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Member Since: 8/2/2007
Band Website: shotahirama.com
Band Members:
about: ENG
Radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG) founded in early 2006 by Japanese-American soundArtist, shotahirama. It is a group that are making concrete drone sounds with their free-improv expression and the ideas from "laptop" "noise" and "Art".
Using laptop, tape-operation, and tape-loop, generated guitar, the project ideal is to express the content of various psycho pathological conditions, especially depressive psychosis, and paranoia. And also making an art design, a photomontage with strong attention to DaDa and Bauhaus.
Members have included, shotahirama , a founder. And laptop guitarist Toshitaka Ikeda for a co-founder. A classical musician plays laptop-electronics, Sachio Matsuda (No Link sorry!). From Osaka, Sound-Artist, yuji kondo . A female Roumanian SSW, Monooka . Photo and web director, Sebastian Heroiu .
From Australia, Sound-Artist, Stephen Richards .
Laptop-techno-musician shunjiTAKAMI , and from Hongkong, a laptop-noise artist yy_zz . From cOLLAGE, minimalism artist kendrien , from Karel shouta simizu , silent-sound-artist Darren McClure , voice-artist Linda Bjalla ,,,and more.
founder: shotahirama
shotahirama.com
*NIkO Label by shotahirama
JANDEATH (shotahirama) official myspace
cOLLAGE (kendrien+shotahirama) official myspace
shotahirama is a Japanese-American concrete sound artist and also known as a photomontage artist, inspired by DaDa (especially NY-Dada) and Bauhaus. Most people also know him under the name ENG (electronoise group), or Jandeath. He uses laptop and sinewave generator, some tape-operation and tape-loops, making concrete-noise-drone.
He has been documented on a number of projects, each revealing new facets of his wide-ranging and unique talents on both laptop and tape-operation. He has recorded and performed with Zbigniew Karkowski (mego/subrosa), Kelly Churko (Canada), G42 (Canada), and Justice Yeldham (Australia), Darren McClure (the land of), MicloDiet (SOUP), Monooka (Roumania), yuji kondo, enormous O'clock...etc.
And in early 2006 he founded his main project, radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG). It is a group that are making concrete drone sounds with their free-improv expression and the ideas from "laptop" "noise" and "Art". And he also founded the NIkO Label, a non-profit label for free copyright and free expression by laptop expressionism artists.
He loves Steven Stapleton from NWW, Maurizio Bianchi in late 80's, and the ICR soundARTists, Colin potter and Darren tate. And of course, for DaDa and Bauhaus.
co-founder: Toshitaka Ikeda
outsideisyourmind.com
Toshitaka Ikeda official myspace
Toshitaka Ikeda is a Japanese sound artist whose using a guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. His work focuses mainly on the possibilities of ambient music that we need a variable attention for our listening process, the electric guitar, a sound generator and improvisation with higher levels of risk (using laptop systems that behave in unpredictable ways). Exploring relations between sound phenomena such as resonance or difference tones and the human capacity for creative listening, Toshitaka has developed a sound world weaving a unique blend of references such as ambient, drone and improvisation.
Inspired by Taikan Yokoyama, a Japanese painter. The sound which Toshitaka made is just like that. A "silent" in Taikan's landscape.
Influences: Dadaism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Bauhaus, John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Salvador DalÃ, El Lissitzky, Wassily Kandinsky, Erich Krause, Joost Scmidt, Alvin Lucier, Nurse with wound, Philip Sanderson, The New blockaders, Christoph Heemann, TG, MONOTON (Konrad Becker), Maurizio Bianchi, Esplendor Geometrico, SPK, DAF (Robert Goerl), Andrew McKenzie, William Bennett, L.A.F.M.S (especially Smegma!), David Lynch
Sounds Like:
ENG vids
official ENG youtube
Record Label: Raash Records (US),TECNONUCLEO, Alg-Label (Spain)
Type of Label: Indie
