Marinetti, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, MAVO, Niikuni Seiichi...
Originated in futurism and Dada,
as a cutting-edge linking music to literature,
sound poetry has been producing various radical artists.
Finally, the first international festival in Japan is comming!

TOKYO SOUND POETRY FESTIVAL

7, 8 November 2012
at Asahi Art Square (1-23-1,Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)

SCHEDULE
Day 1
Wednesday 7 November
Symposium &Talk
Open 18:30, start 19:00 (Video showing of sound poetry from 18:30 to 19:00.)
　　1- Introduction by Adachi Tomomi
　　2- Symposium "Sound Poetry in Japan"
　　　　panelists: Matsui Shigeru (poet, Tokyo University of the Arts), Yarita Misako (poet),
　　　　　　　 　　Adachi Tomomi (moderator)
　　3- Talk by guest performers (1. Leevi Lehto, 2. Joerg Piringer, 3. Maja Jantar )
　　4- Amanda Steward Skype/video


Day 2
Thursday November 8
Performance
Open 18:30, start 19:00 (Video showing of sound poetry from 18:30 to 19:00.)
　　1- Adachi Tomomi
　　2- Maja Jantar
　　3- Joerg Piringer
　　4- Leevi Lehto

TICKET
　Day1（7/11）：advance \1500
　Day2（8/11）：advance \2500
　2 days pass：\3500 (advance only)
　\500 plus for Doors.

Reservation: naya collective
nayac@mc.point.ne.jp
tel&fax: 03-3921-4309 (telephone: 11:00〜17:00 weekdays only)

Director: Adachi Tomomi
Producer: Fukunaga Ayako (naya collective Ltd.)
Stage manager: Suzuki Hideo (Atelier-Canon)
Suppoted by:
Asahi Breweries Ltd.,
Asahibeer Art Foudation,
Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture,
Nomura Foundation
　　
　

Adachi Tomomi
ADACHI Tomomi is performer, composer, sound poet, installation artist, occasional theater director. He has played improvised music with voice, live electronics and self-made instruments. He has performed contemporary music: vocal, live-electronics or performance works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Dieter Schnebel, Fluxus, etc. As the only performer of sound poetry in Japan he has performed Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" for the first time in Japan. His works has been presented in Japan, Europe, U.S., Australia and other asian countries at many kinds venues include Tate Modern, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Waker Art Center, STEIM, Experimental Intermedia, Merkin Hall, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Roulette, Tonic, Anthology Film Archives. He stayed in New York 2009-2010 as an Asian Cultural Council grantee. Also he was awarded the DAAD invited composer for Berlin 2012.
http://www.adachitomomi.com

Leevi Lehto
Leevi Lehto is a Finnish poet, translator, publisher, programmer, performer, and self-taught composer. Since 1967, he has published six volumes of poetry, a novel, an experimental prose work, and a collection of essays. Active in left politics during the seventies, he worked as a corporate communications executive during the nineties. He is also known for his experiments in digital writing, such as the Google Poem Generator.
Lehto's translations, some forty books in all, range from mysteries to philosophy, sociology, and poetry. His new Finnish translation of   James Joyce's  Ulysses   was published by the Helsinki University Press in June 2012. Since 2007, Lehto has run a press of his own, ntamo, through which he has published well over 100 books, most of them critically acclaimed experimental poetry.

Joerg Piringer
Born 1974. Currently living in vienna, austria. Member of the institute for transacoustic research. Member of the vegetable orchestra. Master degree in computer science. Works as a freelance artist and researcher in the fields of electronic music, radio art, sound and visual electronic poetry, interactive collaborative systems, online communities, live performance, sound installation, computer games and video art. Honorary mention digital musics and sound art prix ars electronica 2010. Prize of honor FILE PRIXLUX 2010, Content award 2010.
http://joerg.piringer.net

Maja Jantar
Maja Jantar is a multilingual and polysonic voice artist living in Ghent, Belgium, whose work spans the fields of performance, music theatre, poetry and visual arts. A co-founder of the group Krikri (www.krikri.be), she has been giving individual and collaborative performances throughout Europe and experimenting with poetic sound works since 1995. Jantar often collaborates with the theatre company Crew (www.crewonline.org), a group operating on the border between art and science, performance and new technology, as well as with actor and director Ewout d'Hoore. She regularly performs with Belgian poet Vincent Tholome, with whom she has also given workshops on the use of language and sound. Recently, she performed with Vincent Tholome and Sebastien Dicenaire at the Centre Pompidou in Paris for the Bruits de Bouche Festival. From 2001 to present, Jantar has directed ten operas, including Monteverdi's classic Incoronatione di Poppea and Sciarrino's contemporary Infinito Nero. Some of her visual poetry has appeared in various publications, amongst others Zieteratuur (The Netherlands), and her visual work has been shown in several exhibits, recently an ink-and-paper selection from her "Lilith" series could be seen at Kunsttempel Kassel (Germany). In the near future she will continue collaborating extensively with Canadian poet and interdisciplinarian a.rawlings and she will soon be publishing a CD and art book of her visual and audio work with Hybriden Verlag in Berlin.

Amanda Stewart
Skype/video appearance : 7th
Amanda Stewart (born 1959) is a contemporary Australian poet and sound/performance artist. Began writing and performing poetry in the 1970s and has since produced a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In 1989 she co-founded the performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Rik Rue, Jim Denley and Stevie Wishart, and in 1995 started the trio Allos. She has toured Europe, the United States and Japan. She co-wrote and directed the 1990 film Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun about nuclear weapons in popular culture. Her opera The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, written with the composer Colin Bright, was performed as part of the Sydney Festival on Sydney Harbour in 1997. It has since been produced for radio by the ABC. Her collected works book and CD entitled I/T won the 1999 Anne Elder Award for poetry.

Matsui Shigeru
Sumposium : 7th
Born 1975, Tokyo, Japan; Poet. MATSUI's anthologies include "Simultaneous Parallel Circuits," "Quantum Poem," "Camouflage," "The Voices of Time," and others. His exhibitions include "YUMITSUHO" (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art), "Ephemeral” (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre), "The 3rd Fuchu Biennale: On Beauty and Value” (Fuchu Art Museum), ICC Kids Program 2010 "What Sounds Do We Hear?" (ICC) and others. His activities include "Method," research about "The Concrete Poetry of Niikuni Seiichi: Between Poetry and Art" (The National Museum of Art, Osaka)," Study on tactile design using relationship between phonemes and sensations," "Shi-ni-gi-wa" (A lecture and live electronics unit) and others. Recently MATSUI studies the relationship between TV media in the 1950s-60s and contemporary art. He is presently a Assistant Professor, Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts.

Yarita Misako
Sumposium : 7th
Yarita Misako is a poet born in Asahi coal mine in Iwamizawa, Hokkaido. Studied contemporary American poetry and women's studies in Meiji Gakuin University and the Graduate School of Toyo Eiwa University. She gave critics on poetry and art of Beat, Fluxus etc., translations of E. E. Cummings and Allen Ginsberg and produced her own visual poetries. Having many poetry reading events in Paris and Japan, she performed works of Ay-O, Shiomi Mieko, Fluxus and Niikuni Seiichi.