Yoshio Machida

Given birth to in Japan in 1967 and currently located in Tokyo, Yoshio Machida explains himself like a trans-boundary audio and visual designer. He analyzed music and minimalist and cinematic arts in the Tama Artwork University or college, where his mentors had been Kuniharu Akiyama, Sakumi Hagiwara, Kishio Suga, and Yoshiaki Touno. From 1988 he spent 16 years touring extensively across the world producing field recordings, a lot of which would consequently come in his electro-acoustic recordings. Through the ’90s he extended his visible collage methods into what he known as photobatik while participating in conceptual poetics and musicological experimentation. In 1999, using koan software program by SSEYO Ltd., Machida produced several koan audio pieces beneath the name “Amorphous,” issuing them plus a painting catalog on the self-produced floppy disk. His first Compact disc launch, also dated 1999, was known as Hypernatural. This is a authorized, limited-edition art package deal including a camera-obscura container, a Compact disc with eight audio works, published and illustrated components, and a crow feather. Machida, whose structural efficiency concepts were designed by India’s improvisational music customs, also names historic East Asian agrarian sunlight worship systems (wherein the gong was seen as a mark for sunlight and its own life-giving forces) being a basis for his selection of gongs as well as the even more chromatically flexible amorphone, a mock metal pan (like the metal drum) of his very own devising that he enhances with Utmost/MSP programmable software program. Hypernatural #2, the initial album caused by this innovative self-discipline, was released for the German Softl Music label in 2001. Both Hypernatural albums, using their announced designs of Asian light mythos and “clear existence,” included field recordings produced at Lumbini in Nepal (the birthplace of Gautama Buddha), and a malaria grassland in Ghana. Machida (whose unreleased albums add a third installment in the Hypernatural series, an audio-tribute to painter Georgia O’Keeffe, an electro-acoustic task entitled “Vajra” and an enormous collage of field recordings) founded his very own amorfon label in 2004 and presented Infinite Bouquets (2004) and Naada (2006). Machida is rolling out a wholesome and productive functioning relationship with performers from around Asia, Africa, European countries, and Latin America. Since 2002 he provides participated in celebrations and art occasions in the U.K., France, Holland, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Macedonia, Russia, Finland, China, and undoubtedly Japan. He continues to be particularly energetic as the originator and cementer of social bonds between Japan and different countries in Eastern European countries. In 2005, Machida structured and led a musical workshop for kids at Minamisuna Elementary College in Tokyo. Tangible proof this artist’s open-minded and generously inclusive attitude towards kids as creative music artists made an appearance in 2007 as Kindermusik: Improvised Music by Infants. This remarkable recording consists of overall performance audio artworks by people who had not however attained age 1 . 5 years. Also in 2007, Yoshio Machida and Yasufumi Suzuki produced and began working Soundroom.JP, a podcasting train station specialized in experimental artwork and music. Machida’s dub-electronica device, operating beneath the name of miimo, includes bassist tatsu and drummer Norihide Saji. Machida is usually an associate of Walk using the Penguin, an ensemble created in cooperation with Serbian rock-band Cinc. His function are available on several compilations in the avant-garde and electronica groups, one choice example becoming Resonance: Steel Skillet in the 21st Hundred years [Alas Seis Music 2007].