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Atsuhiro Ito playing the Optron. Courtesy www.capsule.org.uk
In Association with....CAPSULE

WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 2010

Capsule present Atsuhiro Ito

 

Continuing with its ‘In Association with...' programme which launched in August 2009, VIVID welcomes Capsule on Wednesday 10th March 2010 for a special performance by Atsuhiro Ito. Using a flourescent light with pick up mics attached, Ito alters the voltage applied to tubes causing the lights to flicker. Microphones pick up electromagnetic noise perfectly synchronised with the flickering lights.

 

Atsuhiro Ito launched his career as a visual artist in the late 1980s, making use of fluorescent lighting in the creation of an original musical device called the optron. He continues to refine the instrument while approaching sound and music from a contemporary-art-based perspective. In addition to his solo exhibition and performance projects, Ito is active in a number of musical units. One of these is Optrum, the explosively loud "extreme optical noise core band" consisting of Ito and drummer Yoichiro Shin. Between 2000 and 2005 Ito presented various sound (music)/visual image-related events at Off Site, the now-defunct gallery/free space in Yoyogi, Tokyo. The Optrum album Recorded was released in June 2006 on the label Unknownmix (Headz).

 

A must-see spectacle. not to be missed - tickets cost just £5 and are available here.

 

 

 


Image: Atsuhiro Ito playing the Optron. Courtesy www.capsule.org.uk
courtesy 7 Inch Cinema
Flatpack Festival 2010 at VIVID

 

From Tuesday 23rd to Sunday 28th March 2010, VIVID will be transformed into the epicentre of Flatpack Festival – a cornucopia of films, shorts, animation, AV performances, discussions, screenings and parties curated by 7 Inch Cinema and taking place in venues all across Birmingham city centre and Digbeth.

 

Check www.flatpackfestival.org.uk for up-to-date programme details.                      

 

 

 


Image: courtesy 7 Inch Cinema
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