Sunday 23 March 2025, 7.30pm

FUJI|||||||||||TA + Yoni Silver

£20 £18 Advance £12 MEMBERS

FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist and composer based in Japan. He creates his unique sound art and music which takes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and noises. In 2009 Fujita hand fabricated an original instrument, a Pipe Organ. Since then, he has released a number of different sets, but what he have in common is that his expressions are mainly use the sounds of air and minimal. The release of album “iki" on Hallow Ground in 2020 led to greater recognition outside of Japan, and since then he has been active in Europe and North America.

His works have been presented in Rewire Festival(NL), Big Ears Festival(US), Send+Receive(CA), Variations Festival(FR), Volume Festival(AUS), Bourse de Commerce(FR), MODE(UK), Tectonics Glasgow(UK), Pioneer Works(US), and others. And some collaborative works with ∈Y∋ (Boredoms), Keiji Haino, Rashad Becker and others. His albums are “iki” [Hallow Ground], “KŌMORI” [Boomkat Editions], “NOISEEM” [33-33], “MMM” [Hallow Ground].

Also on the bill is Yoni Silver: "This solo is a continuation of work that began in 2020 on virtual gig platforms that had popped up during the pandemic. Beyond the importance of keeping performances and performance lovers mildly sane, these platforms had opened up a whole new visual dimension to work with, and the possibility of placing oneself virtually anywhere, or nowhere at all.
I began experimenting with editing my image into imagined, or altered worlds and by the end of the pandemic I had made several clips for online festivals such as TUSK Virtual, Iklectic’s Klangzeit, ISO MASS on Telegram, and others.
The set I created for this event incorporates and integrates my physical body and physical instruments in the physical space of Cafe Oto, with video projections of other, imagined “me”s (mostly) residing in a imagined spaces."

Yoni Silver

“deftly weaves a breathtaking range of techniques and textures on the instrument, spanning frenetic highs to lows of bracing physicality. From dizzying clusters of notes to multilayered melodicism […] Silver gives a visceral, bodily performance”
Bass clarinet and multi-instrumental solos, keyboard player in Charles Hayward’s band Abstract Concrete, member of Ana Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble, RAY trio with Ashley Paul and Otto Willberg, orchestral song arrangener for Nico Teen and others, collaborations with Steve Noble, Sharon Gal, John Edwards, etc.