JOLTED ARTS SPACE

Presented by JOLT Arts

TOMOMI ADACHI (Jpn)
NOISE SCAVENGERS

Tomomi Adachi is one Japan’s leading sound artists and artistic directors, who has become world famous for his remarkable vocal performances. This is a rare occasion to hear Adachi solo and on fire. Supported by the emerging and somewhat formidable sound art ensemble Noise Scavengers.

20 March, Thursday: 7:30pm

TICKETS AT DOOR   $10

TOMOMI ADACHI

ADACHI Tomomi (family name is ADACHI), born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1972, is performer, composer, sound poet, installation artist, occasional theater director. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has played improvised music with voice, live electronics and self-made instruments. He had composed works for his own group “Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus” which is a punk-style choir. He has performed contemporary music: vocal, live-electronics or performance works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Dieter Schnebel, TAKAHASHI Yuji, YUASA Joji and Fluxus including world premiere and Japan premiere as Cage’s “Variations VII,” “Europera 3&4, ““Europera 5,” and “Waterwalk”. He is the only performer of sound poetry in Japan and has performed Kurt Schwitters’ “Ursonate” for the first time in Japan. He has made several sound installations and original instruments (e.g.”Tomomin”, his hand made electric instrument is familiar with many musicians). In the field of theater music, he has collaborated with some experimental theaters and dancers. He also has organized many concerts which picks up experimental music, sound art, collaboration work and inter-disciplinary performance in Japan and Germany, include concerts with Chris Mann, Trevor Wishart, Nicolas Collins and STEIM in Japan. He founded “Ensemble for Experimental Music and Theater” with his students in Tokyo in 2011, the group is working for pieces by Fluxus and recent conceptual composers.

He has performed with numerous musicians, dancers and film makers including Jaap Blonk, Nicolas Collins, Carl Stone, TAKAHASHI Yuji, SAKATA Akira, ICHIYANAGI Toshi, TANAKA Yumiko, dj sniff, Jerome Noetinger, SUZUKI Akio, Alessandro Bosseti, Ignaz Schick, FURUDATE Tetsuo, Jennifer Walshe, Annette Krebs, Dickson Dee, Zbigniew Karkowski, Johannes Bergmark, MAKIGAMI Koichi, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, OTOMO Yoshihide, ITOH Kim, IIMURA Takahiko, ISHIDA Takashi. He has presented his works in Japan, Europe, U.S., Australia and other asian countries at many kinds venues include Tate Modern, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Akademie der Kuenste Berlin, Waker Art Center, STEIM, Experimental Intermedia, ZKM, Merkin Hall, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Roulette, Tonic, The National Museum of Art Osaka, Super Deluxe, La Mama Theatre Melbourne, Anthology Film Archives and 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa. He has given lectures at Tama Art University, Yotsuya Art Studium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin, Mills College, Bard College and London College of Communication. As a critic, he has written about visual art, music and performance art on papers and magazines. He had participated in an art theory bulletin “Method” 2000-2001. He started visual art (video and installation) in 2003. He stayed in New York 2009-2010 as an Asian Cultural Council grantee. Also he was awarded the DAAD invited composer for Berlin 2012, the Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica 2019. He composed the world’s first opera which adopted a libretto written by an artificial intelligence, for which he won the Keizo Saji Prize in 2022. His CDs have been released through Naya Records, Tzadik, Fontec and Omegapoint.

NOISE SCAVENGERS

Noise Scavengers is a sound art ensemble including artists living with neurodiversities. The ensemble has been mentored through the JOLT Arts and recently toured Japan (2023 & 2024). They have collaborated with various artists include Tomomi Adachi and Stelarc. Members of the ensemble include:

Esther Tuddenham
Astrid Meurer
Daniel Munnery
Stuart Flenley

SUPPORTED BY

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Japan Foundation.