Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda

Photo by Maki Kaoru

Though they differ in generation and performance practice, Aki Onda (b. 1967) and Akio Suzuki (b. 1941) share an astonishingly inventive, open-ended, and spontaneous approach to the infinite and variegated possibilities of sound as a spatial phenomenon. Since initiating a collaborative relationship in 2005, the duo have embarked on a number of tours in Europe and Asia, exploring locations ranging from an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Brussels to an underground parking lot in Glasgow. Onda and Suzuki perform by utilizing unconventional and self-made instruments including analog cassette Walkmans and radios, found pieces of wood, nails, hammers, buckets, marbles, and glass jars, allowing the individual architecture and acoustics of various sites to guide the flow and development of performance.

Releases

2021 Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Live Ateliers Claus, Belgium
2020 gi n ga, Hasana Editions, Indonesia
2018 ki i te ki, Room 40, Australia
2014 ma ta ta bi, ORAL Records, Canada

Interviews/Conversations

2018 Sound as a Space, Western Front Echoic Chamber
2014 Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda in Conversation, liner notes for ma ta ta bi

Performances

2020    Asia TOPA / The SUBSTATION, Melbourne, Australia
Mona Foma, Tasmania, Australia
Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand
2019 Angelica Festival, Bologna, Italy
Flutter Echo Festival (with David Toop), London, UK
STUK (with Rie Nakajima), Leuven, Belgium
iii, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2018 Vacant, Tokyo, Japan
2017    documenta 14, Athens, Greece
Pioneer Works / Blank Forms (duo and trio with Annea Lockwood), New York, USA
Marfa Live Arts, Marfa, USA
Baldwin Hills ScenicOverlook / SASSAS, Culver City, USA
Good Shepherd Center Chapel, Seattle, USA
Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Weld (with Mats Lindström), Stockholm, Sweden
Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
mikromusik (with Yan Jun) at Villa und Kirche St. Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany
2015 Emily Harvey Foundation / ISSUE Project Room, New York, USA
Nameless Sound, Houston, USA
The Hill of James Magee, Cornudas, USA
The LAB, San Francisco, USA
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (with David Toop), Strasbourg, France
2014    Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
bonn hoeren, Bonn, Germany
Flanders Festival Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
Counterflows Festival / Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, UK
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art / AV Festival, Newcastle, UK
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (witn David Toop), Hong Kong
2013 E/Static, Torino, Italy
O', Milan, Italy
Tuned City, Brussels, Belgium
LISTE Art Fair Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2005    Osaka Harbour Red Brick Warehouse, Osaka, Japan

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