Atsuhiro Ito (Japan) / Zai Kuning (Singapore) / The Analog Girl (Singapore)

A meeting of musical minds with a stunning visual twist, this gig features Japanese contemporary artist Atsuhiro Ito, sound artist Zai Kuning and laptop rock pioneer The Analog Girl in an intense, electrifying conversation.

The stars of this unusual club gig manipulate musicality and digital technology to achieve a hypnotic soundscape and visual canvas, and look set to push the boundaries of live performance to a whole new level. This performance forefronts the performers’ mastery of new technologies which are increasingly prevalent and ubiquitous among the urban generation.

Atsuhiro Ito first embarked on a career as a visual artist in the late 1980s, before developing sound performances in art exhibitions. His music device, the OPTRON, is an original invention made from fluorescent tubes. Over the years, Ito has continued to refine this instrument and to approach sound and music from a contemporary art-based perspective.

Zai Kuning has always remained a free-spirited and unpredictable maverick in the arts scene. Dancer, sculptor, painter, musician, filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, theatre director… none of these terms can aptly describe Zai. For the past six years, Zai has been exploring sound and music for theatre and film through acoustic and electronic sound. His musical style is split into two extreme forms. Acoustically, it is heavily based on Malay traditional music and rituals; electronically his sounds are heavily influenced by punk, chaos and deconstruction.

Singapore-based electro-rock chanteuse The Analog Girl was named by TIME magazine as one of five Music Acts To Watch in 2008. In this show, she performs a dance of light and sound, art and pop. With the use of intriguing machines like the Tenori-On and Percussa Audio Cubes, come see her orchestrate electronic music with an organic sensibility as she uses tangible objects and touchscreen facilities to perform and manipulate sound.

Please note that there will be an intermission for this performance.
Club rules apply.
Entry for 18 years old & above.

Atsuhiro Ito
http://www.gotobai.net/
http://www.japanimprov.com/aito/
http://wwwyoutube.com/watch?v=PusSVnRh3sw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTPEB4Kup30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fovylEfMz78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlbwX0hZKU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZFKf3dv8Y&feature=related

Zai Kuning
http://onisstudio.blogspot.com

The Analog Girl
http://www.analog-girl.net
http://www.myspace.com/theanaloggirl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08p82JUvqjM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rv3kKolco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjgFHZe21MI