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Yoshio Machida (ASCAP) is a sound & visual artist, Steel Pan player. Born in Japan in 1967.
He studied minimal art / music / film extensively under Kuniharu Akiyama, Yoshiaki Touno, Sakumi Hagiwara, Kishio Suga at Tama art university in Tokyo.
So far Machida has participated in art events / music festivals like ISEA2004, Sonar-Tokyo, Europhonics Jazz Festival, Maerz Musik Festival, etc.. He has been introduced in a book "Haunted Weather" by David Toop and also has been introduced with the artists like Yoshihide Otomo, Sachiko M, Merzbow, Aki Onda, Haco, Toshimaru Nakamura, minamo, Yannis Kyriakides, Alejandra & Aeron, etc. in some compilation albums (Improvised Music from Japan, Sub Rosa, Unsound, Cubicfabric, etc.). In 2005, "Afterimage" (from CD: Hypernatural #2, Softl Music) had been used as the soundtrack for French TV spot, "Visual".
In the 90s, he was involved in international cooperation work in Asia, Africa and Mexico. Through this work, he was inspired by Pan-East Asian sun worship basis, then he had come out with collage painting & field recording works. Now Machida improvises Steel Pan (that was chosen as an instrument can be symbol of light, like Asian Gong) and electronic Steel Pan called PanKAT. The music includes elements of ambient, experimental, electro-acoustic, noise, electronics, and contemporary music. Machida is also a band member of WALK WITH THE PENGUIN ,a collaborative post-rock with Cinc, a Serbian band and miimo ,dub-electronica unit by tatsu(bass) and Norihide Saji (drum).
In 2004, Machida founded AMORFON, a music label / a platform for contemporary art event. He has released his solo albums, unique artists' works from Eastern Europe that have not been introduced so much and "Kindermusik: Improvised Music by Babies", a unique compilation album consisted of only Babies' improvisations as expressing concerns about music. He organized "Japan-Macedonia exchange art exhibition" in Japan and Macedonia for the first time for both countries. As a visual artist, Machida makes "PHOTOBATIK", his original technique using photographic paper. Machida also writes for magazines, has lectures and has some unique workshops for children through his art activity.
"Some beautiful segments that inspire real moments of wonder" - Cyclic Defrost
"Many of its pieces coming across as yearning meditations on things beyond our control." - Tokafi
"Floral but not florid." - The Wire
"Subtle improv music that sounds like nice ambient." - VITAL
"Steelpan electronics has come of age and landed in Tokyo!"
- Igloo Magazine
"Light and reflective... perfect for moments of cleansing and contemplation." - brainwashed
"In a word, wow! Without question, one of my favorite records this year." - The Other Music
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Recent Activities
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Live list
Concert photo & video
Exhibition photo
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2007 | - Release an album, "miimo"
- Release an album, "Walk With The Penguin" |
2006 | - Participation in DVD "Loop Pool Ping Pong"
- Release solo album, "Naada"
- Musical workshop at Sava Zebeljan School (Crepaja, Serbia)
- Lecture at Polytechnic Academy (Berglade, Serbia)
- Participation in "Maerz Musik 2006" (Berlin, Germany)
- Participation in "Weather in My Brain" (Taipei/Taichu, Taiwan) |
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2005 |
- Musical workshop for children at Minamisuna elementary school/ASIAS (Tokyo, Japan)
- Organization of a sound & visual event, "Sound & Image" (Tokyo, Japan)
- Making a movie for Nobuo Sekine Exhibition @ MOMAS (Saitama, Japan)
- Participation in International Artist Flag Exhibition (Novi Sad, Serbia)
- Musical workshop for children in Nishisugamo Sozosha/ASIAS (Tokyo, Japan)
- Provision of soundtrack for French news TV spot, www.visual.fr
- Group exhibition at Appel (Tokyo, Japan) |
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2004 |
- Organization of Japan-Macedonia Exchange Exhibition (Macedonia & Japan)
- Live & lecture at Tama Art Univ. (Tokyo, Japan)
- Participation in ISEA2004 (Finland)
- Cooperation to "Ecoute (Listen)" at Pompidou Center (Paris, France)
- Live tour in Europe (Holland, Germany, France, Austria, Serbia)
- Musical workshop at Sava Zebeljan School (Crepaja, Serbia)
- Release solo album, "Infinite Flowers"
- Found a music label, "amorfon" and a platform for art & music event, "colavo" |
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2003 |
- Participation in "Dark Symphony" at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
- Live tour in Europe (Russia, Latvia, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, UK, Serbia)
- Participation in "Europhonics" Jazz Festival (Dortmund, Germany)
- Participation in "Ring Ring Festival" at National Library (Belgrade, Serbia)
- Participation in International Symosium & Exhibition, "IF" (Bitola, Macedonia)
- Exhibition with Fitz Ellarald at MUHA (Moscow, Russia) |
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2002 |
- Participation in "SONAR Tokyo": Live & lecture (Tokyo, Japan)
- Live tour in Europe (Holland, Germany, Yugoslavia)
- Solo exhibition at Izba (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia)
- Solo exhibition at Pepper's Loft Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
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Grants |
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2004 |
- ISEA2004, ASIA-EUROPE Foundation
- Japan-Macedonia Exchange Exhibition, Pola Art Foundation
- Japan-Macedonia Exchange Exhibition, Nissho Iwai Foundation
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2003 |
- International Symposium & Exhibition in Macedonia, Nomura Culural Foundation |
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Publications |
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2008 |
CD : "Hypernatural #3" Baskaru, France |
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2007 |
CDR : "Read A Book With Steel Pan", absurd/eclipsis, Greece
CD+DVD : V.A. "SILENT ROOM FAKTORY BOX 01 | skoltz_kolgen", SK Factory, Canada
CD : V.A. "Yasujiro Ozu - Hitokomakura", and/OAR, USA
CDR : miimo "miimo", Self-release
CD : Walk With The Penguin "steal a spoon for you", amorfon, Japan
CD : V.A. "Resonance: Steel Pan in the 21st Century", Quiet Design, USA
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2006 |
CD : V.A. "water music", commune disc, Japan
CD : Solo Album "Naada" amorfon, Japan
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2004 |
CD : Solo Album "Infinite Flowers" amorfon, Japan
Note : Kokuyo, "An" Series, Kokuyo, Japan
CD : V.A. "seeds of dub", mao, Japan
CD : V.A "*Music for Baby!", amorfon, Japan |
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2003 |
CD : V.A "lib.", cubicfabric, Japan
CD : V.A "Kraakgeluiden", unsounds, The Netherlands |
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2002 |
CD : V.A "Japanese Avant Garde", sub rosa, Belguim
CD : V.A, Improvised Music from Japan, Japan |
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2001 |
CD : Solo Album "HYPERNATURAL #2", softl music, Germany |
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1999 |
CD : Solo Album "HYPERNATURAL", Self-release
FD : "AMORPHOUS" (Koan Pieces with Koan software by SSEYO Ltd.), Self-release |
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