la-condition-japonaise in general // Date: Friday, 10.9.2010 // Time: 21h   la-condition-japonaise e.V. presents "la-condition-japonaise in general" "la-condition-japonaise in general" is a ongoing series of encounterings with experimental music in berlin. For this evening we invited Meri Nikula from Finland (based in Tokyo) and Tetsuya Hori living in Berlin to create a contrasting evening.  Hori Tetsuya (laptop + special instruments) + Film: Yukihiro Ikutani, Acting: Sachiko Ikutani  Meri Nikula (video + voice/music performance)   --------------------------------------    Tetsuya Hori: Born in Sapporo, Japan, Tetsuya started playing the organ at age four and soon after started composing. At age 12 he began studying the piano and two years later started playing in various jazz ensembles. He studied by composition in earnest in Sapporo at age 16, and entered Showa University of Music composition subject (in Tokyo). When he graduated from the university in 2001 (at age 21), he won a special prize from the university. From 2000 to 2003 he was a lecturer of the piano, vocal, chorus and orchestra. After studying at Showa University of Music, he moved to Berlin in 2003 where he lives, composes and improvises with various artists. The place where he gave the concerts are in Berlin, Brandenburg, Halle, Leipzig (Germany), Seattle (U.S.A.), Torun (Poland), Timisoara, Bucharest (Romania), Basel (Switzerland), Tokyo, Yokohama, Sapporo (Japan) so far.     Meri Nikula:    Meri has a varied background in the fields of music, theater, dance and visual arts. She has lived and studied in Finland, Iceland, Norway, Ghana, Japan and the Netherlands. As a singer and a flutist she has performed classical music and jazz, scandinavian, brazilian and african music as well as improvised and noise music. Lately she has been working on a concept she calls 'vocal mosaic', where she makes collages of her voice in layers, using different vocal techniques, both live and pre-recorded. In her visual work she creates video installations, based on simple interaction, where her voice and body plays an important part Meri graduated in June 2007 from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Interfaculty Image and Sound/ArtScience in The Hague, The Netherlands with her final exam project 'In The Flesh I Reside' - solo performance for a body, voice, video and meat. For her graduation work she got nominated for two awards: Jonge Talent 2007 prize by ArtOlive (Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam) and the Rene Coelho Prijs (Montevideo, Amsterdam).   ----------   organzied by la-condition-japonaise e.V.                  > September 10, 2010   <- Back to: Performances/Situations
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