JunKroomKyoto

JunKroom event reappears mysteriously in London! Opening show on 25th March 2012!!

2012-01-16T15:52:00.000-08:00

After a long (too long) break, the JunKroom event will be starting up again in London.

Details about the event to follow soon!!!

So.... keep your diaries open on the 25th March...and check your train /bus timetables......Dalston Junction will be your destination!!

Final JunKroom event on 22nd April 2011 at Urbanguild in Kyoto

2011-04-23T07:36:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to all the performers for putting on a brilliant show at the last JunKroom event in Kyoto.
This was also a charity event to help people in the Tokoku region who are suffering as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. The door money plus a collection we did during the show brought in around 48 000 yen- which I'll round up to 50 000 yen. So we have 25 000 yen to give to ゆめ風基金（Yume-kaze fund) and 25000 yen to give to JVC Thank you everybody for contributing !!

DEtails about the work the charities are doing can be found on their Home Pages. (addresses below)

ゆめ風基金（Yume-kaze fund)
http://homepage3.nifty.com/yumekaze/

JVC
http://www.ngo-jvc.net/jp/projects/touhoku/report0413.html

Please watch this space for for future developments....The JunKroom event take a break and restart in London where I hope to be able to promote the excellent work of my friends in Kyoto and give UK audiences the chance to see some of the best Music, Dance and Art coming out of Japan.

Here's a list of performers who have participated in the JunKroom event over the last 4 years...many thanks to all of you!

Alexander Rishaug, Phonophani (Espen Sommer Eide), Sigbjorn Apeland Yosuke Fujita, ieva, Sseeaann Rrooee, WEAST (Murakami Hiroshi & Tanaka Ryo), Acsoc / Syndrome WPW (Serge Teuscher), CLONELINESS (aka Charles-Eric Billard) Yoshida Koichi - Udonya Mentei - Okuda Satoko - raw elements - Sseeaann Rrooee - 西野貴人 (太鼓) - Das Capital Punishment - Aleatoric Tinkerbot - Yangjah - 魚雷魚 - MaDonald - Mash Cucumber - 時空JIKUUUUUUUUU - amalls の skcaj -Peachman (Toshiya Momota) - Praed - Problematica - Bridget Scott - Christopher Fryman - Misuzu - Hamah Moh - Harikokue (Harico + Kozue Sugiura - ieva (Samuel Andre) - Lorenzo Senni - Naked Mozart (Donald the Nut + Chiko Choko) - Miimo - ra_ka - Seed - Yoji and his ghost band - Llama Labo - Buggatronic (Daniel Buess /James Hullick) - raks khamis - Tim Olive - Nick Hoffman - Takahiro Kawaguchi - AUJIK - Porta Chiusa - Hannes Lingens - Pierre Borel - The Patty Hearst Noise Opera - Vice - Problematica - Ritsuko Hidaka - DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA - Anthony Guerra & Mark Sadgrove - GG Jackson - Katsura Mouri - Hakobune - Kenichi Higashino - Hiromi Shirai - Sbot N Wo - madonaLD! - Akiko Igaki - Azumi Miyata - Junichi Inoue - Psychedelic Desert - S.C.F - Jet Vel - Armelle Dousset - Mariko Tajiri - Titan No Kai - Inouratomoe - Salads in Space - Hanaarashi - Oh My Cow - The Pumpkins - 7hz Tribe Arkestra - Moe Matsuki - Yuka Hanamoto - Public on the Mountain - Anne Marijin Koppen - Clemence Baars - Andrea Valvini - Day Good Explorer (Stephen Munoz & Jack Glacken) - Eddie 135 - Prof Mari Oka - Toshikuni Doi - Denki Gypsy Special - Kazuya Hagihara - Geronimo Label - Falsos Gitanos - Mir - Dan Marlin - Tomoko Sauvage - Charles-Eric Billard - Shinji Kameda - Bum Creek - Shags Chamberlain - Floating Room - Mitsu Salmon - ryotaro - Jana Winderen - Julie Pereira - Baku - Akira - Tadashi Yonago - SEVEN FIELDS from J - Kusum Normoyle - JP DuQuette - Malawicob - Takashi Tanaka - Alice Sailor and Damage Distortion - Sadaharu Horio - Handsome Buggy - Iron Egg - Karolina Raczynska - Caitlin Coker - Amrik Sahnsi - Ms Meka Nism - Junko Imai and Chiaki Kuwahara - Richard Dean - Sylwia Gorak - Floating Room - Veejay Figshta - Bloom Creation - Titan No Kai - Teruyuki Tanaka - Take-Bow - Cosmic Kaigan - Uratomoe Trio - Jerry Gordon - Mesuinu & Co - Hiroyuki Furuya - Johnny Miller - Shabushabu - Hana Joss - Shinyokoeband - Kaneko Kitawaki Guitar Duo - 15 mm films - Duncan Galbraith - Suda Nobuto - Fucked 76 - Matthew Mullane - Yuko Nexus 6 - On Furukawa - Tonko - Takaaki Matsui - Hiro Ohta - Keisuke Uemura - Ippei Ikeda - Yasuo Fukurozaka - kogut (Joan Laage) - David Lakein - Empty Orchestra - Yumiko Nii - Reiko Kiyama - Cell 63

The Final JunKroom Event in KYOTO on 22nd April 2011 @ Urbanguild in Kyoto

2011-03-16T09:20:00.000-07:00

THE FINAL JUNKROOM EVENT!!!
AT URBANGUILD in KYOTO

22nd APRIL 2011

After producing and being involved in about 30 show in the last 4 years or so.... The JunKroom event in Kyoto finally comes to an end. I will be returning to England in the next few weeks after having lived in Kyoto for 5 years. Organizing and participating in these events has been an education for me- it’s helped me meet some of the most interesting performers in Kyoto. I hope in return, the event has contributed to the diverse cultural life of this city by acting as a forum for both local artists and those visiting from overseas. To all the performers who have contributed, and to all the visitors to the event, I’d like to say thank you for supporting JunKroom in Kyoto! And..... a huge THANK YOU to everyone at Urbanguild who have provided the perfect home to the event!

I will be restarting the JunKroom project in the UK, so.. to all the performers who have joined the event in Kyoto- there is an open invitation to come over and perform in England. Junkroom will become a bridge between Kyoto and London and will introduce the work of Japanese performers to audiences in the UK. I look forward to my new role supporting the work of all the friends I’ve made while I’ve been living in Kyoto.

For this last event I’ve decided that proceeds will be donated to charity to help the people in the NE of Japan who have been devastated by the Earthquake and Tsunami, as well as the problems with the Nuclear Power plant in Fukushima.

THE FINAL JUNKROOM EVENT!!!
AT URBANGUILD in KYOTO

22nd APRIL 2011

Starts at 7.00pm Ends at 2.00am (or later!)
Entry 1500 advance or 1800 at the door
1 drink is included!

PERFORMERS

Acsoc (Serge Teuscher)

http://www.midinetterecords.net/acsoc/

Serge Teuscher who is a member of the electronic punk-rock outfit Syndrome WPW based in Lausanne in Switzerland, will be performing solo for this event under the moniker Acsoc. Expect some uncompromising and beautifully brutal sounds!

Naked Mozart

http://nakedmozart.com/

Naked Mozart are the Kyoto based duo of Donald the Nut -proto nerd rocker from San Francisco’s Three Day Stubble and classical violinist Chiko Choko. So what’s in store....perhaps the rebellious spirit of Mozart, sinister vocal acrobatics and dollops of potty humor.

WEAST (Murakami Hiroshi & Tanaka Ryo)

An artist unit, formed in August, 2010. The members are Murakami Hiroshi living in Tokyo and Tanaka Ryo living in Kyoto. As a theme 'What is connecting?,' they have a variety of experiments and tests. As a result they put out documents and performances.

Bridget Scott & Problematica

http://www.myspace.com/problematicajp

Kyoto based duo perform on Electric violin voice and metal percussion- For tonights performance they will be joined by Bridget Scott with her unique blend of Japanese traditional and contemporary dance.

SseeaannRrooee

Sean Roe (a.k.a Sseeaann Rrooee) was born in Crawley, England 1963. He is a Multimedia artist, Musician and Curator, and has exhibited and performed widely in the UK, Europe and Japan, and has also lectured and conducted workshops in Colleges, Galleries and Art Centres. Since 2007 he has produced the JunKroom multi-disciplinary live event in Kyoto.

Christopher Fryman & Misuzu

http://www.myspace.com/christopherfryman

Christopher Fryman will be performing on Trumpet (electronically treated and processed) creating an ambient backdrop for the exotic dancing of Misuzu.

Chikako Bando & Yumiko Nii

http://www.tcn.zaq.ne.jp/hanaarashi/Welcome.html

Chikako Bando and Yumiko Nii are both members of the extraordinary contemporary dance group “Hanaarashi” Their performances are strange and challenging! Highly recommended!

CLONELINESS aka Charles-Eric Billard

http://charlou2006.blogspot.com/

Charles-Eric Billard performs on home made and cannibalized traditional instruments combined with electronics, creating gently pulsating music with a Balinese flavour.

Mitsu Salmon & ryotaro

http://www.lightsake.blogspot.com/
http://www.ryotaro.info/

Mitsu Salmon creates solo and collaborative performance pieces weaving together music, dance, text and imagery. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She has received her BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University (January 2005). ryotaro is an accordionist, composer and performer. He uses MIDI-accordion; intermixing accordion, synthesizer and programmed sounds creating instant compositions.

Andrew Couzens & Caitlin Coker

Andrew Couzens is a Musician and video maker who aside from his solo work, also performs as a member of SCF and AmallsnoSkcaj . Tonight he will be Joined by Butoh inspired dancer Caitlin Coker who performs regularly in Ima Tenko’s dance company.

ALEXANDER RISHAUG (solo) / PHONPHANI & SIGBJØRN APELAND (duo) + GUESTS LIVE IN JAPAN, FEBRUARY 2011

2011-02-19T14:44:00.000-08:00

Here are details about the Alexander Rishaug, PHONPHANI & Sigbjorn Apeland tour of Japan.
The Photographs are from their recent (17th Feb) performance at the JunKroom event at Urbanguild in Kyoto.

ALEXANDER RISHAUG (solo) / PHONPHANI & SIGBJØRN APELAND (duo) + GUESTS

LIVE IN JAPAN, FEBRUARY 2011

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG (laptop)
PHONOPHANI (self-made instruments, laptop) with SIGBJØRN APELAND (harmonium)

LIVE + + LECTURE at Gift_Lab, Tokyo 16.02.2011 – start 07:30pm

http://www.giftlab.jp
http://jimushitsu.blogspot.com
http://www.last.fm/event/1828711+『今日のノルウェー実験音楽+2011

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG (laptop)
PHONOPHANI (self-made instruments, laptop) with SIGBJØRN APELAND (harmonium)
YOSUKE FUJITA (pipe organ)
MITSU SALMON (vocal, dance, text, visuals)
RYOTARO (MIDI-accordion, synthesizer)
IEVA (laptop, field recordings)
SSEEAANN RROOEE ( turntables, amplified paper)

LIVE at UrBANGUILD, Kyoto 17.02.2011 – open 06:45 pm / start 07:00pm

http://www.urbanguild.net
http://junkroomkyoto.blogspot.com
http://www.deepkyoto.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180187135350900

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG (laptop)
PHONOPHANI (self-made instruments, laptop) with SIGBJØRN APELAND (harmonium)
HACO (voice, electronics)
REIKO IMANISHI (koto)

LIVE at Common Cafe, Osaka 18.02 – open 07:00 pm / start 07:30pm

http://www.talkin-about.com/cafe/index.html
http://ompasha.blog.shinobi.jp

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG (laptop)
PHONOPHANI (self-made instruments, laptop) with SIGBJØRN APELAND (harmonium)
HACO (voice, electronics)
ALI MORIMOTO (sampler, gameboy)

LIVE at Guggenheim House, Kobe, Shioya 19.02.2011 – open 07:00 pm / start 07:30pm

http://www.nedogu.com/blog/archives/1455
http://www.nedogu.com

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG (laptop)
PHONOPHANI (self-made instruments, laptop)
AKINORI YAMASAKI (guitar)
TIM OLIVE (guitar, electronics)
SONIR (laptop)
MIKU-MARI (guitar, electronics)

LIVE at Sample - White Room, Nara 24.02.2011 – start 06:00

http://samplewr.exblog.jp

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG (laptop)
PHONOPHANI (self-made instruments, laptop)
YASUHIRO USUI (guitar)
RYOKO ONO (alto sax )
TARU TATSUMAKI (drums)
ZONZONO (sampler/electronics)

LIVE at K.D Japon, Nagoya 25.02.2011 – open 06:30 / start 07:30pm

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/kdjapon
http://www.usui-yasuhiro.com/live

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ALEXANDER RISHAUG (laptop)
PHONOPHANI (self-made instruments, laptop)
HOSOMI SAKANA (laptop)
TAISHI KAMIYA (soprano saxophone, laptop)

LIVE at Soup, Tokyo 26.02.2011 - start 07:30pm

http://ochiaisoup.web.fc2.com/index.html
http://jimushitsu.blogspot.com
http://www.cmflg.com
http://www.last.fm/event/1790435+『今日のノルウェー実験音楽+2011

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The tour is supported by The Royal Norwegian Embassy, Tokyo, MIC/UD, Arts Council Norway
and Bergen Council.

Booked and organized by Tetsuro Yasunaga, Sean Roe, Haco, Ali Morimoto, Satoshi Nakazawa
Usui Yasuhiro, Daiki Asari, Espen Sommer Eide and Alexander Rishaug

JunKroom Special Event 17th February 2011 @ Urbanguild Kyoto

2011-02-17T07:04:00.000-08:00

必見！ノルウェーから実験電子音楽アーティスト３人がやって来ます！
Alexander Rishaug アレクサンデル・リスァグ(Smalltown Supersound), Phonophani フォノファニ(Espen Sommer Eide) エスペン・ソンメル・アイダ（Rune Grammofon）and Sigbjorn Apeland　シグボーン・アプランド　ハーモニウム電子音楽プレーヤー

PLUS!! Yosuke Fujita Japan, Mitsu Salmon & ryotaro USA/Japan, ieva (Samuel Andre) France, Sseeaann Rrooee UK

JunKroom special event
17th February 2011 (Thursday)
at Urbanguild
Doors open 6.45pm Starts 7.00pm
1500yen adv 2000yen at door (includes 1 drink)

Join the Facebook guest list
and and get reduced entry (1500 yen inc 1 Drink)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180187135350900

International Show with 3 amazing guests from Norway!

Alexander Rishaug Norway
Phonophani (Espen Sommer Eide) Norway
Sigbjorn Apeland Norway
Yosuke Fujita Japan
Mitsu Salmon & ryotaro USA/Japan
ieva (Samuel Andre) France
Sseeaann Rrooee UK

Alexander Rishaug is a sound artist and musician based in Oslo, Norway. His sound is melodic, melancholic and often quiet. Rishaug explores tones and textures through the use of electronics, field recordings, toys or simply just playing around with an instrument. Rishaug combines an intimate knowledge of his musical equipment with the curiousness of an amateur. Rishaug was one of the key figures in ARM, a improv collective with Arne Borgan and Are Mokkelbost (Single Unit). As a solo artist he has worked with: Elin Vister, Svarte Greiner, Lasse Marhaug, Marius Watz, Andreas Meland, Erich Berger, Ivar Grydeland, Ole Henrik Moe, Kari Rønnekleiv, Pekka Stokke and Tape.

Alexander Rishaug／アレクサンデル・リスァグ:

1974年生まれ。オスロ在住のサウンドアーティスト／プロデューサー。既成の楽器にとらわれず、電子音やフィールドレコーディング、玩具など様々なエレメントを音響面から探求している。機材に関する深い造詣と無邪気な遊び心を持ち合わせながら、Steve ReichやTerry Rileyを思わせるサウンドスケープを作り上げることを得意としている。同時に90年代以降のグリッチ的手法とピエール・アンリやベルナール・パルメジアーニの作曲語法を融和させたような構造を自身の表現の中に取り込んでいる。
オヴァルを引き合いに出されることもあるが、そこには批評性や没個性よりもむしろ、シンガーソングライターの志向性に近い人間的な暖かさと喜びに彩られているのが彼の作品の特徴である。一方で、ブラックメタルの UlverやノイズユニットJazzkammerなどのリミックスを手がけるほか、コンラッド・シュニッツラーとコラボレーションを果たすといったオープンなスタンスも彼のもうひとつの持ち味である。

Phonophani (Espen Sommer Eide) was born in Oslo, Norway. Espen played music originally on percussion instruments, flutes and trumpet, before emphasising computer-generated sounds. He currently lives in Bergen, Norway where he is involved in the city's experimental music scene. Eide has released several solo albums as Phonophani, under the Rune Grammofon record label. Phonophani is multi-instrumentalist and digital electronics music, characterized by various manipulated live instruments integrated with pure electronic sounds. Espen Sommer Eide is the developer of the Concertinome, a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors. Eide also records music with Alog, his musical partnership with fellow Norwegian musician, Dag-Are Haugan. In 2005, Alog was the winner of the Spellemannprisen, the Norwegian equivalent of the Grammy. In 2007, Alog was nominated for a Spellemannprisen for the album Amateur.

Phonophani／フォノファニ（Espen Sommer Eide／エスペン・ソンメル・アイダ):

1972年生まれ。ベルゲン在住のミュージシャン／アーティスト。Phonophani名義で作品を発表するほか、Alog のメンバーとしても知られている。エレクトロニクスとアコースティックを組み合わせた精巧かつ複雑な自作楽器を用いた演奏を行う。これまでにRune Grammofonから多数のアルバムを発表しており、Alog名義の作品ではノルウェーのグラミー賞にあたる「Spellemannsprisen」を受賞している。
一方で、サイトスペシフィックなアート作品の制作や、劇団Verdensteatretに参加するなど音楽家以外の側面も持っている。ル・コルビュジェ教会（フランス）の50周年記念制作やNorthern Lights Festival（ノルウェー）でのサウンドインスタレーション、Manifesta7（イタリア）における古いレコードを再構築したオリジナル楽器の発表などその成果は多岐に渡る。
現在はノルウェー国内の美術館に向けたパーマネントコレクションの制作を手がける傍ら、インターネット上での作品制作にも着手。過去にはベルゲンで電子音楽フェスのディレクターも歴任している。

Sigbjørn Apeland (born 1966) is a musician (organ, harmonium) and academic, well known for work that can be placed on the border between folk music, church music and improvisatory music.
After growing up in Sveio he graduated from The Rogaland Conservatory of Music (1988) specializing in the study and the performance of Church Music. He also studied ethnomusicology at the University of Bergen (1998), before doing a research fellowship at the Grieg Academy writing his dissertation on the Musical Life in the Norwegian Church as Cultural Practice (2005). Apeland has participated in a number of releases by Nils Økland (1995 -), Reid Horvei (1998), Inge Leiv Kvammen and Olav Kvammen (2000), Asne Valland Nordli (2001), Maryland's (2001), and Agnes Buen Garnås (2002). Apeland also plays with the Hardanger fiddle player Synnøve S. Bjørset and collaborates with Knut Hamre and Benedicte Riise Hildegun Maurseth.

Sigbjorn Apeland
オルガン・ハルモニウム奏者。ベルゲンでサンドヴィケン教会の常任オルガン奏者を務める。ノルウェイの民族音楽、電子音楽、即興音楽とのコラボレーション、インスタレーション「Organ Tower」などミクストメディアの作曲演奏も精力的に行っている。ノルウェイのグラミー賞(Spellemannsprisen)を2006年(Alogとエレクトロニカ部門)と2007年(Sigrid Moldestadと民族音楽部門)に受賞。

fujita yosuke/音楽家広島県尾道市生まれ、香川県出身。 音楽家。鳥を師匠とする。
２０世紀のクラシック、特に室内楽や器楽曲、ジャズ、ミニマル、民族音楽などの影響を受け、独自の音楽、トーンを追求。
楽器は主に声とギター、そして自作楽器「11's Moon Organ」を演奏する。 音を聴き、そこに触れることを感じさせる、“間”の演奏術が特徴的である。2009年、空想を具現化した完全自作のパイプオルガンを製作。自作楽器「11's Moon Organ」である。ふいごから何まで一人自宅にて作り上げ、風箱には８個の石が置かれ、その風圧により１１本のパイプを鳴らす。鍵盤が無い全く独自の構造によるドローンサウンドである。 手作業によるパイプのいびつさから生まれた複雑な空気のノイズを利用し、風の揺らぎ、星の振動、動物の鳴声とも云えるノイズ奏法から美しいハーモニーまでを持つ、独特の響きである。また絵や写真作品の制作、アートワークやSelf-Portraitなど、力の抜けた姿勢を持ち、2007年には金沢、大阪にて個展『藤田陽介作品展〈森の子供〉』を開催。 現在までに「芸術家にて」(2006)、「石切と４つのコンチェルト」(2008)と二枚のアルバムをFlavour of Soundより発表。現在、石切(大阪)の小さな一軒家で暮らし、各地で活動を行う。

Mitsu Salmon creates solo and collaborative performance pieces weaving together music, dance, text and imagery. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She has received her BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University (January 2005). She has lived, worked and studied in England, Germany, Amsterdam and India. Currently she resides in Kyoto, Japan where she studies dance and performs with Ima Tenko and collaborates with accordionist/performer ryotaro. Her work has been presented at places such Performance Space 122, Highways Performance Space and internationally at Hebbel Am Uffer, the Berlin Performance Art Festival and the London Performance Art Festival

ryotaro is an accordionist, composer and performer. He uses MIDI-accordion; intermixing accordion, synthesizer and programmed sounds to create compositions.He has also performed and recorded albums with the bands Elements, Alternate Symphony, trace elements and Picaresque.In addition,he has also collaborated and improvised with Take-bow (performer and table top guitarist), Meri Otoshi (dancer), Mitsu Salmon (performer) and other dancers, actors and painters. He composed, played music and acted in the film "Jellyfish" directed by Nadia Porcar, which was screened at the Osaka European Film Festival in 2004. In 2008, ryotaro released his 1st solo album "Jelly, nico & I".

ieva (Samuel Andre)Musician and award winning film soundtrack composer. His live performances use multi layered field recordings that are overlayed creating quite mysterious imaginary aural worlds. http://www.ieva-li.net/constellation/

Sean Roe (a.k.a Sseeaann Rrooee) was born in Crawley, England 1963. He is a Multimedia artist, Musician and Curator, having studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College (London University) and at Middlesex University in London. He has exhibited and performed widely in the UK, Europe and Japan, and has also lectured and conducted workshops in Colleges, Galleries and Art Centres. Since 2007 he has produced the JunKroom multi-disciplinary live event in Kyoto ( http://junkroomkyoto.blogspot.com/) and more recently has helped establish "For Gaza" a fundraising project that raises awareness about the plight of the Palestinians through music and performance, and through lectures and discussion. (http://gazaevents.blogspot.com/)

ADDRESS AND DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-
Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori
go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side
(left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo)
walk approximately 150 metres.
Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building-access by elevator or stairs

Deep Kyoto & JunKroom Present Voices for Umekoji / 梅小路の声 Urbanguild 21st January

2010-12-18T21:18:00.000-08:00

Deep Kyoto & JunKroom present:

Voices for Umekoji / 梅小路の声
One night of musical protest against the Kyoto Aquarium

Date: Friday January 21st
Doors open: 6:30
Show starts: 7:30
Ticket: 2000 yen (includes 500 yen drink ticket)
Students/Advance tickets: 1500 yen

Featuring the Following performers

Yoshida Koichi (shakuhachi player) & Udonya Mentei (folk )
Okuda Satoko (jazz pop diva)
raw elements + Dodo (rock band) /
Booobooozz (rock)
西野貴人 (太鼓)
Das Capital Punishment (New Rave)

DJ Sseeaann Rrooee
Visuals by Andrew Couzens

+Presentations by:
"We don't need an aquarium in Umekoji park" Citizen's Network/
「梅小路公園に水族館はいらない」市民ネットワーク
The Institute of Biodiversity/いきもの多様性研究所

More information here: 京都水族館（仮称）と梅小路公園の未来を考える会
Sign the petition here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-kyoto-aquarium/
日本語の署名：http://www.shomei.tv/project-1612.html

Place: Urbanguild

Outsider's Record Fair & JunKroom Special Live Event on 24th October - THE RECORD FAIR IS FREE! THE LIVE EVENT FROM 7.30pm IS 1500YEN incl 1 DRINK

2010-10-24T07:49:00.000-07:00

Double Bill- Record Fair from 11am till 6.45pm followed by a special live event from around 7.30
More details will be posted below
If you'd like to join the record/cd fair as a seller- please contact me through this blog

Outsiders / JunKroom Special Live Event

http://junkroomkyoto.blogspot.com/

24th October

Doors Open at 7.15
Starts 7.45pm
Ends 1am
1500 at door inc 1 drink

Featuring the following Performers

Aleatoric Tinkerbot
(Jerry Gordon & Rick Tuazon) with Yangjah

魚雷魚

MaDonald

Mash Cucumber

時空JIKUUUUUUUUU

amalls の skcaj

Peachman (Toshiya Momota)

DJ Sseeaann Rrooee

+ Artists Videos And Guest Performers!!

Details about the record fair

Junkroom records & Urbanguild 主催
“Outsider’s” 中古レコード&CD　フェア第2弾 - 2010年10月24日
Outsider’s CD & Record Fair at Urbanguild (Kyoto) 2010.10.24 (Sun) 11.00am - 6.45pM

http://www.urbanguild.net/

ご自分のレコードを売りたいと思っているコレクターの方へ

“outsiders” レコードフェアでは個人のCD＆レコードコレクターの方がフリーマーケット形式でレコードを売ることができます。出店料は１テーブル（床面も含む）につき3000円、テーブル半分で1500円。売り上げ手数料など一切徴収いたしません。売るものはレコード、CDもしくは古本に限らせていただきます。レコード店も参加します。場所は京都三条木屋町の urbanguild。興味のある方は以下まで。
連絡先jun kroom rrpm3345@yahoo.co.uk
http://junkroomrecords.blogspot.com/ もしくは会場まで。

Urbanguild ニュー京都ビル３F 京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる. 電話 075 212 1125
http://www.urbanguild.net/

JunKroom Vol 17 on 1st October @ Urbanguild (Kyoto)

2010-09-14T09:06:00.000-07:00

JunKroom Vol 17 will take place on 1st October at the usual venue Urbanguild.

Start at 7.00pm ends 1am
1500 adv 1800 at door inc 1 drink
students 1500 (with id)

Featuring the following Performers

Praed

(Paed Conca & Raed Yassin) Duo hailing from Switzerland and Beruit.. A maelstrom of frantic bass, clarinet and electronics- their performances are absolutely exhilarating. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Take a look at the video clips to get an idea about their performances. look here http://www.myspace.com/praed

Problematica+ Bridget Scott

Kyoto based duo perform on Electric violin voice and percussion- They will be joined by dancer Bridget Scott for tonights performance. http://www.myspace.com/problematicajp

Christopher Fryman and Misuzu

Christopher will be performing on Trumpet (electronically treated and processed) creating an ambient backdrop for dancer Misuzu. http://www.myspace.com/christopherfryman

Hamah Moh

Fantastic blues inspired musician with impeccable taste performing tracks from his new release GHOST SLIDER details can be found here http://hamahmoh.nobody.jp/

sseeaann rrooee

Kyoto based Musician and Artist and Event Organizer performing solo http://www.myspace.com/sseeaannrrooee

Harikokue (Harico + Kozue Sugiura)

Performance art meets Electronica - music made with steam irons and ironing boards with vocal and video accompaniment. Bound to be surprising! http://www.nurs.or.jp/~sug/kozue/ksgw/ksgw3.htm

ieva (Samuel Andre)

Musician and award winning film soundtrack composer. His live performances use multi layered field recordings that are overlayed creating quite mysterious imaginary aural worlds. http://www.ieva-li.net/constellation/

ADDRESS AND DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-
Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori
go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side
(left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo)
walk approximately 150 metres.
Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building-access by elevator or stairs

DETAILS IN JAPANESE ABOUT PRAED

Praed（Paed Conca + Raed Yassin）
Praed は単なるデュオではなく、多彩な楽器やテープやラジオからの音、視覚要素が織り込まれた、動的な空間の広がりである。この多様性が、このデュオのオリジナリティの核となっており、いくつかの階層になった解釈を提示し且つそれらを同時に成立させ、どのような状況・環境にも安住することなく、特異な音とイメージのミックスを展開する。それは絶え間ない構築と解体の連続で、組み立てられたものはすべて消され、取り戻され、加えられ、差し引かれていく。
Paed Conca（パド・コンカ）
ベース／クラリネット／電子楽器を使う作曲家、即興演奏家。舞台、映画、小規模なアンサンブルに音楽を提供する。ヨーロッパ、ロシア、日本、レバノンでツアーの経験があり、ヨーロッパを中心に、フェスティヴァルへの出演もある。YBO2とのソロツアー、レコメンバンドBlastのツアー、TSUKIのツアーと過去3回来日経験がある。
Raed Yassin（ラエド・ヤシン）
映像・音響・視覚芸術家。音楽家としてもダブル・ベース／テープ／電子楽器を演奏し、またキュレーターでもある。1979年ベイルート生まれ、レバノン大学演劇学部卒業。彼の作品は、画像／音楽／文章／コンセプトを用い、メディア／都市／現代芸術の歴史／アラブ社会の映画／ポルノグラフィ／ポップ・カルチャー／災害／アーカイヴに関するテーマに基づいて制作されており、広くヨーロッパ、中東、アメリカ合衆国と日本で発表されている。アムステルダムとベイルートを行き来して活動している。

JunKroom Vol 16 at Urbanguild -Kyoto- 10th september 2010

2010-08-16T16:34:00.000-07:00

Please scroll down for more upcoming events!!

Great line up for our show in September- please check the artist links below for more information.

JunKroom Vol 16
10th September
Urbanguild
Kyoto

Starts 7.00pm Ends 1.00am
adv/students 1500 yen
door 1800 (includes 1 drink)

Food available!

Something about the performers

Lorenzo Senni - the man behind Presto!? Records will be visiting us from Italy- A description of his latest release “Dunno” describes his music “...vintage experimentalism of the computer music pioneers and the new digital brutality of fat, acid glissandos and shepard tones in rave style. Using a large palette of computer synthesized sounds and a sophisticated musical awareness he creates ten tracks of beautiful artificial energies and abstract pleasure.”

Also appearing is Ieva (Samuel Andre) a musician and award winning film soundtrack composer who also works on computer interface design. His live performances use multi layered field recordings that are improvised with creating quite mysterious imaginary aural worlds.

Naked Mozart are the Kyoto based duo of Donald the Nut -proto nerd rocker from San Francisco’s Three Day Stubble and classical violinist Chiko Choko. Expect the rebellious spirit of Mozart, sinister vocal acrobatics and potty humor. Unforgettable!

Miimo are an amazing Post Dub electro beat trio from Tokyo. Featuring Ska and Reggae specialist Tatsu on Bass, Norihide Saji on drums and Yoshio Machida on Steel pans - which truly gives them a unique sound. Expect a high energy set that evokes the sounds of heavy Dub reggae, NY Punk, drum and Bass and Afrobeat.

ra_ka are a duo from Osaka comprised of Toru Koda who performs on Electric Soprano Bass and Guitar and Kanade Amano who performs on Harp and Vocals. Their music is also processed and layered creating lush ethereal soundscapes.

Sseeaann Rrooee will be DJing and perhaps will perform if there’s time...???!!!

Check below for artist links and for details in Japanese!

Lorenzo Senni (Italy)
http://www.myspace.com/lorenzosenni

Miimo (Tokyo)
http://www.myspace.com/miimomusic

ieva (France)
http://www.ieva-li.net/constellation/

Naked Mozart (USA/Japan)
http://nakedmozart.com/

rac_ka (Japan)
http://www.myspace.com/rackatorikodarackaperikanadeonpedierackasvetlo

DJ Sseeaann Rrooee (UK)
http://www.myspace.com/sseeaannrrooee

Lorenzo Senni
ロレンツォ・セニ (1983年生まれ) はミラノ在住のアーティストで作曲家。ボローニャの Alma Mater Studiorum大学で音楽学を学び、エレクトロニック・オーディオの創作をしている。 Max/mspやSupercolliderやデジタル音を使い、コンピュータミュージックやサウンドスケープの潮流を作り出している。彼はアートにアルゴリズム理論（アート的目的と、生楽器やライブエレクトロニクスによる即興との相互作用を促すプログラミング）を持ち込む事を探究している。デンマークの"Hurra Day"、ミュンヘンの "SpielArt"、ボローニャの "Iceberg"、ロッテルダムの "De Internationale Keuze Festival" などなど、ヨーロッパで活躍している。また Orthographe やPathosformelの劇場会社と共同制作したり、KTL、John Wiese、EVOL、Dave Phillipsらによってコンサートを企画されている。かれは現代音楽の「新しい音」を中心にしたレーベル "Presto!?"を作り、Mattin、Carl Michael Von Hausswolff、Marcus Schmickler、John
Wiese、Lasse Marhaug、Alberto De Campo、Werner Dafeldecker、EVOL、Lawrence English、JohnHudak たちと共同制作をしてきた。今回ロレンツォ・セニは、「Dunno」のレコ発ツアーのため初来日する。

ieva (aka Samuel Andre)

フランス出身、1978年生まれの音楽家/作曲家/映画作家。
2000年からコンピュータ・インターフェイスのデザイン研究を開始し、子供の即興演奏のためのインターフェイスの開発など、コンピュータを使った表現領域にフォーカスしながら、音楽と映像に関するクリエイティブな活動を続けてきた。ソロのieva名義では詩的なマルチメディア表現や実験的な映画作品の制作を行い、2002年にthe Aquitain Film MusicCompetitionの実験映画部門にて初受賞、音楽のライブ・パフォーマンスも同年より開始する。2008年にはアメリカ・ニューヨークのAnticipate recording 、同じく米シアトルのand/OAR、フランス・ストラスブルグの la p’tite maisonなどの音楽レーベルから音源を発表、最近ではミニ・アルバムをポルトガル・リスボンのTest Tubeよりリリースした。ライブパフォーマンスでは、フィールドレコーディングの素材を用いた即興演奏によりイマジナリーな世界を展開予定。

DJ SseeaannRrooee

ショーンローは1963年イギリスのクローリー生まれ。彼はマルチメディアアーティスト、ミュージシャンとキュレーター2006年京都に移住。ロンドンでは Goldsmiths College(LondonUniversity) andatMiddlesexUniversityで美術を学ぶ。彼は広く英国、欧州、日本、で展示とパフォーマンスを行い大学、ギャリー、アートセンターでワークショップを実施した。最近は音楽やパフォーマンスを通じてパレスチナ人の窮状についての意識を高めるForGazaも日本各所で企画し、講義、討論を行っている。

Naked Mozart

Donald the Nut （Three Day Stubbleのメンバー）とクラシックバイオリニストChikoChokoによる新コラボ。「モーツアルトは反骨精神があり下ネタジョークが好きだった。そんな音楽家が苦悩したとは思えない。」とDonaldはにやりとする。そうは言ってもJunkroomでのNaked Mozartのパフォーマンスは彼のいつもの音よりもLeck mich im Arsch(K. 231 /K382c：ドイツ語で「私の臀部を舐めなさい」の意)などが期待できるのではないかと思われる。もしくはまったくモーツアルトと関係ない演奏となるか.. 乞うご期待！

miimo

スティールパンをフィーチャーした音響系ポストDUBバンド~Scape、UKダブ、ミニマルDUBともクロスオーバーしつつ独自のDUB表現を展開。メンバーは、レピッシュ、ガンガ・ズンバのtatsu(B)、音響スチールパン奏者の町田良夫、DeDeMouseサポートの佐治宣英(Dr)の3人。 Jazz～DUB～エレクトロニカ～PostRock～ラテンを縦横無尽に飛び回る音のアナーキスト3人組。

rac_ka

2007年　CD作品「 r 」発表ねゐろ楽考主催者として出演の他、2008年7月ART OSAKA　レセプションパーティーにて演奏
2008年12月六本木Superdeluxe にて行われているSoundroom初の関西遠征イベントにも出演古川日出男プラス、などと共演
2009年　春から夏にかけてベルリンを拠点に欧州ツアーへ
甲田　徹(ElectricSopranoBass,guitar,etc)
天野　奏(Harp,Voice,etc)

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-
Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori
go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side
(left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo)
walk approximately 150 metres.
Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building-access by elevator or stairs

Socrates (Kyoto) 20th September- A Seed Night Event!!!!

2010-08-09T21:12:00.000-07:00

　

9月20日（月、敬老の日）
Monday 20th September
A Seed Night Live Event
at SOCRATES
in Kyoto!!!!
open18:30/start19:00
FREE !!!! (PleASe BUy oNe DrInK oN EnTrY)

PERFORMERS
mush cucumber (Jap)
Under a Sherry Moon (Denmark)
Menage a trois (Denmark)
Praed (Swiss,Lebanon)
das capital punishment (Can/Jap)
DJ AFRIphonicAAAA (UK)

ADDRESS/DIRECTIONS
〒602-0841 京都市上京区河原町今出川下る梶井町447-14プランタンビルB1-C ＊京阪　　出町柳駅下車　川端今出川の交差点から西へ　河原町今出川を南へ＊地下鉄　今出川駅下車　烏丸今出川を東へ　河原町今出川を南へミスタードーナツのビルの地下一階です。
Telephone 075 254 6210
http://sound-powder.com/index.html

FOR GAZA VOL3 at Urbanguild on 24th July (in Kyoto)

2010-06-09T16:59:00.001-07:00

”For GAZA Vol.3 - 私たちに出来ること？" BDS"ってなんだ？
2010年7月24日(土)＠木屋町UrBANGUILD
http://gazaevents.blogspot.com/

詳細
[チケット] 当日 1800円 / 前売り・学生 1500円　< 1ドリンク込み>
[開場]18:30　[開始] 19:00 - 25:00 （終了予定）

※前売り希望の方は、会場に電話で伝えるか、
下記ウェブサイトの「ライブ予約」ページからご予約ください。

[会場] アバンギルド（UrBANGUILD）
tel/fax:075-212-1125
http://urbanguild.net/
〒604-8017　京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F
（※三条通から150m ほど下がった東側のビル）

Heres the line up for "For Gaza" vol 3

◆Guest Speaker :役重善洋 (やくしげよしひろ）さん
「ＢＤＳ」についての解説

「パレスチナの平和を考える会」所属で、草の根の市民活動を
通じてパレスチナ問題に取り組んでいらっしゃる役重さんを
ゲストスピーカーとしてお迎えします。役重さんは、2000年には
第二次インティファーダ勃発直後のパレスチナを訪れ、
ビデオ・ドキュメント『被占領下パレスチナを訪ねて』を製作されました。
本イベントではBDSキャンペーンについてわかりやすく解説していただきます。
http://palestine-forum.org/

□ 映像上映　"ガザ攻撃から一年”

2008年末から3週間に及ぶイスラエルによるガザへの攻撃。
その一年後のガザの状況を、JVCのスタッフが撮影した映像を
使って紹介します。

LIVE MUSIC and DANCE

◆黒子沙菜恵 & ryotaro
コンテンポラリーダンスの黒子さなえとエクスペリメンタルmidi
アコーディオンプレーヤーryotaro
http://wikiwiki.jp/jcdnmdfe/?ARTISTS%2FSanae%20Kuroko
http://www.myspace.com/ryotaro.info

◆Seed
狂想的インプロの嵐！リズミックジャズ管楽器フュージョンと
ワールドミュージック
Band Members
James Barrett trumpet
Masayo Hirota bass
Ichiro Umata guitar
Kazutaka Komaki percussion.
Yuki Maegaki- Taisho koto
Masahiro Ota- voc. and trombone

◆Yoji and his ghost band
奇想天外なトリオによる空間的でエアリーなエレクトロニカ
http://www.myspace.com/yhgb

◆Llama Labo
精力的ディジェリドゥーとエレクトロニカの融合
http://www.myspace.com/llamalabo

◆Buggatronic (Daniel Buess /James Hullick)
パーカッションをフィーチャーしたスイス・オーストラリア
デュオによる手製ガジェットで解き放つロボット的音楽マシン！
http://www.danielbuess.com/
http://joltarts.org/jameshullickcom

◆Belly Dancers (raks khamis)
京都を拠点に活動する、ベリーダンスグループ。今イベントの為に
急遽結成。

◆DJ Sseeaann Rrooee

■ What is "For GAZA"? ■
”「ガザ」って何？「パレスチナ」ってムツかしそう・・・”
そんなあなたにこそ来てほしい "For GAZA"のチャリティイベ
ント。

”For GAZA”は、ガザ、ヨルダン川西岸地区のパレスチナの
人々の状況について、世の中の関心を高めるためにイベントを
おこなう地元京都の集まりです。
音楽やダンスなどのエンターテイメントと学び・知る機会の
融合です。ガザへの一歩を始めるチャンスです。

For GAZA vol.3では、パレスチナの状況を変えるための世界
の取り組みを紹介します。その名もBDSキャンペーン。
BDSとはBoycott（ボイコット)×Divestment（資本引き上げ)×
Sanctions（制裁措置）のこと。市民・企業・国のそれぞれの
働きかけによって、人権にかかわる問題を改善していこうとする
取り組みです。実はこの運動、これまでにも世界の動きを変えた
実績があるとか。堅苦しそうに聞こえるけど、何だかおもしろそ
うです。
また、イスラエルによる攻撃から一年後のガザの今を伝える映像
を上映します。

For Gaza Eigakan screening of "The Iron Wall" on 14th May at URBANGUILD (in Kyoto)

2010-05-08T22:12:00.000-07:00

Please come to this Special Screening on 14th May at Urbanguild.
Details below about the screening times
Please note the film is in English with Japanese Subtitles.
More details here
Also... check The Iron Wall Homepage here

"FOR GAZA" Eigakan
Presents

A Special Screening
on 14th May
At Urbanguild in Kyoto

"The Iron Wall"
Directed by Mohammed Alatar (2006)
English with Japanese Subtitles

There will be 2 screenings
doors open 18:00
1st screening-18:30-20:00、
2nd screening 20:45-22:15
charge 1000yen（ドリンク込み）

Tasty food available and there will be an after event party- With great music from the Middle East!

what's『The iron wall』
”the iron wall”は、占領下のパレスチナに建設されたイスラエル入植地の歴史や人口等の状況、そしてそれがどのような影響を中東平和プロセスに与えたかを描いている。イスラエルが建設している壁（the iron wall）の問題、特にパレスチナの人たちに与える影響についても触れている。日本ではなかなか見る事ができない貴重な作品。

【主催】”For GAZA”
”「ガザ」って何？「パレスチナってムツかしそう・・・」”そんなあなたにこそ来てほしい”For GAZA”のチャリティーイベント。”For GAZA”はガザ、ヨルダン川西岸地区、また世界各地に離散するパレスチナ人の状況について、世の中の関心を高めるためにイベントをおこなう地元京都の集まりです。音楽、ダンスなどのエンターテイメントと学び・知る機会の融合。ガザへの一歩を始めるチャンスです

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-
Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori
go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side
(left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo)
walk approximately 150 metres.
Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building-access by elevator or stairs.

JunKroom Vol 15 + Outsiders Record Fair Vol 2 @ Urbanguild on 4th May!!!!! GOLDEN WEEK SPECIAL EVENT!!!!

2010-02-27T21:20:00.000-08:00

SCROLL DOWN FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE JUNKROOM LIVE EVENT FROM 8.00PM!!

Outsider’s CD & Record Fair @Urbanguild Kyoto 2010/05/04 11.00am-7.30pm (4th May)
．
11:00AM〜7:30PM 入場無料　8.00PM〜ライブ＋レコードフェア　 ¥１０００+ドリンク代別途
詳細　http://www.urbanguild.net/ ライブ内容詳細　http://junkroomkyoto.blogspot.com/
レコードフェア兼ライブというめずらしい企画をのぞいてみてください

ご自分のレコードを売りたいと思っているコレクターの方へ

“outsiders” レコードフェアでは個人のCD＆レコードコレクターの方がフリーマーケット形式でレコードを売ることができます。出店料は１テーブル（床面も含む）につき3000円、テーブル半分で1500円。売り上げ手数料など一切徴収いたしません。売るものはレコード、CDもしくは古本に限らせていただきます。レコード店も参加します。場所は京都三条木屋町の urbanguild。興味のある方は以下までご連絡を連絡先　jun kroom rrpm3345(at)yahoo.co.uk HP http://junkroomrecords.blogspot.com/ もしくは会場まで。電話 075 212 1125

Urbanguild ニュー京都ビル３F 京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町 181 〒604-80

The second "Outsider Record Fair" presented by Jun Kroom Records and Urbanguild. will take place on 4th May 2010. We are actively looking for private sellers and collectors to join the event. Please note that there will be a small single charge to join the event. (1xtable = 3000yen) (half table= 1500 yen). There are no other charges

Table size is approx 1.5m x 0.8m. It's also ok to use the floor space around the table.

Sellers will be responsible for their own items ( installation,sale and clearance) If you wish to participate and you'd like more details, please email me through this blog (go to my profile page to email me directly)

The Fair will start at 11.00am and run till 7.30pm. Entrance to the fair is Free until 7.30pm
From 8.00pm The fair will combine with the event JunKroom Vol 15
Some sellers will continue selling goods in the evening during the concert.

Here are some photos from the last Outsider's record fair in January
1000's of Bargains!!!

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-
Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori
go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side
(left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo)
walk approximately 150 metres.
Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building-access by elevator or stairs.

JUNKROOM Vol 15 at 8pm starting after Outsiders Record Fair Vol 2 @ Urbanguild on 4th May!!!!! GOLDEN WEEK SPECIAL EVENT!!!!

2010-02-26T07:28:00.000-08:00

From 8pm - after the Outsiders Record Fair we launch into JunKroom vol 15!
This is going to be a fantastic night of performance video and Music.
Please check the links below of all the artists appearing at this event.

Entrance charge 1000 yen + 1 drink ticket (500yen)

The Live event will feature the following artists

Tim Olive
Nick Hoffman
Takahiro Kawaguchi
AUJIK (Stefan Larsson) (Video Art)
amallsのskcaj
And special guests
Porta Chiusa
featuring:
Hans Koch clarinet
Michael Thieke clarinet
Paed Conca clarinet

Artists Texts

Tim Olive
Tim Olive's table top guitar performances can be described as an exploration of the full sonic possibilities of steel strings and magnetic pickups. Extensive touring in North America, Europe and Japan has provided Tim Olive opportunities to play with a wide range of musicians including, most recently, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Haco, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Martin Tetreault, Jeffrey Allport, Kelly Churko, Bunsho Nisikawa (in the duo Supernatural Hot Rug And Not Used ), Phroq, Mike Shiflet, and Fritz Welch, as well as a duo with dancer Corrie Befort. ( edited quote from BricoLodge)

Nick Hoffman
Born a Sagittarius in 1985 in Peoria, Illinois. Hoffman studied electroacoustic music formally from 2004-2008 with Matthew Smith. He founded the Scissor Death record label in 2006 which has since branched into two sub-labels: Pilgrim Talk and Ghost & Son. A frenetic release schedule has found him releasing tapes, zines, and cds under his own name and with other groups such as Back Magic, VEYOU, and Katchmare.

川口貴大
主に音の鳴るオブジェクトやさまざまな光、身の回りにあるモノで空間を構成してゆくライブパフォーマンスやインスタレーションを行う。ソロの他に自身のバンド”Hello”や村山政二郎、宇波拓、ユタ川崎との”Off Cells”、江崎将史主催のアキビン吹奏楽団”アキビンオオケストラ”のメンバーとしても活動している。

amalls の skcaj (Sseeaann Rrooee + Andrew Couzens)
Sseeaann Rrooee (aka Sean Roe) is a Multimedia/Performance artist, Musician and Curator. He performs on Electronic Trumpet, Bass and Flute, utilizing triggered samples and occasional effects. He produces the JunKroom live event in Kyoto, and has helped establish "For Gaza" a fundraising project that raises awareness about the plight of the people of Palestine through Music and Performance.
Andrew Couzens is a member of S.C.F with Michael J. Migliacci. They are a multimedia act that explores the interface between electronic sounds and Video, often collaborating with dancers or other musicians.

AUJIK (Stefan Larsson)
AUJIK is a new age group that shares Shintos belief that everything of nature is animated, even the things that are considered the most artificial and synthetic.
Just as with other forms of Animism, AUJIK worships everything that comes out of nature and regards it as spiritual beings, the main difference with AUJIK is that science and technology is considered as sacred as stones and trees. (from AUJIK homepage)

 ポルタ　チウーザ
このポルタチウーザは、私たちの住む21世紀が未だそれぞれの国家に根ざして存在しており、公平な社会には程遠く、個人が肌の色や人種によって判断され、食生活、健康、教育へのアクセスは階級によって左右されるという事実に疑問を投げかけています。
その最大のテーマは、人間の尊厳と平等、この譲ることのできない権利が、このように大きな社会の中では軽視されがちだということです。

ビデオ映画の中では、ガラスのドアが使用されます。その透明なガラスのドアに描写を繰り返すことによってジョバンニ　デイ　ステファノは、見通しの悪さを表現します。しかしそれは、決して成功することはなく、いつもどこかに透けて見える部分が残ってしまうのです。ポルタチウーザはこの不完全に塗られたガラスドアで、今の社会の過剰な安全対策の不可能さを象徴しています。絶対の安全など存在しないのです。

ハイケ　フィードラーの文章とジョルジオ　アンドレオリの映画は、今日ヨーロッパで問題視されている移民に関する犯罪に焦点をあてます。その問題は、“移民”が犯罪者、危険、反社会的と見なされる原因を作りだしているのです。それに対してポルタ　チウーザは、一つの危険信号を送ります。

パエド　コンカが作曲した曲“ポルタ　チウーザ”は、3人のクラリネット奏者
ハンツ　コッホ
ミヒャエル　テイーケ
パエド　コンカ
によってライブ演奏されます。
ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-
Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori
go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side
(left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo)
walk approximately 150 metres.
Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building-access by elevator or stairs.

Porta Chiusa tour supported by...

Golden Week Rocks! at FanJ Hall Kyoto 29th April

2010-02-25T18:10:00.000-08:00

Golden Week Rocks
AT
FANJ HALL
4/29th(Thu)
(Public Holiday)

Admission 500 yen +1Drink ticket
5.30pm start 9.30pm finish

6 Great bands!!!

*DAS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
*NAKED MOZART
*LLAMA LABO
*ポパイ (popeye)
*CARAMELLIES
*したっぱ親分(shitappa oyabunn)
DJ Sseeaann Rrooee (JunKroom)

*MAP/ADDRESS/ACCESS/INFO*
FAN J HALL 〒606-0053 京都市左京区上高野車地町101番
TEL:075-711-0713
http://kyoto-fanj.com

JunKroom vol 14 - Live event at Urbanguild on 10 Feb 2010

2010-01-16T17:49:00.000-08:00

Please scroll down for more upcoming live events!

Here is the line up for the next JunKroom event on Feb 10 (Wednesday)
The following day is a Public Holiday (In Japan) so we'll be open late so bring your dancing shoes (?) !

10 Feb 2010
1500 (including 1 Drink) Advance/Students
1800 (Including 1 Drink) at the Door
Facebook members get on the advance ticket list here

live video stream of the event here

Doors open 6.30pm
Performances start 7.15pm

Please click on the links for additional info about the performers.

Hannes Lingens
Pierre Borel
The Patty Hearst Noise Opera (Leila Mihal)
Sseeaann Rrooee & Misuzu
Vice
Problematica
amalls の skcaj
Ritsuko Hidaka
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

メタモルフォーゼのアート音楽情報 Kobe 30th January 2010

2010-01-15T02:54:00.000-08:00

メタモルフォーゼのアート音楽情報
弟90回メタモルフォーゼ音楽会はパフォーマンスアート・デイ。
面白いと大評判！今回で2度目です。
前回は映像表現あり、肉体表現あり、光のパフォーマンスありと盛り沢山で「来た甲斐があった」との声も多くきかれました。
メンバーそれぞれがいずれも劣らぬベテラン揃い。
乞うご期待！
白井廣美　SHIRAI Hiromi
神戸市出身･在住。
「パフォーマンスアートって何?」と、聞かれ続けて幾年月。
ダンスでも、演劇でも、大道芸でもなく、決まったフォームも制約もな
い、この「パフォーマンスアート」を、私は言葉では上手く説明できま
せん。そこには、空間と身体と行為（アクション）があります。
「あっ?!」とか、「えっ?!」とか覚えてもらえると嬉しい
です。
岡本和喜Okamoto Waki、水垣尚Mizugaki Hisashi
1970年と1971年生まれ。神戸在住。
1998年に銅版画で作品を発表し始める。
そのあと木版やったりオブジェやったり木工やったりインスタレーションやったり
イベントっぽいのやったりビデオやったりいろいろする。
最近、パフォーマンスっぽいのをやる機会が多いような
杉浦梢
1962年生まれ　1980年代より実験映像を作り始める。
2004年に性別移行を果し、それを題材とした連作
Kozue Sugiura gender Works を映像とパフォーマンスで
展開中。
Sean Roe
Live Art イベント Junkroom Kyoto を主宰する。
ビデオからパフォーマンス DJ までいろいろ。
2010年1月30日（土）　PM ７：００～

http://metamorphose.de-blog.jp/infolog/2010/01/post_b5f2-2.html

Tobira Records show case at 法然院(Hounenninn) 10/02/13(sat) featuring amalls の skcaj

2010-01-12T06:56:00.000-08:00

Please go here for more details of the event below

Tobira Records show case at 法然院(Hounenninn)
10/02/13(sat)
Drone/Ambient/Electro

京都・鹿々谷、哲学の道近く、東山三十六峰の一つ、善気山のふもとにあり豊かな自然といのちに包まれた名刹・法然院にてアンビエント/ドローンを中心とした発表をするアナログレーベル、Tobira Records初のショーケースを行います。今回京都からはレーベル主宰であり、u-cover等多数のレーベルからのリリースで知られるHakobuneと音響作家Nobuto Sudaによる共演,電子音響の雄として精力的な作品の発表を行っているenormous O'clockとYuji Kondoによる新ユニットSTEVEN PORTERによる初のパフォーマンス,またドイツ・ベルリンのレーベルMerkurからEPのリリースを行っているJun Nishimura a.k.a. JadeGardenJunが出演します。また東京からはmystery seaを始めとする国内外さまざまなレーベルからドローン、サウンドスケープ作品を発表する気鋭の音響作家Hiroki Sasajimaと音と映像を用いて独自の情景描写を描き出し、xs records等から作品を発表していexportionと幻夢に満ちたサイケデリアが特徴的なドローンバンド・NERAEのメンバーである橋本翔太によるソロ名義Meossによる共演を予定しております。「心の庭」とも呼ばれる方丈庭園を眺め渡せる大書院を会場に、夕方より夜八時半までの澄んだ一時をお楽しみ頂けたら幸いです。

Hakobune+Nobuto Suda
www.myspace.com/hakobunemusic
myspace.com/nobutosuda
Hiroki Sasajima
www.myspace.com/hirokisasajima
STEVEN PORTER=Katsunori Sawa(EOC）+YujiKondo
www.myspace.com/yujikondo
www.myspace.com/enormousoclock
exportion+Me0ss
www.myspace.com/exportion
www.myspace.com/shotahashimoto
Jun Nishimura a.k.a. JadeGarden
www.myspace.com/ulmjadegarden
amalls の skcaj (Sseeaann Rrooee & Andy Couzens from S.C.F)
http://junkroomkyoto.blogspot.com/

入場者定員：50名

料金：前売り￥1000　　　当日￥1500

（12歳までの御子様の入場は無料とさせて頂きます）
前売り予約方法：下記のメールアドレスに名前と人数を送って下さい。
*注意事項* 当日は寒さが予想されるので防寒対策の方よろしくお願いします。

連絡先：nobutosuda1101@yahoo.co.jp (nobuto suda)

Capacity:50
Cost(inc. tea):Advanced ￥1,000, Door ￥1,500
(In order to make your reservation, please send a message to the e-mail address below with your name and how many tickets you wish to get.)
Contact :nobutosuda1101@yahoo.co.jp(nobuto suda)*
*Please make sure to bring some warm clothes to put on, it's supposed to be getting really cold in the evening*

法然院（Hounenninn）への行き方
〒606-8422　京都市左京区鹿ヶ谷御所ノ段町３０番地
TEL: 075-771-2420 FAX: 075-752-1083

Outsider's Record/CD Fair + JunKroom Vol 13 Photographs

2010-01-11T17:09:00.000-08:00

Outsider's Record/CD Fair + JunKroom Vol 13 combined event on 10th January at Urbanguild (Kyoto)

2009-12-19T10:12:00.000-08:00

Something New..... JunKroom Records and Urbanguild are holding a Record.CD and Book Fair on Sunday 10th January at Urbanguild. The Fair will start at 11.30am and run till 6.30pm. Entrance to the fair is Free .

From 6.30pm The fair will combine with the live event JunKroom Vol 13- for which there will be a charge of 1000yen (plus drink) Buy Records/CD and see some fantastic performances (see details below)

Outsider’s CD & Record Fair @Urbanguild Kyoto 2010.1.10 (Sun) 11.30am-10.00pm
．
11:30AM〜6:30PM 入場無料　6:30PM〜ライブ＋レコードフェア　 ¥１０００+ドリンク代別途
詳細　http://www.urbanguild.net/ ライブ内容詳細　http://junkroomkyoto.blogspot.com/
レコードフェア兼ライブというめずらしい企画をのぞいてみてください

ご自分のレコードを売りたいと思っているコレクターの方へ

“outsiders” レコードフェアでは個人のCD＆レコードコレクターの方がフリーマーケット形式でレコードを売ることができます。出店料は１テーブル（床面も含む）につき3000円、テーブル半分で1500円。売り上げ手数料など一切徴収いたしません。売るものはレコード、CDもしくは古本に限らせていただきます。レコード店も参加します。場所は京都三条木屋町の urbanguild。興味のある方は以下までご連絡を連絡先　jun kroom rrpm3345(at)yahoo.co.uk HP http://junkroomrecords.blogspot.com/ もしくは会場まで。電話 075 212 1125

Urbanguild ニュー京都ビル３F 京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町 181 〒604-80

The first "Outsider Record Fair" presented by Jun Kroom Records and Urbanguild. will take place on 10th Jan 2010.
We are actively looking for private sellers and collectors to join the event. If you wish to participate, there is a table charge of 3000yen (or half table charge of 1500yen). There are no additional charges ( no percentage will be taken from your sales) Sellers will be responsible for their own items ( installation- collection of payment and clearance)

If you wish to participate and you'd like more details, please email me through this blog (go to my profile page to email me directly)

The Fair will start at 11.30am and end at 6.30pm
Entrance will be free to visitors to the fair

From 6.30pm there will be a charge of 1000yen (+ 1 drink)
For Entrance to JunKroom Vol 13 Live event

Featuring performances by
Anthony Guerra & Mark Sadgrove
GG Jackson (S.C.F)
Tim Olive & Katsura Mouri (Busratch)
Hakobune (Takahiro Yorifuji)
Yoji and his ghost band
Naked Mozart
Sseeaann Rrooee
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

2009-12-09T07:00:00.000-08:00

Heres a very late mention of a fun sounding event at Club Metro in Kyoto hosted by 10000t record shop (Jun Man Ton) My favourite vinyl dispensary in Kyoto.This event has live Nabe cooking sessions as well as DJ's and live music DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA will be making a late appearance

Heres the schedule 　

～23:30 BoOoO (DJ)
23:30～0:00 Dj Sneaker (DJ)
0:00～0:20 k.yamamot vs ememe (LIVE)
0:20～0:50 YUSUKE OHISHI (DJ)
0:50～1:20 DALi (DJ)
1:20～2:00 SHIMOMU (DJ)
2:00～2:30 starry dorps (DJ)
2:30～3:05 DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (DJ)
3:05～3:15 Sanechika Shuhei (LIVE)
3:15～3:45 Ma-Shu (DJ)
3:45～ DJ 400% (shimomu&bitoh)

JunKroom vol 12 - Live event at Urbanguild on 18th December 2009

2009-11-09T05:23:00.000-08:00

JunKroom vol 12 (our 2nd Birthday!) will take place on 18th December at Urbanguild in Kyoto, almost exactly 2 years after our 1st event above Aoi Recycle Shop on Kita Oji Dori.

Expect a maddeningly varied selection of works for this event with special guests sbot n wo visiting from Canada

Artists

Kenichi Higashino (story teller)
Hiromi Shirai (performance art)
Tim Olive + Katsura Mouri (treated guitar/turntables)
Sbot N Wo (Treated voice+Video)
Sseeaann Rrooee ( performance)
madonaLD! (performance/mayhem)
Akiko Igaki (violin) Azumi Miyata (contrabass), Junichi Inoue(video )
Psychedelic Desert + S.C.F + Jet Vel (Drone Guitar+Electronics+ Video)
Armelle Dousset (video Screening)
Mariko Tajiri (video performance)
S.C.F (electronics + Video)
Titan No Kai (Performance art+Dance)
Christopher Fryman (trumpet + electronics)
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (plays music before between and after)

See artists profiles and links below

Ticket Price 1500yen
All tickets include 1 drink! and raffle ticket

Doors Open 6.45pm. Event starts 7.15pm
The event finishes late

Artists

sbot n wo is a voice/electronics duo from Eastern Canada. Helen Pridmore specializes in new music and extended vocal techniques. Celebrated for her performance of old standards from Webern and Messiaen to Cage and Berio, her greatest devotion is to new composers, new music and new sounds. She also has a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, and is professor of voice at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick Canada. WL Altman is a composer and laptop performer. His written works are performed and commissioned by musicians across North America, and confound conventional models of notated music by sharing real-time creative processes with the performers, through improvisation and reactive listening.
At a recent residency at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rockies, Sbot N Wo worked intensively to develop their unique musical language, which they shared with audiences on a tour of Britain and Europe in spring 2007. Since then, Sbot N Wo have performed at the OK.Quoi?! Contemporary Arts Festival in Sackville New Brunswick, and will be featured in upcoming projects for the Canadian Music Centre, the Confederation Arts Centre in PEI, and in Saskatoon at both the upcoming eVOCative Festival and at PAVED Arts + New Media Gallery.

Mariko Tajiri
Mariko TAJIRI specializes in installation and performance mainly using video. Produces works that affect not only the sight but other senses of the beholder as well. Likes travel, eating, walking, shooting (video and photo), and taking a rest.Biographical details- 1966- Born in Osaka, Japan- 1989- Graduated from Kyoto College of Art, section of visual arts.1995- D.N.A.P. at Ecole Nationale d'Art de Cergy-Pontoise, France.1998- D.N.S.E.P. with mention at Ecole Nationale d'Art de Cergy-Pontoise, France. Awarded the Philip Morris Art Award 2000 with an exhibition at Ebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo.

Akiko Igaki
Akiko Igaki performs on violin,voice,keyboard instrument,piano,mini accordion, melodica,glockenspiel,synthesizer, clarinet,toy,percussion,guitar, cello, and everyday articles. Akiko is also a member of a number of Kyoto/Kansai based bands including たゆたう (tayutau), Llama, 地中池 chichuike and ",G " For this performance at Junkroom Vol 12 Akiko will be joined by Azumi Miyata (contrabass) Together they will provide a musical backdrop to Junichi Inoue’s projected live relay video dream texts.

Tim Olive
Tim Olive's table top guitar performances can be described as an exploration of the full sonic possibilities of steel strings and magnetic pickups. Extensive touring in North America, Europe and Japan has provided Tim Olive opportunities to play with a wide range of musicians including, most recently, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Haco, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Martin Tetreault, Jeffrey Allport, Kelly Churko, Bunsho Nisikawa (in the duo Supernatural Hot Rug And Not Used ), Phroq, Mike Shiflet, and Fritz Welch, as well as a duo with dancer Corrie Befort. ( edited quote from BricoLodge)

Katsura Mouri (solo performance)

Katsura is half of the turntable unit Busratch that started performing in 1998 using 8 turntables, making experimental music with records,stones,metals,cymbals,mousepads etc. They have released 3 CDs on Kyoto's PARAdisc label, and have performed with avant turntable originators Christian Marclay + Otomo Yoshihide

Hiromi Shirai

While Shirai studied in England she saw performance art for the first time. Since 1998 she has performed in Japan. People often ask her "What is Performance Art?". Without giving a precise answer back, she explained her activities in many different places and circumstances. She recently started involving elements of improvisation or collaboration with other artists in her performances. For now she is happy enough to give some sort of surprise - rather than a certain answer to that question to the audience.

Titan No Kai (JPN)
Titan no Kai are an offshoot of the dance collective Dosei no Kai who run a monthly dance and music gathering that welcomes members of the public as well as dance specialists to improvise together. For the JunKroom event Titan no Kai have been invited to create spontaneous performances and interventions as part of the audience.......In the past, performers have included Atashi Yoshiko,Bando Chikako,Fukurozaka Yasuo, Furukawa On, Ikeda Ippei,Ishimoto Michiyo, Matsumoto Shin-ichi, Shingo, Tanaka Takashi, Tonko, Yokoe Kunihiko and Misuzu (Photo of Dosei No Kai at one of their dance meetings)

Psychedelic Desert (JPN)

Psychedelic Desert is an improvisation band formed by Go Tsushima and Cuckoo in Osaka, Japan in 2004, Their psychedelic music has been described as mind expanding, primal and meditative.For this event S.C.F will be providing a Video work for them to improvise with.

Jetvel

When performing solo, Jet creates his electronic sonic storms using an ever varied array of low tech instruments found objects and theremin, processed through a number of effect pedals. Jeff also lead cult improv/noise unit Empty Orchestra and is also a member of Das Kapital Punishment with Hide from Ultra Bide.

Sseeaann Rrooee (UK)

UK born Kyoto resident Sseeaann Rrooee (aka Sean Roe) is a Multimedia/Performance artist and Musician who performs on Electronic Trumpet, Bass and Flute , also utilizing triggered samples and effects. When DJing (as DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA) he plays an unusual mix of Afrobeat./Artrock/ NDW/Krautrock/Musique Concrete, Soundtrack, Sound Art, Industrial Music and quirky underground music

Kenichi Higashino’s life work is the practice of ‘Patua’: a master of the picture scroll. The origin of the painted scroll is very ancient. Nowadays this art form is still used, mainly in the West Bengal and Bihar states of India. In Bengali, "Pat" means "scroll" and "Patua" means "Painter". The Patua is a kind of minstrel. He goes from village to village, with a bag containing several scrolls. He gathers together the villagers around him and unrolls his paintings, never showing more than two or three images at a time, and he sings the painted story. The story is shown in sequence, like a story board or a comic strip. In this way the Patua earns his living.

Christopher Fryman Is a trumpeter specializing in electronica applications to the trumpet sound, effects and delays. He also composes stage music for modern ballet, and original music for film and video games. Christopher is also a member of floatingroom, a collaborative musical partnership with Bun Ito.

S.C.Fis the duo Andy Couzens and Michael J. Migliacci. They are a multimedia act that explores the interface between electronic sounds and Video, often collaborating with dancers or other musicians. For tonights show they will be making a video for Psychedelic Desert as well as performing as S.C.F.

Armelle Dousset has been on a whirlwind tour of Japan, enthralling audiences here with her accordion playing and dance performances. Armelle has returned to France, but she has left us with a Dance/Video Performance piece which we will screen at tonights event.

MADONAld

maDonald was, and is the singer from Three Day Stubble, cult nerd rock originators from San Francisco, and also performs in Kyoto as Naked Mozart, and in Ooh My Cow. Donald will be performing solo for this event and without attempting to dampen... or raise your expectations, in the interpretive performance world of "AVI", you may well witness ..... extreme gurning, garbled glossolalia, big raw physical gestures, a helping of anger and angst, mixed with a large dose of scatalogical rock and roll and quite possibly some tearful enka.

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

For Gaza Vol 2 at urbanguild on 6th November 2009 (PHOTOS)

2009-11-08T22:30:00.000-08:00

Patterns- Butoh Performance Sun 8th November at Space ALS-D featuring Bridget Scott, Jeannie Donald-McKim and Sseeaann Rrooee

2009-11-06T01:15:00.000-08:00

PATTERNS
A butoh performance with dancers, Bridget Scott and Jeannie Donald-McKim and experimental musician, Sseeaann Rrooee

When:Sun 8th November
Doors open 2:30 Starts 3:00
Where:Space ALS-D

Entrance:1,800yen in advance and 2,000 yen on the door
Information:For more information and reservations contact me by email or keitai 080-3853-4162

Access: Space ALS-D is in Kita-Ku ,just off Kuramaguchi dori.From Funaoka Onsen,heading west, take the first small street on the left after the pet shop.Then take the immediate small street on the right.Turn left at the next corner(the only option) and it is on the right side of the street.Look out for signs to Space ALS-D.

Here are a few photos taken at the event

"For Gaza" event Urbanguild 6th November 2009

2009-10-13T06:28:00.000-07:00

"For Gaza" is a Kyoto based collective that creates events to raise awareness about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, combining art, music and politics with guest speakers, films and discussion.
”’ ガザ’って何？’パレスチナ’ってムツかしそう・・・”そんなあなたにこそ来てほしいイベント"For Gaza"。音楽やダンスなどのエンターテイメントと学び・知る機会の融合。ガザへの一歩を始めるチャンスです。 Start your action "For Gaza"

Our second event- "FOR GAZA Vol 2" will take place at Urbanguild on the 6th November 2009

Ticket Price 1900yen at the Door
Advance Tickets 1600yen (Students also 1600yen)
All tickets include 1 drink! and raffle ticket

Doors Open Starts 7.00pm.
The event finishes at 1.00am

Proceeds go to JVC
http://www.ngo-jvc.net/jp/projects/palestine/

Music and politics with guest speakers, films and discussion

FEATURING

Inouratomoe
Fantastic Klezmer Band that will get your feet tapping.
踊らせてくれることまちがいなしのクレズマーバンド

Naked Mozart
Performance Art Meets Classical Music Improvisations on Violin
バイオリンによるクラシカルな即興音楽とパフォーマンスアートの融合

Salads In Space with Yangjah
Improvising Spacemen who cook with a Butoh inspired dancer
舞踏ダンサーYangjahとインプロ・グループSalads in Space のコラボ

Hanaarashi
Kansai Based Butoh Performance Dance Company
関西を拠点に活躍する舞踏グループ

Oh My Cow
Disco dancing pranksters and noise makers
ハチャメチャな(!?)ディスコ＆ノイズ・ミュージック

The Pumpkins
Folk Rockers
フォーク・ロックバンド

DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA
Eclectic music selection
各パフォーマンスの合間にあらゆるジャンルの音楽を提供

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

●主催: FOR GAZA

I am a Kamura - rare live concert in Kyoto

2009-10-08T07:18:00.000-07:00

Please click on image to enlarge!

Upcoming Events

2009-07-23T06:38:00.000-07:00

A big thanks to all the performers at the July 10th event!!
Please scroll down for Photos of Junkroom vol 11 and "For Gaza vol 1"

JunKroom has been taking a break for the last couple of months.
Our next event will be a charity event on 6th November at Urbanguild (For Gaza vol 2)

This event is co-produced by JUNKROOM、さぼてん企画、京都YWCAブクラ、moro² With the proceeds going to JVC.Please check the "For Gaza" Blog here for more details and updates.

Some other interesting things are being planned for the autumn and going into 2010
including the first "Outsiders Record Fair" to be held in conjunction with JunKroom Records and Urbanguild.
This will take place on 10th January 2010(Sun) The Record Fair will run from 12pm-6.30pm and there will be live music from 7.00pm (details will be released later)

Sseeaann Rrooee & Misuzu live performance at JunKroom vol 11 (10th July 2009)

2009-07-19T20:14:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Michael J. Migliacci for taking the photos of this performance.

Junkroom Vol 11 (Photos)

2009-07-10T07:07:00.000-07:00

JUNKROOM VOL 11 on 10th July 2009 @ urbanguild

2009-07-09T08:49:00.000-07:00

The next JunKroom event is on 10th July.
check extra details on Facebook here

JunKroom Vol 11
10th July 2009
At URBANGUILD in Kyoto

Tickets 1500yen adv
1800yen at Door
Ticket Price includes one Drink!

Students 1500 yen

Doors Open 7.00pm
Performance starts 7.30pm
Open Till 2.00am

Artists

7hz Tribe Arkestra
Moe Matsuki + Yuka Hanamoto +Public on the Mountain
Sseeaann Rrooee + Misuzu
Das Kapital Punishment
Problematica
Anne Marijin Koppen + Clemence Baars
Hiromi Shirai
Yoji and His Ghost band
+ Dj AFRIphoniCAAAA

plus surprise guests GG Jackson (Allin meets Michael)

Address and Directions

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

Live Event at Socrates (Kyoto)

2009-07-03T06:10:00.000-07:00

７月３日（金)シティカラス企画

open18:00/start18:30 adv\1000/door\1500-

noise avantgardpop
Daniel Fandino
Capital Punishment
S.C.F
Sseeaann Rrooee & Misuzu
Pcychedelic Desert
HAKOBUNE

Junkroom Vol 10 Photos

2009-06-13T07:38:00.000-07:00

The ever changing moods of Eddie 135 at Junkroom Vol 10

2009-06-10T05:18:00.000-07:00

JunKroom vol 10 at Urbanguild on 5th June

2009-06-05T21:30:00.000-07:00

This is going to be a great gig!! with special guests Andrea Valvini visiting from Switzerland, and Eddie135 visiting from Paris. Scroll down to see a full list of performers at this event!!

On facebook here

Andrea Valvini (flyer)

The next Junkroom event is on 5th June 2009 at Urbanguild (Kyoto)
from 6.30pm - 1.30am
Performances start around 7.00
Ticket 1800 (including 1 drink)

The artists performing are...

Andrea Valvini
S.C.F (Andy Couzens and Michael J. Migliacci)
Akiko Igaki + Yoko Shimomura + Azumi Miyata + Junichi Inoue
Llama labo
Misuzu
Day Good Explorer -Stephen Munoz and Jack Glacken
Eddie135
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA

Andrea Valvini on tour from Switzerland, performs Percussive minimal synth sounds - S.C.F (Andy Couzens and Michael J. Migliacci) multimedia act that explores the interface between electronic sounds and Video - Yoko Shimomura (vocals), Akiko Igaki (violin) and Azumi Miyata (contrabass) provide a musical backdrop to Junichi Inoue’s projected dream texts.
- Llama labo are a Kansai based duo who mix Didigeridoo playing with electronics and beats. Misuzu is a Butoh influenced solo dancer,Day Good Explorer (Stephen Munoz and Jack Glacken) Synthesize samples, creating natural and unnatural sounds, all intertwined with live instrumentation and sparse vocals - Eddie135 is an "accousmatic" duet from Paris who use a variety of effects, creating intense and detailed soundscapes.
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee) plays records before, between and after.

現在ツアー中であるスイスのAndrea Valviniが登場。ビートの利いたミニマル・サウンドをお送りします。マルチメディア・アクト S.C.F (Andy Couzens and Michael J. Migliacci)はエレクトロニックスとビデオを使用した実験的なマルチメディア・ショーを、、Akiko Igaki (violin),Azumi Miyata (contrabass) and Yoko Shimomura (vocal)のトリオがプロジェクターに映し出されるJunichi Inoueの夢の文章に背景を添えます
関西を活動の場とするデュオLlama laboはディジェリドゥーをエレクトロニクス・アンド・ビートに合わせ演奏し、舞踏に影響を受けたMisuzuはソロダンスを披露します。 Day Good Explorer (Stephen Munoz and Jack Glacken) はシンセサンプルを使った自然音と人工音を生楽器やヴォイスと組み合わせ、DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee) もパフォーマンスの合間にレコードをかけまくります。

Akiko Igaki, Chihiro Suzuki and Yoko Shimomura (photo)

Eddie135 (photo)

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

For Gaza Vol 1 photos Urbanguild 22nd May 2009

2009-05-22T03:35:00.000-07:00

"For Gaza" Fund Raising Event at Urbanguild on 22nd May!!!

2009-05-05T18:20:00.000-07:00

co-produced by JUNKROOM、さぼてん企画、京都YWCAブクラ、moro²
協力：日本国際ボランティアセンター（JVC) Visit the "For Gaza" Blog for more details here http://gazaevents.blogspot.com/

The first event "FOR GAZA Vol 1" will take place at Urbanguild on the 22nd May 2009

Ticket Price 1800yen at the Door
Advance Tickets 1500yen (Students also 1500yen)
All tickets include 1 drink!

Doors Open 6.30pm Starts 7.00pm.
The event finishes at 1.00am

We are honoured to have Special Guest Speaker Prof Mari Oka (from Kyoto University) who is a passionate speaker and campaigner for the Palestinian cause. There will also be a screening of a short documentary film by Toshikuni Doi about the situation in Palestine, and a representative from JVC will also talk about the work they do in Palestine. Denki Gypsy Special who are a Klezmer/Balkan music supergroup featuring members of Freylekh Jamboree and ロマチカ・オーケスター Hide and Jet from Das Kapital Punishmentwill be playing electro-wave anthems for the paranoid generation. Catch them soon before they self-destruct.
Kazuya Hagihara Activist and Guitarist performs Folk and Protest Songs backed by Drums and Bass for this event.Hideyovic Uesugi(Geronimo Label/Falsos Gitanos) will mix Rock'n'Roll and Politics with Geronimo Label and will play some Gypsy music with Falsos Gitanos. Mir from Switzerland, have joined the event as part of their tour of Japan, so we are lucky to experience their powerful Cosmic Space-rock! Yasuo Fukurozaka is a Butoh inspired dancer, whose work will shock and surprise you! Dan Marlin is a poet and peace activist from the United States.DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA will plays his usual eclectic mix between the performances and at the end of the event.

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

Maps/ Directions to the Venue can be found here

"For Gaza" is a Kyoto based collective that creates events to raise awareness about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, combining art, music and politics with guest speakers, films and discussion.
”’ ガザ’って何？’パレスチナ’ってムツかしそう・・・”そんなあなたにこそ来てほしいイベント"For Gaza"。音楽やダンスなどのエンターテイメントと学び・知る機会の融合。ガザへの一歩を始めるチャンスです。 Start your action "For Gaza"

●主催: FOR GAZA http://gazaevents.blogspot.com/

●共催: JUNKROOM、さぼてん企画、ブクラ、（チーム市芸）

”For　Gaza　Vol.1”　
2009年5月22日＠木屋町アバンギルド
http://gazaevents.blogspot.com/
＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊

”「ガザ」って何？「パレスチナ」ってムツかしそう・・・”
そんなあなたにこそ来てほしい"For Gaza"のイベント。
”For　Gaza”は、ガザ、ヨルダン川西岸地区のパレスチナの人々の状況について、
世の中の関心を高めるためにイベントをおこなう地元京都の集まりです。
イベント「For Gaza　Vol.1」は、音楽やダンスなどのエンターテイメントと学び・知る機会の融合です。
ガザへの一歩を始めるチャンスです。

チケット：当日　1800円　、　前売り・学生　1500円　〈1ドリンク付〉
開場：18:30　開始：19:00～25:00 （終了予定）

会場：アバンギルド（UrBANGUILD）
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017　京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181ニュー京都ビル３F
（※三条通から150メートルほど下がった東側のビル）

出演
●Denki Gypsy Special
　Freylekh Jamboreeとロマチカ・オーケスターが合体した
　クレズマーとバルカン音楽のスーパーグループバンド。
●Das Kapital Punishment
　HideとJetのデュオ。パラノな世代のためにエレクトロ・ウェーブを
　ぶちかまします。彼らが自己破壊する前に聞いておきましょう。
●ハギハラカズヤ
　ギタリスト、シンガー。ドラムとベースをバックにフォークと
　プロテストソングを披露。
●ファルソス・ヒターノス／ジェロニモ・レーベル
　絶望世界を生き延びるラケンロ～ルと偽ジプシー音楽。
●Mir
　スイスから来日中。パワフルで宇宙的なインプロバイズド
　スペースロック。
●袋坂ヤスオ
　舞踏に刺激を受けたダンサー。いつものように皆さんに
　ショックを与え驚かせます。
●Dan Marlin
　アメリカ出身の詩人、平和活動家。
●DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA
　各パフォーマンスの合間にeclecticな音楽を提供します。

※今回のイベントでは、運営費を除いた収益の全額が日本国際ボランティアセンター(JVC)によるパレスチナ支援活動に寄付されます。
（JVCによる活動の詳細はhttp://www.ngo-jvc.net/jp/projects/palestine/をごらんください）

※当日は、京都大学教授の岡真理さん（現代アラブ文学専攻）をゲストスピーカーとしてお迎えします。
また、土井敏邦さん（ジャーナリスト）によるガザ地区の現状についての短いドキュメンタリー映像も上映します。あわせて、JVCにボランティアとして参加されている方に、パレスチナでの支援活動について解説をしていただきます。

主催：For Gaza
co-produced by JUNKROOM、さぼてん企画、京都YWCAブクラ、moro²
協力：日本国際ボランティアセンター（JVC)

JunKroom Vol 9 on 10th April 2009 (Photos)

2009-04-11T10:46:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all the performers for putting on a great show on Friday Night, and a big thanks too to our audience for supporting this event. Here are a few photos or the performances.

The Next JunKroom event is on 5th June at Urbanguild- Headlining will be Andrea Valvini (on tour from Switzerland) - Check this blog fot more details in the next few weeks.

JunKroom Vol 9 on 10th April at Urbanguild

2009-04-10T16:31:00.000-07:00

NEWS! OtHeR EvEnTs CoMiNg Up!
***"For Gaza" Fundraising Event at Urbanguild on 22nd May 2009 details here http://gazaevents.blogspot.com/

次のJunkroomイベントJunkroon Vol9は4月10日（金）に行います。
場所は京都、三条木屋町のUrBANGUILD。

出演はヴォーカルとヴァイオリン、電子楽器を操るPROBLEMATICA、同時に複数の楽器を実験的に演奏するSHINJI KAMEDA、陶製の容器に満たした水を使いhypnoticな音楽を演奏するパリ在住のTOMOKO SAUVAGEと手製の楽器 "slitars"を奏でるCHARLES-ERIC BILLARD も再度の出演を引き受けてくれました。トランペットプレイヤーの CHRISTOPHER FRYMAN はアンビエントサウンドで聴衆を別世界へいざないます。ほかにも、三味線を打楽器のように使ったフォーク音楽を提供するBACCO、サイケなマカ不思議音楽で頭をぐるぐるにするPSYCHEDELIC DESERT with SHAGS CHAMBERLAIN、そして BUM CREEKはシアターロックなPerformance Artを披露します。
パフォーマンスの合間にはいつものようにDJ AFRIphoniCAAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee) のeclectic mix な音楽をお楽しみください。

Junkroom Vol 9 will take place on April 10th at UrBANGUILD in Kyoto featuring TOMOKO SAUVAGE who is visiting from Paris performing on tuned porcelain water bowls - CHARLES-ERIC BILLARD with his home made slitars - CHRISTOPHER FRYMAN on trumpet, creates ambient soundscapes - PROBLEMATICA meld Voice,Violin and Electronics - SHINJI KAMEDA multi-instrument playing experimentalist - BACCO percussive folk music with Shamisen - PSYCHEDELIC DESERT with SHAGS CHAMBERLAIN Psyche Drone Seance Music - BUM CREEK From Australia on the last date of their Japan tour will serve us a cocktail of Performance Art and Alternative Rock- DJ AFRIphoniCAAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee) will play his usual eclectic mix in the gaps between the live performances.

ALWAYS EXPECT MORE ARTISTS TO APPEAR ON THE NIGHT!

10 April 2009
Urbanguild
from 6.30pm - 1.30am
Performances start around 7.00
Ticket 1800 (including 1 drink)
Please note
Reduced ticket price 1500 for facebook members who joint our Guest list!
Go here.....

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=62733400980

ARTIST LINKS HERE
Tomoko Sauvage
Charles-Eric Billard
Christopher Fryman
Problematica
Shinji Kameda
Bum Creek
Psychedelic Desert & Shags Chamberlain
Bacco (Shamisen and Percussion duo)
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

MAP EVENT - 23rd March-29th March in KYOTO

2009-03-19T16:12:00.000-07:00

Click on pic to enlarge

MAP 参加アーティスト / Featured Artists

小池芽英子 Koike Meeko（Artist）

伊波晋 Iha Shin (Performer)

Michel KOUAKOU (Dancer)

Leyna Marika PAPACH (composer, visual artist)

Michael J. Migliacci (painter, video artist)

Yangjah (Dancer)

Sean Roe (Sound performance artist. DJ)

白井廣美 Shirai Hiromi (Performance artist)

伴戸千雅子 Bando Chikako (Dancer)

ニイユミコ Nii Yumiko (Dancer)

古川遠 Furukawa On (Dancer)

MORE DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE
http://map2009.blogspot.com/

Directions: see map below or visit the blog detailed above.

click on pic to enlarge

A Spring LIVE ART DAY at Enishi-an (4th April 2009)

2009-03-18T18:17:00.000-07:00

Enjoy a Spring day with "OISHII" performances and food in a Japanese style house.
Three sessions are planned in the day.

Date: 4/April/2009 Sat

Open: 13:00
Afternoon session 14:00~17:00
Open session for improvisation and collaboration. (Please join us)

Evening session 18:00~20:00
Multi-disciplinary performances and collaborations.

Night session 22:00~24:00
More relaxed and informal performances and collaborations.

Admission
Afternoon + Evening sessions ¥2000 (with snacks)
*same price for just one session.
Night session ¥1500 (booking required)
All 3 sessions ¥2500 (booking required)

After the Night Session, it is possible to stay at the venue.
If you would like to do so, please tell us when you book your ticket,
and make sure to bring your own sleeping bag.

Artists:
Kenichi Higashino (Story telling)
Takashi Kojima (Laptop)
Hanaarashi (Dance) http://www.tcn.zaq.ne.jp/hanaarashi/
Hiromi Shirai (Performance art)
Sean Roe (Performance art) http://junkroomkyoto.blogspot.com/
Tom Hall (Laptop) http://www.tomhall.com.au/Tom_Hall.html
+ Tim Olive (Guitar etc ) www.myspace.com/timolive
Yangjah (dance) http://yangjah.blog.drecom.jp/
Harahachi (FOOD) http://hasunet.blog.drecom.jp/

Venue:
Enishi-an
2-6-3 Minamino Shijonawate Osaka

Access:
15 min. from JR Shijo-Nawate Station (Gakken-Toshi Line)
Walk towards Shijo-Nawate Jinja (Shrine) and turn left at a Limori Haitsu (apartment)
Train: JR Osaka to Kyobashi Kanjo Line, change to Gakken-toshi Line
or direct from JR Kita-Shinchi Tozai Line

Information:

080-3817-6863

080-3849-0390

春のえにし庵つれづれLIVE
春の１日、庵でおいしいものを食べながら、３本立てのLIVEをゆっくり楽しみませんか？

日時：２００９年４月４日（土）　
　　　開場１３時
　　（フード・ドリンク有り。ゆっくりおくつろぎください。）

　・昼ライブ　１４〜１７時　
　　　　即興中心のジャムセッション。飛び入り歓迎

　・夕ライブ　１８〜２０時　
　　　　サウンド、ダンス、パフォーマンス他、競演に花が咲く

　・夜ライブ　２２〜２４時　
　　　　夕ライブとはまた違った、まったりとした大人の時間？！

場所：えにし庵
　　　四条畷市南野２−６−３

参加費：
　　昼＋夕ライブ　２０００円（スナック付き）
　　　　　＊昼または夕、片方のみでも同一料金
　　夜ライブ　　　１５００円（予約制）
　　全３ライブ　　２５００円（予約制）

＊夜ライブ終了後、会場で宿泊希望の方は、予約時のお申し出下さい。
　　　その際は、できるだけ寝袋持参でお願いします。
　　　　
アーティスト：
東野健一（インド式紙芝居）
花嵐（ダンス）
小島剛(Lap Top)
白井廣美（パフォーマンスアート）
Yangjah（ダンス）
Tom Hall (Lap Top) + Tim Olive (Guiter etc)
Sean Roe (パフォーマンスアート)
はらはち（フード）

予約・問い合わせ：
080-3817-6863（白井）
080-3849-0390 (Yangjah)
shirai163☆yahoo.co.jp
☆を＠にかえて送信してください

アクセス：
電車／JR大阪駅〜環状線京橋駅で乗り換え、JR学研都市線　四条畷駅　下車。
　　　または、JR北新地駅から東西線経由。
バス／京阪大和田駅から２１系統、
　　　京阪寝屋川市駅から３３系統、
　　　近鉄瓢箪山駅から４０系統、
　　　四条畷行きバスが運行。
四条畷駅から／徒歩１５分。
　四条畷神社方面へ参道を直進、
　飯森ハイツ前で左折、道路右側の白い側溝沿いに歩く。

NOMEANSNO at Urbanguild-Kyoto on 26th MARCH

2009-03-16T07:31:00.000-07:00

Biographical stuff care of Wikipedia!

NoMeansNo is a punk rock music group originally from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and now located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The band was formed in 1979 by brothers Rob Wright (bass guitar and vocals) and John Wright (drums, keyboards and vocals). Their name derives from an anti-date rape slogan. For their first four years the duo's music would seem to be influenced as much by jazz and progressive rock as punk rock. The musical press described their earliest recordings as "Devo on a jazz trip, Motörhead after art school, or Wire on psychotic steroids."[1] NoMeansNo have been credited with being an influence on, and perhaps even the genesis of, math rock.

NOMEANSNO
ULTRABIDE
SABAC (WATCHMAN・吉田ヤスシ)

OPEN 18:30/ START 19:00

adv.5500 yen + 1drink / door.6000 yen + 1drink

なんと結成から30年！カナダが生んだ最強の現在進行形ハードコアパンク・バンドNOMEANSNO来日決定！
1979年にROB（ベース、ヴォーカル）&JOHN（ドラム、ヴォーカル）のWRIGHT兄弟によって結成されたNOMEANSNOはデュオ形態で活動をスタートし、その後ギタリストを迎えバンド色の強いスタイルに進化。８０年代にはALTERNATIVETENTACLESに所属し、数々の名盤を発表。そしてポスト・ハードコア〜オルタネイティヴ・シーンが爆発した90年代において確実にカリスマの地位を確立しましたジャズ、プログレ、フュージョン、カントリー、ルース、メタルなどなど、様々なエッセンスのゴッタ煮状態の音楽性に、更に毒々しさと馬鹿馬鹿しさをマッチさせながら強烈なテクニックで全世界を圧倒してしまうこのオッサン達、本当にタダ者ではないです。そんなジジイ・トリオをぜひこの目でお確かめください。奇跡の来日でございます。驚愕と爆笑の一夜になること間違いなし！

JunKroom Special Event!! 13th March at UrBANGUILD in Kyoto (see photos from the event below!)

2009-03-13T18:01:00.000-07:00

次のJunkroomイベントは３月１３日（金）に行います。
場所は京都、三条木屋町のUrBANGUILD。

今回の目玉はパリ在住のTOMOKO SAUVAGE、陶製の容器に満たした水を使いhypnoticな音楽を演奏します。手製の楽器 "slitars"を奏でるCHARLES-ERIC BILLARD も注目の出演者。トランペットプレイヤーの Christopher Fryman と12弦ギターを奏でるBun Ito（伊藤文）をフィーチャリングしたFLOATING ROOM はアンビエントサウンドで別世界を創造します。ノルウェーの JANA WINDEREN（タラの鳴き声を世界で初めて録音したサウンドアーティスト）が送ってくれた最新の音源も披露します。４月に米国ツアーに出かけるまえの MITSU SALMON and RYOTARO（アコーディオンとダンス）も出演します。

パフォーマンスの合間にはいつものようにDJ AFRIphoniCAAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee) のeclectic mix な音楽をお楽しみください。

Junkroom will be holding a special event on 13th March (Friday) at UrBANGUILD in Kyoto featuring TOMOKO SAUVAGE who is visiting from Paris. She creates hypnotic music with tuned porcelain water bowls and electronics. Also on the bill is CHARLES-ERIC BILLARD with his home made instruments called "slitars". FLOATING ROOM (featuring Christopher Fryman on trumpet and Bun Ito on 12 string Warr touch Guitar) create other worldly ambient sound-scapes . JANA WINDEREN - an extraordinary sound artist from Norway will be sending us one of her latest recordings, and you'll have a chance to catch MITSU SALMON and RYOTARO before they leave for a series of performances in New York in April. Textile Artist JULIE PEREIRA will also be joining the event- with a special screening of customized slides.

DJAFRIphoniCAAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee) will play his usual eclectic mix in the gaps between the live performances.

ARTISTS LINKS HERE

Tomoko Sauvage
Charles-Eric Billard
Floating Room
Mitsu Salmon and Ryotaro
Jana Winderen
Julie Pereira
Sseeaann Rrooee

JunKroom Special Event!
at URBANGUILD on 13th March 2009 (Friday)

Doors open 6.30- Starts around 7.00pm - Ends 12.00pm
Entrance: 1800 includes 1 Drink

Scroll down for Directions and Map to the venue

ARTISTS PROFILES

Tomoko Sauvage (Miyata)

Japanese musician living in Paris. She has been working on water in porcelain bowls using hydrophones (underwater microphones), electronics and lately water drops for her performances and compositions. Her first solo album, "Ombrophilia" will be released from and/OAR (USA) in 2009. Collaborators include Gilles Aubry, Momus and Emmanuel Rebus.

Charles-Eric Billard

Multidisciplinary Canadian artist based in Osaka. His work includes video and sound art, installation, collage and painting. Ongoing projects include acting in internet TV series Katsuura Ayako, and construction of home-made instrument installation at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2009.

Floating Room (Bun Ito and Christopher Fryman)

Bun ITO creates his unique soundscape with a 12 string Warr touch Guitar in an exploration minimalist tapping and looping techniques.Christopher Fryman Is a trumpeter specializing in electronica applications to the trumpet sound, effects and delays. He also composes stage music for modern ballet, and original music for film and video games.

Jana Winderen (Norway)

Jana Winderen (N). Studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London with a background in mathematics and chemistry from the University of Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked as an artist, curator and producer, initiating and producing several independent international art projects in Bergen and in Oslo. Her most recent sound work is “- 25 metres”, a live hydrophone installation (2008) and "+4°C - from Folgefonna to the North Sea" (2007) at Sleppet during the centenary Greig07. Earlier works include the interactive sound installation "Hard Rain" (2006), based on motion tracking, and the group sound installation “freq_out 6” (2007) curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff at the Dreamland Burn exhibition in Budapest (2007). Future projects includes "Voices from the Deep" in collaboration with Chris Watson, “”freq_out 7” at Happy New Ears festival in Belgium and a CD release through Touch based on hydrophone recordings from the Icefjord Kianga by Ilulissat in Greenland. Jana has exhibited her work in Canada, China, Thailand, France, Hungary, Denmark, England, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Sweden.For more information: www.janawinderen.com

Sound has taken a predominant place in Jana's work since 1992. In her sound installation work she has primarily been concerned with interactions with the audience and the acoustics of a specific space.

Winderen says about her work: "I like the immateriality of a sound work and the openness it can have for both associative and direct experience and sensory perception. I have been occupied with finding sounds from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recordings. Over the last year I have collected recordings made by hydrophones, from rivers, shores and the ocean, and more recently also from glaciers in Iceland and Norway. I am also experimenting with different types of microphones to collect sounds which are not obviously recognisable, but give room for broader, more imaginative readings. I use these sounds as source material for composition in a live environment or to create installations where the audience can play with distortion and processing of the sounds.”

Text taken from Exhibition Sleppet . Curated by Jørgen Larsson. The project was supported and organised by Grieg07.

For this Junkroom Special event, Jana will be sending us a new soundscape, she will not be present at the event. Please check here for details about Jana's recent release on CD and 7" single.

At The Junkroom event we will be playing the following piece.

"North Atlantic Drift"
Jana Winderen
2009
14.00 min (24bit, 48kHz)

The track is based on recordings from the Barents Sea on the Marine Institute research ship Johan Hjort, and of decapods, cod, herring, haddock and sea snails from the Norwegian coastline. Recorded with 2 x 8011 DPA hydrophones and 2 x 4060 DPA omnis on a Sound Devices 744T hard disc recorder.

© 2009 Touch. Published by Touch Music [MCPS]. All Rights Reserved.

Mitsu Salmon and Ryotaro

Mitsu Salmon creates solo and collaborative performance pieces weaving together music, dance, text and imagery. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She has received her BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University (January 2005). She has lived, worked and studied in England, Germany, Amsterdam and India. Currently she resides in Kyoto, Japan where she studies dance and performs with Ima Tenko and collaborates with accordionist/performer ryotaro. Her work has been presented at places such Performance Space 122, Highways Performance Space and internationally at Hebbel Am Uffer, the Berlin Performance Art Festival and the London Performance Art Festival

Ryotaro is an accordionist, composer and performer. He uses MIDI-accordion; intermixing accordion, synthesizer and programmed sounds to create compositions.He has also performed and recorded albums with the bands Elements, Alternate Symphony, trace elements and Picaresque.In addition,he has also collaborated and improvised with Take-bow (performer and table top guitarist), Meri Otoshi (dancer), Mitsu Salmon (performer) and other dancers, actors and painters. He composed, played music and acted in the film "Jellyfish" directed by Nadia Porcar, which was screened at the Osaka European Film Festival in 2004. In 2008, ryotaro released his 1st solo album "Jelly, nico & I".

JULIE PEREIRA

Textile Artist currently studying in Kyoto. Julie will be creating a series of slides
especially for this event.

DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee)
Hailing from Johannesburg and London, Kyoto resident DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA is the moniker of Performance/Video Artist Sean Roe (aka Sseeaann Rrooee) He also performs in Improv duo Malawicob with Jet Vel.

ADDRESS and DIRECTIONS

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

Maps/ Directions to the Venue can be found here

Speaking Out- The Cunningham Dax Collection- Exhibition at Kyoto International Community House until 22nd Feb

2009-02-08T07:07:00.000-08:00

Here are the details of an Exhibition that has just started at Kyoto International Community House. There is a free Bilingual booklet giving details about the artists and their work.

From the Catalogue...
Speaking Out features artists who address head on the experience of mental illness or trauma through their art-making. The artists speak of their experience of mental illness in their everyday life. The works tell the very personal stories of experiences of treatment, isolation and stigma.

The exhibition features historical artworks created within psychiatric hospital art-making programs alongside works made by contemporary artists in their own studios. The works feature a range of media including painting, textiles, photography, drawing and collage. These works bring the complexity of the difficulties associated with the experience of mental illness into the public view and allow the artists to speak.

Scroll down for photos from JunKroom Vol 8

2009-02-02T20:44:00.000-08:00

The Bastard Noise live on 5th March at Urbanguild Kyoto

2009-02-02T18:58:00.001-08:00

Here are the details of an event organized by Shayne Bowden - coming up in Kyoto at Urbanguild on 5th March

double click to enlarge

The Bastard Noise Live In Kyoto

03/05 KYOTO Urbanguild w/THE BASTARD NOISE/ULTRA BIDE/Culpis/BUSRATCH/蹂躙
OPEN 18:30 START 19:00 / ADV 2000 DOOR 2500 yen (+1D)
http://urbanguild.net/ 075-212-1125

THE BASTARD NOISE
http://bastardnoise.com/

メンバー
WT NELSON-Electronics
DANNY WALKER-DRUMS
ERIC WOOD-Bass/Electronics/Vocals

JUNKROOM VOL 8 1st FEB 2009 PHOTOGRAPHS

2009-02-02T15:43:00.000-08:00

Many thanks to the performers and audience at our most recent event at Urbanguild on 1st Feb 2009.Below are a few photographs of the performances.

The next JunKroom event is planned for the 10th April- details to follow in the next few weeks.

I'll also be posting details about some other performances taking place in the Kansai soon... watch this space for details.

Photographs in order of appearance

Baku
Mariko Tajiri
Akira (Ashtray Percussion!!)
Tadashi Yonago
Akiko Igaki with Yangjah
SEVEN FIELDS from J
Tim Olive
Kusum Normoyle
JP DuQuette

Check DJ Gizmoe's review of the evening here
http://www.last.fm/user/djgizmoe/
journal/2009/02/03/2gcrdd_junkroom_vol._8

Next JunKroom Event on 1st February 2009 @ URBANGUILD

2009-02-01T16:50:00.000-08:00

For this event we have a guest performer from Sydney (Kusum Normoyle) a Gospel Choir (Seven Fields) Video Installation/Performance (Mariko Tajiri) a collaboration between Butoh Dancer Yangjah and multi Instrumentalist Akiko Igaki , Percussion led Trio Baku from Osaka, Mutant Trombone by Tadashi Yonago, Mashmaster JP DuQuette, Soundscapist Tim Olive and DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA. all for 1000yen (plus one drink!)

JunKroom Vol 8
at URBANGUILD on 1st Feb 2009 (Sunday)

Doors open 6.30- Starts 7.00pm - Ends 12.00pm
Entrance: 1500 includes 1 Drink

Featured Artists

Kusum Normoyle
Tim Olive
Akiko Igaki with Yangjah
Baku
Tadashi Yonago
Mariko Tajiri
JP DuQuette
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee)

with special guests SEVEN Fields from J

JunKroom presents a Special Event at UrBANGUILD with an amazing, eclectic and International Programme - including Performance Art, Modern Dance, Improvised Music, Sound Installation and more... An evening of Multi-disciplinary performances and artistic collaborations that will surprise, and astound you.

JunKroomが主催するSpecial Event at UrBANGUILDでは国際的で多種多様な内容をお送りします。プログラムはパフォーマンスアート、ダンス、インプロ音楽、サウンドインスタレーションなどを含み、多角的なアートを謳歌する夜をお約束します。

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

Maps/ Directions to the Venue can be found here

Artists

Kusum Normoyle
Kusum is an improvising vocalist/electronic artist/alternative pop musician based in Sydney. She works with voice and electronics creating performances and installations.

Tim Olive
Tim Olive's table top guitar performances can be described as an exploration of the full sonic possibilities of steel strings and magnetic pickups. Extensive touring in North America, Europe and Japan has provided Tim Olive opportunities to play with a wide range of musicians including, most recently, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Haco, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Martin Tetreault, Jeffrey Allport, Kelly Churko, Bunsho Nisikawa (in the duo Supernatural Hot Rug And Not Used ), Phroq, Mike Shiflet, and Fritz Welch, as well as a duo with dancer Corrie Befort. ( edited quote from BricoLodge)

Akiko Igaki
Akiko Igaki performs on violin(It's her main instrument),voice,keyboard instrument,piano,mini accordion, melodica,glockenspiel,synthesizer, clarinet,toy,percussion,guitar, cello, and everyday articles. She enjoys performing, composing and living! Akiko is also a member of a number of Kyoto/Kansai based bands including たゆたう (tayutau), Llama, 地中池 chichuike and ",G "

Yangjah
Yangjah is an artist, a Butoh dancer and a third generation Korean in Japan.

Her works are improvised performances that often utilize elements of installation, video, photography and poetry.

She gropes at the endless circulation of moments when an empty body overflows.

Akiko Igaki and Yangjah will perform together at this event.

Baku
BAKU (Yuichi Arai, Takezo Aoki and Jerry Gordon) will play an eclectic mix of free improvised jazz-tinged experimentation.

Tadashi Yonago
Tadashi Yonago performs solo on trombone often integrating the use of MAX software in his performances creating ethereal sound-scapes with some some added digital dissonance.

Mariko Tajiri
Mariko TAJIRI specializes in installation and performance mainly using video. Produces works that affect not only the sight but other senses of the beholder as well. Likes travel, eating, walking, shooting (video and photo), and taking a rest.Biographical details- 1966- Born in Osaka, Japan- 1989- Graduated from Kyoto College of Art, section of visual arts.1995- D.N.A.P. at Ecole Nationale d'Art de Cergy-Pontoise, France.1998- D.N.S.E.P. with mention at Ecole Nationale d'Art de Cergy-Pontoise, France. Awarded the Philip Morris Art Award 2000 with an exhibition at Ebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo.

JP DuQuette
California-born critic, DJ and musician, currently living in Kyoto, Japan. Briefly a member of Orange County industrial unit Final Destruction Sequence in the early 90’s. Formerly known as JPD. Currently a member of improv electronic duo Cell 63.

DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (Sseeaann Rrooee)
Hailing from Johannesburg and London, Kyoto resident DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA is the moniker of Performance/Video Artist Sean Roe (aka Sseeaann Rrooee) He plays an eclectic mix of Afrobeat./Artrock/ NDW/Krautrock/Musique Concrete, Soundtrack and Sound Art. He also performs in Improv duo Malawicob with Jet Vel.

SEVEN Fields from J
As it's Sunday, we are pleased to have some Gospel Music from seven Fields from J!
The members of this vocal group are Erika Yoneda,Keisuke Ota,Nozomi Uchiyama,Satomi Inada,Tatsuya Kitamura,Yukino Yamamoto with pianist Mai Shichino. Many thanks to Satomi Inada for organizing this performance.

Check the Urbanguild homepage

What the Press say about JunKroom events....

"...where visual art collides with sound,performance & dance for a truly original live experience" Kansai Time Out (Dec)

"Kyoto's premier avant-garde get-together" Japanzine (Sept)

"...avant-garde hodge-podge Junkroom event... featuring a cavalcade of noise and noisy musicians, dancers and performance artists..." SeekJapan.jp / Kansai Calling (Dec)

Happy Noise Monday at Urbanguild (Mon 15th December)

2008-12-13T23:54:00.000-08:00

Another chance to catch Iron Egg live in Kyoto, following their performance at Junkroom on 12/12. Plus there's a host of other "alt rockers" and "noisers" on the bill!

Should be fun, and a good way to start the week!

12月15日 (mon) ultra bide presents HAPPY NOISE MONDAY Vol 34 -BIDE MATURI-

OH MY COW
DAS CAPITAL PANUSHMENT
IRON EGG (from singapore)
ゲゲゲゲカルテット(from tokyo)
Psychedelic Desert
BIDESOLO
DJ fucked 76

OPEN 18:30 / START 19:30

door 1000 yen + 1drink

JunKroom Vol 7 Photos

2008-12-13T17:38:00.000-08:00

A Huge thank you to all the participants of JunKroom Vol 7. Thanks also to the staff at urbanguild who worked beyond our scheduled finishing time of 2.00am.

Thanks also to our audience for coming to the event - please continue to support live arts in Kyoto and the Kansai by returning to our next one in the new year.

So...if you enjoyed this event please check this blog and take a look at our facebook group page for updates about projects in the future.

Here are a few photos taken at the event.
Photos are in order of the performances.

Malawicob with Yangjah
Takashi Tanaka
Alice Sailor and Damage Distortion
Tim Olive and Katsura Mouri
Sadaharu Horio
Naked Mozart
Handsome Buggy
Iron Egg
Mitsu Salmon and Ryotaro
Karolina Raczynska (no photos available yet)
Caitlin Coker and Amrik Sahnsi
Ms Meka Nism

JunKroom Vol 7 takes place on 12th December 2008

2008-12-12T19:07:00.000-08:00

"...where visual art collides with sound,performance & dance for a truly original live experience" Kansai Time Out (Dec)

"Kyoto's premier avant-garde get-together" Japanzine (Sept)

"...avant-garde hodge-podge Junkroom event... featuring a cavalcade of noise and noisy musicians, dancers and performance artists..." SeekJapan.jp / Kansai Calling (Dec)

JunKroom Vol 7 at URBANGUILD on 12th December
Doors open 6.30- Starts 7.00pm - Ends 2.00am
Entrance: 1500 (adv) includes 1 Drink
1800 (at the door) includes 1 Drink

Featured Artists
Karolina Raczynska (UK/Pol)
Sadaharu Horio (Jap)
Handsome Buggy (Jap)
Alice Sailor and Damage Distortion (Jap)
Malawicob (UK/Can) + Yangjah (Jap)
Naked Mozart (US+ Jap)
Iron Egg (Singapore)
Caitlin Coker (US)+ Amrik Sahnsi (UK)
Mitsu Salmon (US) + Ryotaro (JPN)
Tim Olive (Can) + Katsura Mouri (Jap)
Takashi Tanaka (Jap)
Ms Meka Nism (US)
Junko Imai and Chiaki Kuwahara (Jap)
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA (UK/Kyoto)

JunKroom presents a Special Event at UrBANGUILD with an amazing, eclectic and International Programme - including Performance Art, Modern Dance, Improvised Music, Sound Installation and more... An evening of Multi-disciplinary performances and artistic collaborations that will surprise, and astound you.

JunKroomが主催するSpecial Event at UrBANGUILDでは国際的で多種多様な内容をお送りします。プログラムはパフォーマンスアート、ダンス、インプロ音楽、サウンドインスタレーションなどを含み、多角的なアートを謳歌する夜をお約束します。

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

Maps/ Directions to the Venue can be found here

Artist Profiles

Sadaharu Horio

Born in 1939 in Hyogo, Japan. Lives and works in Kobe.Joined the avant-garde artist group “Gutai Bijutsu Kyokai (Gutai Art Association)” in 1966 which he participated in until its disbandment in 1972. Horio has since continued to be prolific, and since 1985 has been holding numerous solo shows, group exhibitions and performances based on a single and consistent theme of “Ordinary things.”

堀尾貞治　1939年兵庫県生まれ。神戸市在住。1966年、前衛芸術家集団「具体美術協会」の会員になり、1972年の解散までその活動に参加する。その後も精力的な創作活動を続け、1985年頃からは「あたりまえのこと」という一貫したテーマのもとに、無数の個展やグループ展、パフォーマンスなどを行なっている。

Karolina Raczynska

Born 1984 Poland 2007 – 2009 MA Photography,
Royal Collage of Art, London 2004 – 2007 BFA in Fine Art,
Oxford University,Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.

I am intrigued by the visual world around me. By the strangeness and
complexity of natural Phenomena. I watch and analyze it, using the
camera and my own body as recording tools that collect detail while
investigating space and time. I can then view the footage and begin
the process of transformation. Here the original material changes
giving new understandings and inventing its own rules and meaning.

制作主旨
身近な世界の不思議さや複雑さなどが私の興味を刺激する。カメラと自分自身の体を記録道具として空間と時間の細部を記録•記憶する過程を経て、それらを表現へと変換させてゆく。本来の素材としての情報は、別のものの見方を経ることで、新たな意味へと広がってゆくだろう。

Naked Mozart

A recently initiated collaboration between Donald the Nut from Three Day Stubble and classical violinist Chiko Choko. Donald muses ....."I think Mozart had a rebellious spirit and liked potty humor, I do not think he was was afflicted" Having said that you are probably more likely to hear a version of Leck mich im Arsch (K. 231 /K382c) than one of his familiar pieces of work when Naked Mozart perform at Junkroom......Then again you might not hear anything even remotly related to Mozart!

Donald the Nut （Three Day Stubbleのメンバー）とクラシックバイオリニストChiko Chokoによる新コラボ。「モーツアルトは反骨精神があり下ネタジョークが好きだった。そんな音楽家が苦悩したとは思えない。」とDonaldはにやりとする。そうは言ってもJunkroomでのNaked Mozartのパフォーマンスは彼のいつもの音よりもLeck mich im Arsch (K. 231 /K382c：ドイツ語で「私の臀部を舐めなさい」の意)などが期待できるのではないかと思われる。もしくはまったくモーツアルトと関係ない演奏となるか..こうご期待！

Chiaki Kuwahara and Junko Imai

Chiaki Kuwahara has been photographing things for half of her life.Travelling with her camera to India, Mongolia and Cambodia and other places.By collaborating with Illustrator Jun for this Junkroom event, she hopes to expand on their shared idea of #0 in her own way.

カメラをさわりはじめ約１０年。カメラを携え、インド、モンゴル、カンボジアなどを旅する。今回、イラストレータであるジュンとのコラボレーションでは、出力方法を工夫し、二人で「０」表現する。

Junko Imai had drawn since she was a young child.Later she learned drawing by herself and through a short stay study trip to Mexico.Now she works illustrating books, creating art for website and advertisements amongst other things. For this Junkroom event she expresses "# 0" in collaboration with a photographer, Chiaki Kuwahara

幼少より絵を描くことを好み、独学、及びメキシコへの短期留学などをへて絵を学ぶ。現在は主に書籍、ウェブサイト、広告媒体等へのイラスト制作で活躍。今回は写真家、千明とのコラボレーションで「＃０」を展開する。

Malawicob (Jetvel+ Sseeaann Rrooee)

Long term Japan resident hailing from Canada. When performing solo, Jeff creates his electronic sonic storms using an ever varied array of low tech instruments, MD Players, Bowed Cymbals and Theremin, processed through numerous effect pedals. Jeff also leads cult improv/noise unit Empty Orchestra. Sseeaann Rrooee (aka Sean Roe) will be collaborating with Jeff for this event, performing on Bass and Electric Trumpet , with Triggered samples percussion and other effects.

カナダ出身の Jeff はカクテルミキサーやテルミンなどのさまざまなローテク器械を駆使し、エフェクトペダルで作り上げるエレトロニックサウンドを展開。今回のイベントではSseeaann Rrooee（Sean Roe）とのコラボではベースとフルートにトリガーサンプル、エフェクターを交え、風変わりでノイジーな音を聞かせてくれそうだ。

For JunKroom Vol7 Malawicob will be joined by Yangah- profile details below.

Yangjah

Yangjah is an artist, a Butoh dancer and a third generation Korean in Japan. Her works are improvised performances that often utilize elements of installation, video, photography and poetry . She gropes at the endless circulation of moments when an empty body overflows. (Photo copyright: Yuri SHIBATA)

日本生まれ、大阪暮らしのコリアン・ディアスポラ。19歳で日本の外のアジアに飛び出し、カラダひとつでできることを求めるようになる。国内外・屋内外問わずあらゆる空間で、様々なジャンルのアーティストと即興でコラボレーションを重ね、身体表現を探求している。インスタレーションや映像作品も制作・発表している。「空っぽなカラダから満ちあふれてくる瞬間のつらなり」を模索している。

Iron Egg

Iron Egg is an electro-acoustic audio/visual improvisation group based in Singapore featuring Darren Moore (laptop/percussion), Tim O'Dwyer (saxophone) and Brian O'Reilly (bass/electronics/moving images). The group combines acoustic free improvisation and extended instrumental techniques with live electronics to create a broad range of sonic textures.

Tim Olive

Tim Olive's table top guitar performances can be described as an exploration of the full sonic possibilities of steel strings and magnetic pickups. Extensive touring in North America, Europe and Japan has provided Tim Olive opportunities to play with a wide range of musicians including, most recently, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Haco, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Martin Tetreault, Jeffrey Allport, Kelly Churko, Bunsho Nisikawa (in the duo Supernatural Hot Rug And Not Used ), Phroq, Mike Shiflet, and Fritz Welch, as well as a duo with dancer Corrie Befort. ( edited quote from BricoLodge)

カナダの大草原に育ち、12才でエレキベースを始めた。まずはロックに走ったがFree Jazzを聴きロック楽器の限界が明らかになった。結局、通常のリズムと神経質なピッチをスティールストリングと磁石ピックに組み合わせることにより完全な音の可能性を見出し、インプローブを探求して、ベースとベースギターを見捨てることとなる。北米、ヨーロッパおよび日本を広く旅行してきたことにより、Tim Oliveは幅広いジャンルのミュージシャンとの演奏経験を持つ。共演者の一例は以下の通り。Alfredo Costa Monteiro, ハコ, Sharif Sehnaoui, Martin Tetreault, Supernatural Hot Rug And Not Usedの西川文章など。

Katsura Mouri (solo performance)

Katsura is half of the turntable unit Busratch that started performing in 1998 using 8 turntables, making experimental music with records,stones,metals,cymbals,mousepads etc. They have released 3 CDs on Kyoto's PARAdisc label, and have performed with avant turntable originators Christian Marclay + Otomo Yoshihide

１９９８年よりターンテーブル８台での同時即興演奏を行う実験的DJ集団として活動を開始。レコードの他、シンバルや石、金属、マウスパッド等をターンテーブル上で再生し、カートリッジとアームによる音の増幅によって即興演奏を行う。京都PARAdiscレーベルより３枚のCDをリリース。Christian Marclay、大友良英等ともセッションを行う。

Tim Olive and Katsura Mouri will perform together at Junkroom Vol 7

Alice Sailor and Damage Distortion

Alice and Hide (from Ultra Bide) are the 2 musicians in this dynamic punk/new wave duo, with Alice on vocals and occasional sax and Hide providing rocking drum machine rhythms and guitar. Expect crazy versions of Serge Gainsbourg and a lot of attitude.

Caitlin Coker and Amrik Sahnsi

Caitlin Coker dances. She was born in California in 1985 and was raised on a cattle farm in the Southeast USA. Became National Tap Dance Champion at age 17.Switched to modern dance and then switched to Butoh in 2007.

Amrik Sahnsi plays music (computer programme and guitar)
Born in the small village of "Castle Donington," England 1986. Amrik
moved to Japan in late 2007. A keen musician from a young age who
tries to perform in a wide range of music genres from electronica to
thrash metal.

Ms.Meka Nism

Ms.Meka Nism is known in underground circuits for her work with former American bands and touring projects "Dirty Barby" (playing NYC's historical CBGB's!), "Angel Autopsy," and "Meka Nism and her Rusty Tears," as guitarist, vocalist, and insane performance artist. Sponsored by Dean Guitars, she is recognized for creating the rare "Acoustic Death Metal" genre, playing with such bands as Trivium, Chimaira, and Faun Fables. In 2007, she released the album "Mad to Love" from Florida Indie label Hidden Records. The album's feature song "Break" was awarded Best Experimental Song 2006 by Songwriter's Showcase of America. In January 2007, Meka moved to Kyoto, Japan, where she began touring with singer songwriter bassist Yukari Ikeda, the two soon creating the band "Origami Girls" which made its television debut on KBS Kyoto television in 2008. They continue to tour Japan steadily as band and solo performers and are gearing up for a small US tour in January 2009.

Ms. Meka Nismはギターリスト、ボーカリスト.また狂気のパフォーマンスアーティストとして、"Dirty Barby" , "Angel Autopsy," や"Meka Nism and her Rusty Tears," などのアメリカのバンドと共に活動し、全米をツアーしていたこともあり、アメリカのアンダーグラウンド界隈では有名である。（"Dirty Barby"としては、ニューヨークのCBGB'ｓにも出演）また、アメリカのギターメーカー"Dean Guitars"が彼女のスポンサーになっている。Ms.Meka Nismのスタイルは"アコースティック・デスメタル"と認識されており、"Trivium", "Chimaira", や"Faun Fables"などのバンドともプレイしている。２００７年、アルバム"Mad to Love"を、フロリダのインディーレーベルよりリリース。この中の一曲"Break"は、２００６年、Songwriter's Showcase of Americaにより、Best Experimental song、という賞を獲得。２０07年１月より、京都に移り住み、シンガーソングベーシストの池田ゆかりと共に、"Origamiガールズ"というバンドを結成。今年には、KBS京都のTV番組の出演も達成。現在も自身のソロプロジェクトや、Origamiガールズとして日本をツアー中で、２００９年一月には、アメリカツアーも控えている。

Mitsu Salmon and Ryotaro

Mitsu Salmon creates solo and collaborative performance pieces weaving together music, dance, text and imagery. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She has received her BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University (January 2005). She has lived, worked and studied in England, Germany, Amsterdam and India. Currently she resides in Kyoto, Japan where she studies dance and performs with Ima Tenko and collaborates with accordionist/performer ryotaro. Her work has been presented at places such Performance Space 122, Highways Performance Space and internationally at Hebbel Am Uffer, the Berlin Performance Art Festival and the London Performance Art
Festival.

Ryotaro is an accordionist, composer and performer. He uses MIDI-accordion; intermixing accordion, synthesizer and programmed sounds to create compositions.He has also performed and recorded albums with the bands Elements, Alternate Symphony, trace elements and Picaresque.In addition,he has also collaborated and improvised with Take-bow (performer and table top guitarist), Meri Otoshi (dancer), Mitsu Salmon (performer) and other dancers, actors and painters. He composed, played music and acted in the film "Jellyfish" directed by Nadia Porcar, which was screened at the Osaka European Film Festival in 2004. In 2008, ryotaro released his 1st solo album "Jelly, nico & I".

Photo credit:Hajime Okashi

Handsome Buggy

Try to imagine Frank Zappa playing in a country band that happens to have a Tsugaru Shamisen player and you might get close to describing the music of the quartet Handsome Buggy. Expect country versions of Japanese folk songs and more- all delivered with gusto..

Takashi Tanaka

Started creating dance pieces in 1988 performing mostly in clubs and on the street.
During a stay in England he studied with Desmond Jones in 1995.Takashi continued performing following a move to Tokyo, but halted his activities in 2001. He started performing again, through his association with "Titan No Kai", at Bar Ripple in Nagoya in July 2008.Takashi is now making more regular performances every month in Kyoto and the Kansai.

1988年より活動を開始。路上やライブハウス等を中心にパフォーマンスを行う。1995年単身渡英し、Desmond Jones氏の下でパントマイムを学ぶ。帰国後は東京を拠点に活動を続けるが2001年より活動を休止するが、
2008年7月に名古屋のBar Rippleにて行われた「ティタンの会」にて活動を再開。現在は京都を中心に月一回ほどのペースで活動中

Yumiko Nii - performance at Kanadian in Osaka 16th Nov (Sun)

2008-11-14T09:11:00.000-08:00

Yumiko Nii sent me details of and event she's participating in this coming Sunday (16th Nov) at Kanadian in Osaka. (Address and Directions below)

●November , 16th , Sunday 11月16日（日）
●１９：００ open
●２０：００ start
●Charge　\１５００

※information お問い合わせはこちら
07065042541(Nariko)

●Artists Performing

◎Yumiko Nii (body,dance)
◎Nariko (body-painting)
◎Won・Ziksu (voice, several instruments)
◎Yoshiki Kato (oud・guitar・effector)
◎Takahiro Hiraki (djembe)
◎Syouzi Watanabe (drums) from Tokyo

Please Note
※ For this event, it is forbidden to take Photos by mobile phone and camera to protect the privacy of the performers.
ダンサーのプライバシー保護のため、会場内での携帯電話、デジカメなどによる撮影は禁止させていだだきます

Address and Directions

●@伽奈泥庵～kanadian～
www.kanadian.org
電話 telephone / 0667646483
Go to [Tanimachi-hacchoume] /Osaka subway station,Tanimachi Line/ from 2 exit of [Tanimachi-kyuu choume ] station , and turn to left the corner of Tanimachi -hacchome, Kanadian is the left side in the middle of going down the slope . It's underground.

「谷町九丁目駅」の２番出口から谷町筋を谷町八丁目の方へ。八丁目の交差点を左へ、坂を下ってる途中に左側にあります。地下の店です。

●Artist Profiles

◎なりこ
中崎町天人にて「クロッキーの会」、谷町九丁目高津宮にて「クロッキーの会～色～」主催。
人物裸体クロッキーや、即興演奏家の音の中で絵を描く等、自由に絵を楽しむ会です。
他に、音楽イベントでのライブペインティング、ライブボディーペインティングでも活動中。

◎ウォン・ジクスー
4才アクセサリーにはまる光りものが大好きな虚弱な子供だった。14才ものまねがうけ生徒会長に選ばれる。 16才ブルーズミュージックに心を撃たれる。『歌はソウルだ、魂だ!』と熱き青春時代を過す。その後パフォーマーとして様々な表現者達との交流により自己のスタイルを構築しつつある。あの時の熱き心を新風に乗せて。風は誰の前にも吹いている

◎加藤吉樹(かとうよしき)
ギター、アラブの弦楽器ウード、エフェクターを使い、空間を幻想的な独自の世界で包む即興演奏家。
「はい兄弟」「GRIND ORCHESTRA」「音遊びの会」メンバー。
他にダンサー、画家との即興演奏も多数。

◎渡辺昭司(わたなべしょうじ)ドラム
赤塚不二夫をこよなく愛するこれでいいのだオヤジ。

◎平木誉大(ひらきたかひろ)ジェンベ
最近、わざとらしさがないことの美しさの力にひかれている。神戸の「音遊びの会」のメンバー。
京都では、大藪もも、石田有佳子と「coron dance＆music」という企画で、コンタクトインプロピゼーションを中心にしたダンスワークと、フリージャムセッションを楽しむ場を設けている

◎ニイユミコ　
幼少よりガラクタで遊ぶ。変拍子すき歌姫からダンサーへ。http://haemosiesta.moe-nifty.com/blog/

SANZUI vol 1 - Performance Art/ Music Event at FLOAT in Osaka 29th Nov

2008-11-13T17:36:00.000-08:00

Update: Please scroll down to see photographs taken at the event.

Here are the details about a show - SANZUI vol 1 - that has been organized by Yangjah and Hiromi Shirai at Tadashi Yonago's warehouse Gallery space in Nishi-Ku Osaka.

Kozue SUGIURA 杉浦梢 (Osaka)
Hiromi SHIRAI 白井廣美（Kobe)
Richard Dean リチャード・ディーン (UK)
Ritsuko HIDAKA 日高理都子 (Kyoto)
Salads in Space
Charles-Eric Billard チャールズ・エリック・ビラード (Canada/Osaka)
Jerry Gordon ジェリー・ゴードン (US/Osaka)
Rick Tuazon リック・トゥアゾン (US/Osaka)
Sean Roe ショーン・ロー (UK/Kyoto)
Shin IHA 伊波晋 (Kyoto)
Tadashi YONAGO 米子匡司（Osaka)
Takako MIZUKI 水木孝子（Shigaraki)
Yangjah ヤンヂャ (Osaka)

An Event by 企画 - Hiromi SHIRAI 白井廣美 & Yangjah ヤンヂャ

Information 問い合わせ - 08038490390 yangjah@softbank.ne.jp (Yangjah)

FLOAT
米子匡司 Tadashi YONAGO
09098602784
tad@chochopin.net
http://float.chochopin.net/
5540026 大阪市西区安治川2丁目1-28 安治川倉庫
c/o Ajigawa warehouse 2-1-28 Ajigawa Nishi-ku Osaka-city

Ghost Music- Jerry Gordon at Cypher Cafe- OSAKA -Oct 31 (Friday)

2008-10-30T01:36:00.000-07:00

Something Spooky for Halloween..... Jerry Gordon Live

Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
Time: 5:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Cypher Cafe in Morinomiya
near Morninomiya Stn on JR and Subway (Osaka)

see map below

1st November 2008 (Sat) Mirror Image at UrBANGUILD

2008-10-24T22:51:00.000-07:00

Capital Punishment

Heres notice of an upcoming event that features a couple of JunKroom regulars- Jetvel who will be performing in another one of his projects "Capital Punishment" alongside Hide (from Ultra Bide)

DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA is also on the bill

This looks like an evening of extreme noise terror- so don't forget your earplugs!

11月1日 (sat) mirror image
Featuring
Capital Punishment(hide-ultra bide-+jetvel)
vd
spill(napalm+macopee)

With DJ's
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA
fucked 76
babi
masaki koizumi
kallassy(poco a poco)

Organized by unkomushiman

OPEN/START 19:00
door 2000 yen with 1drink

Ima Tenko/今貂子(Butoh)＋Itaru Oki/沖至(trumpet) 10月29日 (wed) URBANGUILD

2008-10-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

Noticed this on the schedule at Urbanguild - organized by "Paris ∞ Kyoto vol.2"
Solo Dance by Ima Tenko accompanied by Itaru Oki on Trumpet.
See details below- pasted from Urbanguild homepage.

10月29日 (wed) 即興セッション「Paris ∞ Kyoto」vol.2

80 年代より舞踏シーンをリードしてきた白虎社に参加した経歴を持ち、現在は京都を拠点に舞踏という身体表現を追及する舞踏家、今貂子。自身が主宰する舞踏カンパニー｢今貂子＋倚羅座｣は、00年の結成以来、精力的に活動を展開し、05年ヨーロッパツアー、07年京都・五條楽園歌舞練場での公演「たからづくし」では多くの観客を魅了した。共演するのは60-70年代にかけ、日本のフリージャズシーンで活躍し、現在はパリを拠点にジャズプレーヤーとして積極的に活動をしているトランペット奏者、沖至。74年のフランスへの移住宣言は日本中で大きな話題となり、朝日新聞・天声人語欄でも「沖至のパリ移住はひとつの頭脳流出である」と書かれたほど。DVD｢パリ∞京都/沖至｣の発売を記念して、3年ぶりに即興セッションが実現。表現の原点に迫るスリリングな芸の出会い、ぶつかり合い。乞うご期待！！！

今貂子(Butoh)＋沖至(trumpet)

OPEN 18:30/ START 19:30
adv.2300 yen with 1drink / door 2700 yen with 1drink

Itaru, OKI
Born in Suma-Ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan on 10th September 1941. Oki Itaru was raised in a rich musical environment; his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute) and his mother was a master of the Koto (Japanese horizontal harp) of the Ikuta School. He started to play the trumpet in his high school brass band before playing in a Dixieland style band and then in a bop band. In the late 1960’s, the trumpeter began playing free jazz. He changed his place of performance from Kansai (a western area of Japan) to Tokyo in 1965. After improving his skill in many groups, he joined an experimental unit “ESSG” of Togashi Masahiko and Sato Masahiko. Oki made his first tour to Europe with the ESSG in 1969. After being back from Europe, he formed the Oki Itaru Trio, which later grew into a quartet. In June 1974, he moved to Paris, France. After living in Lyon for a while, he moved back to Paris in December 1999. Until the present, Oki has continually performed at concerts and festivals in France and various other countries in Europe.

(Extract from Itaru Oki's Homepage)

Below are some photographs I took at the performance.

"How How" Exhibition of Textiles at Muromachi Art Court (Kyoto)

2008-10-19T18:58:00.000-07:00

click on image to enlarge

When cycling through some backstreet (Muromachi Dori)on my way to Shijo dori, I chanced upon Muromachi Art Court, where I discovered an exhibition of textiles by ten MA students from Seika University . The works look great in this large space. The Exhibition is open from 11.00am till 6.00pm and runs until 26th October (Sunday) Well worth a visit. Please see Map and reverse of postcard for details.

Titan No Kai live at Urbanguild 17th October

2008-10-16T18:36:00.000-07:00

Not to be missed Dance Mavericks (I'm barely able to use this word now... thanks Sarah and John!) Titan No Kai will be performing at Urbanguild on the 17th October. Their last performance at Junkroom vol 6 (at the same venue) was like an inversion of a stage invasion - lots of screaming shouting dance improvisation music- Like being in the middle of a Shuji Terayama production (!?) in the 70's.

So.. If you're partial to a bit of "Dooitsu Hyo gen Shu gi" (as described by Chikako!) and an evening of Dance and Musical Mayhem- then head down to Urbanguild for this event.

ティタンの会 Titan No Kai

ホコロビノジカン
　太田ひろ（メタルパーカッション)/植村恵亮(ギター)/袋坂ヤスオ(ダンス)/池田一平/(ピアノ)
シンヨコエバンド（演歌レゲエ）
花嵐（ダンス）
あたしよしこ（脳想ドロドロパフォーマンス)
松本信一・とんこ
たなかたかし（ダンス）
他
OPEN 18:30/ START 19:00
adv.1500 yen with 1drink / door 1800 yen with 1drink

Jana Winderen, ALOG, Alexander Rishaug & Marius Watz Live

2008-10-16T18:16:00.000-07:00

Jana Winderen, who participated in the last Junkroom Event (Vol 6) will be on a short visit to Japan with two concerts booked. The first is on 22nd October in Osaka at AD &A Gallery and the second is in Tokyo at Superdeluxe on 24th October. The Tour also includes ALOG, Alexander Rishaug & Marius Watz. Details about the venues and artists can be found below. Highly recommended !!!

ALOG
JANA WINDEREN
ALEXANDER RISHAUG & MARIUS WATZ

LIVE at AD & A Gallery, OSAKA 22.10 – 07.30 pm
http://adanda.jp/workshop/maxmsp/2008/09/elextra-sound-art-from-norway-concert.html

ALOG
JANA WINDEREN
ALEXANDER RISHAUG & MARIUS WATZ
+ secret guests

LIVE at Superdeluxe, Tokyo 24.10 – 08.00 pm

Link: http://www.super-deluxe.com/#Norwegian%20Music

The tour is supported by The Royal Norwegian Embassy, Tokyo and MIC/UD.
Booked and organized by Tetsuro Yasunaga.

MORE INFO:

ALEXANDER RISHAUG is a sound artist, producer and musician based in Oslo, Norway. His sound is melodic, melancholic and quiet. With minimalistic electronics, abstract beats, glitches and digital noise, he explores tones and textures creating a detailed, rich and subtle sound. Always with a sharp focus on structure, rythm and melodies. Rishaug is also a part of the improv trio ARM with Arne Borgan and Are Mokkelbost (Single Unit) wich has sparked off collaborations with musicians such as Håkon Kornstad, Martin Hornthvedt, Ivar Grydeland, Ingar Zach, John Hegre, Jørgen Træen, Toshimaru Nakamura and Salvatore.

http://www.myspace.com/alexanderrishaug
http://www.myspace.com/armtrio

MARIUS WATZ is a Norwegian artist and designer who originally took his point of departure doing graphics for the raves of the early nineties. In his current artistic practice he focuses on computationally generated form, describing his own style as a particular brand of visual hedonism, marked by colourful organic shapes and a 'more is more' attitude. His work has been shown at many international festivals and exhibitions. Marius is currently organizing the an event and exhibition series called Generator.x . This event deals with the current role of software and generative strategies in music, art and design.

http://www.unlekker.net
http://www.generatorx.no

JANA WINDEREN researches the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier cravasses is brought to the surface. She is occupied with finding sound from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recording. Her most recent sound works include "Submerge" (2008), for Fargfäbriken Norr in Sweden, based on hydrophone recordings in the local lake, "freq_out 7" curated by CM von Hausswollf at the Happy New Ears festival in Belgium (2008), "Rainbow Audio Transformation" (2008) at Extra City in Antwerp, Belgium and the 6 channel sound installation "+4°C - from Folgefonna to the North Sea" (2007) at Sleppet during the centenary of Edvard Greig, "Greig07" in Norway. Future projects includes an album released through Touch based on hydrophone recordings from the Icefjord Kangia by Ilulissat in Greenland, "Voices from the Deep" in collaboration with Chris Watson. Recently BBC Radio 4 followed Jana on her recording trip to the Barents Sea for the radio series "World on the Move".

http://www.janawinderen.com

ALOG
Since forming in 1997 Alog have been among Norway’s leading performers of experimental electronic music. They are mainstays at Rune Grammofon and have been with the label since their debut album ”Red Shift Swing” was released in 1999. Already a mature and original collection, their sound has since been developed through their second album, ”Duck-Rabbit” (2001), and almost perfected with their previous album ”Miniatures”, which also won them a Norwegian Grammy for best electronica release in 2005.

http://www.myspace.com/alogicstudios
http://www.runegrammofon.com

Trick Noise Makers Japan Tour Photos (Kansai Gigs)

2008-10-16T17:48:00.000-07:00

Here are a few photos of the Trick Noise Makers, from performances in the Kansai (Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto) when they were on tour earlier this month (Oct)
Congrats to Louise, Greg, Alan and Parsley for a series of hot pumping dare I say groovy punky pop. Also a big thank you to Hide for all the organizing and help given to the band!!

Finally a big thank you to the bands that played with the TNM's on tour - namely Oh my Cow,She Border Picture, cycle annia,Slasher Risk, Alice Sailor and Damage Distortion, Zon, Cell 63.

I'll be adding some photographs of these bands performances shortly.

The Trick Noise Makers have left a few copies of their 10 track Tour Promotion CD with me. They are available for 1000 yen each. All proceeds go back to the band - towards their next tour of Japan - hopefully in 2009 (!!) Please get in touch if you are interested in purchasing a copy.

TRICK NOISE MAKERS TOUR IN SEPTEMBER

2008-09-08T08:24:00.000-07:00

The Trick Noise Makers JAPAN Tour 2008

ロンドン産のサイケなビート・バンド
弾むドラムとガンガンのオルガンに
女性ヴォーカリストをフィーチャーしたポップでパンクな音。
ノリのいいパーティー気分で盛り上がれます。

Great London based Psyche pop band The Trick Noise Makers will be performing
in Tokyo and the Kansai late September. Here are details of their gigs in Osaka. Kobe and Kyoto. The Gig at Urbanguild will be the last of their tour so should be the one to go to!!!! PARTY!!!!!

2008/09/26th(fri)
at BEARS (Osaka city)

THE TRICK NOISE MAKERS (from London)
OH MY COW
She Border Picture
cycle annie
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA
open 18:30pm / start 19:00pm
adv 1500yen / door 2000yen

For Address Maps and Directions
Go to the Namba Bears website here

2008/09/27th(sat)
at HELLUVA LOUNGE (Kobe)

THE TRICK NOISE MAKERS (from London)
SLASHER RISK (from NEW YORK)
Alice Sailor & Damage Distortion
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA
open 18:30pm / start 19:00pm
adv 1500yen / 1800yen (+1drink)

For Address Maps and Directions
Go to the Helluva Lounge website here

2008/09/29th(mon)
at UrBANGUILD (Kyoto city)

ultra bide presents "happy noise monday vol31"
THE TRICK NOISE MAKERS (from London)
SLASHER RISK (from NEW YORK)
OH MY COW !
ZON + syousuke kiyokawa
+CELL 63
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA
adv 1000yen / door 1500yen (+1drink)
open 18:30pm / start 19:30pm

For Address Maps and Directions
Go to the Urbanguild website here

The Trick Noise Makers Myspace Page is here

JunKroom Vol 6 at UrBANGUILD (photos)

2008-09-08T07:55:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all the Performers and Musicians who performed at The JunKroom event on 5th September at Urbanguild.

Here is a selection of photos from the event.

JunKroom Vol 6 - Special Event at UrBANGUILD on 5th September- See below for details.

2008-07-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

Junkroom Vol 6 at URBANGUILD on September 5th
Doors open 6.30- Starts 7.00pm - Ends 2.00am
Entrance 1000 yen + 1 Drink (total 1500yen)

JunKroom presents a Special Event at UrBANGUILD with an amazing, eclectic and International Programme - including Performance Art, Modern Dance, Improvised Music, Sound Installation and more... An evening of Multi-disciplinary performances and artistic collaborations that will surprise, and astound you.

JunKroomが主催するSpecial Event at UrBANGUILDでは国際的で多種多様な内容をお送りします。プログラムはパフォーマンスアート、ダンス、インプロ音楽、サウンドインスタレーションなどを含み、多角的なアートを謳歌する夜をお約束します。

UrBANGUILD
tel/fax:075-212-1125
〒604-8017
京都市中京区三条東木屋町下がる材木町181
ニュー京都ビル３F

181-2 Zaimoku-cho
new-Kyoto bldg. 3F,
Kiyamachi Dori
Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto
604-8017
Japan

Very Easy to find-Here are some basic directions

From Sanjo Dori go down Kiyamachi Dori
(This is the narrow street running alongside Takase stream
Urbanguild is on the east side (left hand side as you walk down from Sanjo) approximately 150 metres.Its on the 3rd floor of New Kyoto Building- access by elevator or stairs.

Maps/ Directions to the Venue can be found here

Featured Artists/出演者、作品提供アーティストは

Bridget Scott (UK/JPN)京都在住パフォーマンスアーティスト
Richard Dean (UK)英国在住美術系アーティスト
Sylwia Gorak (Poland)サウンドアーティスト
Floating Room (UK/JPN)インプロ音楽家
Salads in Space (US/Can)+Yangjah(JPN/KOR)インプロ + ダンス
Hiromi Shirai (JPN)神戸在住パフォーマンスアーティスト
JetVel (Canada/JPN)大阪在住インプロ音楽家
Psychedelic Desert (JPN)大阪在住インプロ音楽家
Veejay Figshta(USA/JPN)京都在住インプロ音楽家
Bloom Creation (Tokyo)東京在住サイケ・ロック音楽家
Titan No Kai (JPN)関西在住ダンス・パフォーマンスグループ
Jana Winderen (Norway)サウンドアーティスト
Teruyuki Tanaka (JPN)東京在住パフォーマンスアーティスト
Take-Bow plus guest (JPN)京都在住音楽家
Sseeaann Rrooee (UK)京都在住サウンドアーティスト

+DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA

ARTISTS PROFILES

Click the highlighted link for more info about each artist.

Richard Dean (UK)

Performance Artist and more recently a printmaker who has been making a series of maps. His recent exhibition titled “Flood” (as part of the Site 08 Festival in Stroud/Bristol) has gained positive reviews in the UK Press. This set of works is described as "an Exhibition of maps of the new world when the world has warmed and sea levels have risen to an extent not seen for 5o million years." Dean will be showing some of his recent map prints at Urbanguild and will also be performing live.

Psychedelic Desert (JPN)

Psychedelic Desert is an improvisation band formed by Cuckoo and Go Tsushima in Osaka, Japan in 2004, Their psychedelic music has been described as mind expanding, primal and meditative. For this event they will be joined by Maki from Ultra Bide on Drums

Floating Room (UK/JPN)

floatingroom is a collaborative musical partnership. The duo band of Christopher Fryman and Bun Ito.

Bun ITO creates his unique soundscape with a 12 string Warr touch Guitar in an exploration minimalist tapping and looping techniques.

Christopher Fryman Is a trumpeter specializing in electronica applications to the trumpet sound, effects and delays. He also composes stage music for modern ballet, and original music for film and video games.

Sylwia Gorak (Poland)

As a painter, Gorak seeks to reevaluate the inherent beauty and awe of landscapes by introducing man-made objects, both inconsequential and architectural, that create a tension between a sense of permanence and materialism. Inspired by her hometown of Lezajsk, Poland, her paintings also draw from prior residency experiences in London, Osaka, and Sierre, Switzerland. A vocalist and performance artist as well, Gorak is also interested in acoustics and the material properties of sound. (CEC ArtsLink)

We will be screening some of Sylwia’s performance work at JunKroom Vol 6

Bridget Scott

Bridget Scott, a Londoner, debuted in 1990 as a member of the Butoh group Katsura Kan and Saltimbanques. She was a member of the group for 5 years, performing throughout Kansai and in Java and Korea. Since then Bridget has collaborated with dancers and artists in Japan and Europe and has created solo works. She has also studied under Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and Min Tanaka. From 2006 she has been training in Nihon Buyoh (traditional Japanese dance) with Nishikawa Kayorei. Bridget is now beginning to explore the connection between non-traditional and traditional dance forms

Salads in Space (US/Canada)+
Yangjah (JPN/KOR)

Salads in Space is a trio consisting of Rick Tuazon, Charles-Eric Billard and Jerry Gordon improvising their little hearts out on Sax, Percussion and Electronics. For the JunKroom event, they are joined by Yanjah.

Yangjah (JPN/KOR) is an artist, Butoh dancer and a third generation Korean in Japan. Her works are improvised performances that often utilize elements of installation, video, photography and poetry . She gropes at the endless circulation of moments when an empty body overflows.

Hiromi Shirai

While Shirai studied in England she saw performance art for the first time. Since 1998 she has performed in Japan. People often ask her "What is Performance Art?". Without giving a precise answer back, she explained her activities in many different places and circumstances. She recently started involving elements of improvisation or collaboration with other artists in her performances. For now she is happy enough to give some sort of surprise - rather than a certain answer to that question to the audience.

Jetvel

Long term Japan resident hailing from Canada. When performing solo, Jeff creates his electronic sonic storms using an ever varied array of low tech instruments found objects and theremin, processed through a number of effect pedals. Jeff also lead cult improv/noise unit Empty Orchestra and has been collaborating recently with Ultra Bide’s Hide in a new project called Capital Punishment.

Veejay Figshta aka Donald the Nut (USA/JPN)

Donald was, and is the singer from Three Day Stubble, cult nerd rock originators from San Francisco. Donald will be performing solo for this event and without attempting to dampen... or raise your expectations, in the interpretive performance world of "AVI", you may well witness ..... extreme gurning, garbled glossolalia, big raw physical gestures, a helping of anger and angst, mixed with a large dose of scatalogical rock and roll and quite possibly some tearful enka.

For Junkroom Vol 6 Donald will appear as Veejay Figshta and will be Video Jockeying whilst most likely doing all of the above. Both a frightening and enthralling prospect!!

Bloom Creation (Tokyo)

Started cover band in High School (played bass). Hung out at the cemetary... High school.... authorities ban students from wearing all-black clothing. Numerous house parties, busts, trips to the outer reaches, etc. University.... Quit music. Studied world culture, art, religion, and history, especially Asia. Spent time at a temple. 2004- Decided to pursue music seriously after a series of coincidences led him to attend a bizarre avante-garde event. 2005- Played solo at places like Muryoku Muzen-zi. 2006- Formed a unit with Mr. Shin from Optrum. 2007-2008 Formed a new unit with members of Kuruu Crew. Played events with Haino Keiji, Kawabata Makoto, Afrirampo, Pikachu, Up-Tight, Yoshida Tatsuya, Overhang Party, Vava Kitora, LSD March, Suishou no Fune, Mimi no Koto, New Rock Syndicate,etc.

Titan No Kai (JPN)
Titan no Kai are an offshoot of the dance collective Dosei no Kai who run a monthly
dance gathering that welcomes members of the public as well as dance specialists to improvise together. For the JunKroom event Titan no Kai have been invited to create spontaneous performances as part of the audience........

Performers on the night are
Atashi Yoshiko
Bando Chikako
Fukurozaka Yasuo
Furukawa On
Ikeda Ippei
Ishimoto Michiyo
Matsumoto Shin-ichi
Shingo
Tanaka Takashi
Tonko
Yokoe Kunihiko
Misuzu

(Photo of Dosei No Kai at one of their dance meetings)

Jana Winderen (Norway)

Jana Winderen (N). Studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London with a background in mathematics and chemistry from the University of Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked as an artist, curator and producer, initiating and producing several independent international art projects in Bergen and in Oslo. Her most recent sound work is “- 25 metres”, a live hydrophone installation (2008) and "+4°C - from Folgefonna to the North Sea" (2007) at Sleppet during the centenary Greig07. Earlier works include the interactive sound installation "Hard Rain" (2006), based on motion tracking, and the group sound installation “freq_out 6” (2007) curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff at the Dreamland Burn exhibition in Budapest (2007). Future projects includes "Voices from the Deep" in collaboration with Chris Watson, “”freq_out 7” at Happy New Ears festival in Belgium and a CD release through Touch based on hydrophone recordings from the Icefjord Kianga by Ilulissat in Greenland. Jana has exhibited her work in Canada, China, Thailand, France, Hungary, Denmark, England, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Sweden.For more information: www.janawinderen.com

Sound has taken a predominant place in Jana's work since 1992. In her sound installation work she has primarily been concerned with interactions with the audience and the acoustics of a specific space.

Winderen says about her work: "I like the immateriality of a sound work and the openness it can have for both associative and direct experience and sensory perception. I have been occupied with finding sounds from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recordings. Over the last year I have collected recordings made by hydrophones, from rivers, shores and the ocean, and more recently also from glaciers in Iceland and Norway. I am also experimenting with different types of microphones to collect sounds which are not obviously recognisable, but give room for broader, more imaginative readings. I use these sounds as source material for composition in a live environment or to create installations where the audience can play with distortion and processing of the sounds.”

Text taken from Exhibition Sleppet . Curated by Jørgen Larsson. The project was supported and organised by Grieg07.

Jana Winderen will not be present at JunKroom Vol 6 , but will be sending us a Sound Piece for the event that was made from hydrophone recordings done in Disco Bay,
(by Ilulissat) in Greenland. It was performed recently at Polhøgda, Fritjof Nansen institute in Oslo.

Jana is currently planning a tour of Japan in October- Check this link and the JunKroom blog for updates.

Teruyuki Tanaka (JPN)

Teruyuki Tanaka is a performance artist who has had numerous exhibitions since the mid 1990’s. Below are some of his thoughts about his work...

When I create a work of art, there is something that I treasure. It may resemble the viscosity of water, whereby it bulges above the rim of a full glass. Whether the work is the object itself, or the act of creating the object, is not so important. What is important is the invisible energy that surrounds the object, and connects it to all other objects. It`s just like a wafer of candy. I want to use those wafers to achieve an efficacy similar to that of herbal medicine.

The image, ideal, disappointment . . .etc. When people's identities are collected and mixed, each wafer will contain an original atmosphere. The miracle can be formed momentarily over each different identities, just like the viscous bulging of water on the rim.

My work is to sow original spices to the water's surface.

Take-Bow plus guest (JPN)

Experimental/Improvisation guitarist, Sound Artist and Contemporary artist. Take-bow has been performing live since 1995. Since 1998, he has been collaborating closely with contemporary performing artists (dancers, painters and musicians). In 2001, he toured Europe with Monochrome Circus, and performend as a solo artist in Berlin. This was followed by the release of his first solo CD "Transparencia" in 2002. Solitude sound art unit began performing in 2002, and released their first CD "Solitude" the same year. Ruhe Rufen unit works with vocalized sound and experiment with Saxophone and guitar sound noise. Currently, Takebo is collaborating with other improvising artists in Japan, both musicians and dancers..

For JunKroom vol 6 Take-bow will will be creating a special performance in collaboration with undisclosed guests....

(photo shows past performance with Sanae Kuroko)

Sseeaann Rrooee (UK)

Hailing from Johannesburg and London, Kyoto resident Sseeaann Rrooee (aka Sean Roe) is a Multimedia/Performance artist and Musician who performs on Electronic Trumpet, Bass and Flute , also utilizing triggered samples and effects. When DJing (as DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA) he plays an unusual mix of Afrobeat./Artrock/ NDW/Krautrock/Musique Concrete, Soundtrack, Sound Art, Industrial Music and quirky underground music that will make you dance badly.

For Tonights event Sseeaann has created an soundtrack for Bridget Scott's dance piece - which he will perform live.

JunKroom takes a summer vacation

2008-07-01T07:33:00.000-07:00

The usual monthly JunKroom events in the bar above Aoi Recycle Shop on Kita Oji Dori are temporarily on hold through the summer as the venue has no air conditioning!

Way Too Hot!!

But......

I'm writing to let you know about the JunKroom Special Summer event to be held at Urbanguild (Centrally located on Kiyamachi ) on Friday 5th September.

Urbanguild is an amazing venue with plenty of space, a great sound system, great food, easy to get to, and..... it has air conditioning!

So.....

Junkroom Vol 6 (summer special) is going to be a huge event with artists from The UK, Poland,Canada,USA, and Japan. More details to follow in the next couple of weeks, once everything has been finalized.

Please make a note in your diary!!

Normal operations at the old space will resume from October.

DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA at Yaso on 26th June

2008-06-26T19:48:00.000-07:00

Interesting looking event taking place on 26th June at Yaso
DJ AFRIphoniCAAAA will be providing background music through the night.

More Details below.

6/26 (木) ULTRA BIDE presents

出演：Alice Sailor&Damage Distortion / ヒミツノコウドウ (from sakaide city) / ハムソンバギー

DJ：AFRIphoniCAAAA......

OPEN 18:30 / START 19:00

前売\1000 / 当日\1500 (共に+1drink\500)

Mikami Kan live at Ooh La La in June 2008

2008-06-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

Eugene Chadbourne & Jimmy Carl Black live @ Urbanguild 15th June

2008-06-15T17:13:00.000-07:00

Some snaps from the event last night.Hide introduced the acts jokingly as sort of generations of Rock - Young 'uns first up were one of Hide's favourite local bands Z-Z言語 performing their hybridized high energy punk mashed song work outs sounding something like a cross between Naked City (with Eye on vocals) and At The Drive In. Shayne Bowden forewarned us about the high volume of his performance (nice guy- giving us time to insert earplugs) So following the pre- performance banter we had 15 minutes of stop start high volume electronic shrieking and feedback interspersed with fragments of personal narrative and what sounded like a tirade against his former employer and some TV personalities also getting a mention (?) Mostly delivered in Japanese - hence some doubts about my understanding (?) Ultra Bide's followed with their twin bass barrage (fretted and fretless) - loud and fast rockin'and tighter than a clenched fist! Finally headliners Eugene Chadbourne and Jimmy Carl Black, starting off with finger pickin' country with Eugene performing on Banjo with Jimmy on drums who was a little sluggish to start...Things picked up and they ran the gamut(ations) through Willie the Pimp with Jimmy on vocals, and a sequence of other countrynoise tinged Connecticutexan un-standards- A switch to guitar raised the tempo and volume and brought the event stomping 'to a sweet finale with Hendrix's Foxy Lady and some electric rake work on floor, walls and I think Donald the Nut's back! Digital duck calls were also thrown in as a bonus. DJ DUQUETTE played between the acts on stage, introduced us to the heroic antics of Kimber the dog with local mavericks Oh my Cow also featuring in his eclectic mix.

Good Night!

ユージン・チャドボーン
ギター怪人という異名を持つ超個性的ギタリスト。 1970年代初頭から活動を開始し、フリー・ジャズ、カントリー、クラシック、ブルース、ロック、パンクなど全ての分野で活躍。80年代には、ショッカビリーを結成したり、ジョン・ゾーンのコブラにも参加し、日本でも注目を集めた。大友良英、山本精一、近藤等則、吉田達也、灰野敬二、羽野昌二などの日本人から、レオ・スミス、フレッド・フリス、ヘンリー・カイザー、デヴィット・トゥープ、スティ−ヴ・レイシー、カーラ・ブレィ、ハンベニング、ピーターブロッツマン、ビル・ラズウエル、デレク・ベイリー、ジム・オルーク等、共演者を挙げていくときりがない。来日経験あり。

EUGENE CHADBOURNE: all-rounder, satirist, jazz- and rock-guitarist, music journalist, co-founder of the legendary zappa-esque punk trio "Shockabilly", inventor of the electric rake, master of the one hundred twenty eighth note, the unthinkable cover version and making country an object of irony... it's impossible to not know this icon of U.S. counterculture. To get a formidable introduction into the strange world of Eugene C.

ジミー・カール・ブラック
フランク・ザッパ率いるマザーズ・オヴ・インヴェンションのインディアン・ドラマー。ファースト・アルバムのフリーク・アウト（1966年）を始め数々の名盤を発表し世界中にセンセーションを巻き起こした、マザーズの重要人物のひとりである。近年はヨーロッパを中心に活動。今年70歳になるという60年代裏アメリカン・ミュージック・シーンの生き証人。もちろん初来日。

JIMMY CARL BLACK: nomad blooded musician, who will never stop cause he needs to perform like others need air to breathe. He was a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention", which he later on reanimated as "The Grandmothers". His countless releases swayed between Traditional and zappa-esque irony and exhibit an adept but not deadly serious revue of american music ranging from Cotton Songs and Blues to C.C. Rider and Pop.

(Biographies from Captain Trip Homepage)

JunKroom Vol 5 Performance Photographs

2008-06-09T19:10:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to all the Musicians,Performers and Artists who participated in the JunKroom Event on Sat 7th June.

The (more or less) Monthly JunKroom event has been running above Aoi Recycle shop since December 2007.

We will be taking a break over the summer to escape the heat, but a special event is planned for September at URBANGUILD here in Kyoto - Keep an eye on our blog for any updates.

Here is a selection of photographs of the performances last Saturday. (Mash Cucumber Pics to follow soon)

Photographs are in order of appearance on the night

Cosmic Kaigan
Uratomoe Trio
Yangjah & Jerry Gordon
Mash Cucumber (sorry no photo yet- to be added soon)
Bridget Scott
Tim Olive
Naked Mozart
Mesuinu & Co
Misuzu & Hiroyuki Furuya
Jet Vel & Sseeaan Rrooee