ENG (electronoise group):
Radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG) founded in early 2006 by Japanese-American soundArtist, shotahirama. It is a group that are making concrete drone sounds with their free-improv expression and the ideas from ’laptop’ ’noise’ and ’Art’. Using laptop, tape-operation, and tape-loop, generated guitar, the project ideal is to express the content of various psycho- pathalogical conditions, especially depressive psychosis, and paranoia. And also making an art design, a photomontage with strong attention to DaDa and Bauhaus. They have released music on net label TecnoNucleo (Spain) in 2007.
Members have included:
shotahirama , a founder. And laptop guitarist
Toshitaka Ikeda for a co-founder. laptop electronics, Sachio Matsuda, Darren McClure,
yuji kondo, emiko shirayama, shunjiTAKAMI, kendrien, and voice-artist like Monooka, Linda Bjalla,,,and more.
shotahirama:
is a Japanese-American concrete sound artist and also known as a photomontage artist, inspired by DaDa (especially NY-Dada) and Bauhaus. He uses laptop and sinewave generator, some tape-operation and tape- loops, making concrete-noise-drone. He has been documented on a number of projects, each revealing new facets of his wide-ranging and unique talents on both laptop and tape-operation. He has recorded and performed with Darren McClure, yy_zz (NI.), kendrien (cOLLAGE), Monooka, Linda Bjalla...etc. And in early 2006 he founded his main project, radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG). It is a group that are making concrete drone sounds with their free-improv expression and the ideas from ’laptop’ ’noise’ and ’Art’. And he also founded the NIkO Label, a non-profit label for free copyright and free expression by laptop expressionism artists. He loves Steven Stapleton from NWW, Tom Recchion from LAFMS, Maurizio Bianchi in late 80’s, and the ICR soundARTists, Colin potter and Darren tate. And of course, for Dada and Bauhaus.
link:
http://www.shotahirama.com
http://www.myspace.com/electronoisegroup
