Aki Onda & MANAS at JACK
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16th at JACK (18 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn)
8pm doors, 8:30 sharp Music starts, $10
AKI ONDA (solo electronics, objects, tapes)
&
MANAS (Tashi Dorji - guitar, Thom Nguyen - drums)
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/469134190614645/
Bios:
Aki Onda
Onda was born in Japan and resides in New York. He is particularly
known for his “Cassette Memories” — works compiled from a “sound
diary” of field-recordings collected by using portable cassette
recorder over a span of last three decades. He creates compositions,
performances, and visual artworks from those sound memories.
Onda often works in interdisciplinary fields and collaborates with
filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, and choreographers. For the
last fifteen years, he has worked with artists such as Ken Jacobs,
Michael Snow, Paul Clipson, Raha Raissnia, Takashi Makino, Daisuke
Yokota, Maxime Rossi, Annea Lockwood, Loren Conners, Alan Licht, MV
Carbon, Che Chen, Tashi Dorji, Noël Akchoté, Jean-François Pauvros,
Jac Berrocal, David Toop, Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Nao Nishihra,
Toshio Kajiwara, and Takao Kawaguchi.
Onda has presented his work at The Kitchen, MoMA, P.S.1 MOMA, ISSUE
Project Room, Blank Forms, ICA Philadelphia, REDCAT, Time-Based Art
Festival, Images Festival, Novas Frequências, documenta 14, Louvre
Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Présences électronique,
Argos, Bozar, Wiels, ICA London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Counterflow
Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Impakt Festival, La
Casa Encendida, Caixa Forum, Serralves Museum, Nam June Paik Art
Center, Sound Live Tokyo, Hara Museum and many others.
Onda is also active as a curator. From 2016 - 19, Onda served as TPAM
Direction Director at TPAM - Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama,
Japan. He organized performances and exhibitions of a number of
artists including Gozo Yoshimasu, Akio Suzuki, Takehito Koganezawa,
Yoshihide Otomo, Senyawa, Ngọc Đại, and The Observatory. Those events
took place festivals and venues such as The Kitchen, Time-Based Art
Festival, Vancouver New Music, Around Sound Art Festival of
soundpocket and many others.
MANAS
Tashi Dorji grew up in Bhutan, on the eastern side of the Himalayas.
Residing in Asheville since 2000 and soaking up a vast array of music.
Along the way, Dorji developed a playing style unbound by tradition,
yet with a direct line to intuitive artistry. His recordings feature
improvisations that spasmodically grow along tangential, surprising
paths. All references break loose during a composition, as Dorji keys
into his own inner world. His compositions drag the listener into a
labyrinth of warbling tones, where each sound seems to jump out and
replace the eerie silence that would otherwise occupy the atmosphere.
The textures remain sustained in the reverberation as the vibration of
the strings dwindle and ascend. After a handful of releases on
various labels since 2009, Dorji presented his debut LP on Hermit Hut,
the label created by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) in 2014.
And since Tashi has released music both as a soloist, and with duo
projects, notably with percussionist Tyler Damon and MANAS (w/ Thom
Nguyen) on labels like Bathetic Records, Cabin Floor Esoterica, Blue
Tapes, Marmara Records, Feeding Tubes, UNROCK, VDSQ, MIE, Ultra Violet
Light, Family Vineyard and Astral Spirits.
Thom Nguyen is an Asheville-based percussionist and drummer of Nest
Egg, MANAS, House of Land, etc. Producing energetic bursts and
invoking a sensitivity to space that one often associates with
Free-Jazz and New Music percussion, Nguyen’s approach elegantly
bridges works of sonic sculpture with a punk aesthetic of immediacy,
of aggression and playfulness. Among Nguyen’s many recent creative
activities, he released the MANAS self-titled album along with
guitarist Tashi Dorji and opened for legendary Saxophonist, Peter
Brotzmann.
