography. Yorifuji is from a small town in Hyogo, Japan and currently resides in Kyoto.
JANDEATH (Tokyo)
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Under the name of JANDEATH, which is "Edition NIkO" founder-shotahirama’ solo project. Produced sounds of vaguely danceable noise and power-electronics noise using complex mono and poly-rhythm, driving percussion, and meticulous sequencing. His main influences are from the early 1980s, with industrial acts like Throbbing Gristle, EinstĆ¼rzende Neubauten and also from mille plateaux artists like SND, Alva noto, Pan sonic. JANDEATH also made extensive use of a variety of computer based sequencers, softsynths, and other applications as a means of controlling those synths and processing the synthesized sounds, using Reaktor, Processing and Elektron. He has been working with this kind of computer music, independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Incapacitants, ASTRO, since 2008. Also work with an organizing member of the Shinjuku-based Soup collective, MICLODIET in 2008, project was named MICLODEATH.
PROVOKE (Osaka)
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PROVOKE is a multi-media group consisting of Moze and Ryota Mikami. Introduce a "political" "inaudible" "experimental" form of electronica music. Combines themes of gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race…. This diversity of themes is matched by PROVOKE’ wide range of production styles, which include film music, Sine-wave, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed neo-expressionist piano solos.
SHARP (Osaka)
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SHARP is an experimental music group from Osaka consisting of shinya ishimura , kazutaka tsutsui. Music without sequencers, clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to the compositions but make up the essential elements of the work and these sound sources are applied to the rhythmic groove. Disparate beats and quirky samples are carefully distilled in the frequency lab, then scientifically arranged for maximum cerebral massage.
yuji kondo (Osaka)
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yuji kondo (b. 1986) is a sound artist and composer from japan. in late 2005, he started his solo project, and currently based in osaka, kyoto,,, the kansai region. he makes compositions using computer programs, and restructure the sounds such as snow noise, sine wave, stylus tip noise, tape hiss, impulse click, field recording sources, acoustic percussion instruments, random tuning electric bass guitar tones, and voices in unconventional ways. generated materials are fed back by the matrix-switch system on daw software, and are used in music. the grand feedback landscape woven by frequency operation is as beautiful as the fog, subtle and profound. his sound is a unique blend of electronic sounds and acoustic instruments, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. the electronics function just as any other instruments. he skillfully shifts the brokendown sound to listening music.
Edition NIkO
ā”) www.chainreductionism.com/
Edition NIkO was founded/curated and art directed by Japanese-American sound artist shotahirama in 2007. It is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. The main interest was to give uniting sound and art design with strong attention to scientific sequences, Dada, Bauhaus, and drone ambient sound scapes. A surrealistic minimalism. So, priority is to publish series with focus on a specific philosophy of music/ sound/ art composing. Also it is a platform for conceptional and experimental related projects in music, art and sciencemusic both by myself (shotahirama) and by other artists and musicians. All NIkO releases have been on either CD or CDr or MP3 as I feel that these formats currently offer the most appropriate form of reproduction. But its basically, a non-profit label….. NIkO Label was closed down at the end of 2008 and reopened in January 2009 as Edition NIkO.
Edition NIkO mixi community
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Posted by enormous O’clock on 2009-02-13 19:22:58
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