cOLLAGE by shotahirama and kendrien
laptop expressionism
"The cOLLAGE" is a laptop duet plays an electronica/techno music from tokyo, by kendrien and shotahirama. They hate to use, I mean they never say that those kind of word, electro...whatever, but just in case this time. I will use it. Eary in the 2006, electronoise and free-improvisation artist shotahirama, who made his electronoise community with 10 or more laptop artists, ELECTRONOISE GROUP (ENG) and the solo arists whose doin' his techno activities with his minimal soundtrack and his identity, a progressionism composition idea, newwave techno artists in tokyo underground, Kendrien, both two artists got together and made their 1st click tune "commercialized our identity", and from that little conversation or might be little installation for this two guys, they began to work together and they decided to start their new-activity with their new name, cOLLAGE.They made tunes, I mean a work, an ART-work, from minimal to progreesionism. That means minus composition and less information to plus composition and more sound dynamism. With kendrien's imagination, his sound gives you a silent but great view landscape, they call "a sound from uncivilized landscape that you have inside your imagination" And with shotahirama's ego, his electronoise gives you a "listen". "Act listen is to know listen". It is like the word by Pauline Oliveros, but for me he got a same identity with her Oliveros idea for deep-listening. Anyway those two different artists, Kendrien and shotahirama are truely new type for laptop expressionists and their music, they call cOLLAGE-MUZIEK, is very excitement sounds and yes, it is inaudible but you'll see a "uncivilized landscape".
progresive identity
The purple and dark sky is clear.Calm and cold air is blue.
An electric light is a gleam.
Our sound is in this minimal sound scape.
-by shotahirama
Functional but we are in the minimal soundscape. And yes, music for a capital MUSIC, techno for a capital TECHNO. We must understand what is a function of the techno, I mean what techno-music can do to a human-beings. I mean what is the meaning of techno-music for this huge human-culture.
And cOLLAGE knows it. That the music, a function or it can be a word "role" for this techno-music, is an "expression". Express your feelings, it makes people to dance or anger or whatever feels you have, you can feel that you want it to express yourself, you want to do something when you listen to those music/techno. Expressionism from music-culture. Techno could be a really important things in your life.
And that is our basic style, that is what we want to do. We want you to feel that you want to do something. We want you to feel think something. And yes, we want you to dance and feel delight.
But we want to do those things, in this minimal-soundscape. About word minimal, I mean it for minimal-information. We gives you a sound by our minimal expressionism.
And not using turnTBL or guitar or whatever instruments. Only using a computers/Laptop. That is our style, the 100% technological music. With development of technology,we do much better techno'music.
We must express our feelings and emotion with this minimum information, a minimal soundscape. Cause the feelings and emotions are not ours, those are for yours. Peel off them, keep it in minus and go for future/techno. Our music just gives you an effect for your "expression".
Be minimal. Be minus, and go for techno with your progressive idea.
We, will not show our feelings or whatever kind of emotions that humans do. We just do our style, using laptop technology and you,
just listen.
by cOLLAGE
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Official mixi community .
vIDEO from cOLLAGE