October 9th, 2020

​Livestream event: ENCOUNTERS×ENCOUNTERS
Streaming will start at 9 pm October 10th, 2020 (JST)Established in Roppongi in 2020, ANB Tokyo is a new art complex with community lounges, galleries, andstudios. Its name stems from the hope that "Alternative", indicating something different from the existing
concept, "Box", which accepts various things, and "Narrative" will be filled in it. It’s run by Tokyo Art
Acceleration[TAA].
To commemorate its opening, exhibition "ENCOUNTERS" will be held starting Sunday, October 11. Also on
the previous day Saturday, October 10, we will kick off the event by delivering to you an online livestream
performance with extravagant musicians and performers!
Livestream event: ENCOUNTERS×ENCOUNTERS
Oct. 10: KOM_I, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Manami Kakudo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Kaho Kogure, Mora Mothaus
joins for a free online live performance, beginning at 9 pm (JST).

Streaming on Youtube: ​https://youtu.be/IvOvCGOUl_w
Performer｜KOM_I, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Manami Kakudo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Kaho Kogure, Mora Mothaus
Producer｜Noiz Nakamura, Takehito Koganezawa
Shooting｜Tokyo Photographic ResearchSound engineer｜Raku Nakahara（LUFTZUG）
VJ｜Kiyoshi Takanashi
Stage manager｜Takashi Kawachi
Production｜Yumi Ijiri
On this livestream event ​ENCOUNTERS x ENCOUNTERS​, five musicians will perform on each floor in ANBTokyo and one dancer will traverse several floors. Inspired by contemporary art works, they will performvibrant creative expressions in all directions. Music, sound and images will be mixed together, celebrating
the nature of improvisation as ANB Tokyo wriggles as one huge life-form. We hope you will witness thisincredible collaboration on YouTube.

KOM_I
KOM_I was born in Kanagawa, Japan and began singing after being scouted at a home party.
As a vocalist of a pop band Wednesday Campanella, she has toured and performed
numerous music festivals globally. In 2019, her recent collaborative project with a music
producer Oorutaichi released their self-titled EP as Yakushima Treasure, which finds its rootsin a mystical Yakushima, an island revered as one of the World Natural Heritage sites inJapan. (A full show can be watched here.[​https://youtu.be/1WebgKhK9Ko​])In her live performances, she aims to resonate with the land and its people. She often draws
her inspiration from different cultures around the world, by observing local rituals, ways ofsinging and dancing. Besides music, she is an eager explorer of other forms of expressions
including theatre and fashion.
(Photo by Sakiko Nomura)

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FUJI||||||||||TA
FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist living in Japan. He creates his unique sound art andmusic which takes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting tohear unheard sounds and noises. In 2009 Fujita hand fabricated an original instrument,a Pipe Organ. It has only 11pipes and no keyboard. Fujita made it with his own
imagination, without any specialized knowledge.
It was designed to create a landscape rather than function as a musical instrument. He
got the idea from Japanese “gagaku”. The air pump (called “FUIGO”) which is kept
moving with the left hand when playing, is based on an ancient blacksmith's. There is
only one instrument in the world, so there is no way to play at first. So he had to take thetime to find it. The water element (with sound synthesized water tanks) has recently
been added to his performance repertoire. The music consists of water sounds frommultiple aquariums alongside his pipe organ, and his voice.
Since 2006 he had many solo performances and collaborative works with musicians aswell as choreographers and videographers, such as ∈Y∋ (Boredoms), Akio Suzuki,
Open Reel Ensemble, Koichi Makigami, Fuyuki Yamakawa and Yukio Suzuki.
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 exhibitedin 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) in2019.
Website: ​http://fujita-yosuke.moo.jp​ Video: ​https://youtu.be/jKGS7QYqo

Manami Kakudo
Born in Nagasaki, Japan.
Musician / vocalist,percussionist,composer
She makes music and tricks with using various instruments such as Marimba, her own
voice and close things which attracts her. In January 2020 She released an album
named "oar" (Universal Music), It's her first vocal album and in July she composed themusic for a theatrical production of "Playtime" at the Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon.
(Photo by Tatsuya Hirota)

Kazuhisa Uchihashi
Kazuhisa Uchihashi is a composer, electric guitar and daxophone player, and music
producer. Born in Osaka, Japan in 1959. Playing the guitar from 12 years of age, helater became involved in jazz.
Since 1983 he has devoted himself intensively to free improvised music. He
experimented thoroughly with many different kinds of machines and sound-devices toexpand the expression possibilities of the electric guitar. He also composed music forfilms, theatre plays, and dance. Among them, he has been working with Japanese
Theatre group "ISHINHA '' for more than 30 years. He made a name for himself inJapan in concerts with such improvising musicians as Hans Reichel, Fred Frith,TomCora, Ned Rothenberg, Barre Phillips, Kan Tae Fwan, Peter Brötzman, Derek Bailey ,Samm Bennett , Steve Beresford , Jon Rose , Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp ,Eugene
Chadbourne,Henry Kaiser,Chris Cutler , Charles Hayward ,Han Bennink, Shelley
Hirsch, Franz Hautzinger, Roger Turner, Bobby Previte, Wayne Horvitz,Mani Neumeier,
Chiristian Marclay, Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori,Joelle Leandre,Carl Stone,Aki Takase,AxelDörner,Frank Gratkowski, Achim Kaufmann, Gerry Hemingway and others.
He has been conducting his rock-oriented powerful improvised band "Altered States" for31years, and continues to create his own guitar music in solo as well. He is also known
for playing with Yoshihide Otomo 's GROUND ZERO in the 90's. Uchihashi has been
invited to hundreds of music festivals in the world during these 30 years. In 1995 hebegan to direct "New Music Action Workshop" for young musicians in KOBE every
month, and will continue on in Tokyo, Osaka, England, Poland, Austria, Norway,
Singapore and Thailand.
Since 1996 he has also been organizing the New Music festival "BEYOND
INNOCENCE" every year until 2007. Uchihashi is also well known as a daxophone
player . Daxophone is german guitar player Hans Reichel’s invention.
2007 moved to vienna 2012 moved to Berlin
web: innocentrecord.com

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Kogure Kaho
Born in 1989, the dancer and choreographer Kogure has been developing her repertoireas a solo dancer since 2012, while also performing in many works to date including workby Kasai Akira. She has performed in 21 cities across seven countries, and her activity
spans appearances in film, commercials, music videos, and collaborations withmusicians and artists. Her dance embraces the concept of ‘meguru-meguru mono’—theinterconnectivity and transience of all things.

Mora Mothaus
Creature, and self-titled project.
Liberation from genre.
De/Re-construction of the psyche, meaning, words, human condition, and the“self”.
Its music is simultaneously the process and result of an exploration of “reality”, andthe limits of emotion and consciousness. Its voice takes inspiration from “reality”
that exists innumerably, an apocalyptic sentimentalism that transcends space andtime.
1st EP "Overture to a Dream” was created in 2019.

About the Exhibition
Title

ENCOUNTERS

Venue

ANB Tokyo 3F, 4F, 6F, 7F
5-2-4, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Duration

October 11 - November 8, 2020
Closed on Monday and Tuesday

Opening HourContact
ANB Tokyo

12pm - 8pm
inquiry@taa-fdn.org
Appearing in Roppongi in 2020, ANB Tokyo is a newart complex featuring community lounge, gallery, andstudio facilities. Its name derives from three words:“alternative,” indicating a conscious effort to departfrom existing concepts; “box,” symbolizing how it
functions as a receptacle for various things; and“narratives,” countless examples of which the box will
host.
ANB Tokyo is a place for supporting the creative
activities of artists and organizing events and projects
with various peers involved in art. Harnessing its
multiplex nature as a complex, ANB Tokyo serves as a
hub for people with different backgrounds and visions
to meet each other, while also engaging in activities
that share and deepen the understanding of art
contexts cultivated until now.

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