Saturday, August 06, 2005
MOYEN MNEMOTECHNIQUE
Thinking "violent onsen geisha" (even though i've never listened to this band) was the only way i found for differenciating onsen (thermal bath) with sento (public bath, normal water). Until yesterday evening : we went to an onsen , right after the PA performance , which parasited the street dance festival (everything felt just like this wonderful movie called SHARA). Getting naked was way more easy than I expected (maybe it's because I can't see anything when I take my glasses off), We tried all the kinds of bath (even the very very hot one, 50°C maybe?) and the sauna. I loved it, I want to go there everyday.
Unfortunately you won't have time for that, sir, and you don't have enough money.
Unfortunately you won't have time for that, sir, and you don't have enough money.
Jumping Climbing Scratching
Am I going too far ? Few days (5) and few news (1,5) shared in this diary since our last post. Odot’s digest will help a lot to catch our common story till this last day. I will try to remember some of my personal experiences. Departure from IAMAS GIFU to YAMAGUCHI : I must admit that my inclination to climb on everything was put in jeopardy by the situation. I just ran into the bus to catch my camera to film this short stormy-ish departure.( link behind) The door was closed. The window open. Consequence : 
[ PLAIE 4 ]
This is just the painful limit for me and my used-to-be skilful thumb for playing the guitar and no word about onsen infection / disinfection, salty Japanese sea etc.. Maybe this is good news for our dear vampire KA(=mosquitos) co-tenants. Please check the video of the drama-like departure, with rain and lightning bolts.
[ PLAIE 4 ]
06 / 08 yamaguchi matsuri Portable PA
Very framed performance, but still nice experiment it was a dance matsuri very very noisy and our sounds almost went unnoticed.
(pics by stephane)
06 / 08 yamaguchi ryokan
details, weird things
japanese people, who are supposedly nature lovers, let the engines of their car or truck run while they're sleeping on parkings
lozi likes to listen to high piercing tones as music while he's driving, and yuko likes to sing along with them
we had a tire explosion last night, and we had the wrecked tire replaced at 6 this morning, yet no one was injured
the mountains around here (we're still driving through all Japan towards Yamaguchi) remind me of Elico's improvised lyrics during our improvisation session the night before yesterday in Iamas (she singing and playing the piano, davide, stephane and me processing it all in real-time with our patch and PAs):
to oku no yama ga moeteru
a oi sora no shita moeteru
moeteru tori ga todekita
ta chisu kuma kimini moeteru
i think it's about a moutain on fire
lozi likes to listen to high piercing tones as music while he's driving, and yuko likes to sing along with them
we had a tire explosion last night, and we had the wrecked tire replaced at 6 this morning, yet no one was injured
the mountains around here (we're still driving through all Japan towards Yamaguchi) remind me of Elico's improvised lyrics during our improvisation session the night before yesterday in Iamas (she singing and playing the piano, davide, stephane and me processing it all in real-time with our patch and PAs):
to oku no yama ga moeteru
a oi sora no shita moeteru
moeteru tori ga todekita
ta chisu kuma kimini moeteru
i think it's about a moutain on fire
the post-modern avant-garde latte (with ice cubes in it, please)
We are going to be late for today's concert at YCAM because one of our tires exploded on the road , the second one on the left at the back of the BUS... I don't really remember when it happened because i was kind of sleeping... Anyway, we will be late for the show, and Davide and I still haven't rehearsed...
Friday, August 05, 2005
burst tire
hard hard night ... lozi had to argument with the highway cops (cute uniforms and nice helmets)
LOZI IS LIKE SANTA CLAUS AND WE BEHAVED GOOD
Olivier just told me that we are now driving across Kyoto.
After a 30-minute (or so) ride away from iamas, we had a combini-style bento (is this vocabulary clear enough?) on the tatami at the back of the bus, and then we kind of crashed (in a metaphorical way) on the back seat, the big one, the one that the cool kids used to squatt on when i was in junior high. Now they work at some gas station or bank office and here i am, in my underwear and sleeping bag, sitting on the dark-green velvet of a customised bus heading for yamaguchi.
When i look at this corridor, dimly lit by the moving city lights (in fact we are the ones moving, and the lights aren't), it really feels like a dream come true en direct (i mean i never really dreamed of this until now) .
I guess i am very happy right now.
After a 30-minute (or so) ride away from iamas, we had a combini-style bento (is this vocabulary clear enough?) on the tatami at the back of the bus, and then we kind of crashed (in a metaphorical way) on the back seat, the big one, the one that the cool kids used to squatt on when i was in junior high. Now they work at some gas station or bank office and here i am, in my underwear and sleeping bag, sitting on the dark-green velvet of a customised bus heading for yamaguchi.
When i look at this corridor, dimly lit by the moving city lights (in fact we are the ones moving, and the lights aren't), it really feels like a dream come true en direct (i mean i never really dreamed of this until now) .
I guess i am very happy right now.
paint & go
bus painting is almost completed, we said byebye to suzueli (wearing great Melt Banana tshirt) and Yukonexus 6 joined the crew...
some more pictures, a treat for the eyes
A SONG ABOUT A MOUNTAIN ON FIRE
As we are just now preparing for the bon voyage ceremony, the clouds and lightning are going to be part of it. Yesterday evening, we all painted a lot, we also played portable PA with Suzueri, she on the piano, us gathered around her, recording and sucking la substantifique moelle of her strumming and singing (a song a bout a mountain on fire burning the blue sky)...
We stopped painting the bus at six this morning, with the sun rising, the beginning of the song of the suzumushi and of the scarecrows. Davide Olivier and I even performed another cheesy dubby PA soundtrack (featuring iamas scarecrows choir chant) for Mehdi, encouraging him to finish the left side of the bus (maybe we should give it a name....) before going to bed ( we sleep in the student's dormitory, here in iamas) .
we also took some philippe ramette-like pictures
Today we woke up at 2 in the afternoon and Mehdi went back to bus painting, Olivier erasing the drafts, while Davide and I made some more copies of the translate revue #2. We did 20 more copies! Then we met yuko nexus6 , who gave each one of us a great omiage : typical japanese bandana (they make us look a little bit stupid and a little gay)
Bus painting and mosquitos
It's now 2:30 am.
Still very close to the bus, 20cm from our eyes as we still have to be precise with the brush covered with red paint. The task is not so easy. Really not easy in fact mosquitoes' attack has been declared.
We are using that special spray, citronnella flavoured. Last solution ? Humm we all smell very good and we all have some big red blisters on our feet and arms.
With the Sugar Hill Gang in the background, we make pauses from painting and networking break dancing on the large green grass of the Iamas school.
I should also mention the session with Suzueri on her Piano. We played with a big bug i don't know the name of. Elico Suzueri also seemed to enjoy the fear of her fellow pupil when she was running over the large hall with that bug in her hand.
Special thought for Satoshi who makes that bug orchestra in live.
We eventually ended with very cool sounds with the help of the Nao Tokui funky patch and developped new technics with it.
I think I am cultivating a real dependency with these Portable Improvisation sessions.
I think I am turning into an infra break kick addict.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
kisho kurokawa
props to that guy who designed the softopia headquarters, here in ogaki.
kind of rob mallet-stevens related, but not quite
"till we die healthy is ok"
... Elico (Suzueri) just said to us (Domo-san, Olivier and I)
As Domo said, Odot and I were kicked out of the football camp... Good sound but short performance.
Intense Portable Amp moment.
I loved it. Quiet but frontal.
(Maybe the coaches were affraid of our cameras.)
Kids training athletic football skills.
Olivier sitting on his PA
(mine is on automatic mode)
Now I'm trying to set the PA to the Iamas underground.
It's too late to go on the roof. ARGGG.
I may have an issue with roofs.
I just love the Japanese 'panorama' by night
and I just can"t stop want to climb on every accessible space.
This is another inclination I seem to have.
As Domo said, Odot and I were kicked out of the football camp... Good sound but short performance.
Intense Portable Amp moment.
I loved it. Quiet but frontal.
(Maybe the coaches were affraid of our cameras.)
Kids training athletic football skills.
Olivier sitting on his PA(mine is on automatic mode)
Now I'm trying to set the PA to the Iamas underground.
It's too late to go on the roof. ARGGG.
I may have an issue with roofs.
I just love the Japanese 'panorama' by night
and I just can"t stop want to climb on every accessible space.
This is another inclination I seem to have.
streaming wins anyway
i've been painting aplats for a few hours now. getting tired of it... listening to arm of roger and sun plexus on the very convenient(!) portable PAs.
Right Now mehdi is painting the bus with the help of elico. this is what's been done until now...
i wish it were going faster, but that's not up to me.
davide and olivier have been playing Portable PA in the big iamas field/park, and then they intruded a junior football training and did some (apparently) very good music with it, but the trainer fired them quite fast (you were right robert, we enjoy beeing kicked out). so they end up here, doing the sketch for the right side of the bus...
lozi came back from nagoya a couple of hours ago
and the inside of the bus is a mess.
Right Now mehdi is painting the bus with the help of elico. this is what's been done until now...
i wish it were going faster, but that's not up to me.
davide and olivier have been playing Portable PA in the big iamas field/park, and then they intruded a junior football training and did some (apparently) very good music with it, but the trainer fired them quite fast (you were right robert, we enjoy beeing kicked out). so they end up here, doing the sketch for the right side of the bus...
lozi came back from nagoya a couple of hours ago
and the inside of the bus is a mess.
this is just like streaming
Right Now
mehdi is painting our white bus
but he's not very happy with the result
and also i have a new wallet named bonheur
Iamas gravity of the air conditioning
Hard time, and hard but eventually deep sleep.
Second day in GIFU OGAKI city, at IAMAS, institute school of media art & technology.
Few students but hard work (they have an open day event quite soon).
They have a space dedicated to rest. Some of the students can indeed work all night long and have a 2h rest in the 24 hour non stop engineering area.
And we are in that similar physical non stop rhythm work/rest now (especially LOZI-san)
but
the gravity here in Gifu seems different than anywhere else. (Unless it is the magnetic storm ?)
This morning my head was compressed between the pillow and the heavy weight of the air conditioning.
(18°C inside the wide tatami room when 34° outside).
Gravity changes during a free fall and scientific analysis can be made.
My free fall has been fast and stationary so no measures or graphics but deep dreams of sounds and landscapes instead. Maybe for a lack of the daily CALPIS energy drinks.
I wish we will climb the buildings here around and play the PA loud. I wish we will catch the sounds of the 6:00 am athletics children during their exercise. This morning was too early for us.
Today : PA live impro, editing, painting the bus, seeing SUZUERI live rehearsal and maybe play with her, play with the breadboad band maybe later, look for the little friendly ghost, check the window standpoint for the Local bus presentation and improvise. (Rest and food between those different steps).
I am really missing the Portable Power Amplification Jam Session whenever we are not playing.
Now let's get the food step.
Second day in GIFU OGAKI city, at IAMAS, institute school of media art & technology.
Few students but hard work (they have an open day event quite soon).
They have a space dedicated to rest. Some of the students can indeed work all night long and have a 2h rest in the 24 hour non stop engineering area.
And we are in that similar physical non stop rhythm work/rest now (especially LOZI-san)
but
the gravity here in Gifu seems different than anywhere else. (Unless it is the magnetic storm ?)
This morning my head was compressed between the pillow and the heavy weight of the air conditioning.
(18°C inside the wide tatami room when 34° outside).
Gravity changes during a free fall and scientific analysis can be made.
My free fall has been fast and stationary so no measures or graphics but deep dreams of sounds and landscapes instead. Maybe for a lack of the daily CALPIS energy drinks.
I wish we will climb the buildings here around and play the PA loud. I wish we will catch the sounds of the 6:00 am athletics children during their exercise. This morning was too early for us.
Today : PA live impro, editing, painting the bus, seeing SUZUERI live rehearsal and maybe play with her, play with the breadboad band maybe later, look for the little friendly ghost, check the window standpoint for the Local bus presentation and improvise. (Rest and food between those different steps).
I am really missing the Portable Power Amplification Jam Session whenever we are not playing.
Now let's get the food step.
you don't, you take first
IAMASU
Arriving in IAMAS (international multimedia artschool), welcomed there by Suzueri (Eriko Suzuki), eat together in a cute onigiri family restaurant, we saw the bus "for real" for the first time, later, we were invited to see the private performance of 3 IAMAS students (Shosei Oishi, Katsuhiko Harada and Kazuki Saita), the "Breadboard Band", who make music with electronic components, which sounds like Pan Sonic, one of these 3 guys usin an Ipod he modified in order to scratch with it.
Later that evening we started to make the drafts to paint the bus ...
moyens de locomotion 2
bye bye tokyo, hello lining
we bid farewell to tokyo this morning at 6, after one last night of war with those bloody mosquitoes - i really was on their side reading you bright and risen angels, but really can't cope with their pernicious moves to drink my blood when it's so damn hot and so damn humid - which actually woke me up at 4.30, all drunk with eagerness to leave when the others really had a hard time getting out of their steamy beds. now we're chilling in iamas, ogaki (well, kind of chilling, as it's even hotter and more humid than tokyo), it's almost two in the morning, i'm typewriting in iamas' garden, using wifi on davide's powerbook, and mehdi and stephane are drawing the drafts for mehdi's fresque on our mighty bus just a few meters before me. yeah, it's here, standing just in front, and it's still hard for me to believe that this has all actually come true, only the swarms of mosquitoes, which keep coming as agressive and pernicious than ever, seeming to keep it real for me. today was all day-dreaming anyway, as my good friend, lovely elico reappeared all too ideally as a student on the campus and we wandered with mehdi and lozi in the supermarkets of ogaki searching for acrylic painting and stuffs or played fake fusion jazz with two guitars with stephane as the afternoon was dying from that nice atelier on the ground floor of the school. i barely slept two hours last night, won't probably sleep much more tonight (the draft thing is just beginning), and i never want that half-asleep, half-dreaming feeling to stop, never want to recover from that numb state which makes everything resemble the soft radiance of a streetlight in the hot ogaki night.
oh, and something really strange happened. just a few minutes after we arrived, as i was roaming on the campus, i saw some little girl playing in the stairs just outside, next to the main entrance, and wondered what a little girl of that age was doing here, in that deserted school. a little while later, as we were having lunch in that very nice restaurant not far, mehdi told me that one of his first concert ever was actually in iamas, in some supposedly haunted room of the building. it used to be an elementary school, or so he said, and some old time story has it that some ghost of a little girl still inhabits the building and sometimes appears to the super learnt students of that super-advanced school of media arts and sciences. oh well. if i am ever to see a ghost in my life, it might as well happen here, and now.
oh, and something really strange happened. just a few minutes after we arrived, as i was roaming on the campus, i saw some little girl playing in the stairs just outside, next to the main entrance, and wondered what a little girl of that age was doing here, in that deserted school. a little while later, as we were having lunch in that very nice restaurant not far, mehdi told me that one of his first concert ever was actually in iamas, in some supposedly haunted room of the building. it used to be an elementary school, or so he said, and some old time story has it that some ghost of a little girl still inhabits the building and sometimes appears to the super learnt students of that super-advanced school of media arts and sciences. oh well. if i am ever to see a ghost in my life, it might as well happen here, and now.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
stupid all the while
getting out of tokyo was kind of complicated, as lozi's GORILLA GPS CD MP3 DVD PLAYER is now two years old, and all the one way streets have changed their one ways...so we did a lot of u-turns before finaly joining the traffic jam on the highway... mehdi (and all our magic fingers) did a small MEC event in the car SACRILEGE thanks to his now repaired battery-run SP202... then i slept all the while, except for a quick stop at some kind of super mall highway station with a fruit market where mehdi found (bought) a golden turd.
seeing the bus -en personne- was really nice, and i'm sure lui et moi will get along very well, i'll just have to be careful and not too messy (oooooooh that's so hard for me), and anyway we can hide/store all our luggage under the tatami-stage in the back of the bus. i really enjoyed the bus-sketching, thanks to the veronique sanson / jacques demy tunes we sang all the while. i tend to be stupid when i'm tired, when it's hot, when it's dark, when it's wet, and when i'm at ease with people. i tend to get stupid
YAHIRO - HIGHTI
thank you lovely Highti people for everything ... And see you soon.
MONOZUKURI SCHOOL PIX
lecturrrrrrrrr : hübsch!
did the first activesuspension event today at setagaya school. there was no rehearsal, almost no time for soundcheck and no time for lunch, and the set had to be very short (we only played three songs) and at very low volume. still, a few hours after, i'm happy... maybe it's thanks to the mochi udon?
tomorrow we have to get up very early so that we reach gifu at noon.
johann, on pense à toi
this one was found at the flea market in ueno park.
the guitar seemed sooo heavy that we didn't even ask for the price...
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
roof my dear
We went to Plop offices to retrieve some luggages that we'd sent from france (some 40kgs of CDs, tshirts and sweaters...). We met all those nice people, Masami and all, had lunch with them, said hello to "ONTONSON" and "HEADZ" office people and then we got on the roof of the building and had fun playing music and stupid dancing with Lozi, Yoyo Jiji and Kobayashi-san and also David Marx...
Saw this amazing bronze statue of what looks like a typical Shibuya teen in the heart of Shibuya...
Also saw an indication sign in the metro written with a Shoboshobo font.
Then back home to Yahiro Factory (they call the place Highti) and worked hard till very late at night to prepare next day's first Shoboshobo Bustour presentation / Active suspension's live. The Highti people were playing playstation all the while.
pics
Before / during and after the portable PAs session in Shinjuku.
It was a good experience, we were able to try the performative aspect of the project. But we need to mention the fact that Shinjuku dori is a place where street musicians are allowed to play on sundays... At least Olivier almost got hurt by some street musician because we were too noisy!
After the PPA intervention, we went to the top of the Isatan mall in a "beer garden" and had some fresh drinks, and i ordered a KAKIGORI, which means I found my favourite summer snack in Japan. Khanh-Linh i wish you were here ...
On our way back to the station we saw a street VJ mixing images over eletronica music and using Motion dive.
dear roof
very little time for a proper update yet - but the pics from yesterday's summer session on the roof of plop's building in shibuya-ku are coming. armed with little casual instruments, we played with david and kobayashi, two musicians I really greatly admire, as well as yoyo and ji-ji, and somewhat managed to forget the mighty mercilessness of that nasty Japanese summer sun. nice chat with david, as well, even if timing was way too short. see you in monozokuri school at 5. and don't be late, kiddos.
in action
The other boys are rehearsing on their laptops, but i still need my shitty keyboards and pedals to feel like i'm making music (i'm old school) so i cannot really practice here because it's soooo complicated to get electricity and sound and space and davide. Expect an unexpectable live act...
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away now i need a place to hide away we did a nice hippie concert pianica keyboards recorder harmonica not laptop on a secret rooftop in shibuya, thanks to masami's contribution. We greatly missed the PAs. i guess it would have been less hippie flavored if we had been making some concrete harsh abstract noise. at least we had a good time and the photos will look cool.
really, i am an analog kind of guy, my pictures are taken with an old camera from my father and i shoot super8 movies. more complicated & more bobo.
unconvenient heavy fragile more expensive not working harder-to-use
HOW TO
Tomorrow,
8/2/2005, 5:00 pm
at SETAGAYA SCHOOL
Lecture and Live of
Davide Balula, Domotic, Minifer, O.Lamm
& Plot
Please click to enlarge(2 stops from Shibuya Station)
Monday, August 01, 2005
HANABI >< HANAGE = NOSE HAIR
Since today we know that HanaGe doesn't mean flower of nose neither Flower hair
but Nose Hair...Interesting isn't it ?
but Nose Hair...Interesting isn't it ?
Shinjuku Portable March Power Amp :: VIDEO
Portable PA shoboys in SHINJUKU7/31/2005
VIDEO HERE
VIDEO HERE/This is not really a video about the music but some moments were much more interesting than the sound produced.
I am still thinking about the priority of the situation. Sound processing is still not that good unless we all play together in a same clean sound and readable moment. (this is maybe my site specific pop music weakness.)
I am still thinking about the priority of the situation. Sound processing is still not that good unless we all play together in a same clean sound and readable moment. (this is maybe my site specific pop music weakness.)
Fireworks in OSHIAGE.. remember rings
Hanabi = Fire Flowers
(this is HANABI before the lighter fatal spark)
OSHIAGE 7/30/2005
- - HOT VIDEO HERE - -
Thousands of friends enjoying the fantastic fireworks in Oshiage !
(enlightment)
and special friends
(for the night only - stephane and i never meet them again after ...)
OSHIAGE 7/30/2005
- - HOT VIDEO HERE - -
Thousands of friends enjoying the fantastic fireworks in Oshiage !
(enlightment)
and special friends(for the night only - stephane and i never meet them again after ...)
outdoors PAs in Shinjuku/ghetto wisdom
Nice afternoon of mayhem making in Shinjuku for our second attempt to play outdoors with the portable PAs. First we played a few minutes in a semi empty metro on the Chuo line, but nobody really responded in any way (some girl kept staring at us with her headphones on, kind of missing the point). Then we tried a rather crowded row just near the east side of Shinjuku station and were asked to stop by a shoe shop owner, just as we had forecast ("we're just ramblin' boys, ramblin' around and making noise", as Mister Guthrie would have put it). Eventually, we reached Shinjuku Dôri, which was appropriately closed to traffic, and walked along with the PAs blasting for full effects, dwelling among passers-by and amateur bands and fucking 'round with their own leakings of sound. We ended playing with some cool dancers, their manager kind of forcing us into it, but it was really fun, and got no hostile responses, apart from one seemingly frustrated juggler who threatened me to call the police if we didn't stop and kept poking me in the arm for no decent reason (I'm a very flexible guy, I said to him). Very appropriate apéritif with Yo-Yo chan too, on the top of the Isetan building, to end the session.
nb: the setting really works better when we are either walking in queue, or all in line, as a kind of marching band, and really not working when we are closing up onto ourselves, as an excluding, nerdy cicle. we really ought to work on that. scenography can really be a crucial thing out there in the streets.
pulobulemu
HYPOTHESE :
the thing here in japan, is that the U is an almost silent letter.
for example, couscous, the famous french dish, is pronounced KSSKSS.
(lozi taught me that).
MISE EN SITUATION:
when we were watching the hana-bi, ji-ji (whose english is very good) tried to explain to me that the fireworks were shot from a small sumo place : so, with the mute U, it sounded like "smo smo stadiom"... it took me about two minutes to figure out that that second smo was for our good old president's favorite sport : sUmo.
also tofU and fUton sound strange here...
or maybe they sound strange in france...
ethnocentrisme.
promesse tenue
here is my afro-ken pillow!
it's vibrating when you put your head on it.
it's ridiculous.
i love it.
i'm afraid this is the last time i post about afro-ken or oliver will kick me in the teeth.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
props / joining the army
Nick and Jean are mentioning us in their respective journal. thanks to them. also, to all people who want to join in the noise making, we will be around shinjuku with the portable PAs all day and evening. we are quite easy to spot. also, for friends musicians and all, we really hope we have time enough to catch up with you before we're leaving for nagoya on wednesday. if we don't, we'll be back in tokyo at the beginning of september.
hanabi happiness
Amazing Hanabi evening in Oshiage, and all around, yesterday. We understood that the two-hour one we saw is actually the biggest one of them all, which explains the amazingly crowded streets, but also that between Tokyo, Yokohama, Nakano and all the towns around, there are more than 100 during summer. We walked around with Ji-Ji and Lozi, and found our friendly hosts from the factory, who took us to the best of spots - an endless tatami of people, food, and happy, happy faces. Oh yeah, happy. I think that besides the lovely fireworks booming with no interruption between skyscrapers in the clear sky of Tokyo, what we really enjoyed the most was the true, first degree, plain happiness that we could read on people's faces. Cliche n° 678756: people here seem to be enjoying special events in such a simple, almost childish, naive way, it's really a blast for us cranky French people to enjoy their shere enjoyment with them.
We then all headed back to Yahiro for a special private session of home-style hanabi, crab chasing and shoboys improvisation with the sounds of the party (which didn't turn too satisfactory in the end, but that's really not a big issue here) by the river.
blood donor to the masses
olivier and i tried to sleep in the shed next door, as we figured it would be calmer and cooler too. MISTAKE!!! we were attacked by the most efficient kamikaze mosquitoes i've ever seen. i desperately fought against them for maybe 35 minutes and finally gave up and came back to my regular yahiro tatami all itchy and scratched.
i have to show you some pictures of my afro-ken massage pillow but food is ready right now.
LOZI chef rules!
i have to show you some pictures of my afro-ken massage pillow but food is ready right now.
LOZI chef rules!
akumaizer
looking for a monster suit (like the 2nd one from the right)
air and fish
The Air :
Today remembering of a previous work installation "The Flu" (La grippe) :
Install description : Two conflicted air conditioning system, One VERY HOT, second very COLD... Two spaces and calorific move between one average temperature.
Here is a good old fan, just moving the air again and again, few tempereature changes. Air speed and feelings:
So is the system here in Tokyo : Weather so hot (33°C and 80% Humid) Faces to every thermo regulated place as shops, metro, houses etc. in conflict with so cold temperature. Submarine feeling.
Tsukiji 5h00 :
Ready for Portable PA attack :
After :
During the performance no Pics as i was playing. :)
Tsujiki is such a good place, a strange (morning) touristic area !!
Fantastic Tsujiki riders (tuur ?) giant fresh fishes shouting :
incredible noise.
Not very satisfied by the session, neither by the processing of my patch, but very happy with the reactions i get when i am finishing the session with a recorded tuna fish auction. (Many people trying to find where the guy is... where the sound comes from... then looking and me with a large smile. Fisherman are electronic addicts.)
I am just realising that the simple shift (or switch) of different places/situation/sounds are much more effective than obscur creative abstract sounds. Less process gives more effect. I'll be cool and try to catch the correct. (I will also be kind with policemen, i promise.. Sorry mister fishguard...)
The Night :
Crowded places, people enjoying the sound and colors of the hanabi sky.
(FireworksVideo on process)
Ended with mini Crab hunting in Yahiro. (Good video of it too)
Tomorrow :
Will be clouded, maybe even more humidity and water in the air.
--
Now let's share my bed and blood with mosquitos..
(stephane seemed to be generous tonight !!)
...
I was desesperate. Really need to climb on buildings. That would have been great for that moment. Hopefully saved by the Yahiro Army posted in a cool standpoint and offering beer and food.
(I've always been that guy ready to spend hours to get the best place on a parking... Shortcut is hard maybe but the image is : wish the best stuff and do what needed to get it. Sometimes i lose.. humm. maybe more often than a just "sometimes".)
Today remembering of a previous work installation "The Flu" (La grippe) :
Install description : Two conflicted air conditioning system, One VERY HOT, second very COLD... Two spaces and calorific move between one average temperature.
Here is a good old fan, just moving the air again and again, few tempereature changes. Air speed and feelings:
So is the system here in Tokyo : Weather so hot (33°C and 80% Humid) Faces to every thermo regulated place as shops, metro, houses etc. in conflict with so cold temperature. Submarine feeling.
Tsukiji 5h00 :
Ready for Portable PA attack :
After :
During the performance no Pics as i was playing. :)Tsujiki is such a good place, a strange (morning) touristic area !!
Fantastic Tsujiki riders (tuur ?) giant fresh fishes shouting :
incredible noise.
Not very satisfied by the session, neither by the processing of my patch, but very happy with the reactions i get when i am finishing the session with a recorded tuna fish auction. (Many people trying to find where the guy is... where the sound comes from... then looking and me with a large smile. Fisherman are electronic addicts.)
I am just realising that the simple shift (or switch) of different places/situation/sounds are much more effective than obscur creative abstract sounds. Less process gives more effect. I'll be cool and try to catch the correct. (I will also be kind with policemen, i promise.. Sorry mister fishguard...)
The Night :
Crowded places, people enjoying the sound and colors of the hanabi sky.
(FireworksVideo on process)Ended with mini Crab hunting in Yahiro. (Good video of it too)
Tomorrow :
Will be clouded, maybe even more humidity and water in the air.
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Now let's share my bed and blood with mosquitos..
(stephane seemed to be generous tonight !!)
...
I was desesperate. Really need to climb on buildings. That would have been great for that moment. Hopefully saved by the Yahiro Army posted in a cool standpoint and offering beer and food.
(I've always been that guy ready to spend hours to get the best place on a parking... Shortcut is hard maybe but the image is : wish the best stuff and do what needed to get it. Sometimes i lose.. humm. maybe more often than a just "sometimes".)
the patch is the most delicious in the earth
we hana-bied twice today.
°first the professionnal one with our japanese hosts : friendly atmosphere and enthuisiasm, a thing that would never happen in france as lammu-san said.
°then the amateur one : portable PA performance , to the sound of the 100¥ shop fireworks that we and our host had bought (i'm realising right now that we haven't eaten the watermelon...) but it was a real art-total event : sound, image, 3D spatialisation, kabuki acting ("last samourai"), traditional firework engineering etc.
better luck next time.
°first the professionnal one with our japanese hosts : friendly atmosphere and enthuisiasm, a thing that would never happen in france as lammu-san said.
°then the amateur one : portable PA performance , to the sound of the 100¥ shop fireworks that we and our host had bought (i'm realising right now that we haven't eaten the watermelon...) but it was a real art-total event : sound, image, 3D spatialisation, kabuki acting ("last samourai"), traditional firework engineering etc.
better luck next time.
