Hibla.com: Jarek Piotrowski Soft Machine Galery8 with Ayumi Sawa and Lars Korb

To coincide with the opening of the exhibition, GALERIE8 will play host to a performance by the artist, in collaboration with electo-acoustic visionary Lars Korb, and Japanese contemporary sound-designer Ayumi Sawa.

The trio of highly experimental players will perform from behind a fabric veil, their forms silhouetted by a stop-motion animation film, and music emanating from within the curtained stage. The group utilise a vast range of instruments - from Tibetan bowls and a Kalimba (or thumb piano), to the handmade 'box-guitar' and 'water phone' - which are then incorporated into electronic music techniques.

This intriguing combination of apparatus creates an experimental style of performative contemporary music as avant-garde methods attempt to explore sound's ability to affect the body and to 'paint with music'.

About the artists
JAREK PIOTROWSKI was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1973 and currently lives and works in Munich. Recent exhibitions include BRP Paper, Black Rat Press, London, 2011, Bimbo Box 5, Munich, 2011, Alice Dans les Tenebres, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, 2010 and Lehner/Piotrowski, Galerie Andreas Höhne, Munich, 2010.

LARS KORB is a Munich based electronic musician focusing on sound design and multimedia projects including film and documentary soundtracks. Recent projects include a collaboration with highly acclaimed Japanese turntablist DJ Krush on the soundtrack for First Squad. He has also performed at music festivals with the electropop band Minikamoo.

AYUMI SAWA is a Japanese musician and sound designer. Her musical practice often focuses on the layering motion picture, dialogue, and image with analogue and digital sound production techniques to create a symbiotic tapestry of picture and sound. Sawa participated in one half of experimental, Tokyo based electronica duo CONFEDERADOS.
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http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/12369/1/jarek-piotrowski-s...

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• AYUMI SAWA
• Joseph O'Kelly
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[athame57]

This is the first time I've seen a singing bowl on a video! How incredibly unusual!