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MV Carbon is a multi-disciplinary artist encompassing live performance, sound, film, sculpture, painting, and multimedia installation. Her work focuses on sonic feedback, sound spatialization, sound morphology, and the transformative and deconstructive interrelationship between sound, image, space, and place. Carbon interprets sonic space as a living organism which fluctuates physically, and perceptively. Her work touches on themes such as regeneration, interchangeability, and transmogrification of matter and mind, while exploring the capacity of sound through music, performance, and immersive space. Carbon forms soundtracks with amplified vessels, handmade electronics, voice, cello, magnetic tape, oscillators, keyboards, and electronic synthesis.

Carbon has exhibited multimedia environments, and films, including solo exhibitions at Tomato Mouse Gallery (NYC), IDIO Gallery (NYC), and Heliopolis (NYC), amongst a variety of group exhibitions and screenings including Cafe Oto (UK), D'Amelio Gallery (NY), Essex Flowers (NY), Knockdown Center (NY), Fridman Gallery (NY), and Louis V.E.S.P. (NY).

Carbon has solo and collaborative projects released on record labels including 5RC, Atavistic Records, Dia’s Artist’s Playlist Program, Discombobulate, Ecstatic Peace, Chaikin Records, Hanson, Load Records, No Fun Productions, Various Artists, and Veglia. She has composed soundtracks for The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, as well as composing and producing soundtracks for a variety of independent films.

Carbon has performed at spaces including Casa Des Artes (PT), Detroit Symphony Orchestra (MI), Dia Art Center (NY), Harvard Film Archive (MA), Harvestworks (NY), National Sawdust (NY), Nefertiti Jazz Club (SE), Performa (NY), Pioneer Works (NY), PS1-MoMA (NY), RIXC (LV), Roulette (NY), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), The Copenhagen Music Theater (DK), The Guggenheim BMW Lab (NY), The Kitchen (NY), The Knockdown Center (NY), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), The Museum of Contemporary Art (MI), The Sage (UK), The Stone (NY), The Swiss Institute (NY), The Tate Modern (UK), ULU (UK), Unsound Festival (AU), Worm (NL). Her work has been exhibited at galleries including D’Amelio Gallery (NY), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Knockdown Center (NY), Lucien Terras Gallery (NY), Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery (NY), Q02 (BE), Roulette, (NY).

She has been awarded residencies and commissions at Clocktower Gallery (NY), EMS Elektronmusikstudion (SE), Issue Project Room (NY), Koncertkirken (DK), Pioneer Works (NY), Q02 (BE) Roulette (NY), The String Orchestra of Brooklyn and (NY) Zebulon (CA)

Carbon has been in bands including HEVM, Metalux, Bad Faces, Body Types, and Bride of No No., and has collaborated with a multitude of artists including Aki Onda, Brian Chase, C. Spencer Yeh, Bradley Eros, Charlemagne Palestine, Evan Parker, Jenny Gräf Sheppard, Ka Baird, Lary 7, Okkyung Lee, Shelley Hirsch, Tony Conrad, Twig Harper, and Wolf Eyes.

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Saturday, June 11, 2022
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Yosuke Fujita, also known as Fuji||||||||||ta, is a sound artist, organist and composer based in Japan. Fujita’s artistic practice centers on the exploration, manipulation and presentation of unheard sounds and noises commonly found within nature, including the use of air, water and even the echolocation of bats. 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 synthesized water sounds from multiple aquariums alongside his pipe organ and his voice.

Since 2006, Fujita 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].

Friday, June 10, 2022
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Eiko Ishibashi is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist whose work has ranged from acclaimed singer-songwriter albums to scores for film, television, theater, and exhibitions to improvised music.

Since she launched her solo career in 2006, she has released numerous albums on labels including Drag City, Black Truffle, and Editions Mego. Her sixth full-length album "The Dream My Bones Dream," released in 2018, was selected as one of the best albums by many magazines. In 2020, she was commissioned to create music for art and photography exhibitions, such as The Art Gallery of New South Wales’ "Japan Supernatural" exhibition at Sydney and the “Memory of Future” exhibition at Mandako coal mine in Kumamoto, Japan.

She branched out into film composing in 2016, creating the score for the film "Albino's Tree" directed by Masakazu Kaneko, which won the Best Music Award at the Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards. In 2019, she composed the music for the anime "Mugen no Juunin – IMMORTAL."

The score she composed for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 2021 film "Drive My Car" garnered international attention and was later arranged into an album released in the same year, incorporating sound effects from the film.

This year, she announced her new LP, titled “For McCoy” released from Black Truffle in January, and her radio residency on a global radio platform NTS Radio.

Selected Discography:

Solo
"Car and Freezer" - Drag City/Felicity 2014
"The Dreams My Bones Dream" - Drag City 2018
"Hyakki-Yagyo” - Black Truffle 2020
“Drive My Car Original Soundtrack” - Newhere Music 2021
“For McCoy” - Black Truffle 2022

Collaborations
“Okitte" - Felicity 2014
“Nemutte" - Felicity 2016, with Kafka Ibiki (Eiko Ishibashi, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Jim O’Rourke)
"Kouen Kyoudai" with Merzbow (Masami Akita) - Editions Mego 2016
“Icida" with Darin Gray - Black Truffle 2018
“Treatments” with Giovanni di Domenico / Jim O’Rourke / Joe Talia / Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - MATIÈRE MÉMOIRE 2021

Drag City: http://www.dragcity.com/artists/eiko-ishibashi
Bandcamp: https://eikoishibashi.bandcamp.com/music