{"id":3097,"date":"2015-12-05T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T11:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2015-12-05T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T11:40:40","slug":"while-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/2015\/12\/05\/while-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"While in Tokyo…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Cornford is a PhD candidate at Winchester School of Art. His fine art practice-based research explores the materialities of residual media. In this blog post he reports on a recent commission for the Ftarri Festival in Tokyo, along with a further installation, <\/em>Migration, and a CD, <\/em>Kinetic Sculptures.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For the 2015 Ftarri Festival in Tokyo I was commissioned to make a new work to be performed by myself, long-term collaborator Patrick Farmer and a Japanese musician Madoka Kuono. My response to the commission was to produce a three-screen 16mm performance titled Digital Audio Film<\/em>. The central concept of the work was the exposure of analogue film to the laser of a CD player \u2013 film emulsion being sensitive to radiation wavelengths far beyond the abilities of human sight. The work brings a technology for the reproduction of digital audio into dialogue with a moving image technology, allowing them to re-interpret one another. A machine intended to re<\/em>produce sound becomes a producer of images. This work was performed at SuperDeluxe<\/a> on Sunday November 22nd<\/sup> with the help of Japanese filmmaker Shinkan Tamaki who leant me his projectors and provided technical support throughout the day.
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After receiving the invitation I also managed to arrange an exhibition at a small independent art space, Gallery 20202<\/a> run by Yukari Fujimoto ex-promoter of Off Site, a performance space for experimental music now considered instrumental in the emergence of Onky\u00f4<\/em>. The work exhibited here titled Migration<\/em>, is an installation for numerous factory-second dictaphones which modifies their mechanics and electronics to produce an audio-visual effect reminiscent of the massed migrations of birds or insects. In doing so the work draws a parallel between this organic seasonal process and the global shipping of electronics as they move through our economy from production to their inevitable end as pollutants.<\/p>\n

Coinciding with this exhibition was the release of a new CD titled Kinetic Sculptures<\/em> on the vlzprodukt<\/a> label.\u00a0This CD collects together works from 2006 to 2010 the majority of which were made during my MA at Dartington College of Arts.<\/p>\n

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While in Tokyo I also performed twice in collaboration with other musicians invited to the festival. On Saturday 21st<\/sup> I played a trio with Makoto Oshiro and Matija Schellander which took and saw us placing sound objects all over the venue in a performance which deliberately dispersed the traditional focus of attention on the stage space. I worked with 10 modified Dictaphones and a turntable placing these chirruping devices among the audience, at the bar and on the PA, while Matija walked in circles around his double bass, plucking a rod inserted between its strings and Makoto placed home-made vibrating devices and alarm clocks throughout the space and then preceded to set off firecrackers in the toilets. Finally on the Monday after the festival I performed a duo with British harpist Rhodri Davies at a local record store.<\/p>\n

Throughout the week I was taken aback by the generosity and hospitality of the Japanese. During the installation of the exhibition and following the opening I was treated to several traditional Japanese meals at local restaurants, including one evening meal of almost a dozen small courses, each served on its own specific crockery. A wonderful week and I very much look forward to returning to Tokyo in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n

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To see more of Stephen Cornford’s work visit:\u00a0http:\/\/www.scrawn.co.uk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Cornford is a PhD candidate at Winchester School of Art. His fine art practice-based research explores the materialities of residual media. In this blog post he reports on a recent commission for the Ftarri Festival in Tokyo, along with a further installation, Migration, and a CD, Kinetic Sculptures. For the 2015 Ftarri Festival in … Continue reading “While in Tokyo…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2271,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2015\/12\/1930298_-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}