The second annual Swedish Energies is a free two-night festival featuring a huge lineup of some of Sweden’s most exciting experimental musicians and artists. Performances include collaborations between U.S. and Swedish artists, as well as a cross-section of Sweden's most pre-eminent experimental groups.
Excerpted from Artist-in-Residence Aki Onda and Raha Raissnia's 3 hour installation/performance "As If Someone Erased Outlines," presented in October 2012. Onda and Raissnia, and a guest musician Doron Sadja, perform with black oil paintings, film and slide projectors, tape recorders, tube amps and synthesizer. Video by Damian Calvo.
"Nervous Magic Lantern" unravels an unexpected film before our eyes, without actors, without a plot, without celluloid or video. Ken and Flo Jacobs present live projections in a hallucinatory three-dimensional watching experience, with sound by Artist-in-Residence Aki Onda.
In the last decade, I crossed paths with Akio Suzuki many times during my own travels around Europe and Japan. I have visited him at his place in Tango, Kyoto to see his famous masterpiece, Space in the Sun. In Osaka, we performed together for five hard, straight hours. Off stage, he is a warm and gentle...
Onda, Raissnia and Doron Sadja perform with paintings, film/slide projectors, tape recorders, tube amps... Projecting 16mm film and slides onto the black surface of oil paints, Raissnia creates a deepened sense of immersion in an alien landscape, while Onda's soundscapes challenge the boundaries of the picture plane.
“Voices and Echoes,” presented by ISSUE in collaboration with curator Aki Onda, is a landmark tour of pioneering Japanese artists Akio Suzuki, Gozo Yoshimasu, and Otomo Yoshihide. With dates in Portland, LA, Vancouver, Houston, and NY.
From the archives, with Morgan Craft, DJ Mutamassik, Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Jonathan Bepler, Michiyo Yagi, Elliott Sharp, Toshi Makihara Quartet, Ellery Eskelin Trio, sTUNgUN and more.
Curated by Aki Onda, "Voices and Echoes" is a landmark tour coming to ISSUE in September. Including pioneering Japanese artists renowned for their unique, interdisciplinary approaches to sound-based practices: Akio Suzuki, Gozo Yoshimasu, and Otomo Yoshihide.
We are pleased to announce our Artists-in-Residence for 2012: Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Aki Onda, Sergei Tcherepnin, and Yarn/Wire. ISSUE's residency program has provided a support structure for musical ensembles, composers and sound artists since 2006.
Portraying physical and architecturally improbable spatial themes, Metalux seeks to situate the individual within a tangled web of technological interfaces. Their music can be heard as abstract sonic fiction.
With Steve Beresford, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, and Aki Onda.