Sunday, April 17, 2022
7:30pm doors / 8pm show
Tickets $20 (discounted or free for members)
Proof of vaccine (or COVID-19 tests taken within 48 hrs) & masks will be required for entry.

Organized by Aki Onda

Experimental Japanese sound artist ASUNA invites guests to gather in the round and move about The Lab as he nimbly manipulates 100 toy keyboards, using a moiré pattern to create subtle variations of sound interference and resonance that vary based on their position in the performance space. Simultaneously analog and electronic, minimal and complex, meditative and mesmerizing, 100 Keyboards builds unceasingly toward an infinite and sustained crescendo.

ASUNA is a Japanese sound artist. He has been creating experimental music and installation work from a very young age during late 90’s, he has gone on to become a pioneer in the experimental ambient / drone / improvisation scene in Japan and collaborating with many Japanese and international electronic musicians including Jan Jelinek, minoru sato-m/s (ex.WrK), Pękala Kordylasińska Pękala and many others. He has been prolific and produced albums for European, American and Japanese labels.

Alongside his first major work, “Each Organ” (2002), a sound installation reconsidering the concept of etymology, he also produces experimental composition works, recording with acoustic instruments and electronics under the title “100 Toys”, a performance that uses many tiny toys to create a multi-layered and fascinating plastic universe of drones, loops, sonic moiré and occasional pop implosions.

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