Judy Dunaway / Tomomi Adachi #229
Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
Entrance 6-10 euro (up to your offer)
Judy Dunaway (solo) + Tomomi Adachi (solo) + Adachi/Dunaway Duet
Judy Dunaway will present her solo works for amplified latex balloons, including new works that include interactive video and electronics. Tomomi Adachi will present solo improvisations with voice, sensors, computer, self-made instruments. The two solo performances will be followed by an improvised duet between Adachi and Dunaway.
Judy Dunaway performs avant-garde compositions and free improvisations on amplified latex balloons played as instruments. She is known internationally as a “virtuoso of the balloon.” She plays a variety of shapes and sizes of balloon instruments, each with it’s own special qualities, pushing the extremes of both pitch range and artistic limits. Her large rubbed “tenor” balloon gives Jimmy Hendrix’s guitar a run for the money and her giant balloon pulsates into the depths of the subaudio. Her abstract sounds are difficult to equate with other forms, depending upon the perception of the individual like the images seen in fire or clouds.
Judy Dunaway has presented her works for balloons at many major venues and festivals throughout North America and Europe, including Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Cologne), Avant-Garde Schwaz Festival (Austria), Alternative Museum (NYC), Bang on a Can Festival (NYC), Everson Art Museum (Syracuse), Fylkingen (Stockholm), Frau Musica Nova Festival (Cologne), Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Performance Space 122 (NYC), Podewil (Berlin), Roulette (NYC), CEAIT Festival (Los Angeles), SoHo Arts Festival (NYC), STEIM (Amsterdam) and Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe).
Tomomi Adachi is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and visual artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed his own voice and electronics pieces, sound poetry, improvised and contemporary music, also presented site-specific compositions, compositions for classical ensembles, choir pieces for untrained musicians in all over the world including Tate Modern, Maerzmusik, Centre Pompidou, Poesiefestival Berlin and Walker Art Center. He has been working with a wide range of materials; self-made physical interfaces and instruments, brainwave, artificial satellite, twitter texts and even paranormal phenomenas. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD for 2012.
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