Soundwalk

Let’s walk and hear sounds in the city. You can listen to my new composition at below link here.

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11 / 20 / 2009

The Wire feature download

You can download The Wire feature about my work, published in September 2009 here.

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11 / 18 / 2009

Send + Receive 10 Years of Sound

I contributed a full album length piece to send + receive’s 10th Anniversary audio + video DVD set. This is documentation of my Cassette Memories performance at Send + Receive in Winnipeg in 2005. I edited 42 minutes piece from 4 hours of recording.

send + receive’s 10th Anniversary audio + video DVD set features performances of David Grubbs, Lee Ranaldo & Dean Roberts, Martin Tétreault, Oren Ambarchi, Oval, Taylor Deupree and others. The set contains over 11 hours of audio, a beautiful booklet and a feature length documentary!

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11 / 16 / 2009

Suzanne Fiol Memorial at St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn

It was a very moving and beautiful memorial yesterday. Suzanne has gone. But, her sprit and love will always be with us.

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8 / 17 / 2009

Aki Onda is featured in The Wire

I’m happy to let you know that The Wire runs six pages feature about my work in their September 2009 issue. The feature, which is written by Clive Bell, discusses my projects Cassette Memories and Cinemage, as well as collaborations with other musicians. It also reveals about my childhood memories.

Also, you can see an exclusive video of my solo performance at The Wire’s website. The footage was filmed by French filmmaker Vincent Voillat (Collectif MU) at the European Sound Delta / Ososphère in Strasbourg in 2008. I played in a boat cruising on a river at that time.

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8 / 1 / 2009

Some media mentions recently...

I contributed a text about my Cinemage project for NY Arts Summer 2009 issue. The article is nicely printed with a 2 pages’ size photo. You can peak at their online version here.

Here’s my funny interview on RUIS magazine in Ghent, Belgium. Download the article here. The interview was translated into Dutch. So I added the original English version on the last page.

Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice edited by Angus Carlyle, and published by CRiSAP in UK, has won the Qwartz Electronic Music Compilation Award few months ago. The book seeks to draw together a number of different perspectives on how the environment is made audible through sound. It’s indeed a good book. I contributed a diary which I wrote in 2004 and still photo images of my Cinemage project. Download the article here.

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6 / 15 / 2009

I will be performing solo in Cut & Splice in London on June 19. Cut & Splice performances and artist interviews will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s "Hear and Now" on June 27 and July 4 at 10.30 p.m. and will be available through the Listen Again service for one week after broadcast.

http://livingrooms.cutandsplice.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/

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5 / 20 / 2009

KUNSTRADIO in Vienna broadcast Alan Licht & Aki Onda's concert at WORM in Rotterdam on May 17. They posted the mp3 file on their website. So you can listen to some of our new compositions anytime.

http://www.kunstradio.at/2009A/17_05_09.html

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4 / 19 / 2009

I produced 7 songs for a Cologne based singer Niobe's new album "Blackbird's Echo." The album will be released by Tomlab in May 2009. We recorded these beautiful songs in New York with amazing musicians such as David Grubbs, Trevor Dunn, Clifton Hyde, DJ Olive, Ches Smith, Shahzad Ismaily and Eyvind Kang.

www.tomlab.de

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4 / 13 / 2009

Alan Licht and I will be touring in Europe this spring. We released duo album "Everydays" on Family Vineyard last year. And, this will be our first Europe tour since then.

Alan Licht & Aki Onda Europe Tour 2009

April 25 ZDB, Lisbon, Portugal
May 1 Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon 2009, Ulrichsberg, Austria
May 2 No-D, Prague, Czech Republic
May 5 Alchemia (trio with Noël Akchoté), Krakow, Poland
May 8 Ausland, Berlin, Germany
May 9 WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
May 13 Cave 12, Geneve, Switzerland
May 14 Le 102, Grenoble, France
May 15 Instants Chavires, Paris, France
May 16 Rencontres Musiques Electroacoustiques / Forum de la Madeleine, Chartres, France
May 17 Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium
May 22 Culture Lab, Newcastle University (organized by No-fi), Newcastle, UK
May 23 s51 factory (organized by Sottovoce / No-signal), London, UK

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12 / 12 / 2008

I'm happy to announce the new CD of Michael Snow, Alan Licht and Aki Onda trio on a Canadian label, Victo. We have been performing together since 2005, and this is our first album. It features two exquisite live recordings from our concerts at Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in 2007 and the Goethe-Institut in Toronto in 2005. The beautiful artwork is by Michael Snow.

Michael Snow / Alan Licht / Aki Onda "Five A’s, Two C’s, One D, One E, Two H’s, Three I’s, One K, Three L’s, One M, Three N’s, Two O’s, One S, One T, One W"

"The trio's hour-long performance, while not its first, found them still very much in exploratory territory, looking for ways to shape sounds ranging from spare and atmospheric to dense and industrial. While there was little relationship to the familiar, the set had its own form, even if suggestive of a relentless barrage of sound. Snow, at various points, put a portable radio up to a microphone, broadcasting whatever he happened to find, including a radio announcer discussing a festival taking place in Victoriaville. Like many other moments during this often intense spatial-temporal audioscape, serendipity reigned --the postmodern self-referentiality of the radio announcement being a prime example. But perhaps what made the set so interesting was, above all, the audience' awareness that many of the sounds being produced by Snow, Licht and Onda were as new to the artists as to the audience. Improvisation as texture, not as rhythm, melody or fixed form." --John Kelman, All About Jazz, Victoriaville May 18, 2007.

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11 / 13 / 2008

I'm showing Cinemage project in European countries this fall and winter.

2008
November 14 Cinemage with Noël Akchoté in AURORA, Norwich, UK
November 29 Cinemage with Jean-François Pauvros in Cimatics in Brussels, Belgium
December 4 Cinemage with Noël Akchoté and Jean-François Pauvros at Foundation Cartier in Paris, France

2009
January 23 Cinemage with Noël Akchoté in International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
March 1 Cinemage with Noël Akchoté and Jean-François Pauvros in at La Casa Encendida Cultural Centre, Madrid, Spain

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