This is to introduce you Yasuhiro OTANI as storyteller with improviser/performer lives in TOKYO. OTANI has solo tour in US/EUROPE from Middle of OCT. The schedule is the following.
19th OCT to 26th OCT : Chicago Modern Art Museum / Workshop,Concert
27th OCT to Middle of NOV: Now Booking in US
8th NOV : Beanbender's, Berkeley,
CA.
Using instruments: Macintosh PowerBook
Software: Max and Handmade software for Real time playing.
Project on screen or self-body/Visual/Text image is controled with
sound.
OTANI has many inspirations from Daily life, something happen just now, novels, Poems, TV, Radio, incidents, etc... For example, When he improvises music, it is influenced by everyting happend in a day. Audience can feel it from his sound and sound structure for using many materials which were recorded by himself. When he collaborates with a director of dance, First OTANI creates drawing, figures and text based on his idea and director's idea. Then, they need nothing else. They do not need rehearsal. OTANI will play and compose with many Material which prepared by himself on realtime on stage. And OTANI's music will be completely synchronized with dance on stage.
I would like to tell you about two interesting CD which will
be released in OCT 1998.
One is "Brain Wash" as OTANI's SOLO Work from IEL label.
One is "DIAL" as Duo OTANI & Tatsu AOKI(AvantBass Player) from AIR.
Collaborated Artists: Yoshihide OTOMO, RIK RUE, UMEZU KAZUTOKI, SAMM BENETTO, Martin Taitor, Kare Larre, JORGEN TELLER, BOB OSTERTAG, Eliot Sharp, Mari KIMURA, Carl STONE, etc..
Joined Festival: Festival SOLO in Swizzerland, International Symposium ElectroAcoustic 97, 98 Music Marge Festival, Now music Festival, Festival Beyond Innocence, Experimental TOKYO Festival in Chicago/San Fransisco