ATAK

ATAK011 LIVE DVD ATAK NIGHT 3 10/10/2007 on sale
ATAK011
LIVE DVD ATAK NIGHT3
10th October 2007 on sale
Live Performance:
Pan sonic
Keiichiro shibuya
Goem
evala
Keiji Haino
Live Visuals: exonemo
ATAK is a music label founded by Keiichiro Shibuya and maria in 2002.
they formed a laptop unit "slipped disk", and released the first CD "ATAK001". Not only releasing avan-garde/electro music as a label, ATAK sets a platform of their activity with broad range of creators from such as design, network technology and others. Later in 2002, Keiichiro Shibuya was involved in the commenmoration CD of founding of Mori Art Museum. In 2003, he released a CD “ATAK002 keiichiro shibuya + yuji takahashi” in collaboration with Yuji Takahashi, a Japanese composer/pianist. Later in 2003 ATAK made a domestic concert tour with Icelandic stilluppsteypa. In 2004, Shibuya released his first solo album “ATAK000 keiichiro shibuya”. His dense composition in that he drastically focused in sound material(color) and rhythm, was described as “a perfect work that rules over the history of electronic music”.
Recently Shibuya has been continuing collaboration with Yuji Takahashi(composer/pianist), Takashi Ikegami(complex system researcher/associate professor at Tokyo University) and Masaki Fujihata(media artist/professor at Tokyo National Unicersity of Fine Arts and Music). In 2005 Shibuya and Ikegami started their collaboration as they exhibited a sound installation work at ICC (Inter Communication Center of Tokyo Oprera City) and made a concert-style presentation to unveil the “The Third Term Music,” a music theory of sound variation and the motion dynamics based on nonlinear sciences. In 2006 they exhibited an extensive new sound installation “filmachine” that created three-dimensional sound space by making full use of twenty four speakers and LED lights. And it attracted the attention of the mass media domestically and internationally.
Nowadays, the CDs are sold in Europe and U.S. Keiichiro Shibuya has become one of the most-watched person in Japanese sound art and media art. His blog on ATAK’s website counts 5,000 hits a day(japanese only).
In February 2007, through collaboration with Panasonic, he released the first ever headphone listening CD “ATAK010 filmachine phonics” and made a concert tour “ATAK+GOEM+PAN SONIC JAPAN TOUR] in three cities of Tokyo(Daikanyama UNIT), Kyoto(University of Art and Media) and Ymaguchi(YCAM). This concert involved Finnish artists Pan Sonic, and Dutch artist Frans de Waard.
filmachine/filmachine phonics won a honorary mention on a category "DIGITAL MUSICS" in Prix Ars Electronica 2007.
CD:
ATAK000 keiichiro shibuya(2004)
ATAK001 slipped disk(2002)
ATAK002 keiichiro shibuya + yuji takahashi(2003)
ATAK003 stilluppsteypa(2004)
ATAK004 kim cascone + jason kahn + steinbruechel(2004)
ATAK005 goem(2004)
ATAK006 yuji takahashi(2005)
ATAK007 yuji takahashi + keiichiro shibuya + maria(2006)
ATAK008 keiichiro shibuya + norbert moeslang + toshimaru nakamura(2006)
ATAK010 filmachine phonics keiichiro shibuya(2007)