November 17, 2004

Atau Tanaka at CSL Paris

(English below)
16日に12月のLIVE schedulesをアップさせていただきました。アップしたスケジュール以外に大阪、東京での2公演が追加される予定です。今しばらくお待ちください。
パリは最近毎日曇りか雨で、しかもめっちゃ寒いです。冬の東欧も寒そう。去年の今頃にも行ったんですけど、その時もかなり寒かった。12月とかめちゃめちゃ寒いでしょうね。

I updated my LIVE schedules in December a few days ago. I'm going to add two more LIVEs in Osaka and Tokyo in a few days. Please check it.
It's quite cold and cloudy in Paris these day. Maybe it's much colder in the Eastern Europe in next month.. Actually it was really cold when i visited there November 2003.

csl1-04-16-nov.jpg

昨日は徳井君の勤務先でもあるCSL(Sony Computer Science Laboratories)に澤井君とJo君と3人でお邪魔しました。以前徳井君に誘ってもらってBlock Jamに音楽を付けた時に東京のCSLには行った事があったんですが、パリのCSLは初めてだったんです。
そこで以前からお名前は何度もお聞きしていたAtau Tanakaさんに初めてお会いしました。Atauさん、徳井君、ありがとうございました、とても良い刺激になりました。

I visited CSL(Sony Computer Science Laboratories) with Taeji Sawai and Jo yesterday. This is the place where Nao Tokui works for in Paris. I've visited CSL Tokyo before when Nao and me made music for Block Jam before, but this was the first time to visit CSL in Paris.
I met Mr.Atau Tanaka at there for the first time. I've heard his name many times but i haven't had a chance to see him since long time. Thank you so much Mr.Tanaka and Nao Tokui. We had really great time there.

csl2-04-16-nov.jpg
左からNao Tokui、Jo君、澤井妙治、Atau Tanakaさん
from left : Nao Tokui, Jo(SWO), Taeji Sawai, and Atau Tanaka

今回Atauさんがご自身のパフォーマンスで使用されているデバイスを見せていただきました。それは筋肉が動く時に出る微細なパルス信号をコンピュータに伝えて音をコントロールするというもので、今まで話に聞いた事はあったけど、実際に目にするのは初めてでした。コンピュータを操るためのインターフェイスはどんどん進化しているし、まだまだ沢山の可能性を秘めていますね。。これからが楽しみ。

Mr.Atau Tanaka kindly showed us how he performs for his own project and he showed us special devices to catch the signal which comes from our muscle when we move our body. He put that device on his arm and controls his computer for his music. Actually I've heard about it before but I've never seen it. The interfaces to contol computers evolve at a pace never seen before, and they still have a lot of possibilities.

そのあと澤井君とJo君が今ボアダムズのEYEさんと一緒に進めている加速度センサ−を使ったパフォーマンスをAtauさんに見せていました。その場にもう一人フランス人の音楽関係のキュレータの方がおられて、彼らの自作デバイス、プログラム、またそれらが出した結果(パフォーマンス)を観て大興奮してました。僕も横から見てて、なぜか自分の事のようにすげー誇らしかった。『どや?僕の友達やで』って感じ。やっぱりこの二人は凄い。大注目して間違いないですよ。
Atauさん、徳井君、今回は素晴らしい機会をありがとうございました。

Then after that, Taeji Sawai and Jo showed him how they perform with EYE(BOREDOMS). They uses sensors(Jo made them by himself) to catch the accelerated velocity and Taeji programmed some softwares to process sounds for their perfomance. There was a French music curator at there and he was really excited too when he saw it. I think Taeji and Jo are doing really interesting and exciting project and they did really really great job for it. I'm really interested in what they're doing right now and also what they'll do in the future.
Thank you so much Mr.Atau Tanaka and Nao Tokui for giving us a great opportunity to visit CSL!

Posted by aoki at November 17, 2004 10:17 PM | TrackBack
Comments

hi AOKI,
more and more friends of you are coming to europe. Nao to Paris, Taeji to Berlin... Hope to hear their music and meet them in the next future :-) By the way I had a beer with Taeji at Sonar this year. What a nice guy!
And I had the chance to see Atau Tanaka in june as well. The concert with his trio SSS was really great, maybe the best concert I've seen at sonar. Do not miss his next concert.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2004 1:47 AM

Hey, Jim.
thanks for your comment.
Yes, My friends are coming to Europe. I think many of them feel a bit difficult to work in Japan right now. But I think it's really good thing for us and them. I hope they'll have great time in here.
I've never seen Mr.Atau Tanaka's performance before. I'd really like to see it.

Posted by: AOKI at November 18, 2004 1:56 AM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?