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Carl Stone’s Re:Gendo is a hallucinogenic portrait of Tokyo that veers far away from the standard clichés found in many photographs and imagery taken of the city where Stone has lived for more than twenty years, It is an hour long live performance work utilizing multi-channel sound, video projection and live performance by Japanese vocalist Akaihirume. As Classical Voice San Francisco wrote in its review of the world premiere at the Other Minds Festival 2023, “throughout the prologue, drones shimmer, each effusion zooming us (with video processing by Stone and Yuichi Ito) further into Tokyo. Stretched to delicate spikes, visuals of staircases and alleyways are as revelatory as geodes. When the images morph into coherence, you realize it’s the lack of people that makes them striking. Stone shot the photos on his pandemic-era night walks, but this deserted Tokyo is no wasteland. It’s just a different kind of life with which this landscape teems, Trees pulsate, gates gleam, and even the drab high-rises twinkle in technicolor.”Carl Stone performs live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space, utilizing field recordings of the urban soundscape in Tokyo and other materials.
Akaihirume’s ear is always tuned to the world’s sounds which she keeps as material in what she calls her shell. She has a wide range of vocalizations ranging from the angelic to the demonic, with lupine growling alternating with vocal etherea.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Avenue,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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