San Francisco based sound artist Christopher Willits will perform live in Fukuoka on October 19th at Art Space Tetra. He will be promoting his recent collaborative release with Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. This will be a rare opportunity for Fukuoka audiences to enjoy an intimate performance from one of America’s most prolific sound artists. Also performing will be the Berlin based Swiss/Lebanese improv duo PRAED.
LINEUP:
Christopher Willits（U.S.A）
Praed (Switzerland / Lebanon)
Sanematsu Akira（Fukuoka）
Jyurin（Fukuoka）
• 10/19 (Fri)
• Art Space Tetra
• Open19:00／Start 19:30
• ¥2,500yen＋1 drink order
• http://www.as-tetra.info/
• 092-262-6560
• Fukuoka Shi Hakata Ku Suzaki Machi 2-15
––––––––––––––––––––––
ARTIST INFO
Christopher Willits
Christopher Willits is a San Francisco based sound artist who has collaborated with Taylor Deupree, Matmos and Ryuichi Sakamoto. His latest recording with Ryuichi Sakamoto was released year on the COMMONs label.
http://christopherwillits.com / http://overlap.org / http://soundcloud.com/willits / http://www.youtube.com/christopherwillits
Praed
Praed is the duo of Swiss musician Paed Conca and Lebanese artist/musician Raed Yassin. Formed in 2006, the duo experiments with a complex and vast terrain of sonic/musical influences and geographies. Through a critical examination of the relationship between music and collective memory, Conca and Yassin fabricate a soundscape composed of dislocated audio fragments: vocal samples stripped of their corresponding bodies and sounds freed of their images. Samples from Egyptian Shaabi and Dabke music meet head-on with free jazz and sprawling electronics. Humor is a key motif in Praed’s music, in which Karaoke and soundeffects from popular Arab films proliferate. The duo’s recordings are often offshoots of live performances in which radio transmissions, film soundtracks, and musical samples shape an abstract yet dynamic listening experience.
http://www.paed.ch / http://www.myspace.com/paedconcaprojects / http://soundcloud.com/praed
