Month: April 2022

Makoto Oshiro is a Sound Artist and performer, based in Berlin and Tokyo. His preferred field is sound, but he also uses other elements including light, electricity and movement of other physical/human/man-made objects. Within live performances, he uses man-made tools and instruments that are based on electronic devices, everyday materials, and trash. His installation work tackles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as both technical/digital and human vibration and interference. He is also a member of the live installation/performance group The Great “△(夏の大△)” with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro, and runs the label Basic Function.

His most recent album, entitled “Austin Meeting”, composed alongside Kawaguchi and A Spirale, is an hour-long collection of live instrumental and physical recording, taking place between the Ana Lark Centre, in Austin, Texas and Cloud Tree Studios, also in Austin, Texas. He released his first ever solo CD Phenomenal World, in March 2014, on Japanese label Hitorri.

Felisha Ledesma is an interdisciplinary artist and organiser, Sound Artist and musician, based in Berlin, and Portland, Oregon. Ledesma founded and directs a project/art space that hosts live experimental music, performance and visual art as well as being the physical headquarters for the Synth Library – a renting facility for electronic music equipment.

Felisha talked us through her most recent body of work, which entailed designing and conceptualising a synthesiser, AMQR, together with instrument designer Ess Mattisson, which was subsequently used on Ledesma’s releases for labels Ecstatic Recordings and ‘Enmossed x Psychic Liberation’. This groundbreaking collaboration led to the formation of ‘Fors’, a music technology project creating software instruments.

Felisha has an upcoming, 6-channel sound exhibition entitled ‘corner of my eye’

“The birds chirp, theirs calls cutting in and out of the breathing sound of wafting conversation, I can pick out individual words, but strung together these exchanges mean nothing to me. The only thing is sometimes I feel like I learned the key to the universe but cant quite remember it”.