Events

Oren Ambarchi - Shows in Japan

19 January 2012 - 30 January 2012

Oren Ambarchi is an Australian sound artist with a longstanding interest in transcending conventional instrumental approaches.  Mr Ambarchi will present four live performances in Japan.  He will participate in the CCA sound workshop, organised by the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Kitakyushu, on 19 January with Keiji Haino and Jim O’Rourke.  They have come together to collaborate with renowned Belgian composer, vocalist and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine.  This is a part of CCA Kitakyushu’s annual research program.
 
Three other live performances are also planned: one in Kyoto on 22 January and two in Tokyo on 26 and 30 January.
 
Mr Ambarchi’s work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK).
 
His experiments in guitar abstraction and extended technique have led to a more personal and unique sound-world incorporating a broader palette of instruments and sensibilities.   Mr Ambarchi has employed glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, drums and percussion, creating fragile textures as light as air which tenuously coexist with the deep, wall-shaking bass tones derived from his guitar.
 
In addition to his solo activities, Mr Ambarchi has been collaborating with a number of sound artists and co-curates sound programs in various genres.  Here in Japan, Mr Ambarchi co-curated the sound program for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale.

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