Improvisations
Spatial Training performed by Shohei Amimori + Hideki Umezawa + Tomoko Hojo in a frame of the performance festival YPAM, Yokohama, Japan. LISTEN
sound – music – performance
Spatial Training performed by Shohei Amimori + Hideki Umezawa + Tomoko Hojo in a frame of the performance festival YPAM, Yokohama, Japan. LISTEN
Hojo Tomoko’s work during her residency was based on research on the ‘Jomon Koto’ (Jomon harp), a spatula-shaped wooden object excavated at the Korekawa Nakai site in Hachinohe city, Aomori prefecture. The object is believed to be the oldest surviving string instrument in the world, but the way it was played on r … Read more
Album Touch was released on December 3 2021 through Dragon Eyes Recording. Listen Apple Music or TIDAL & Buy Track Listing: Alexandra Spence – Communion KMRU – Its not a tangency Viv Corringham – Imagine myself walking with you Myriam Van Imschoot + Federico Protto – Human Measures Tomoko Hojo – fall asleep Melissa Pons – Three Mastering: Lawrence English Organised by … Read more
walking piece 2021 — a handmade sound postcard, made of Washi, traditional Japanese paper, produced by Japanese-Swiss sound art collective Tomoko Hojo+Rahel Kraft. When you press the button embedded in the card, tiny audio work would be played. This product is based on their past sound walk piece “Grass Eater Diary”, which was also released as … Read more
Recently I found a special bell at my home, where a buddhist temple lasts more than 500 years. This delicate bell is made of a copper alloy with traces of silver, and only used when a buddhist monk and its partner are passed away, in front of their dead bodies with chanting. In other … Read more
‘Grass Eater Diary‘ is inspired by the Japanese idiom ‘Michikusa Wo Kuu’ the origin of which is: a horse eats grass on the way to a destination and wastes its time. The grass-eater forgets about purpose, time and goals and just ambles around, observing, smelling, thinking–consciously or unconsciously. The green, juicy grass is an image … Read more