shobus diary

SHOBOSHOBO ONSEN BUSTOUR - APRIL 2008

2008-01-13T22:21:00.001+09:00

HERE WE GO AGAIN !
3 years after the first Shoboshobo bustour, we hit the road again for the Shoboshobo Onsen Bustour !
This time on board there will be :
-Lozi
-Tetsunori
-Luke fishbeck
-Sarah Rara
-Khanh-linh La
-Minifer

Tour dates :
-April 17~20 : Tokyo
-April 21~22 : Kagoshima
-April 23~24 : Beppu
-April 25~27 : Osaka
-April 28~29 : Kyoto
-April 30 : Ogaki
-May 1st : Nagoya
-May 2~4 : Tokyo

2008-01-13T22:19:00.000+09:00

2005-09-19T16:47:00.000+09:00

.

The plane should have given us our 7 hours time-lag back it took on its way
but that's really not enough.
Jetlag is just a fake powerful timemachine and it doesn't even work anyway.
Once in that ( too fast, slow too) plane, even if you keep following the sunset in one anticlockwise way, our hairs will never be shorter, our moments will never be the same ones again, we will never feel the microwaves living through our body as we can feel it in a Panawave Brother live reunion. I want our Portable P.A. to change the japanese air pressure again, even in an imperceptible way it'd be ok and enough for me.

I really miss you guys. I really love you. I really want to thank you all for every little moment you shaked and shared with me during this trip.

DEPRESSurisatION

2005-09-09T21:33:00.000+09:00

it breaks my heart to look at those pictures.
i wish i was still there.

i stand on the left lane in the metro's escalators.
i say "hai" to say "oui",
i say "ikimacho" to say "on y va",
i miss lozi and yoyo

i came back from geneva this morning and the train was full of japanese tourists, i wanted to talk to them in japanese, i wanted to share their bentos, i wanted to drink their tea.

placard in Claska pictures

2005-09-08T21:09:00.000+09:00

On the roof of the hotel ... Great landscape we had. Miroque, Yoyo, Lozi, Moori-chan, Anaguma, Daisuke, the Tomato Ketchup Orchestra, Oto ga band mei (feat Ryohei Kobayashi(hot troche,tsupoorunu) + Yoshihiro Kawasome(cannibalism gandhi band)...

want a conclusion

2005-09-06T06:17:00.000+09:00

wow,

give us some time kiddos

in the meantime

what about checking about insects,

what about checking about semi (cicadaes)

?

liste des chansons

2005-09-04T08:49:00.000+09:00

...
la chanson du petit poulet (m.hercberg)
nougayork (c.nougaro)
le nord (p bachelet)
goudou (labranisch)
heart of glass (blondie)
shout (tears for fears)
course minor (d.balula)
la boite de jazz (m.jonas)
...

placard in Claska

2005-09-04T02:48:00.000+09:00

Today Sunday we will play as DAEKON MAMA & SISTERS and PANAWAVE BROTHERS (feat Lozi, Yoyo & Miroque) at Hotel Claska (on the roof) for the "Placard Tokyo" event.
It will be our last concert in Japan for this trip, we will play from 17h30, please come if you are around.

PLACARD TOKYO ::

2005-09-04T02:43:00.000+09:00

SUNDAY, today, 09-4-2005
PLACARD TOKYO

16h00 : DAIKON Mother & Sisters
"le chant du radis noir"

17h30 : PANAWAVE BROS
feat. Lozi, Yoyo, Miroque
"◎『スカラー波』とは、特殊な電波です。"

at
PLACARD TOKYO

HOTEL CLASKA
1-3-18 Chu-o-cho, Meguro-ku, Tokyo

MAP : google

2005-09-03T14:12:00.000+09:00

i need to be alone
i need to get bored

moyens de locomotion 4 (dernier)

2005-09-03T13:47:00.000+09:00

Last Days

2005-09-03T13:39:00.000+09:00

Staying at Yoyo's parents house with theire wonderfull garden.
Yesturday, opening party at Caniche Courage, I ate cury with the beautifull and so nice Miroque, Motor Karaoke was presented and after 10 minutes, neighbours complained about the noise, so we had to make a -non sens- quite motor karaoke...

ALIGATOU

2005-09-03T04:47:00.000+09:00

Mina aligato tanoshikata !!!!

CANICHE MOTOR COURAGE KARAOKE

2005-09-02T02:19:00.000+09:00

Today (friday September 2nd) we will present the Motor Karaoke in the very nice art galery CANICHE COURAGE, please come if you are near ...

2005-09-01T22:05:00.000+09:00

debts

2005-09-01T11:37:00.000+09:00

i think i owe lozi one year of massage in a knitting machine shaped sine wave emitting space capsule on the moon.

lozi-sama, how will i ever make it up to YOU?

Best Morning

2005-09-01T10:35:00.000+09:00

Yoyo is Love.
She is so beautiful.
Her sweet home make us have wonderful dreams.
(even if Stephane dreamed we were still carrying things over the city and looking for secondhandshops from where we would never buy anything - He may have been pursuiing the hard day we spent yesterday).
I dreamed of the Giant Nausicaa Omus we've been talking about with Maider Fortuné (so good to see you again).
They had the same sounds as my dearest japanese Semi who spend their 7 years underground life before dying on a 1 week last shout. Thank you so much YOYO.

Lozi, man of the month

2005-09-01T10:30:00.000+09:00

MAXIMIUM BIG UP for Lozi-Sama-kun for these Amazing Bouncy Bus Travels !! Such a good work !

VIDEVIDEOS!!!

2005-08-31T17:36:00.000+09:00

Here are 3 new videos with correct URL :

01 - Nagoya street dance festival outdoor rehearsal
02 - The Nagoya Yagi roboto
03 - Where you can see some stufs from metamo, the Silent Hill ...

LOZI OH WHAT A KUREJI BASU DORAIBA

2005-08-31T14:19:00.000+09:00

curse minor

2005-08-31T14:11:00.000+09:00

there's a special moment in Davide's song Cookbook where it seems that he is saying "curse minor" but really he isn't

the thing is he won't tell Stephane and me what he is singing about

Lozi boy

2005-08-31T13:16:00.000+09:00

You could just write a novel about Lozi boy. Maybe I'll do that, one day or another. In the meantime, it should be added that my man Yosuke doesn't only love sinewaves, old Isuzu busses and sewing-machines (you should have seen the oscillating speck of light when he saw Yoshimi's Brother machine in Nagoya), he also goes kani-hunting (crab-hunting) at dawn whenever he has the time and a river nearby, just for sport.

＊CD販売に関してのお詫び

2005-08-31T12:36:00.000+09:00

８月30日（火）、スーパーデラックスのイベントにて販売していた冊子
「Translated」に一部音源入りのCD-Rを添付し忘れる不手際がありました。
もしご購入された方でCD-Rのほうに不都合がありましたら、
info@mobium.org
までご連絡ください。後日郵送いたします。

Super final

2005-08-31T11:54:00.000+09:00

In Superdeluxe, Roppongi

this place kind of feels familiar, now

many people many friends showed up

we performed ok

except for a chaotic and desultory and dull lecture which really didn't suit the non-stop excitement of the last thirty days

Mehdi seemed quite touched when he evoked all the people we met and amazing things we lived along the road, and I guess that says it all despite the cliche and that is enough

highlights of last night - we came back with the first metro at 5, stuck in some bad Italian cafe with some restless matron checking that we weren't lying down on the shabby plastic seats of the restaurant all the time because we really can't afford a taxi from Roppongi to Yahiro - include the MEC session with Ji-Ji+ the Motor Karaoke display loud in the venue after the gigs, making cadavre exquis with Mehdi and Chihiro battling against sleepiness, the "flush sound" in the super advanced pan of the restaurant, Lozi kun making 10 amazing faces in very little time going back home. I just wished I'd had more time and energy to give to our friends who showed up (one special apology to Nao chan, whom I almost couldn't see at all).

Anyway, some pics show make it a more decent experience for you when the other shoboys add to this dull post.

oh and I almost forgot

I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE

sgt pepper

2005-08-30T23:20:00.000+09:00

Tomoko, from YCAM in Yamaguchi, has her own blog in French. We had to mention it, as she mentions us.

YAHIRO BBQ

2005-08-30T12:39:00.000+09:00

We said byebye to the bus and let it rest in the parking of Tama-university (sob...) the inside was quite messy and beta-beta after one whole month inside. Special thanx go to Mihara-kun who drove our nimotsu with his car . On our way back for Tokyo some very kind bus driver offered us the fare just because we had a short chat with him explaining him that we had just achieved a 1 month tour in a crazy bus (I showed him a pict).
VERY VERY nice and crazy party in Yahiro with outstanding live acts!
SAM2 (crazy PDA-bending performance)
Taniguchi Akihiko
Mori-kun
Satoshi Yashiro
Panawave Brothers
Small video here

WE GOT THE DRUNKEN PEOPLE DANCING

2005-08-30T10:07:00.000+09:00

Yesterday evening was party time at yahiro factory with BBQ and concerts. i don't remember the names but there was one guy with a triple neck instrument (one doublebass, one sarangi, one chinese two string violin) that he built, MAXed by another guy.
then the other guy made a solo max performance with a strange motion sensor.
then a circuit bent hello kitty violin performance.
then another max concert with a max controled moving table (and we put a hippopotamus sculpture on top to make it more fun)... i think i'm forgetting one or two things... and
then the panawave brothers played their best show ever! bouncy evil and noisy music!
then we all got crazy and drunk and the amplifier broke and lets go to bed and oh it's only midnight.

GOOD wins in the end

2005-08-29T17:00:00.000+09:00

we've spent a few days at this one festival where we were not supposed to be playing.

BAD THINGS: (in no particular order)

1-john mc entire looks like a fish trying to breathe air and adolf hitler making a speech. not one smile during the whole concert. concentration and academic drumming.

2-losing davide and looking for davide

3-bad t shirts

4-expensive small kebabs

5-cheesy roland demo

6-the size of our stage

GOOD THINGS: (in no particular order)

1-panawave brothers fun (with lozi and suzueli)

2-MEC fun

3-a swimming pool

4-space tatami

5-kebabs

6-riding with mehdi

7-waking up and davide is here

8-cheap sento thanks to staff pass

9-makiko and makoto

SUPER DELUXE FINAL EVENT!!!

2005-08-29T16:10:00.000+09:00

（このメールはBCCにてお送りさせていただいております。）

早いもので、暑さの中にも秋の気配が感じられる今日この頃。

７月末から、改造マイクロバスの移動式美術館「MOBIUM」にて行われたSHOBOSHOBOツ
アー(www.mobium.org )
(http://shobus.blogspot.com)もここ東京が最終目的地です。
山口、淡路島、京都、大阪、名古屋周辺などなどバスマスターのLOZI君と、はるばる
フランスからやってきた４人のアーティストによる一ヶ月間の珍道中。わたしが参加
できたのは東京と名古屋周辺のほんの一部でしたが、日中はバスの中や路上すらも表
現の場にしてしまうという、従来のものとは一味もふた味も違ったこのツアーはくせ
になりそうな面白さでした。畳のひいてあるバスの乗り心地はなかなかのものでした
よ。

そんなツアーの最終報告＋彼らのライブイベントが明日（３０日）の夜、スーパーデ
ラックス(www.super-deluxe.com)にて行われます。お誘いあわせの上、ぜひぜひお越
し下さい！！！

***

This is the announce of the last days of "Shoboshobo Bus Tour" with mobile
museum MOBIUM (www.mobium.org )
(http://shobus.blogspot.com).
Presentation of this curious bus tour and live show by participated artists
will take place tomorrow(30th) at Nishiazabu Super
Deluxe(www.super-deluxe.com).
Please come and join us!!

○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　

8/30(tue) 19:00- @SUPERDELUXE Roppongi(03-5412-0515)

Fee : 2000yen (w/1 drink) ！

○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○　○ 　○　○

19:00〜20:00　■FINAL PRESENTATION OF SHOBO SHOBO

ショボショボ主催者、メディ・エルクベール氏によるトーク＆レクチャー。
SHOBOSHOBOバスツアーの最終報告。

free talk and lecture by Mehdi Hercberg, Olivier Lamm, Davide Balula and Stephane Laporte about ShoboBusTour in Japan 2005.

20:00〜23:30　■LIVE. ACTIVE SUSPENSION JAPAN TOUR

出演：
domotic (http://www.activesuspension.org)
davide balula (http://www.activesuspension.org)
O'lamm (http://www.activesuspension.org)
minifer （http://www.shoboshobo.com)
MEC
710.beppo
Daito Manabe

++++ Presentation of the installation Motor Karaoke !

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hiatus

2005-08-29T15:16:00.000+09:00

Lots of waiting and useless comings and goings due to heavy organization issues with the bus - you can't just park that nasty fat ass anywhere you feel like, you know. So we eventually bid farewell to Nagoya, Shawn and Yoshimi, Satoko chan, to join the big Shizuoka nowhere where the huge Metamorphose festival was held. Strange waiting time in some sea-side town to wait for Philippe and Virginie, then even stranger waiting time in the next to decaying Nihon Cycle amusement park (Izu), full of sento moments and relative fun in a children's swimming-pool. Then, after 30 hours of floating hiatus, we found ourselves playing on some tiny remote stage in the festival itself, invited by the Arch collective. Iamas tomodachi were there. Lovely Makiko and Matoko also joined. This kind of helped for the fun part (I'll avoid the big *non-so-fun* part), but we're really not techno people, and as we waited forever for Davide to comeback from Tortoise's gig, far away from the big, big crowd, we fell asleep in some gymnasium next to the big Iamas installation and missed it all. In the morning, we woke up quite flabbergasted by the total cleanness of the place - Japanese ravers are nothing like the French ones, I can tell you. Now we've come back to beloved Tokyo, and waiting for tonight's big BBQ party in Highti. See you there.

NAGOYA 03 Oyasumi

2005-08-29T14:54:00.000+09:00

A lazy day off in Nagoya with Shawn, as we took the typical Nagoya breakfast "moaningu" (=morning) and walked around the streets of Lozi's place's area...
And I saw for the first time in the Nagoya Tower Records the latest Aoki Takamasa / Tujiko Noriko 's album (28), for which I made the design... + there were a KingQ4 name tag in the shop.

VIDEOS!

2005-08-25T12:50:00.000+09:00

Nagoya videos available here!

01 - Nagoya circuit bending Goma-san
02 - Nagoya crazy mambo karaoke
03 - Nagoya concert inside the bus (kawasaki & suzuki)
04 - Nagoya YMCA cover by teenage brassband
05 - Nagoya yoyo Yoyo flute

small wonders (continued)

2005-08-25T12:24:00.000+09:00

The Karaoke from Hell, Mixi Religion, Kinoko scape, around the world, Onaka Ippai Desu, le petit joueur de flute du Pachinko, Piggies, Inu, Iragana stop, Shoboys Mediation Unit, Chiku-chiku field with child, Appearance, AS Possee, Suspension, Cassette drink, Jah bench in Kyoto, Enlightenement, Koban, I break horses, Fromage bike, vertigo.

(Aug. 18-23)

Typhoon menace

2005-08-25T12:23:00.000+09:00

2005-08-25T11:48:00.000+09:00

gigantic and tremendous

2005-08-25T11:24:00.000+09:00

we have yet one more day to spend in nagoya and then we go to the secret festival where we're not supposed to play.
we arrived here three days ago, parked the bus at nagoya university, in front of a big concrete building that i liked a lot . the arrival was really nice because there were a lot of (classical) musicians from the school ensemble rehearsing. but everybody was playing by themselves, so it was quite chaotic, and the building's architecture added a nice reverb to it. a group of teenagers was also rehearsing a choregraphy (for a dance festival i guess) so we decided to make a little portable PA performance out of their bad trance/dream music. some people were even there to listen to us.
it's good to know that some people can make good use of their public space.

then we went to canolfan to get ready for the concert.
lullatone played first (i have a tape : let's listen) , they did a very nice acoustic set with lots of small toy instruments. they really put the audience in a good mood because they were so funny and relaxed and happy. then davide played, and he did a really good job on the last song (second chair). then we all played together with yoyo-chan (who has just left this morning see you in tokyo mama) as Daikon Mother, she was cutting daikon japanese style, wearing a hippie BANDEAU, and we were around her , recording the sound with our laptops and microphones, and then processing it with nao tokui's shoboshobo patch. it was fun to do , and also fun to watch i guess. afterwards we (mehdi odot davide and myself) played again as panawave bros. for a nice improvised C Maj synth gig...
then the real fun began : we went to JOYJOY karaoke for a good drinking and singing session with yoyo-chan and satoko. i even danced like crazy (à la grandpa style) with satoko on a mambo song. i think odot also did a great rap performance on "No Limit" (remember?) but i was kind of sleeping then so i'm not sure...the funny thing was that they would tell you how many calories you lost after each song. not sure how they could calculate that though...
the next day we didn't do much actually. except for a great shochu tasting/ice cream making party at shawn's and yoshimi's. i like shawn a lot, he's very friendly and talkative and has a great sense of humour. we also tried mos burger for the first time, and we saw a very big buddah.

yesterday we had to park the bus at a different university at the other end of nagoya. and as we wanted to make another PA session we took them with us to central nagoya for a guerilla style performance. it was kind of heavy and pointless though, we just kept walking, making noise for no one. maybe the music was good .., some kind of marche funebre drone thing, (i had recorded the "ensemble" tuning of a junior high school brass band and some cheesy ambient synth washes). then i don't know what happened. we somehow managed to go to a great sento with shawn. they had a wonderful 37°C brown water bath that i enjoyed very much. oh boy i will miss sento when i'm in paris.

NAGOYA 02

2005-08-25T09:31:00.000+09:00

Had a portable PA session in the streets of Nagoya (Osu area, we walkes all along the streets with the PA, having brief stops in front of some shops ...
At night went to a very nice and so old restaurant.

YOYO to SATOKO

2005-08-25T04:00:00.000+09:00

steki onna!

SOCHU report One

2005-08-24T02:11:00.000+09:00

Shochu testing :

Thank you Shawn (Sento-Ice-Shochu-Master) & Yoshimi
for this wonderfull night.

Left To right :

Sweet Potatoes : 6/10

Sweet Potatoes : 7/10

Awamori : 8,5/10

Wheat : 8/10

Rice & Potatoes : 7/10

Please send suggestions and votes
if you already tried these
or if you think we should make an other testing session.

NAGOYA 01

2005-08-24T00:04:00.000+09:00

Because of exhausting karaoke and concert the day before that day was off!
A concert happened in the bus and we met that crazy circuit bender guy named Goma (friend of Chesterfield that we met in Osaka)...
At night Shawn and Yoshimi took us to Tou Genji, a strange shrine with a huge Buddha and a big and beautiful buddha's hand, then went to Shawn and Yoshimi's appt, had oudon and drank shochu... They also showed us a very nice book about japanese onomatopea...

Circuit Bending

2005-08-23T15:48:00.000+09:00

Shotaro Nakano (aka Goma)
the Circuit-Bender.

Karaoke device
(Voice pitch control and famous japanese singers spoken word samples)

vide

2005-08-23T13:52:00.000+09:00

Vidéo de Portable P.A à Omi Hachiman (18 août 2005)

http://davide.balula.free.fr/japan/18aug-OMI-hachiman.mov

Vidéo de Portable P.A à Osaka (14 août 2005)
http://davide.balula.free.fr/japan/OSAKAmall3.mov

canolfan pics 2 = Panawave Bros, Shawn, Yoshimi, Elico

2005-08-23T13:12:00.000+09:00

(pics by Suzueri, also)

canolfan pics 1 = Daikon Mama and her Sisters

2005-08-23T13:08:00.000+09:00

(pics by Suzueri)

NAGOYA 00

2005-08-23T01:07:00.000+09:00

First day in Nagoya, Lozi parked the bus in front of the university, we had a nap and a quiet portable PA performance there, and also the exibition in the bus (motor karaoke + Lozi's lecture)... Then at night, we performed at a venue called Canolfan as Daikon Mama and her Sisters (feat. Yoyo as Daikon mama) and Panawave Bros. Davide also performed alone and also there was a very nice Lullatone concert.
After that we went to a karaoke till 5 in the morning with Yoyo, Lozi and Satoko.

Nagoya

2005-08-22T16:41:00.000+09:00

3D map (volcano)

Dark radiation map

?

and we are now in Canolfan, Nagoya

KUMO!!!

2005-08-22T01:58:00.000+09:00

For those who love japanese clouds like me, here is a place where i put a bunch of hi-res japanese clouds pictures... enjoy.

VIDEOS!

2005-08-22T01:12:00.000+09:00

At least, we could get through IAMAS 6 firewalls and deliver for ytou those few videos :

-kyoto 01 domotic live
-kyoto 02 streets of kyoto
-kyoto 03 monster in kyoto univ
-kyoto 04 libelule
-omihachiman 01 old woman playing harmonica
-omihachiman 02 kikds during walabimochi workshop
-omihachiman 03 motor karaoke in the bus
-IAMAS 01 panawave brothers live
-IAMAS 02 hanabi
-IAMAS 03 Davide vs Suzueri

placard

2005-08-22T00:38:00.000+09:00

what better to do after a slacky super-rainy day in Ogaki but a nice session of after-rain placard in the bus in Iamas?

Highlights tonight included of course Suzueri (who also did me the honor of a duet), Panawave Brothers, and the might Aleph Sisters. I'll let you guess about possible A.K.As and go to bed ASAP.

My favorite

2005-08-22T00:32:00.000+09:00

.

You need an anti-mosquitoe citronelle fan like this one.
(And new batteries with it)

name a few salty things

2005-08-21T20:39:00.000+09:00

the best sento ever

2005-08-21T14:47:00.000+09:00

yesterday we went to this great family/mall-style sento. they had everything we could ask for (except soap and shampoo maybe) bubble & feet massage pool, big powerful back massage pool, outdoors pool and fake waterfall for head massage, electrical bath, where we talked a bit with some indigenes and got strange remarks about our beards (our beards are doing great, by the way), ice-cube timer sauna and a frozen bath that i enjoyed a lot.

now my body feels great.

where is the brain sento?

Omihachiman drawing

2005-08-21T13:19:00.000+09:00

thank you Phirip for this drawing of the Omihachiman portable PA performance ...

can you hear the wind

2005-08-21T13:07:00.000+09:00

between us?

plus

today

there's a typhoon coming

oh and there's an annoying FIREWALL also which prevents us from uploading anything

placard 02

2005-08-21T05:39:00.000+09:00

A few pictures from the mobile placard in the bus ... + Mihara kun working, Yoyo's nice skirt and Davide thretening Suzueri-chan with a saw ...

today in the park

2005-08-21T01:12:00.000+09:00

I performed portable PA with Soichiro Mihara (sampler) and another guy i didn't get the name of (synthetizer).
After we performed, we met Moribayashi Miho (Hi-posi) and her husband Shindou-san.
In the evening, in IAMAS we saw Suzu Eri trying to finish her work.

the bus

2005-08-21T01:09:00.000+09:00

CLOUDS!

2005-08-21T01:03:00.000+09:00

Today at the park, the clouds were so awesome!

Rain & Hijacking

2005-08-20T23:56:00.000+09:00

YORO PARK, GIFU

Quiet sky

Not so quiet

Wind (menace)

Davide Balula & O.Lamm caught by the rain
(outside, now inside after the Portable Session)

list for r, out of topic

2005-08-20T23:08:00.001+09:00

random, classics and not so classics, cool and uncool -

william gaddis "jr"
stanley elkin "the macguffin"
curtis white "memories of my father watching TV"
john hawkes "the cannibal"
don delillo "ratner's star"
brian evenson "altmann's tongue"
guy davenport "tatlin!"
dave eggers "you shall know our velocity!"
w.t. vollmann "the rifles", "you bright and risen angels"
thomas pynchon "vineland"
david foster wallace "infinite jest"
richard powers "gain"
john barth "the sot-weed factor"

wet wet wet

2005-08-20T22:52:00.000+09:00

Today's experiment :
The ice cube as timer in the Sauna.
(In big shopping mall sento
w/ electric bath, high and big shower, massage water jet, ice and fire.. but no soap for free nor any Yakuza - maybe one light Sumo.)

depression in style

2005-08-20T22:43:00.000+09:00

We need to apologize for the serious lack of content and media updates these last days - we performed in Omi Achima for a marvellously quiet session in the dark garden of a very old shrine, then for/with children during a serious Warabimochi Party organized by Phirip (see Mehdi's pics), and today, in the crazy shaped buildings of the Yoro Tenmei Hantenchi Park (we could have played just anywhere but a huge thunderstorm forced us into finding proper sheltering places - Davide and I played a nice droning piece, then organized an anti-rain demonstration outside with two very loud megaphones and even got some followers in the audience). Again, vids and sounds are being prepared for full archive experience, and the upload problem shall be solved soon enough as we're in Iamas again and there is wifi network even in our tatami dormitories.

moyens de locomotion 3

2005-08-20T01:28:00.000+09:00

OMIHACHIMAN 02

2005-08-20T01:20:00.000+09:00

YOYO-chan joined us!!!!
Day off ... We climbed the 800 steps to reach a gorgeous shrine in the mountain..

le scooter d'Igouagh

2005-08-20T01:19:00.000+09:00

le petit lavabo

2005-08-19T22:51:00.000+09:00

yesterday's performance was in my opinion the most satisfying performance we did. the shrine where we performed had great sounds to offer (bells, wells, sinks, insects),and we had found a really good and inspiring spot for the performance ( some kind of mini-side-temple with small stone cows statues). we played for maybe 25 minutes, surrounded by the suzumoshis singing with us, the temple people didn't seem to be too angry (this was a guerilla no permission performance) and the thunder and rain arrived just at the end of the show, as intended. it's the first time i can listen to my solo track (we all record our personal/private direct output and the result is very very different from what we hear when we are play together, obviously) and i think it's ok. it's hard for me to think of the patch as of a solo instrument. and anyway i don't like to play solo otherwise because i find it boring.
my personal pick.

unfortunately the minidisc only recorded the first 6 minutes... :-(

little media people

2005-08-17T17:10:00.000+09:00

there are some nice pics by Midori san on her flicker thing;

also, if you happen to be craving for some media about our latest performances in Osaka and Kyoto, please note that they're just waiting for some proper network to be uploaded. sorry about the delay.

VIDEO BLOG

2005-08-17T02:04:00.000+09:00

...has been updated and video format modified after many of you said they couldn't see it ...
so please check it here

OMIHACHIMAN

2005-08-17T01:06:00.000+09:00

Small city with very nice people. We played portable PA with the Semi in a nice temple, then we joined the Walabi mochi workshop by Phirip that took place in an "art brut" galery and performed a second time portable PA.
Thank you Hitomi for giving me this cute T.shirt.

KYOTO

2005-08-17T00:41:00.000+09:00

We went to the Golden temple (definitely less beautiful than the Silver temple)... We took a walk in the streets of Kyoto and went to the University of Fine Arts.
At night, we played a live evening in Tranqroom, I performed as MINITORI, Midori + Minifer and Bon-chan joined for the last song (Chotto dong dong karaoke).
Thank you everybody for coming that night, and special thanks from me to Makiko for coming one more time!

givenoiseachance (kyoto mall and street performance)

2005-08-16T22:49:00.001+09:00

they all started by saying "hey let's play something more quiet and discreet" but within five minutes the big loud noise machine was running again. mehdi was playing some distorted reggae music through his PA, accompanied by the great sounds of the great circuit bent texas instrument. davide didn't want to play loud so he spent some time isolated in the elevator, playing some elevator music , odot and midori were also playing high volume walking aroud the shopping mall, she humming in her saxophonevoicechangertoy, he patching it all through his laptop.

at first i thought it was disapointing that they didn't stick to the original less gerilla-oriented and more quiet intent , and instead were just making noise in a mall and scaring people away. but once they went into the street, some amazingly beautiful moments came out, one guy on his bike seemed to be really fascinated and followed mehdi and davide for some time. those PAs really have a great sound once you put the volume up. they tend to distort everything in a very musical way, too bad we can't record that properly.

so in the end it's a good thing that we are unreliable people.

lousy kraftwerk remix

2005-08-16T22:49:00.000+09:00

kyoto style

we're enjoying a nice nerdie evening at kawarasaki takamitsu's house, as mehdi and davide are kind of forcing him into downloading wolfenstein enemy territory to play with him and use his wifi network, and i'm all drunk with beer and shochu (davide noticed because i'm not using capital letters to write this post) and we're listening to some lousy idm playlist on kawaraski san's ipod. i just felt like writing a very few words about this afternoon's performance in kawaramachi dori and shinpukan mall (which was designed by enzo piano, by the way), which was absolutely wonderful. midori joined us, as well as masanobu, and we had the amazing surprize to come across bon chan, our very good friend from paris who'd come to meet us but was not quite sure it would actually happen. something like the least predictable i.e. best of surprizes, ever. very friendly, screamy, funny session if i must speak for myself - midori and i shared a portable PA, she used some kind of stupid toy electronic voice transformer in the shape of a saxophone and i used nao's patch to process her hilarious noisemaking. i think i hadn't had this fun making sheer noise since the very first MEC session. midori san is some crazy girl, i can tell you. please check out the forthcoming vid, shot by stephane, in the next future.

Not used yet ...

2005-08-16T22:26:00.000+09:00

... and probably will never be i guess ... So many things to see notice (miss)understand and enjoy.
Today : portable PA in a small mall, quite noisy performance, and then went in the streets for walking portable PA ... Interesting interactions, our circuit bender / nanolooper Kobejin friend Masanobu Shibao and Midori-chan joined.
Merci Bon-chan et Isa d'être venue!
Thank you Yoshi-san!

sonores mentions

2005-08-16T22:12:00.000+09:00

Active Suspension's ally Viktor Sjöberg mentions us in his ever so nice blog. Takk someket!

cursed up

2005-08-16T21:50:00.000+09:00

There's this thing with Japanese girls. They're all so pushy and frontal when they want to get to know you, so why do they all turn up so shy and unsteady and offendable when you get to open up to them?

biennale breasts

2005-08-16T21:48:00.000+09:00

WHY WHY WHY do we always have to get used to THINGS

even JAPAN?

I don't
I don't
I don't
I don't
want to get used to Japan.

that's where i lay my bones

2005-08-16T21:40:00.000+09:00

if i were to be completely honest, i would show you pictures of people sleeping, upload MP3s of the stupid songs we (mehdi and I) sing all the time ("la chanson du petit poulet") and i would quote the voice-over that constantly runs in my head.

courrier

2005-08-16T17:46:00.000+09:00

dès que je ferme les yeux je vois la même demoiselle, qui n'a pas vraiment de visage, mais beaucoup de traits

cette nuit j'ai rêvé que tu m'en voulais à mort parce que j'avais raté ton anniversaire

j'aimerais arriver à ne parler qu'en onomatopées doublées

j'aimerais être tout devant manipuler des choses qui n'existent pas encore et qui ne ressemblent à rien et pas encore à ces affreux noeuds filandreux lumineux qui sont des algorithmes si savants et qui finissent en fonds d'écran

pourquoi est-ce que je lis tous ces gestes tout comme un manque de générosité pourquoi est-ce que j'ai tant besoin qu'on me donne des choses

est-ce que je suis vraiment épuisé ou est-ce que je suis juste très fatigué

tiens nous sommes déjà arrivés à Kyoto

Little lights and deer attacks replacing short circuits and other virtual nerdy enlightenements

2005-08-16T13:51:00.000+09:00

Yesterday was semi-off, with a little lecture at ATR - something like we lo-tech shoboys and our trivial concern with actual people and actual interaction vs. the crazy supersmart researchers - and some nice demos of robots, post-feedback programs, virtual life making midi-driven music etc. (my mind kept coming and going between what was being said and a lot of other secret things I might tell you of one day). See the other guys' posts about this, will you? Most of all, I was eager to leave and take the train to Nara, which has been this huge dreamy spot ever since I saw that film by Naomi Kawase, plus there was a lantern festival going on, the Nara To-Kae. Eventually, after many talking, we managed to leave and, oh boy, it was worth it. I must be thankful to the nasty clouds who were threatening enough for us not to take the PAs with us and just go there for sight-seeing sake, and remain gentle in their rain-making. We strolled in the park, then in town, which had got almost totally dark, and managed to make it a special day, and I hadn't been this excited since our arrival in Tokyo. I am a simple boy. Hopefully, we'll find some time to wander purposelessly in Kyoto too, where we're spending the next two days.

Various Kawaimono

2005-08-16T01:32:00.000+09:00

Nara spirits are not into candles but not very far

2005-08-16T00:06:00.000+09:00

No more words, only tourist's pictures and situations.
Just sad that we spent the whole day on Lectures and not only realtime P.A. Action in Nara.
Ok it was raining & we were/are still very tired. Also P.A. is about 9Kg i guess.

I then decided to try to communicate with spirits, wherever i could find them. ( I use to do it when I was a kid & it still seems to work now, it just uses a lot of my health, age & concentration.)

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ATR

2005-08-15T23:51:00.000+09:00

Entrance

Inside, secret

Robovie, friendly and agressive

The miracles of science

Minibot (radio morning athletics)

The athletic bot, the dog, the soccer, the dancer (breakdance)

Mehdi on Tomohiro Sato's interface

Doc. Rene's books

ATR Guard

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Lozi-san driver

2005-08-15T23:39:00.000+09:00

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biches et robots ...

2005-08-15T21:56:00.000+09:00

Centre hyper technologique le matin, démonstration de robots footbaleurs et réalité virtuelle et biches et rites millénaires le soir ... Merci Rodney, Sato San, David et Yuka.

POOR LOZI

2005-08-15T12:51:00.000+09:00

(i hope you've got a nice earworm now)

oh boy! our good lozi is feeling sick! go to the hospital, get some medicine and get better!

ATR arrival

2005-08-15T02:18:00.000+09:00

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Late and sleepy.
Slicky bus tatamis won't stop the largest run of rests.

Now ready for an Adavanced Telecomunication Research disturbance.

Hey dear telecom nerdy cats, let's bounce !

ATR :
Adavanced Telecomunication Research
Laboratory location
(Osaka on the Left, Kyoto on Top)

Dans le bus

2005-08-15T00:04:00.000+09:00

One of our 3 portable PA is broken, so i stayed in the bus while Lozi went to buy a new amp and the Frenchies to perform in Osaka's streets (I wish I'd been there too...). So i looked after the exhibition in the bus and presented the Motor Karaoke installation and met nice people there. First of all almost all the Arts Aporia staff came to play karaoke and seemed to enjoy it a lot. Then, this nice Osaka circuit bender artist came with his amazing instrument (check a short video here). I could also meet Cola, an Osaka based french artist and Karl and his girlfriend (sorry I do not remember her name...).
I also met what is called here an Otaku, for the first time in my life, and a real one... The guy was carrying a case full of dolls and accessories, and two huge photo books... As he hopped on in the bus, I invited him for a motor karaoke race, amd he performed one against an Akarenga member and then went out and started to unpack all his stuff nearby the bus ... Finally he brandished a doll in front of him facing the bus and with his other hand took a picture. I asked what he was doing, and he kindly told me the puppet name was Emily and showed me his photo books full of Emily's pictures in various touristic places ... He gave me one, showing Emily in front of a sunflower field...

FUCK 2

2005-08-14T19:15:00.000+09:00

(i'm typing this as we're diving from osaka to kyoto , makkori running through my veins, hello robert how are you today?) i really don't know if the music we are making with the portable PA is any good. sure i enjoy making it, and it's kind of making sense sometimes when the people are interacting with us (in any way, enjoying it or hating it, as long as they react to it it's ok i'm happy), but when it's decontextualised i don't know if there is any musical value to it. i don't know if that's important too, as playing music in context is the basis of the project... but we record the music, so that means it should still be interesting afterwards (maybe the pictures we take have to be part of the recorded music)

aaaah it's so humid here in osaka, i wonder how long it will take to this country to get dry again.

kinky pet service

TAMPOZAN OSAKA WHEEL

2005-08-14T19:12:00.000+09:00

TAMPOZAN OSAKA WHEEL
under Portable Power Amp Performance

The Target

Not the least

The Guest :
Nathan aka I.n0jaQ
(The famous aeolian Harp Player)

Nathan's audiobomb tool
(Zoom PS02 3Trk rec + Piezzo + Amp + Radio)

Queing

The Target is near

Here we are

The osaka skyline workstation

Domo-san & Davide-san

& Nathan performing

The panorama for a realtime soundtrack

Tempozan wheel souvenir
(proposal)

The missing audience
Kobori Tutomu & Makiko Toba

it's hard documenting exciting events as you're nowhere to be seen on the pics or videos

2005-08-14T19:10:00.000+09:00

Yesterday: nice AS evening hosted by Osaka Arts Aporia, a great warehouse which belongs to the city of Osaka but who is as an art place by self-managed artists (actually, rehabilitated buildings are very, very few in novelty-obsessed Japan, which is very weird for us patrimoine-obsessed French people, and Osaka Arts Aporia will be destroyed in a one-year time time to be replaced by yet another ugly noisy mall). Also Laurence's final evening with us, who'll certainly be greatly missed among us Shoboys, and not only by Davide. Cute Mikiko, who'd already come to the caves in Dazaifu, was there, as my friend Midori chan, who took the train all the way from Kyoto. We also managed to make it to the sento thirty-minutes before it closed, to bathe among yankee would-be yakuzas who played dames, which was greatly needed as we hadn't washed in two days.

Today: our first wild Portable PA session ever since Tokyo, first on the Osaka Great Tempozan Wheel, then in the huge mall just nearby. Davide, Stephane, and Nathan, a.k.a I.n0jaQ, noisejunkie from Australia (whom we met thanks to this blog) played while I documented (Mehdi got stuck in the bus to look after and make animation for the MEC installation), and performed nice immersive sounds among people and across noisy shops (at one point, the noise inside got so intense that I couldn't even tell my fellows shoboys noisemaking from the screaming advertisements). It all ended in a nice invitation from the Mall authorities to go fuck ourselves and play somewhere else, as Mikiko, her friend, French musician Colin (he used to play with Costes and now plays with Satanic Porno Cultshop)joined us together with his family, unfortunately a bit late. Quite a nice fortnight in Osaka, in the end, despite Laurence's departure and the fact that we didn't see one single Yan-Cha(it stands for "Yankee Car")style car or truck. We're leaving tonight at 8 for ATR.

am i ok?

2005-08-14T18:55:00.000+09:00

fuck i don't have a digital camera i don't have a digital photo-apparat and i don't feel like writing anything even though very good moments have been lived by me.
je suis vivant et je vous aime.

Shochu

2005-08-14T12:38:00.000+09:00

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Please
shochu connoisseur required.
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what's the difference between

Shochu & Sake,
Hot Shochu (how to),
Good brands,
Degrees (25 ok ? or more.. I like strong),
etc.

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Thank you.

(many people, many answers yet but so many contradictions !)

MOTOR KARAOKE JAPAN

2005-08-14T01:59:00.000+09:00

We set the installation "motor karaoke" inside the bus and begin to run it with the visitors....
please check the video samples here

Motor karaoke is a scream moto race created by MEC and Ezdac, feel free to comment ...

OSAKAZ

2005-08-14T00:46:00.000+09:00

OSAKA CASO.
Good performance, sento express (and of course Yakuzas, this time young ones).
Now tired but please TOMORROW check the big Osaka Fairy Wheel for the Portable PA performance and supersonic Osaka skyline.

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CHOTTO DONG DONG

2005-08-13T13:04:00.000+09:00

Thank you Awajima people for the nice welcome.
The evening of our live shows, many people asked me for the record of the song I played at the end of Miniflamm's live. This song is a collaboration between me an Khanh-Linh La, I put it online and you can download it here :
http://grogore.free.fr/shobus/son/

MOTOR

2005-08-13T12:58:00.000+09:00

we realized recently that we have been linked on a moto-fan japanese website thanx to the MEC project we are carying with us ... LOVE BIKES!

telling strangers personal things

2005-08-13T12:51:00.000+09:00

Exhaustion

+

Cultural gap

+

Miscommunication

=

the wrong way, nerve picking, awkward feelings

Gomenasai.

AWAJISHIMA/OSAKA

2005-08-13T01:21:00.000+09:00

leave Awajishima and the so kind Yamaguchi-san and go to OSAKA at Arts Aporia, meet the staf and some nice artists presenting theire works there and then had a live. Thank you Midori-san for comming that night, i was very pleased to meet you!

Ketsuyama and other small wonders along the way

2005-08-12T11:35:00.000+09:00