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FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist living in Japan. His unique practice utilizes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and noises. In 2009 Fujita hand fabricated a Pipe Organ that has only 11 pipes and no keyboard. Fujita conceived and built it using his imagination, without any prior or specialized knowledge. Designed to create a landscape rather than function as a musical instrument, he took the idea from the Japanese “gagaku”. The air pump (called “FUIGO”) which is kept moving by the left hand when playing, and is based on associations with an ancient blacksmith. This is a unique instrument that Fujita had to learn to play. Recently, he has added a water element, with sound synthesized water tanks, to his performance repertoire. The music consists of water sounds from multiple aquariums alongside his pipe organ and his voice.
Since 2006 he has had many solo performances and collaborative works with musicians, including ∈Ｙ∋ (Boredoms), Akio Suzuki, Keiji Haino, and Koichi Makigami. He has presented his sound installation works in many contexts: the work “CELL”, which made audible the sounds of black soldier fly maggots buried in dirt, was exhibited in Sapporo International Art Festival 2017 and attracted a great deal of interest in Fujita’s artistic practice. A performance with an organ and 4 water tanks were performed in MODE (London) in 2019. In 2020, he released the albums “iki” \\[Hallow Ground\\] and “KŌMORI” \\[Boomkat Editions\\] fujita.bandcamp.com/album/iki
After finishing a philosophy degree specialising in Husserlian phenomenology in the mid-1990s, writer and musician Angela Sawyer felt fully prepared to start astonishing audiences around the Boston area using her mouth, some broken electronics, toys & noisemakers. Impromptu squealing & gargling has become her specialty, and she’s released a steady trickle of small-run lps, cds, cdrs & cassettes over the years. She changes the names of her projects to suit her every whim, but longer running ones include Preggy Peggy & the Lazy Babymakers and Duck That. One lp release “A Short Visit To The City That Bleeds” is full of weird up-close intimate wordage and environmental activity recorded in and around a rental car parked in Baltimore, MD. Dennis Tyfus from the Ultra Eczema label says Sawyer is “the best living vocal artist”. You can also catch Angela doing stand up comedy around town, & she sold vinyl records in the Boston area for 35-odd years. feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/croaks
Home-recorded outsider sounds and cassette players from longtime New England ecology warlock Adam Kohl (ARKM foam, Peace, Loving, BANG! BROS., Knight Howls, Tri-cornered Hat, Mickey O'Hara duo, Yesterdays Jam, Ten Gallon Hat, LMFAO, Montana Big Boys, Andy Allen duo, Foom & Foam, etc.). Founder of the legendary venue the Whitehaus and friend to every stripe of traveler. friendlyfoam.bandcamp.com/
Lispectre is the name given to music made by Jonathan Williger working alone. Utilizing various instruments and tape, he pushes a single idea past its logical conclusion. Long tones provide the backbone. Side effects include: disorientation, monotony, and momentary lapses in the perception of time. twitter.com/JWilliger