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Album Shinonome was digitally released from the LA based label LINE in July 2020. Listen and Buy via Bandcamp アルバム Shinonome がロサンゼルスのレーベルLINEよりデジタルリリースされました。試聴・購入はこちらから For the audio walk Shinonome Tomoko Hojo and Rahel Kraft explored the acoustics of dawn in relationship to walking and light during their residency at ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe … Read more
The Hours Descend, a track from Shinonome 東雲 is included in the compilation album compiled by Nick Luscombe, released from the UK music lable Nonclassical in January 2020. Have a look details. You can get it either as a digital album or as a physical casette from here. 2020年1月にイギリスの音楽レーベルNonclassicalから発売されたコンピレーションアルバム「Fieldwave」に、「Shinonome 東雲」の１トラック「The Hours Descend」が入っています。Nick Luscombeによる編纂。 デジタルアルバムもしくはカセットテープの販売です。詳細はこちら。
What do you think of when hearing the name ‘Yoko Ono’? John Lennon’s wife? A witch? An Oriental mystery? A person of endless rumors? A woman of countless affairs? A mother who abandoned her child? A rich person? A celebrity? An artist? In 2018, I did an exhibition themed around Yoko Ono in London. Prior … Read more
My Place/My Sound, is a performance piece based on the past two projects conducted by Hojo+Kraft. Both in Tokyo and in the Lower Engadine they explored the specific acoustics in collaboration with the local community with special regard to the interaction of ‹inner sounds› between people, language, home and space. The collected and composed material, … Read more
This work departs from on an oral history interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono made on 6 December 1980, two days before Lennon’s death. Whereas John had been talking without interruption, Yoko was often muted and mostly accompanied his speech by laughing with high soft small voice. In Japanese society, people insert ‘aizuchi’ – … Read more
Based on Yoko Ono’s historical exhibition Unfinished Paintings and Objects at Indica Gallery, London, 1966, this show Unfinished Descriptions focuses on undocumented works and highlights silenced parts of that exhibition and Yoko Ono herself. These works explore the relationship between the missing voices, especially woman’s voice in the archive and its alternative representations. Through questioning … Read more
The exhibition Unfinished Descriptions were also activated through performance. Collaborating with British emerging composer and performer Andy Ingamells, we did performances for the opening and a concert called Performance Night. Scores of O14 contributed by 30 artists were performed, as well as recreations of undocumented works from the Ono’s original exhibition in 1966. 個展「Unfinished Descriptions」では展示だけではなく、パフォーマンスもおこなわれた。イギリス人若手作曲家／パフォーマーのAndy … Read more
Based on research about the legendary Slovak composer, musicologist and intermedia artist Milan Adamčiak and his works, Hojo presents five works with using scores, sounds, and visual images, in her exhibition Lost and Found. As a sound-based interdisciplinary artist, Hojo had an interest in Adamčiak’s massive body of work, and its social, political and cultural … Read more
INNERN navigates acoustically from Scuol village to Nairs or vice versa with an app and your own headphones. We follow the winding path along the river Inn through the enchanting and mystical landscape of the Lower Engadine, a remote area of the Swiss Alps. In this sensory experience fiction merges with our immediate environment. The … Read more
How can artists document the past performance vividly, moreover, how can that documents be used to represent that performance clearly. This question is based on the fact that a performance’s document is not an artwork itself, but always regarded as a secondary position. Making Documentation of That Moment is a project that explores this … Read more