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Mai Ueda

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About Me

I make short songs, like the ones everybody sings in the shower, I call it shower songs, those are essence songs. Songs can be just one line, other parts are decoration made to go with music, so we can just say lalala or fufufu for the other parts instead. The essence has to be strong enough, so while you sing lalala part people can meditate on the lyrics of the essence part and make their own fantasy while they hear the whole song. We can play with the same idea with existing songs. For example Yesterday of Beatles, make it "Yesterday, lalalalalalalalala, la lalalala lalala lala lala la Yesterday" so you make your own version of a yesterday. Or it also works with languages you donft understand, for example "lalalalalalalalala Emanuelle lalalalala lala...".Titles of my shower songs areI WANNA BUY SOME CLOTHES DON'T CALL ME ELEPHANT PRONTO PRONTO DOMANI COMESTAI MY CHERRY HE TASTES LIKE SHELL PONY WHERE ARE YOU AHHHHHHH..... I DON'T WANNA DEAL WITH THOSE MONSTERS I AM SO PROUDI like to put a cappella version of my showersongs online, so people can download them and use them as they want to. I perform my songs, in different context.see and download showersongs here http://www.maiueda.com/songs_index.htm

My Interests

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Member Since: 3/9/2005
Band Website: maiueda.com
Band Members: MAI and VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
Influences: beauty, poetry, revolution! ART and good artists. traveling and life. in love and out of love. emotions. sentiment. chemistry. moments.SOUND.
Sounds Like: MAI
Record Label: sony japan, internet, neen
Type of Label: None

My Blog

THE VISIONAIRE SOUND ISSUE

...that I am participating has arrived!I saw Cecilia in Miami and askedSo when is it coming out?She saysOh it just came out!I sent you a copy to your Japanese addressand actually we are having a relea...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:52:00 PST

NEEN ON TV

Last week, there was a documentary on NEEN on french TV ARTE.http://whitetrash.nl/temp/VTS_01_1.zipIt made me miss NEENThese days i was little bit on more on contemporary art side...Making paintings a...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:19:00 PST

a portrait (i like...i dont like...)

of me by David Perez Shadihttp://www.shadinyc.com/proofs/mai/source/mvi_0456.html I went to a premier of a nike skateboard film with Shadihttp://www.nike.com/nikeskateboarding/v3/premier was fun, I hav...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:20:00 PST

sound track for crazy night

this is a video from a piano destruction party we did in new yorkon july first 2007 at Michael Portnoy's loft where he had to move out. It was a last day in his loft, we broke down his piano, so tha's...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:54:00 PST

and this was not what i was looking for

Yesterday, the concert was kind of nice, it was in a little nice place near Harajuku and many nice people showed up.It was our first concert so we played some sound from laptop and I sang some giblish...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:32:00 PST

LIVE/SITUATION IN TOKYO

by my new band/situatuion in TokyoSINE LOCOSine loco means no place in some language,members changes all the timetonight members areMai UedaRobert DuckworthDigikiwe will do our first half impro live/s...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:48:00 PST

poem of this morning

press is just like a wind, it makes you feel good.but it does not change your direction.even the wind is so strong on you, you go on your way to where you want to go.doing promotion is like a designin...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:52:00 PST

neen outside of internet

you can find neen spirit out side of Internet a worker who was working to direct people in the under renovation station in shinjuku,tokyo. one day he realize that people need some kind of sig...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:15:00 PST

maispace a l'olympia

is a new project I have with Olympia Le Tanhttp://www.myspace.com/olympialetansongs Michel Gauberthttp://www.myspace.com/astrofuck Cyril Duvalhttp://www.myspace.com/itemidem Me and Olympia are singi...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:53:00 PST

do you know about neen?

neen is an art movement that i am part of.i choose the name from list of names that branding company sent mitos and said that i want to be a neenstar, that was 7 years ago.different people got involve...
Posted by Mai Ueda on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:04:00 PST