AKI ONDA: Cassette Memories

Sat 08 May, 2004, 8pm
Lower East Side

Cassette Memories is a musical performance, or a ritual, which conjures up the general essence of memory by playing his own personal memories. It is a spectacle which is Music for the Eyes. Partly visible, but seen mostly in ones imagination.

Aki Onda is a self-taught musician, currently living in New York, who plays cassettes and electronics. He has been obsessed with taping field-recording sound as a diary by a cheap cassette recorder more than a decade, using them for performing. His latest album "Bon Voyage!" was selected in the Wire magazine's 50 records of the year for 2003. He has collaborated with such musicians as Eye Ymatsuka, Nobukazu Takemura, Tujiko Noriko, Ikue Mori, Haco, Shelley Hirsch, Alan Licht, SFT, Blixa Bargeld, and Linda Sharrock.