https://akionda.net Aki Onda Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:19:28 +0000 https://akionda.net en https://akionda.net/Info Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:56:19 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Info AKI ONDA — Aki Onda is an artist, composer, performer, and curator. His works are often catalyzed by and structured around memories—personal, collective, historical—such as his widely-known project, Cassette Memories (2004–ongoing), drawn from three decades of field recordings. Crossing genres, he has been active internationally in art, film, music and performance. His artistic collaborators include Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Paul Clipson, Raha Raissnia, Ho Tzu Nyen, Loren Connors, Alan Licht, Annea Lockwood, David Toop and Akio Suzuki. Onda has presented his work at The Kitchen, MoMA, MoMA P.S.1, New Museum, Blank Forms, ICA Philadelphia, REDCAT, Time-Based Art Festival, Walker Art Center, documenta 14, Louvre Museum, Pompidou Center, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Argos, Bozar, ICA London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nam June Paik Art Center and many others. Onda has been active as a curator and organized major performances and exhibitions throughout Asia and North America. He was a director of TPAM-Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (current YPAM) in Japan from 2016-19. He will work at Western Front in Vancouver for artistic programiming from 2023-24. ABSTRACTION AND EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATION We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. (From the Double Dream of Spring, 1970.) <img width="1164" height="1158" width_o="1164" height_o="1158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e70f6597716e5d2c27a215e53255c72020047c375451b82ba899bb4b9ec5570/Untitled-1.png" data-mid="27810495" border="0" data-scale="85" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e70f6597716e5d2c27a215e53255c72020047c375451b82ba899bb4b9ec5570/Untitled-1.png" /> Gavrilo Princip’s last grocery list written The time that alligator ate that fish When the Yongzheng Emperor found that weird dust bunny under his throne The great earthquake of Alexandria The invention of expectation in literature When the heaviest cacao fruit fell in Takalik Abaj Animesh eats his first Fly Agaric mushroom https://akionda.net/EYE Sat, 05 Jan 2019 19:28:52 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/EYE UNDER CONSTRUCTION https://akionda.net/Running-on-Cargo Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:56:19 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Running-on-Cargo Runno https://akionda.net/Landing-Home Thu, 08 Nov 2018 21:15:40 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Landing-Home <img width="1105" height="705" width_o="1105" height_o="705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03634a443ee71ed894336abdeb347a8bc9c4e6f8cb8dc49fc2d484ceabade0e5/Screen-Shot-2026-04-11-at-9.17.38.png" data-mid="247062260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03634a443ee71ed894336abdeb347a8bc9c4e6f8cb8dc49fc2d484ceabade0e5/Screen-Shot-2026-04-11-at-9.17.38.png" /> José Maceda and Aki Onda&nbsp; Ugnayan, Music for 20 Radio Stations&nbsp;Whitney Biennial Mar 8–Aug 23, 2026 Artist and curator Aki Onda presents Ugnayan (1974), music for twenty radios composed by José Maceda. Maceda wrote a fifty-one-page score, created separate reel-to-reel recordings of singers and musicians playing gongs and Filipino bamboo instruments, and worked with radio stations across Manila to play the tracks simultaneously. Blanketing the city in sound waves, Maceda’s composition returned music from the concert hall to everyday life. Whitney Biennial 2026 is co-organized by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer with Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez. Photo above by&nbsp;Darian DiCanno.&nbsp; <img width="1671" height="1051" width_o="1671" height_o="1051" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eb5eaa576dc8d7b31e5011a7002c5058ab279c3fab82c732121460c7e018903/NML_image_by_Ken_Jacobs_1.jpg" data-mid="234408637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eb5eaa576dc8d7b31e5011a7002c5058ab279c3fab82c732121460c7e018903/NML_image_by_Ken_Jacobs_1.jpg" /> Aki Onda&nbsp;In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern&nbsp; New LP on Room 40&nbsp; Release date: August 15, 2025 Ken Jacobs, an essential figure of avant-garde cinema, and I had over-a-decade-long collaboration. We first performed fo his Nervous Magic Lantern project at the Argos Festival in Brussels in 2007. Before flying to Europe, Ken invited me to the top-floor loft on Chambers Street in TriBeCa, where Ken and his wife, Flo, have lived and worked since 1965, to experience a private screening. He turned on the apparatus and the image flashed onto the screen: geometric patterns — something of a Rorschach inkblot — rotated as if in a whirlpool, and three-dimensional imagery pulsed with strong flicker. What was weird was that the images did not adhere to the surface of the screen. They stood out, almost floating, like holograms. Then, my eyes started catching physical shapes in the depth of the abstract patterns such as faces, hands, the surface of an oil spill, and they appeared and disappeared like ghosts or doppelgängers. “How does Nervous Magic Lantern work?” I asked Ken. The inventor's answer was something unexpected: "I don't know! I dreamed it and found it through experimentations then stuck to it. I'm not that technical." Well, he is an artist who creates a phantasmagoria of mystery; let the neuroscientists explain the mechanism.The self-made apparatus contains a spinning shutter, a light source, and lenses set in a wooden frame. Ken inserts his hand-painted circular slides between the light and lenses and moved them gently with his hands. The lenses enlarged a tiny portion on the slide, while the spinning shutter gave the flicker effect. Compared to Ken's other works, which are often filled with unflinching political criticism, the imagery of Nervous Magic Lantern is patently abstract, and it examines how our brain regulates our perceptions. In Jonas Mekas' Movie Journal, Ken once said, “We’re stepping towards a deeper incline, something challenging our notion of the way things are. Something impossible.” Elsewhere he stated, “Eisenstein said the power of film was to be found between shots. Peter Kubelka seeks it between film frames. I want to get between the eyes, contest the separate halves of the brain. A whole new play of appearances is possible here.” Nervous Magic Lantern offers up this sort of play in stunning hallucinations, strange visions dancing on the screen.Ken's request for my music was to play “sounds of daily life.” He explained that the project “is an escape,” and that he felt “guilty not having any messages or reflecting the real world. By using environmental sounds to surround us, he continued, “I'd like to be rooted in the real world."Around 2014, I noticed that Ken had a sizable collection of cassette field recordings he had amassed over the last several decades. Street noises in Chinatown, conversations with friends, or any sort of uncategorizable sound around him. I was fascinated and decided to use them as a springboard for composing. One of the unique aspects of Nervous Magic Lantern is that the visual stays abstract while the sound is able to adopt meanings or a narrative sense derived from the quotidian sounds. I wanted to emphasize that point and add almost a sense of documentary. More than that, I simply loved the aural depictions of Ken and Flo’s life. Those also trigger my memories with them. Over the years, during summer time, Ken, Flo, and my wife, Makiko, made a habit of going to their favorite restaurant in Chinatown. Other times, Ken and I had morning coffee at a Puerto Rican restaurant just below their loft. Life and art are inseparable, breaking into one another incessantly. Ken is an artist who always envisioned the impossible. I wanted to see if it's possible to present that vision as something universal, something whole, something running through everyone’s life. A soundtrack for life in the depth of illusion. That is perhaps what this album is. Music by Aki OndaCassette field recordings by Ken JacobsRecorded at Spiral Hall, Tokyo on November 3, 2015Artwork: A still image from Ken &amp; Flo Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1666" width_o="2500" height_o="1666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/046fe96e436edc82312ba78eaf7436bfc25c8fe61beb18d2ccadc0602767fd52/NML_press_photo_by_Hideto_Maezawa_p001.jpg" data-mid="234836229" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/046fe96e436edc82312ba78eaf7436bfc25c8fe61beb18d2ccadc0602767fd52/NML_press_photo_by_Hideto_Maezawa_p001.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bf45dc1a5acc9ccaa35ebde7d16b53c6e3d261f0138021b933120c3a0fc833a/NML_press_photo_by_Hideto_Maezawa_nervous069.jpg" data-mid="234836233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bf45dc1a5acc9ccaa35ebde7d16b53c6e3d261f0138021b933120c3a0fc833a/NML_press_photo_by_Hideto_Maezawa_nervous069.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e39cfe9629bba345ca6f684aace42e23348ee0059c63a854790f5f7629387d92/NML_press_photo_by_Hideto_Maezawa_nervous013.jpg" data-mid="234836235" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e39cfe9629bba345ca6f684aace42e23348ee0059c63a854790f5f7629387d92/NML_press_photo_by_Hideto_Maezawa_nervous013.jpg" /> Photos by Hideto Maezawa <img width="21137" height="14885" width_o="21137" height_o="14885" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b530387504ebe664b0f4d52eea05ee5a964222eb3b503107330a918f6c48c4f0/___POSTER_038_gray_3000x3000mm_2_ORIGINAL_AKI_CC.jpg" data-mid="226589244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b530387504ebe664b0f4d52eea05ee5a964222eb3b503107330a918f6c48c4f0/___POSTER_038_gray_3000x3000mm_2_ORIGINAL_AKI_CC.jpg" /> Aki Onda’s Middle Of A Moment is the first survey of their installation work in Australia. Concerned with the interplay between ephemerality and materiality, Onda’s practice is one that lends equal weight to object and subject. They considersthe traces of being, placing focus equally on sense, memory, and site. Middle Of A Moment presents several major works from Onda, including their collection of hand bells, and their work that forms a trace of language through air, 'Nam June's Spirit Was Speaking To Me'. Read the exhibition catalogue HERE. February 21 – April 12, 2025 The Substation, Newport, VIC, Australia Curated by Lawrence English Presented by The Substation and Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne Image: Aki Onda Cosmos (2025) <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e915b19f9a8a9d38cb41641c8363efb7373fc8be90ce56f5eca848e845cc591/__CKH7904_241006_srgb.jpg-_CC.jpg" data-mid="221668382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e915b19f9a8a9d38cb41641c8363efb7373fc8be90ce56f5eca848e845cc591/__CKH7904_241006_srgb.jpg-_CC.jpg" /> Aki Onda “Bells” Changwon Sculpture Biennale, South Korea, 2024 <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93ee3ae3103a707ad5f64087fd11e8d684839ded699e51c7ea76fd0e61b430ee/__CKH8514_241006_srgb.jpg-_CC.jpg" data-mid="221668384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93ee3ae3103a707ad5f64087fd11e8d684839ded699e51c7ea76fd0e61b430ee/__CKH8514_241006_srgb.jpg-_CC.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c78162cd933e1785c403686c12451bbc91116f82cc54bc93d63f14d4791fb87/__CKH7908_241006_srgb.jpg-_CC.jpg" data-mid="221668383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c78162cd933e1785c403686c12451bbc91116f82cc54bc93d63f14d4791fb87/__CKH7908_241006_srgb.jpg-_CC.jpg" />Photo by studio SUJIKSUPYUNG / Cheolki Hong Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation <img width="1666" height="1110" width_o="1666" height_o="1110" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22c95e868a0a564e03da751e3ae11d0ae66211b841c510fe5f58920e9049ccde/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-9.13.57-PM.png" data-mid="221668906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22c95e868a0a564e03da751e3ae11d0ae66211b841c510fe5f58920e9049ccde/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-9.13.57-PM.png" /> Aki Onda “99 Cent Dreams” (CS / DL) on Dinzu Artifacts, 2024 "I recorded these sound fragments between 1998 and 2003 in and around the Lower East Side (LES), an area in New York City that extends roughly from Canal Street up to 14th Street and from the Bowery (3rd Avenue) to the East River. In the formative years of my cassette practice, I had a habit of walking around with my recorder and capturing very short snippets of sound – at times less than a second, as if taking a photo – as well as some longer segments of deep listening. These recordings carved a dense collage on the magnetic tapes, and I am presenting the sounds here with the same editing style as I captured them almost 20 years ago.” AO <img width="2342" height="1558" width_o="2342" height_o="1558" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41af6615987533a2d3f26a04971bbbffe2493a8473a1cb9605dfb36a6b56a9ba/Screen-Shot-2024-11-10-at-10.54.40-PM.png" data-mid="221668899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41af6615987533a2d3f26a04971bbbffe2493a8473a1cb9605dfb36a6b56a9ba/Screen-Shot-2024-11-10-at-10.54.40-PM.png" /> <img width="2334" height="1558" width_o="2334" height_o="1558" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3eae0bbadaf6b5bf219102fa1de1a3e289a0f2638cc935c54d19ae6d88d2e68e/Screen-Shot-2024-11-10-at-10.55.06-PM.png" data-mid="221668900" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3eae0bbadaf6b5bf219102fa1de1a3e289a0f2638cc935c54d19ae6d88d2e68e/Screen-Shot-2024-11-10-at-10.55.06-PM.png" /> Photos by Aki Onda <img width="3365" height="2453" width_o="3365" height_o="2453" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26266c9b28303181c37373f7ec534dfa7c8185c3ab0614bb60ad0a95337be7c1/_3_1-copy_CROPPED.jpg" data-mid="184221628" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26266c9b28303181c37373f7ec534dfa7c8185c3ab0614bb60ad0a95337be7c1/_3_1-copy_CROPPED.jpg" /> Aki Onda "Espíritus en frecuencia" including two installations Bells and Nam June's Spirit Was Speaking to MeCasa del Lago UNAM, México City&nbsp; June 1 - August 30, 2023 <img width="4843" height="3228" width_o="4843" height_o="3228" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59ec75382d49b2a58aed4fef6728386f347c44bedac4fec8da68d91fc043031d/1-copy.jpg" data-mid="184221629" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59ec75382d49b2a58aed4fef6728386f347c44bedac4fec8da68d91fc043031d/1-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4134" height="2756" width_o="4134" height_o="2756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/006a156001b752168fc324922ea3affc01854049f54de5a27ac4829bb156afe8/2-copy.jpg" data-mid="184221630" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/006a156001b752168fc324922ea3affc01854049f54de5a27ac4829bb156afe8/2-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1890" height="2835" width_o="1890" height_o="2835" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23d3b379156f27076ddc7a034bfcdfbf173bbbef8d02ddd3285820919ed2e2d1/6_1-cop.jpg" data-mid="184221634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23d3b379156f27076ddc7a034bfcdfbf173bbbef8d02ddd3285820919ed2e2d1/6_1-cop.jpg" /> <img width="4406" height="2937" width_o="4406" height_o="2937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01ca0c3e640b92495da9b97d09a27a6e743b003638458be5ed56539ee768c1c7/7_1-copy.jpg" data-mid="184221635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01ca0c3e640b92495da9b97d09a27a6e743b003638458be5ed56539ee768c1c7/7_1-copy.jpg" /> Photos by Enrique Macías Martínez Courtesy of Casa del Lago UNAM <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d132bfd13948c98aacf936b1f1e3309f1e261dbbb421a7d2c546db9794d7d7a0/02__LES_ecology_ceter_graden_20200802__DSF2109-copy.jpg" data-mid="150387249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d132bfd13948c98aacf936b1f1e3309f1e261dbbb421a7d2c546db9794d7d7a0/02__LES_ecology_ceter_graden_20200802__DSF2109-copy.jpg" /> Silence Prevails : Lower East Side Community Gardens During the Pandemic (2020) MoMA PS1 June 2, 2022–January 16, 2023As a part of the exhibition Life Between Buildings, organized by Jody Graf, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1. Aki Onda's multi-media installation “Silence Prevails: East Village Community Gardens During the Pandemic” explores the past and present of twenty-four community gardens in the Lower East Side. Known for his work with experimental field recordings, Onda’s practice explores the reverberations and manifestations of the past: how does history suffuse a space, and how can memory be distilled? While living in New York for two decades, Onda became interested in the legacy of the Lower East Side community gardens that dot the neighborhood. The resulting project pairs archival materials gathered from community gardens with photos and audio captured in those same gardens from April - August, 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown. Onda’s recordings document a rare moment in which the sounds of these small gardens overtake those of the surrounding city.In the 1970s, the Lower East Side became a locus of community gardening in New York City, as members of overlapping communities—Puerto Rican immigrants, artists newly moved to the neighborhood for its cheap rents, and anarchist squatters—came together to occupy and transform empty lots into green spaces for gathering, making art, and political organizing. The movement arose in response to the increasing number of vacant lots in Lower Manhattan: with industry and wealth leaving the city, real estate prices dropped, and landlords often found it more profitable to abandon or even burn down their buildings (in order to collect insurance money). Planted on land technically owned by the city or private landlords, many gardens have faced constant threat of demolition—especially as the land began to regain value in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1994, Mayor Rudy Giuliani decided to auction off the gardens to private developers, leading to a struggle documented in a number of the archival materials displayed here. Despite the destruction of some gardens, the Lower East Side continues to have the highest concentration of community gardens in New York City. Community gardens have also played an important role in other neighborhoods of the city, and struggles over the right for community use of land continue today, especially in areas currently experiencing gentrification. Viewers are invited to take a brochure, which offers a more detailed history of the gardens, as well as Onda’s reflections on them. <img width="2284" height="1500" width_o="2284" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b0256d1cb92270468a679c1c2b884e6f33fb6efd7760168fc9bafe947fbfa04/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_041.jpg" data-mid="150386827" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b0256d1cb92270468a679c1c2b884e6f33fb6efd7760168fc9bafe947fbfa04/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_041.jpg" /> <img width="2283" height="1500" width_o="2283" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b8b6b7762e4a8a9e6b73f4960a872e2ba2277860d83c68b21894d08dcebe071/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_042.jpg" data-mid="150386828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b8b6b7762e4a8a9e6b73f4960a872e2ba2277860d83c68b21894d08dcebe071/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_042.jpg" /> <img width="2283" height="1500" width_o="2283" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16675806ec56f88e191b55ee7400ae192730ae96d9e0dcba8cdc8bb213cc1817/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_043.jpg" data-mid="150386829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16675806ec56f88e191b55ee7400ae192730ae96d9e0dcba8cdc8bb213cc1817/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_043.jpg" /> <img width="2283" height="1500" width_o="2283" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee242c4b45327a3931e377abd3fd9075b46b762e4fe63e78e1dd935c91de4f75/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_044.jpg" data-mid="150386832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee242c4b45327a3931e377abd3fd9075b46b762e4fe63e78e1dd935c91de4f75/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_044.jpg" /> <img width="2283" height="1500" width_o="2283" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/290f76566566476cce73f8046435fc8ba2579d4c81b5144aa76c8c9767b8fa6d/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_046.jpg" data-mid="150386834" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/290f76566566476cce73f8046435fc8ba2579d4c81b5144aa76c8c9767b8fa6d/PS1_BETWEENTWOBUILDINGS_046.jpg" /> Installation view of Life Between Buildings on view at MoMA PS1 from June 2, 2022 - January 16, 2023. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio <img width="2704" height="1836" width_o="2704" height_o="1836" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee27eb4281239fa3b59a195f33c857d4a809329e7072699a89c6e52ca54b4a35/14_NJP_1.jpg" data-mid="28091280" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee27eb4281239fa3b59a195f33c857d4a809329e7072699a89c6e52ca54b4a35/14_NJP_1.jpg" /> Aki Onda "Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me" (2017/2022).Installation and International Radio Broadcasts at Toronto Biennial of ArtExhibition Dates: March 26 - June 5, 2022Venue: 72 Perth Avenue, Toronto ON, CanadaAki Onda has channeled the spirit of the late Korean artist Nam June Paik via radio transmission in Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me (2017/2022). Paik is known for his association with shamanism, a practice that consistently surfaces in his works. With a portable radio in hand, Onda communicates with his spirit from a distance—collecting field recordings of cryptic broadcasts and messages on anonymous radio stations. The series of séances has been conducted in different cities across the globe, beginning in Seoul, Korea in 2010 and continuing in Cologne, Germany in 2012, Wrocław, Poland in 2013, and Lewisburg, United States in 2014. This work was originally commissioned by documenta 14’s radio program “Every Time A Ear di Soun” in 2017.From March 26 to June 5, 2022, Aki Onda will present Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me, through microbroadcasting and printed matter at the Toronto Biennial of Art. Broadcasting over two frequencies (88.5 FM and 106.5 FM) that cover the exhibition site of 72 Perth Ave in Toronto, radios are placed as part of the exhibition to symbolize sound waves in the air. The audio work exists as invisible yet discrete and perceptible through the proper medium, recalling the ritual of channeling spirits. Bring your own radio to catch the frequencies.Onda is also bringing Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me to the international radio waves in a series of international public programs. The program will play, uninterrupted and in its entirety of 50 minutes. For Onda, those broadcasts are a response to how Nam June Paik spread his ideas through TV cable networks and connected to a large number of people at a global scale. <img width="1800" height="1198" width_o="1800" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83ee2c28370047d3646a6473d740312dad990bebbb89fa418232e6d02b877182/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-1.38.21-PM.png" data-mid="140275128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83ee2c28370047d3646a6473d740312dad990bebbb89fa418232e6d02b877182/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-1.38.21-PM.png" /> <img width="820" height="1172" width_o="820" height_o="1172" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bcf0db391c7f5053a7e3af4141b8d2ca3554a09ef566b8028a07df2aca3dd02/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-1.38.49-PM.png" data-mid="140275129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/820/i/7bcf0db391c7f5053a7e3af4141b8d2ca3554a09ef566b8028a07df2aca3dd02/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-1.38.49-PM.png" /> Installation view. Photo by Toni Hafkenschild. &nbsp; International Broadcast Dates and Times: ○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Toronto, Canada — Sunday, March 27: 18:00 EDT. NAISA Radio as part of Deep Wireless Radio and Transmission Art Festival.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Valparaíso, Chile — Friday, April 1: 19:00 CLST. Radio Tsonami. *○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Acra, New York, USA —Saturday, April 2: 15:00 EDT. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Sydney, Australia — Monday, April 4: 22:00 AEST. Eastside Radio 89.7 FM as part of Listening Space. ***○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Hong Kong, Hong Kong — Friday, April 8: 22:00 HKT. Hong Kong Community Radio.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Luxembourg, Luxembourg — Monday, April 11: 22:30 CEST. Radio ARA 87.8, 102.9 &amp; 105.2 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;London, United Kingdom — Wednesday, April 20: 20:00 GMT. Resonance FM 104.4 FM as part of Clear Spot. *○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Paris and Mulhouse, France — Saturday, April 23: 13:00 CEST. ∏Node DAB+.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bandung, Indonesia — Sunday, April 24: 20:00 WIB: Norrm Radio.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Istanbul, Turkey — Thursday, April 28: 21:00 TRT: Root Radio. &nbsp; &nbsp; ○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Los Angeles, California, USA — Saturday, April 30: 10:00 PDT. dublab.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mexico City, Mexico — Wednesday, May 4: 16:00 CDT. Radio UNAM 96.1 FM as part of Islas Resonantes. *○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bethlehem, Palestine — Wednesday, May 11: 19:00 PST. Radio Alhara. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Londrina, Brazil — Monday, May 16: 20:00 BRT. Rádio UEL 107.9 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Auckland, New Zealand — Thursday, May 19: 19:00 GMT. AFM Radio 88.3 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Berlin, Germany — Tuesday, May 24: 16:00 CEST. Colaboradio / Freie Radios – Berlin Brandenburg 88.4 FM (Berlin) &amp; 90.7 FM (Potsdam).○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Brussels, Belgium — Friday, May 27: 01:00 CEST. Radio Campus 92.1 FM. **○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom — Saturday, May 28: 15:00 WEST. Soundart Radio 102.5 FM. **○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Canela, Brazil — Sunday, May 29: 19:00 BRT. Rádio Contato 102.5 FM. **○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Melbourne, Australia — Wednesday, June 1: 18:00 AEST: Crawl Space Radio. ***○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Utrecht, Netherlands — Monday, June 6: 05:00 CEST. Concertzender various frequencies. &nbsp;*** The program will be repeated at select radio stations on later dates. Please check their websites for further details.** Selected radio stations will be broadcasting via framework radio.*** The program will be co-presented with Liquid Architecture. <img width="2550" height="1650" width_o="2550" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/054779067041ff16955ce3014e49ff132a1b903069a56ea425df791eac0a9daa/__PICA_SHOW_POSTCARD.jpg" data-mid="112106635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/054779067041ff16955ce3014e49ff132a1b903069a56ea425df791eac0a9daa/__PICA_SHOW_POSTCARD.jpg" /> Aki Onda Solo Exhibition “A Letter from Souls of The Dead” @ Portland Instutute for Contemporary Art (PICA)Exhibition Opens: Saturday, July 10, 2021 / 12:00–4:00 PM With intermittent Performances by Aki Onda and Marcus Fischer Exhibition Dates: July 10 – September 4, 2021*The gallery will be closed on Sunday, August 8, 2021 Open Hours: Thursday &amp; Friday 12:00–6:00 PM Saturday &amp; Sunday 12:00–4:00 PM Free and open to the public. Masks required. I'm fascinated by the idea of communicating with the spirits of the dead, the relationship of matter and spirit, and a form of séance to demonstrate the mediumship.&nbsp;–Aki Onda (excerpt from the forthcoming interview with Kristan Kennedy) After decades of a twinned music/visual-art practice, A Letter from Souls of The Dead is the first major solo exhibition in the United States by Aki Onda. Commissioned by PICA and curated by Kristan Kennedy, Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art, this exhibition will feature collections of found objects such as bells, surplus electronics, photographs, and old-fashioned slide projections. The soundtrack for this exhibition was composed by Onda in collaboration with New Yorked-based vocalist Charmaine Lee and New Haven-based musician Zach Rowden. A Letter from Souls of The Dead will also feature an installation of 60 enlarged prints, 50 broken tape recorders, and a suspended print piece, jointly titled "Collage on Cassettes." These works chronicle Onda’s field recordings which over the years have served as a sonic diary, mimicking and manipulating memory over time. This chorus of analog media will create tangible and energetic relationships across PICA’s warehouse space forming a kinship between the living and the dead, the functional and the broken, the artist and the audience. According to Onda, collecting is “an extension of my cassette practice to expand the realm of reminiscence beyond my territory and consciousness -- a sort of collective consciousness in order to reach out to something universal.” A Letter from Souls of The Dead is a physical embodiment and energetic transmitter for memories and souls past, present, and future. A Letter from Souls of The Dead will be presented at PICA from July 10, 2021, to September 4, 2021. On the opening day of the exhibition Saturday, July 10, there will be intermittent performances by Aki Onda and Portland-based sound artist Marcus Fischer. These performances will serve to both activate the objects and acknowledge the trauma of the past year, in the US and globally. <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c552770ff6bfd90b15dc9962078b04fbd071ed39d2315494ec79ea2efc868ba1/Aki-Onda_Argo_Color_-Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" data-mid="112106637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c552770ff6bfd90b15dc9962078b04fbd071ed39d2315494ec79ea2efc868ba1/Aki-Onda_Argo_Color_-Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82834e634d0df6072137b17bbeeb7414871e375d7cf9667247404a9c1555e803/AKi-Onda_Argo_Color-213_Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" data-mid="112106638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82834e634d0df6072137b17bbeeb7414871e375d7cf9667247404a9c1555e803/AKi-Onda_Argo_Color-213_Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58427c32f5fd9050f321162618cf2f125225bb967e08ccb06e48e6db59bbf6af/AKi-Onda_Bells_Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" data-mid="112106639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58427c32f5fd9050f321162618cf2f125225bb967e08ccb06e48e6db59bbf6af/AKi-Onda_Bells_Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/788f93aea7feb0215b86b4857a765ce9f22010c66eb5462f294a55aeea95a373/Aki-Onda_tapedrawing_Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" data-mid="112106640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/788f93aea7feb0215b86b4857a765ce9f22010c66eb5462f294a55aeea95a373/Aki-Onda_tapedrawing_Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="3397" width_o="2400" height_o="3397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f17a770ef3727e4bff44fca21c8257f9a837dfef13da2755df0710aa4b37291d/AO_Collage_on_Cassettes_WEB.jpg" data-mid="92105600" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f17a770ef3727e4bff44fca21c8257f9a837dfef13da2755df0710aa4b37291d/AO_Collage_on_Cassettes_WEB.jpg" /> Aki Onda Collage on Cassettes 2020 “Listening : Resonant Worlds" at Arts Maebashi, JapanDecember 12, 2020 – March 21, 2021 <img width="3005" height="2003" width_o="3005" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f142d5c7eb6aa63cad6f0073152625becaaa61906b30db7156352a3893dee21/ghost_frequency_image_CROP_3_B.jpg" data-mid="85077076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f142d5c7eb6aa63cad6f0073152625becaaa61906b30db7156352a3893dee21/ghost_frequency_image_CROP_3_B.jpg" /> DJ أمواج a.k.a. Aki Onda - "Ghost Frequency"This new commision work will be broadcast at Radiophrenia Glasgow, UK November 21, 2020 12 pm &amp; 6 pm Yes, radio transports signals across a variety of distances. But does it leap time...? No. What would happen if it were to jump to the future, passing through both time and space? The sound source of this recording is a series of radio broadcast captured when I visited Morocco in 2010. During the two-week trip to Tangier, Fez, and Marrakesh, I kept making field recordings of daily news or local music programs, recordings which I’ve now randomly edited for this 60-minute piece. Beyond radio’s typical function of frequency relay and capture, I wanted to produce an illusional frequency—collapsing time and space and expanding the territory of our aural imagination. With our activities now delimited by our local vicinity, travel is rare and encounters with others are limited. We have found ourselves hemmed in at a moment of political and social turbulence. I just thought travelling somewhere, even though it's imaginary, could be refreshing and inspiriting for our minds. <img width="1500" height="1019" width_o="1500" height_o="1019" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/832e4a46933a6ab2f3551b50d3a4c687042d9d6387dc19cc170c2d173d282e49/14_NJP_1.jpg" data-mid="68519366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/832e4a46933a6ab2f3551b50d3a4c687042d9d6387dc19cc170c2d173d282e49/14_NJP_1.jpg" /> Nam June Paik in "Rameau's Nephew..." film made by Michael Snow in 1974 Aki Onda – “Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking To Me” on Recital in June 2020 SOLD OUT at the label but you can still order HERE ︎Limited Edition of 250 LPs ︎20-page art booklet including rare photographs of Nam June Paik on the set of Michael Snow’s film Rameau’s Nephew (1974), two essays on radio-wave phenomenon by Aki Onda and Marcus Gammel, and a remembrance of Paik by Yuji Agematsu Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me occurred purely by chance. In 2010, I was spending four days at Nam June Paik Art Center in South Korea for a series of performances and had plenty of free time to wander. The building was packed with Paik's artwork and related material. I have always felt a close kinship with him as an artist, and so it was a great opportunity to immerse myself in his works and ephemera.It was that night I made the first contact, via a hand-held radio in a hotel room in Seoul. It was literally out of the blue. Scanning through the stations, I stumbled upon what sounded like a submerged voice and I began to record it in fascination. I concluded this was Paik's spirit reaching out to me.The project continued to grow organically as I kept channeling Paik’s spirit over long distance and receiving cryptic broadcasts/messages. The series of séances, conducted in different cities across the globe, began in Seoul in 2010, and continued in Köln, Germany in 2012, Wrocław, Poland in 2013, and Lewisburg, USA in 2014. The original recordings were captured by the same radio which has a tape recorder, with almost no editing, save for some minimal slicing by and mastering.Paik is known for his association with shamanism, a practice that constantly surfaces in his works all through his career. In an interview, he stated “In Korea, diverse forms of shamanism are strongly remained. Even though I have created my work unconsciously, the most inspiring thing in my work came from Korean female shaman Mudang.” Paik himself was a master shaman and vividly used shaman rituals and symbols for staging his performances and installations.These recordings also became a way for me to explore the mythic form of radio—a medium which is full of mysteries. The transmissions captured may be "secret broadcasts" on anonymous radio stations. There are in fact hundreds of those stations around the world, although the numbers dwindle as clandestine messages can now be sent via encrypted digital channels. Some of these stations were likely for military use or espionage or relics of the Cold War. But many others continue without apparent explanation. These are just some of the questions that remain unanswered. <img width="2300" height="1343" width_o="2300" height_o="1343" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/524ef00c000d318dc202a13bba02dcb9d5b0184cb9424fbd8ec47bbf63da8ede/rapture_press.jpg" data-mid="64891923" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/524ef00c000d318dc202a13bba02dcb9d5b0184cb9424fbd8ec47bbf63da8ede/rapture_press.jpg" /> Photograpy by Daisuke Yokota Aki Onda - Rupture on IMPREC/CASSAUNA Release date: August 14, 2020Pre-order HERE&nbsp; Bodies beyond the notion of control…The trance and possession of evil spirits fading into the darkness…What’s there, under the burst of the glaring sunlight?Rupture was inspired by the southern Italian folktale of Tarantism, originated in the Puglia and Salento regions. Tarantism is said to be an illness provoked by the bite of the tarantula, the small poisonous spider active in the summertime. The bite causes catalepsy, perspiration, palpitations, epilepsy, and leads those bit to believe they are undergoing an extreme spiritual possession. Its victims were mostly women, more likely to be bit during harvest. As is often the case with ritual and superstition, the symptoms began to take religious significance, inspiring a strain of folk music tradition in the region developed as an antidote. According to popular legend, listening to the sound of particular music instruments (such as violin, accordion or tambourine) and being exposed to certain colors (such as green, yellow, and red, waved as scarves in the healing ritual) provoked an outburst of rage that made the afflicted woman (known as a tarantata) dance feverishly until she collapsed in bed and coalesced. The legend and practice were widespread until the 18th century, subsequently slowly fading out of public consciousness.Onda was inspired by the phenomenon and began to listen to the traditional folk music of the region. These folk pieces are quote into the tracks, mostly in indirect ways but occasionally directly sampled. The tracks were initially composed as the soundtrack for a dance piece, SU-EN Butoh Company’s RAPTURE, premiered at Dansens Hus in Stockholm. Onda selected the images of the Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota for the album cover. His eerie and uncanny images, evoking the strong detachment from reality, helped Onda to develop his original inspiration. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a5af9a4d2eb0c75c45652b4c93ebdb3b69e527fa843f2c8fad481d9d84ae509/cm_reissue.jpg" data-mid="60613994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a5af9a4d2eb0c75c45652b4c93ebdb3b69e527fa843f2c8fad481d9d84ae509/cm_reissue.jpg" /> Februry 14, 2020 Aki Onda - Cassette Memories Re-issues on Room 40Volume One - Ancient And Modern (DRM456)Volume Two - Bon Voyage! (DRM457)Volume Three - South Of The Border (DRM458) An edition of 200 artist book is published in conjunction with these re-issues featuring new artworks and essays <img width="1900" height="1900" width_o="1900" height_o="1900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/484d466d3833b22bf3e913df3d57ca59ddf2ce8947c20d2bc9a94b455d5fdfbe/_CM1-cover.jpg" data-mid="60953086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/484d466d3833b22bf3e913df3d57ca59ddf2ce8947c20d2bc9a94b455d5fdfbe/_CM1-cover.jpg" /> <img width="1900" height="1900" width_o="1900" height_o="1900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ffc23c6d40d79973778f10b08dfcdb9f75a0ea3467dfc8b4b93a649d304ca44/_CM2_cover.jpg" data-mid="60953094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ffc23c6d40d79973778f10b08dfcdb9f75a0ea3467dfc8b4b93a649d304ca44/_CM2_cover.jpg" /> <img width="1900" height="1900" width_o="1900" height_o="1900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2382b8bc760d535a8add1ce33e994a3230517d194da289be81de8aad6bbc62d7/_CM3_cover.jpg" data-mid="60953101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2382b8bc760d535a8add1ce33e994a3230517d194da289be81de8aad6bbc62d7/_CM3_cover.jpg" /> <img width="1700" height="1133" width_o="1700" height_o="1133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dcda092fcdc995c3b2c39087da5b93edb3cf2c2426a7f24fffd097fac997df2/__WildDon_171022_7451_low.jpg" data-mid="53910773" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8dcda092fcdc995c3b2c39087da5b93edb3cf2c2426a7f24fffd097fac997df2/__WildDon_171022_7451_low.jpg" />Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook (organized by&nbsp;SASSAS), Los Angeles, 2017 Photo by&nbsp;Wild Don&nbsp;Lewis <img width="1200" height="1544" width_o="1200" height_o="1544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f771598209ce7a64c283eabee9922f5118de35a425183397ed3564d227b8d1a8/akio_aki_score_LA_lowres.jpg" data-mid="53912353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f771598209ce7a64c283eabee9922f5118de35a425183397ed3564d227b8d1a8/akio_aki_score_LA_lowres.jpg" />Score by Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e661f991d98b98cb39007baee67993f309d40b044b5fa11578c6bd9aa70805ae/108_CC.jpg" data-mid="53969925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e661f991d98b98cb39007baee67993f309d40b044b5fa11578c6bd9aa70805ae/108_CC.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1448" width_o="2000" height_o="1448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5de6046bce07747724748576143f9ed48fa7bbade0c129c4e5969d1853d5c5d3/__aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_009_A.jpg" data-mid="31529915" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5de6046bce07747724748576143f9ed48fa7bbade0c129c4e5969d1853d5c5d3/__aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_009_A.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1449" width_o="2000" height_o="1449" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8418ba29e779640ef355669fe6caa29942242d9f4870ecedab40ee7ef4b55dcb/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_010_CC.jpg" data-mid="50782677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8418ba29e779640ef355669fe6caa29942242d9f4870ecedab40ee7ef4b55dcb/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_010_CC.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1405" width_o="2000" height_o="1405" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2807a8adbe9fbf8a373f1af98921e016667d70791174d7bea019b6ec6156f8a/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_012_CC.jpg" data-mid="50784574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2807a8adbe9fbf8a373f1af98921e016667d70791174d7bea019b6ec6156f8a/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_012_CC.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1411" width_o="2000" height_o="1411" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58ab6694bab9a7fd3ea15bc3d8ca61ef4e71188f324f91a669ecc796861cfa1c/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_004_CC.jpg" data-mid="50784498" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58ab6694bab9a7fd3ea15bc3d8ca61ef4e71188f324f91a669ecc796861cfa1c/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_004_CC.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1428" width_o="2000" height_o="1428" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e8db91bae3fc629ff12f151272aca6f2045f2cf178320cbf20251d118633523/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_002_CC.jpg" data-mid="50784843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e8db91bae3fc629ff12f151272aca6f2045f2cf178320cbf20251d118633523/aki_CM_sokolowsko_scan_002_CC.jpg" /> Cassette Memories in Sokolowsko, 2018 Photo by Kazimierz Ździebło Aki Onda’s Notes for Cassette Memories in Sokolowsko, 2018 (a part of collage was made in collaboration with Kama Sokolnicka) <img width="1700" height="1133" width_o="1700" height_o="1133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/562299927ba52f6a0c38384194edcb7a9fee67bfea1c75b7891e9c8af737e48d/___DSC0058.jpg" data-mid="54403753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/562299927ba52f6a0c38384194edcb7a9fee67bfea1c75b7891e9c8af737e48d/___DSC0058.jpg" /><img width="4375" height="3371" width_o="4375" height_o="3371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8412046cc3f27f3ba4a99857a4bc9de828019d4bc5db592314f7359d27b2777/AO_score_reflections_and_repurcussions_BMCM_2019.jpg" data-mid="54403784" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8412046cc3f27f3ba4a99857a4bc9de828019d4bc5db592314f7359d27b2777/AO_score_reflections_and_repurcussions_BMCM_2019.jpg" />Reflections and Repercussions at Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, NC, USA, 2019 Photo by Kate Averett Score by Aki Onda <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b13888bced97ff16a6040a206cc71e4b32aab35a3c747195e709346d3958624b/IMG_8697.jpg" data-mid="56170434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b13888bced97ff16a6040a206cc71e4b32aab35a3c747195e709346d3958624b/IMG_8697.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/543963d21feb78bef62bf86643e1bb15e60fbcb98c9ff3ce9486f02500f1c826/IMG_8766.jpg" data-mid="56170570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/543963d21feb78bef62bf86643e1bb15e60fbcb98c9ff3ce9486f02500f1c826/IMG_8766.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1060" width_o="1500" height_o="1060" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c380e8ca81db4bf6a76d1d52e00587e857a9e7a96cb5baf7ee8b5efbc46b058/AO_score_CM_prague_2019_LOWRES.jpg" data-mid="56170447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c380e8ca81db4bf6a76d1d52e00587e857a9e7a96cb5baf7ee8b5efbc46b058/AO_score_CM_prague_2019_LOWRES.jpg" /> Cassette Memories at Stone Bell House, Prague, 2019Photo by Jan BartošScore by Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Moving-Circle Thu, 08 Nov 2018 21:24:00 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Moving-Circle <img width="2085" height="2212" width_o="2085" height_o="2212" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9037d67e10b8d06fb6e2bf5f7767463f2cd27e7be9c9990233a180fab95ad1d/RISU2.jpg" data-mid="31527790" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9037d67e10b8d06fb6e2bf5f7767463f2cd27e7be9c9990233a180fab95ad1d/RISU2.jpg" /> https://akionda.net/Upcoming Sun, 25 Nov 2018 06:44:03 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Upcoming ︎ PERFORMANCE︎ EXHIBITION ︎ CURATION ︎ TALK ︎&nbsp;RADIO ︎ OTHERS2026 ︎ November 13 - December 18 Aki Onda Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me in&nbsp;scores &amp; scripts at Pubric Gallery, London, UK ︎ November 8 (Sun, 5:30 pm)Aki Onda Cassette solo&nbsp;performance at Tokyo Jazz Club (6F), Tokyo, Japan ︎ November 1 - 8 Aki Onda Collage on Cassette installation&nbsp;(organized by Jam Acuzar) at Tokyo Jazz Club (1, 2, 5, and 7F), Tokyo, Japan ︎ Septeber 26 (Sat, 2 pm)José Maceda Cassettes 100, directed by Aki Onda, at SITE in the Edition Festival, Stockholm, Sweden (CANCELLED) ︎ Septeber 17 (Thu, 7 pm) Aki Onda Cassette Solo in STUK START 2026 at STUK, Leuven, Belgium︎ Septeber 13 (Sun, 5 pm) Aki Onda presents Suigyu Gakudan listening session in Second Sundays #71 at Q-O2, Brussels, Belgium ︎July 21 (Tue, 7 pm) Aki Onda Spirits Known and Unknown with Zach Rowden at The Barn at&nbsp; Denniston Hill Residency (43 Denniston Road), Glen Wild, NY, USA︎July 8 - 22 Aki Onda at Denniston Hill Residency,&nbsp;Glen Wild, NY, USA︎July 4 (Sat, 8 pm) Aki Onda &amp; Ayumi Suzuki at fttari, Tokyo, Japan ︎June 13 - July 14 Aki Onda “Transmissions from the Radio Midnight” in "On The Air," organized by Darling Green, at Ulterior Gallery, New York, USA ︎ May 13 (Wed, 4 - 6 pm PST)Aki Onda presents two-hour special episode (radio program) at Byron Westbrook's Chromatic Fields, dublab, Los Angeles, USA︎ May 09 (3 - 4 pm EST, WGXC-90.7 FM broadcast or https://wavefarm.org) Radio Roaming: Aki Onda's “Ugnayan”: Music for twenty radio stations composed by José Maceda at Wave Farm, Acra, NY, USA ︎April 27 (Mon,&nbsp;3.30 - 5 pm) Aki Onda talk “Listening Salon: Yuji Takahashi” at Knowledge Knowing Centre in Thailand Biennial Phuket, Phuket, Thailand <img width="1283" height="1600" width_o="1283" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac804520c7a516c81eb35ad2b97327414d5b8908160c13e32890f8217825ea60/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-23-at-10.41.11.jpeg" data-mid="247769904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac804520c7a516c81eb35ad2b97327414d5b8908160c13e32890f8217825ea60/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-23-at-10.41.11.jpeg" /> ︎ April 4 - August 23Aki Onda "Bells"&nbsp;in "Speaking in Tongues" (Curated by Amanda Sroka) at ICA LA, Los Angeles, USA︎ April 4 (Sat, 2 pm)Aki Onda "Bells" performance in the opning of "Speaking in Tongues" at ICA LA, Los Angeles, USA︎March 23 (Mon, 7 pm)&nbsp; Aki Onda &amp; Ayumi Suzuki at Hako Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ︎ March 9 (Mon, 6:30 pm) Listening to José Maceda: A Conversation with Aki Onda, guest speakers: Bill Dietz and Patrick Flores, as a part of the Whitney Biennale at Whitney Museum, New York, USA ︎ March 8 - TBA (sometime in October 2026) Aki Onda presenting José Maceda "Uganayn (Music for 20 Radio Stations) in the Whitney Biennial (Curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer), New York, USA <img width="1234" height="768" width_o="1234" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a003476774bd5d0761b873db485d0d06a94feffb67e076d27320986a4f75cff1/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-11.38.45.png" data-mid="241849794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a003476774bd5d0761b873db485d0d06a94feffb67e076d27320986a4f75cff1/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-11.38.45.png" /> ︎ March 7 (3:30 pm) &nbsp; Aki Onda performs as part of Takuma Nakahira: Encounter:&nbsp;daylong celebration of the publication of At the Limits of the Gaze: Selected Writings by Takuma Nakahira -- at Artist Space (11 Cortlandt Alley), New York, USA ︎ March 6 (Fri, 7 pm) Aki Onda Cassette Solo,&nbsp;Spirit Known and Unknown (Petit)&nbsp;with Zach Rowden, followed by a discussion with e-flux Performance Curator Sanna Almajedi at&nbsp;e-flux (172 Classon Ave), Brooklyn, New York, USA 2025︎&nbsp;November 29 - April 30, 2026 Tomiyama Taeko, Yuji Takahashi, Hidane Kobo archival sections, organized by Rebecca Jennison and Aki Onda, at&nbsp;Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025, Phuket,&nbsp;Thailand&nbsp; ︎︎October 29 (Wed, 6 - 8 pm) Aki Onda in Sonic Commons at CTHQ (located on the 7th Floor of 59 East 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan), New York, USA <img width="1258" height="1264" width_o="1258" height_o="1264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90c3812836e47d0b345cc6425aea2d5dcc0058b590070072c5cba2667bfe16d8/Screen-Shot-2025-10-21-at-11.44.34.png" data-mid="239684293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90c3812836e47d0b345cc6425aea2d5dcc0058b590070072c5cba2667bfe16d8/Screen-Shot-2025-10-21-at-11.44.34.png" /> What does it mean to listen to the Lower East Side? Artist Aki Onda joins us virtually, together with New York–based collaborators, for a gathering featuring field recordings and archival films from the neighborhood’s community gardens. The event builds on Onda’s 2020 project Silence Prevails: Lower East Side Community Gardens During the Pandemic, which reimagines listening as an expansive act—attuning to the environment, layered histories, and the voices of those connected to these green spaces. Onda invites longtime neighbors and collaborators to share their own relationships to the gardens: Maylyn 'Zero' Iglesias reflects on the work and legacy of the late photographer Marlis Momber, while Brigitte Engler discusses the folded cloth prints workshops at&nbsp;the Green Oasis Community Garden. Together, their contributions form resonant portraits of these living community spaces—sites as layered and multivalent as the gardens themselves. ︎&nbsp;October 22 (Wednesday, 7 pm, free admission)Aki Onda "Spirit Known and Unknown (Rephrase)” with George Rahi, Adrian Avendano, and Kiran Bhumber,&nbsp;at Vancouver Public Library (Organized by Publik Secrets), Vancouver, Canada ︎ September 18 (Thursay, 3 - 5 pm, free admission) José Maceda Cassette 100,&nbsp;directed by Aki Onda, with two sets of the performance and public talk, in Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo, Norway ︎ September 14 (Sunday, 7 pm)&nbsp; Classic Album Sundays: Aki Onda Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me&nbsp;at&nbsp;Goldie Bar &amp; Scene in Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo, Norway︎ September 2 (Tuesday, 4 pm) Aki Onda Cassette Solo performance at Sound Room in&nbsp;NAKWON SANGGA in “Séance: Technology of the Spirit,” Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2025, Seoul, South Korea ︎August 26 (Tuesday, 5:30 pm)Artist Roundtable with&nbsp;Aki Onda, Haroon Mirza, Hiwa K, Hyung-Min Yoon, and&nbsp;Sanna Almajedi (modelated by&nbsp;Ben Eastham) at Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Hall in“Séance: Technology of the Spirit,” Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2025, Seoul, South Korea︎ August 26 – November 23 Aki Onda Transmissions from The Radio Midnight &amp; The Little Girl in Tangier (Reprise) in Sound Room&nbsp;at&nbsp;NAKWON SANGGA (curated by Sanna Almajedi) in “Séance: Technology of the Spirit,” Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2025, Seoul, South Korea ︎ August 26 – November 23 Aki Onda Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me in “Séance: Technology of the Spirit” (curated by Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis) in Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2025, Seoul, South Korea <img width="551" height="551" width_o="551" height_o="551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/413e08af4faa0b609a75d051b459c16ebb16a854f115f0e4471a2030b98aa3df/mb_67e399058494a.jpg" data-mid="237093198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/551/i/413e08af4faa0b609a75d051b459c16ebb16a854f115f0e4471a2030b98aa3df/mb_67e399058494a.jpg" /> ︎May 18 (Sun, 6 pm) Aki Onda Spirit Known and Unknown with Park Jiha in Mode 2025 (Corridor Square, Ginza 7-chome, B1F), Tokyo, Japan <img width="1300" height="1624" width_o="1300" height_o="1624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89ec68f9177626bbee4c456143d903c034b4533a69878ed93881c7fa4442f831/Screen-Shot-2025-05-11-at-5.02.14-PM.png" data-mid="233050439" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89ec68f9177626bbee4c456143d903c034b4533a69878ed93881c7fa4442f831/Screen-Shot-2025-05-11-at-5.02.14-PM.png" /> ︎May 9 (Fri, 2:30 pm) Aki Onda Cassette Memories in Yanbian in Changbai Spring 2025 (Curated by Ou Ning and organized by Northeast Asian Art Archive NAAA) at Summer Palce, Erdaobaihe Town, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, China <img width="2150" height="3035" width_o="2150" height_o="3035" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/947bb1a5af8555216857ec6c77f5c02b7e678c0beb2704dbe899fe452fd294bc/F_V1.jpg" data-mid="232923668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/947bb1a5af8555216857ec6c77f5c02b7e678c0beb2704dbe899fe452fd294bc/F_V1.jpg" /> ︎ March 15 (Sat, 8 pm)Still House Plants and Jairus Sharif &amp; Mustafa Rafiq, curated by Aki Onda,&nbsp;at Western Front, Vancouver, Canada&nbsp; ︎March 12 (Wed, 3:30 pm) Aki Onda artist talk at&nbsp;Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada ︎ February 21 - April 12 Aki Onda solo exhibition Middle Of A Moment (curated by Lawrence English) at The Substation (co-presented by Asia TOPA / Arts Centre Melbourne), Melbourne, Australia&nbsp; February 21, 6-8 pm – Opening Event and Bell Performance in The Substation Galleries February 22, 2 pm – Artist talk in The Substation Galleries︎February 21 (8:30 pm)&nbsp;Aki Onda cassette solo, Fabio Perletta,&nbsp;Siri Sirasith at The Substation (co-presented by Room 40 and Liquid Archtecture), Melbourne, Australia ︎ February 1 (Sat) Aki Onda at Fttari, Tokyo, Japan ︎ January 16 - April 20 Aki Onda "Spirits Known and Unknown" installation&nbsp;in group exhibition "Impossible Music" (curated by Candice Hopkins and Raven Chacon) at Tufts Univercity Art Galleries, Medford, MA, USA ︎ January 16 (Thu) Aki Onda “Spirits Known and Unkown” performance by Che Chen and Zach Rowden&nbsp;at Tufts Univercity Art Galleries, Medford, MA, USA 2024︎October 25 (7:30 pm)&nbsp;Aki Onda, MSHR,&nbsp;Jonáš Gruska&nbsp;at Nanahari, Tokyo, Tokyo ︎ September 27 - Novenber 10 Aki Onda "Bells” installation in Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Changwon, South Korea︎September 27 (3 &amp; 4 pm) Aki Onda "Bells" performance featuring Park Jiha at Seongsan Art Hall (2F Exhibition Room) in Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Changwon, South Korea ︎ June 13 - August 4Aki Onda "2012” installation" at The Living Art Museum (curated by Þorsteinn Eyfjörð &amp; Sunna Ástþórsdóttir), Reykjavík, Iceland ︎May 4 – July 27 José Maceda exhibition “Echoes Beyond the Archipelago,”&nbsp;curated by Aki Onda,&nbsp;at Western Front, Vancouver, Canada This exbition explores Maceda’s work as an ethnomusicologist and his major compositions Pagsamba (1968), Ugnayan (1974), Udlot-Udlot (1975), and Music for Five Pianos (1993).Admission: Free Opening Reception: May 4, 7 - 9 pm <img width="1000" height="714" width_o="1000" height_o="714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b05249726c4f793e80b4b9e545619017dabaac64e6a106c8098707084c2d99e/image-1000-157c6befc09ad424633f4bb84fb965cc.jpg" data-mid="208863821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b05249726c4f793e80b4b9e545619017dabaac64e6a106c8098707084c2d99e/image-1000-157c6befc09ad424633f4bb84fb965cc.jpg" />Courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology ︎May 4 – June 1&nbsp;José Maceda “Ugnayan” (Music for 20 Radio Stations) installation, curated by Aki Onda, at Luxe Hall of Western Front, Vancouver, CanadaAdmission: FreeOpening Reception: May 4, 7 - 9 pm ︎May 4 (Sat, 4 pm)&nbsp; José Maceda “Udlot-Udlot” performance, curated by Aki Onda, co-presented by Western Front and the Roundhouse Community Arts &amp; Recreation Centre, at George Wainborn Park, Vancouver, Canada ︎February 23 (Fri, 7:30 pm &amp; 9 pm) Aki Onda cassette solo at Blank Forms, Brooklyn, NY, USA︎Febryary 17 (Sat, 7 pm)Jessika Kenney &amp; Eyvind Kang,&nbsp;Paul Chiyokten Wagner, curated by Aki Onda, at Western Front, Vancouver, Canada 2023 ︎December 17 (Sun) Aki Onda cassette solo at Soto, Kyoto, Japan ︎December 16 (Sat, 8 pm) Aki Onda cassette solo at ftarri, Tokyo, JapanReservations required at info@ftarri.com︎ December 13 (Wed, 3 pm)Aki Onda talk "José Maceda Retrospective in Vancouver 2024" in YPAM Exchange at YPAM-Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting, Yokohama, Japan ︎October 22 (Fri, 1 pm)Film screening: Aki Onda "Captured in the Air - A Portrait of Loren Connors", Vincent Guilbert "Gesturesby" at Full of Noise, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK ︎Nov 17 - 18 (Fri, 7:30 pm &amp; Sat, 3 pm)Nour Mobarak “Co-Motion Single Field Instrumt,” curated by Aki Onda, at Western Front, Vancouve, Canada ︎Oct 12 - 19&nbsp; Yes No Wave Candian tour featuring Gabber Modus Operandi, Rani Jambak, Natasha Tontey,&nbsp;Riar Rizaldi Canadian tour,&nbsp;Curated by Aki Onda and&nbsp;Wok the RockOct 12 - send + receive, WinnipegOct 13 - Music Gallery, TorontoOct 15 - Arts in the Margins, MontrealOct 16 - Debaser, OttawaOct 18-19 - Western Front,&nbsp;Vancouver ︎ September 30 - December 10 Aki Onda installation "Spirits Known and Unknown" installation in group exhibition "Impossible Music" (curated by Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins with Stavia Grimani) at Miller ICA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA︎September 29 (Fri, 5:30 pm) Aki Onda “Spirits Known and Unknown” performance featuring Eyvind Kang at Miller ICA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA ︎ September 8 (Fri, 11 pm GMT) Aki Onda and&nbsp;Cosey Fanni Tutti in “Casseptember” at Late Junctions, hosted by&nbsp;Jennifer Lucy Allan, on BBC3 Radio, London, UK ︎July 1 (Sat) - 4 (Tue) Ho Tzu Nyen "Night March of Hundred Monsters" Music by Aki Onda featuring Keiji Haino, Phew, and Nao Nishihara in Theater Der Welt, Frankfurt, Germany ︎June 8 &amp; 9 (Thu &amp; Fri) Aki Onda “Spirits Known and Unknown,” guest performer: Eyvind Kang (organized by Helga Fassonaki) in the Everything in Air at Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec5c93eee05f156a1a4a4e97b2df4809aedf14b6815e8e31df80ad68ac1b19d6/unnamed-2.jpg" data-mid="164553936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec5c93eee05f156a1a4a4e97b2df4809aedf14b6815e8e31df80ad68ac1b19d6/unnamed-2.jpg" /> ︎ June 1 (Thu) - September 30 (Sat) Aki Onda “Espíritus en frecuencia,” including two installations “Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me” and “Bells” (organized by Cinthya García Leyva), at Casa del Lagos UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico“Bells” performance witth Darío Bernal Villegas, Chris Cogburn and Dora Juárez Kiczkovsky Thursday June 1 | 6:00 and 7:00 pmSaturday, June 3 | 1:00 pm ︎March 26, (Sat) YoshimiO and Aki Onda at POLARIS, Tokyo, Japan <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ba18a0356f3e1cb6b13ecefaaddbb364e2be95fe76e71e4a2d58f7473acb6ae/230326FLYER.jpg" data-mid="165391505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ba18a0356f3e1cb6b13ecefaaddbb364e2be95fe76e71e4a2d58f7473acb6ae/230326FLYER.jpg" /> ︎ March 17 (Fri) - April 23 (Wed)Aki Onda installation “Between Objects, Noted and Unnoted Sounds” in the exhibition "Nam June Paik: I Expose the Music" (Curated by Rudolf Frieling in close cooperation with Christina Danick and Stefanie Weißhorn-Ponert) at Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, GermanyPerformance: March 16, 8 - 10 pm, at the opning of the exhibition︎February 25 (Sat, 7 pm) Aki Onda talk at m-works, Mito, Japan (Japanese only. E-mail panta_rhei0501@yahoo.co.jp for more details)︎ February 11 (Sat) - May 14 (Sun)&nbsp; Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency at ICA LA in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Including Aki Onda's two photographs of Milford Graves and Min Tanaka performance at Big Bang, Kyoto on February 25, 1985 ︎January 30 (Mon, 6 - 8 pm EST) Online workshop led by Tyler Maxin "The Subliminal World: Intuitive, Stochastic, and Supernatural Sound-making," guest artist: Aki Onda, organized by Wave Farm Radio, Acra, New York, USA 2022︎December 4 (Sun, 5 pm)&nbsp; Aki Onda, Tomoko Sauvage (2 solo performances)&nbsp;at&nbsp;Kannou-ji (Organized by&nbsp;The 5th Floor with Hideki Umezawa), Tokyo, Japan <img width="920" height="450" width_o="920" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6266cf92ab7d8ebc13fb0b8ef5e2b0f06ea727cdd5ba7f1abecb81ccce8f2970/cover-gxZH1IdKiU5JxJsB1ta5JWhMIUg1RmcO.jpg" data-mid="159612579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/920/i/6266cf92ab7d8ebc13fb0b8ef5e2b0f06ea727cdd5ba7f1abecb81ccce8f2970/cover-gxZH1IdKiU5JxJsB1ta5JWhMIUg1RmcO.jpg" /> ︎ October 28 - May 7, 2023 Aki Onda “Prevails: Lower East Side Community Gardens During the Pandemic” in the group exhibition “Don’t Blame it on ZEN: The Way of John Cage &amp; Friends” at MOCA Jacksonville, FL, USACurated by Jade Dellinger.Other featured artists: Maria Chavez, Philip Corner, Andrew Deutsch, Ann Hamilton, Christian Marclay, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, and others. &nbsp; ︎September 3 (Sat, 6 - 8 pm) Aki Onda, Tomoko Hojo&nbsp;(two solo performances and a talk) at&nbsp;mhPROJECT_ ノコギリニ, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan ︎July 26 (Tue) - 29 (Fri) Aki Onda lecture and seminor in the Low Residency Visual Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Portland, OR, USA︎July 11 (Mon) - 14 (Thu) Aki Onda seminar with MV Carbon at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, USA ︎June 15 (Wed) - July 17 (Sun)Aki Onda "Almost Air" in HELLO MONO-HA! (curated by David Blamey) at White Conduit Projects, London, UK ︎June 11 (Sat, 3 and 6 pm) &amp; 12 (Sun, 3 pm) Aki Onda "Cassette Memories in the Lower East Side" performances in several community gardens in the Lower East Side &nbsp;(curated by Jody Graf organized by MoMA PS1), New York, NY, USAThese performances will run 90 minutes each and involve quiet listening, walking, and standing. The exact meeting location will be shared upon RSVP. <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96073d037f3d49c03353b6e28e274bd837bab66635835f7b6d366b0226f25f9c/Aki_Onda_Flyer_220525-3.jpg" data-mid="150706550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96073d037f3d49c03353b6e28e274bd837bab66635835f7b6d366b0226f25f9c/Aki_Onda_Flyer_220525-3.jpg" /> ︎June 2 - January 2023Aki Onda installation "Silence Prevails: Lower East Side Community Gardens During the Pandemic" in Life Between Buildings (organized by Jody Graf) at MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA ︎May 28 - May 28, 2023 Aki Onda “Stuck Until It Falls Down” in Universal Iteration: Intermissions (curated by Bob Edrian and Asikin Hasan) at Salihara Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia︎April 15 (Fri, 7 pm EDT)Aki Onda hybrid lecture "Unusual Transmissions" at Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University,&nbsp;Pittsburgh, PA, USA︎March 26 - June 5 Aki Onda&nbsp;installation “Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me” at 72 Perth Avenue in Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, CanadaDownload the printed ephemera. &nbsp; ︎March 27 - June 6 Aki Onda International Radio Broadcasts “Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking to Me” at twenty-one radio stations in several continents at Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Toronto, Canada — Sunday, March 27: 18:00 EDT. NAISA Radio as part of Deep Wireless Radio and Transmission Art Festival.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Valparaíso, Chile — Friday, April 1: 19:00 CLST. Radio Tsonami. *○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Acra, New York, USA —Saturday, April 2: 15:00 EDT. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Sydney, Australia — Monday, April 4: 22:00 AEST. Eastside Radio 89.7 FM as part of Listening Space. ***○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Hong Kong, Hong Kong — Friday, April 8: 22:00 HKT. Hong Kong Community Radio.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Luxembourg, Luxembourg — Monday, April 11: 22:30 CEST. Radio ARA 87.8, 102.9 &amp; 105.2 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;London, United Kingdom — Wednesday, April 20: 20:00 GMT. Resonance FM 104.4 FM as part of Clear Spot. *○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Paris and Mulhouse, France — Saturday, April 23: 13:00 CEST. ∏Node DAB+.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bandung, Indonesia — Sunday, April 24: 20:00 WIB: Norrm Radio.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Istanbul, Turkey — Thursday, April 28: 21:00 TRT: Root Radio. &nbsp; &nbsp;○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Los Angeles, California, USA — Saturday, April 30: 10:00 PDT. dublab.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mexico City, Mexico — Wednesday, May 4: 16:00 CDT. Radio UNAM 96.1 FM as part of Islas Resonantes. *○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bethlehem, Palestine — Wednesday, May 11: 19:00 PST. Radio Alhara. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Londrina, Brazil — Monday, May 16: 20:00 BRT. Rádio UEL 107.9 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Auckland, New Zealand — Thursday, May 19: 19:00 GMT. AFM Radio 88.3 FM.○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Berlin, Germany — Tuesday, May 24: 16:00 CEST. Colaboradio / Freie Radios – Berlin Brandenburg 88.4 FM (Berlin) &amp; 90.7 FM (Potsdam).○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Brussels, Belgium — Friday, May 27: 01:00 CEST. Radio Campus 92.1 FM. **○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom — Saturday, May 28: 15:00 WEST. Soundart Radio 102.5 FM. **○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Canela, Brazil — Sunday, May 29: 19:00 BRT. Rádio Contato 102.5 FM. **○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Melbourne, Australia — Wednesday, June 1: 18:00 AEST: Crawl Space Radio. ***○ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Utrecht, Netherlands — Monday, June 6: 05:00 CEST. Concertzender various frequencies. &nbsp;** &nbsp; 2021︎ December 22 (Wed, 9 am in UK, 5 pm in the Philippines, and 6 pm in Japan) José Maceda's Cassettes 100 reimagined with Aki Onda and David Dino Guadalupe&nbsp; This talk vent is organized by 33 33 in London, UK, in cojunction with the video posting of Cassette 100 performance at TPAM 2019, Yokohama on The Wire magazine︎&nbsp; December 18 (Sat, 4:30 pm) Aki Onda “Reflections and Repercussions” with Manami Kakudo at Bankart KAIKO, Yokohama, Japan ︎ October 23 - January 23, 2022Ho Tzu Nyen "Night March Of Hundred Monsters" Music by Aki Onda featuring Keiji Haino and Phew, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan ︎ October 8 - January 8, 2022Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency at Artists Space in New York, NY, USAIncluding Aki Onda's two photographs of Milford Graves and Min Tanaka performing at Big Bang, Kyoto on February 25, 1985 ︎September 17 (Friday, 3 - 9 pm PDT) Aki Onda video "In Search of Paik" webcast in "Afterlude/Prelude: Artists Respond to Nam June Paik" (organized by SFMoMA and National Gallery Singapore)︎September 18 - 19 (Sat &amp; Sun, 10 am - 5 pm PDT)Aki Onda video "In Search of Paik" on site screening in "Afterlude/Prelude: Artists Respond to Nam June Paik" (organized by SFMoMA and National Gallery Singapore) at SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA, USA &nbsp; ︎ September 3 - Jan 6, 2022 Group Exhibition “Don’t Blame it on ZEN: The Way of John Cage &amp; Friends” at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC, USACurated by Jade Dellinger. Including Aki Onda’s “Prevails: East Village Community Gardens During the Pandemic.” Other featured artists: John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Glenn Branca, David Byrne, Maria Chavez, Philip Corner, Andrew Deutsch, Peter Greenaway, Ann Hamilton, Lejaren Hiller, James Klosty, Alison Knowles, Shigeko Kubota, Christian Marclay, Charlotte Moorman, Olivier Mosset, Dave Muller, Michael Oldenberg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Robert Rauschenberg, M.C. Richards, Matana Roberts, and Lawrence Voytek &nbsp; ︎ July 10 - September 4 Aki Onda solo exhibition “A Letter from Souls of The Dead” at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, USAOpen Hours: Thursday &amp; Friday 12:00–6:00 PM / Saturday &amp; Sunday 12:00–4:00 PM Free and open to the public. Masks required. <img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54de9af76bc5cab13864f3dc09553644c338e1a55a4ee875b49bce16c4937ec9/Aki-Onda-instagram_bells-Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" data-mid="111736918" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54de9af76bc5cab13864f3dc09553644c338e1a55a4ee875b49bce16c4937ec9/Aki-Onda-instagram_bells-Photo-by-Marcus-Fischer_Courtesy-of-PICA.jpg" /> I’m fascinated by the idea of communicating with the spirits of the dead, the relationship of matter and spirit, and a form of séance to demonstrate the mediumship. –Aki Onda (excerpt from the forthcoming interview with Kristan Kennedy) After decades of a twinned music/visual-art practice, A Letter from Souls of The Dead is the first major solo exhibition in the United States by Aki Onda. Commissioned by PICA and curated by Kristan Kennedy, Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art, this exhibition will feature collections of found objects such as bells, surplus electronics, photographs, and old-fashioned slide projections. The soundtrack for this exhibition was composed by Onda in collaboration with New Yorked-based vocalist Charmaine Lee and New Haven-based musician Zach Rowden. A Letter from Souls of The Dead will also feature an installation of 60 enlarged prints, 50 broken tape recorders, and a suspended print piece, jointly titled "Collage on Cassettes." These works chronicle Onda’s field recordings which over the years have served as a sonic diary, mimicking and manipulating memory over time. This chorus of analog media will create tangible and energetic relationships across PICA’s warehouse space forming a kinship between the living and the dead, the functional and the broken, the artist and the audience. According to Onda, collecting is “an extension of my cassette practice to expand the realm of reminiscence beyond my territory and consciousness -- a sort of collective consciousness in order to reach out to something universal.”&nbsp; A Letter from Souls of The Dead is a physical embodiment and energetic transmitter for memories and souls past, present, and future. On the opening day of the exhibition Saturday, July 10, there will be intermittent performances by Aki Onda and Portland-based sound artist Marcus Fischer. These performances will serve to both activate the objects and acknowledge the trauma of the past year, in the US and globally.︎&nbsp;June 16 - 20 (Wed - Sun) Aki Onda “Stack Until It Falls Down” installation at INTONAL Festival at Inkonst, Malmö, Sweden︎ May 9 (Sun, 21:15 - 22:10 CEST)&nbsp;DJ أمواج a.k.a. Aki Onda “Ghost Frequency” in Radiophrenia at Rewire online edition, Netherlands&nbsp; ︎February 10 (Wed, 10 pm) Aki Onda talks on&nbsp;José Maceda (guest: Makoto Nomura)&nbsp;at Amazon Club Online in TPAM - Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan&nbsp; ︎ February 8 (Mon)CANCELLED due to declaration of a state of emergency&nbsp; José Maceda "Udlot-Udlot" directed by Aki Onda at Yokohama City Hall Atrium in TPAM - Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan <img width="2479" height="3184" width_o="2479" height_o="3184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7bc6a3d21a3278432c7ae1d7e675ec600c978f34755375761f874bc02e9c7c7/Udlot-Udlot-_WEB.jpg" data-mid="92104419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7bc6a3d21a3278432c7ae1d7e675ec600c978f34755375761f874bc02e9c7c7/Udlot-Udlot-_WEB.jpg" /> 2020︎December 12 (Sat) - March 21 (Sun), 2021 Aki Onda’s two installations “Silence Prevails: East Village Community Gardens During the Pandemic” “Collage on Cassettes” in “Listening: Resonant Worlds” at Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan <img width="420" height="297" width_o="420" height_o="297" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc56d4cf87d73a5817f7aa25244e64e5832e897ab52455b60b29fca6049619b2/kiku_.jpg" data-mid="92103652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/420/i/dc56d4cf87d73a5817f7aa25244e64e5832e897ab52455b60b29fca6049619b2/kiku_.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="3397" width_o="2400" height_o="3397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be9c4a32fa79d3b20b85eb1cf5adeaff2777ab76a3425bf6f24eac054b912bbb/AO_Collage_on_Cassettes_WEB.jpg" data-mid="92103628" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be9c4a32fa79d3b20b85eb1cf5adeaff2777ab76a3425bf6f24eac054b912bbb/AO_Collage_on_Cassettes_WEB.jpg" /> ︎November 21 (Sat, 12 pm &amp; 6 pm GMT) DJ أمواج a.k.a. Aki Onda “Ghost Frequency” (new commiossion work for radio transmission) at&nbsp;Radiophrenia, Glasgow, UK <img width="3005" height="2003" width_o="3005" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44e7de56084e8f1e68aac2b91612b8cd0ea969d2023bfd16919519ea6cdc048d/ghost_frequency_image_CROP_3_B.jpg" data-mid="85076813" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44e7de56084e8f1e68aac2b91612b8cd0ea969d2023bfd16919519ea6cdc048d/ghost_frequency_image_CROP_3_B.jpg" /> Yes, radio transports signals across a variety of distances. But does it leap time...? No. What would happen if it were to jump to the future, passing through both time and space? The sound source of this recording is a series of radio broadcast captured when I visited Morocco in 2010. During the two-week trip to Tangier, Fez, and Marrakesh, I kept making field recordings of daily news or local music programs, recordings which I’ve now randomly edited for this 60-minute piece. Beyond radio’s typical function of frequency relay and capture, I wanted to produce an illusional frequency—collapsing time and space and expanding the territory of our aural imagination. With our activities now delimited by our local vicinity, travel is rare and encounters with others are limited. We have found ourselves hemmed in at a moment of political and social turbulence. I just thought travelling somewhere, even though it's imaginary, could be refreshing and inspiriting for our minds. ︎August 23 (Sun) - 30 (Sun, streaming every evening at 6:30 pm PDT) Aki Onda "Stack Until It Falls Down" at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art / PICA, Portland, OR, USA <img width="1202" height="1200" width_o="1202" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/656c71718881fbc90713557e4fb0d85e7724e721d2d6aeb955fd4d7417356ed8/PICA.jpg" data-mid="80433411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/656c71718881fbc90713557e4fb0d85e7724e721d2d6aeb955fd4d7417356ed8/PICA.jpg" /> Stack Until It Falls Down was composed by Aki Onda in May 2020 during the lockdown of the COVID-19 crisis. The Fluxus-type score instructs a simple gesture and its repetition. The action of stacking, reflected in the video, suggests activity in our lives or maybe life itself. It’s a recurring cycle that culminates in a potentially unfortunate fate. Stack Until It Falls Down was shot at Hurricane Point – a little known place along the Brooklyn shore of the East River. As one of a few places along the river where two currents meet, Hurricane Point developed as a small island made out of the drifted debris from Hurricane Sandy. This location communicates with the harsh reality of life, and Onda’s simple gesture becomes a metaphor or poetic response to the unprecedented times. The video was made with Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker Moko Fukuyama and sound designer Daniel Neumann. ︎July 15&nbsp; (Wed, 8 pm EDT)Aki Onda “Captured in The Air” in Isolated Field Recordings Series at ISSUE Project Room, New York, USA ︎POSTPONED June 25 (Thu) - 28 (Sun) Sonic Journey project (Aki Onda workshop and concert with Hong Kong local artists) at the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong ︎POSTPONED June 4 (Thur) - July 30 (Thu)Aki Onda solo exhibition “Letters from Dead Souls” at Portland Institute for Comtemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR, USA︎May 24 (Sun, 4 pm EDT) Aki Onda video work “For the Souls of the Dead” at Experimental Sound Studio's The Quarantine Concerts (curated by Ka Baird), Chicago, USA ︎POSTPONED&nbsp;April 23 (Thurs, 7:30 &amp; 9:30 pm)Aki Onda “Cassette Memories” at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, USA <img width="953" height="975" width_o="953" height_o="975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd98f5ba71a31535f19d6bb6ce01d9b7bf9a499310ed28188fa332478afebe97/Screen-Shot-2020-02-16-at-10.35.19-AM.png" data-mid="61182139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/953/i/cd98f5ba71a31535f19d6bb6ce01d9b7bf9a499310ed28188fa332478afebe97/Screen-Shot-2020-02-16-at-10.35.19-AM.png" /> ︎CANCELLED March 31(Tue) Che Chen, Charmaine Lee and Aki Onda at Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY, USA ︎CANCELLED March 25 (Wed)Aki Onda at TV Control Center, Athens, Greece ︎CANCELLED&nbsp;March 21 (Sat)Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda at Imago Dei Festival, Krems, Austria ︎POSTPONED&nbsp;February 22 (Sat)Aki Onda at West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong ︎POSTPONED February 21-22 (Fri, 8 –10:30 pm;&nbsp;Sat, 2:30 – 5 pm)Creation for Freespace: Exploring Experimental Music Workshop with Aki Onda at West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong ︎February 5 (Wed)Aki Onda at Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand ︎February 4 (Tue)Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda at&nbsp;Parnell Train Station&nbsp;(organized by Audio Foundation), Auckland, New Zealand ︎February 2 (Sun, 3 pm)Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda at&nbsp;Maungawhau Lava Cave (organized by Audio Foundation), Auckland, New Zealand ︎January 31 (Fri)Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda in Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts at The SUBSTATION, Melbourne, Australia ︎January 21 (Tue)Aki Onda at Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ︎January 19 (Sun, 6 - 6.45pm)Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda in Mona Foma at Annexe Drama Studio, Inveresk, Tasmania, Australia ︎January 18 (Sat, 2.15&nbsp;- 3pm) Aki Onda in Mona Foma at Annexe Theatre, Inveresk, Tasmania, Australia ︎︎January 6 - 12 (Mon -&nbsp;Sun) José Maceda “Ugnayan (Music for 20 Radio Stations)” installation curated by Aki Onda in New Ear Festival at Fridman Gallery (co-presented by Wave Farm), New York, NY, USA <img width="1500" height="2128" width_o="1500" height_o="2128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a62e3b9aa825820a1fe97d43ccb7c981cda948bc5fda270684d4502f202fca89/Brochure-Outside-New-Ear.jpg" data-mid="58148596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a62e3b9aa825820a1fe97d43ccb7c981cda948bc5fda270684d4502f202fca89/Brochure-Outside-New-Ear.jpg" /> 2019 ︎December &nbsp;16 (Mon) Aki Onda in Outlier at Jack, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA ︎December &nbsp;12 (Thu) Aki Onda “Reflections and Repercussions” in EI December Performance Series (curated by Phill Niblock) at Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY, USA ︎&nbsp;December &nbsp;8 (Sun, 4 - 9 pm) Aki Onda open studio in Second Sundays&nbsp;at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, USA ︎&nbsp;December &nbsp;1 - 31 (Sun - Tue) Aki Onda Residency at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, New York, USA ︎November 29 (Fri) Aki Onda “Reflections and Repercussions” in Toronto Biennial of Art at 259 Lake Shore Blvd East, Toronto, Canada ︎November 13 (Wed) Aki Onda “Bells” with Moko Fukuyama and Lucie Vítková in Folly Systems (co-organized by Outpost Artists Resource and curated by Cecilia Lopez), Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY, USA <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f5fd7d26e795c7435f4bad9580dfb17c5ff999330e724d93d1d9963a5d66197/folly.jpg" data-mid="53522044" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f5fd7d26e795c7435f4bad9580dfb17c5ff999330e724d93d1d9963a5d66197/folly.jpg" /> ︎November 6 (Wed) Aki Onda “Reflections and Repercussions” at The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC,&nbsp;USA ︎October 23 (Wed) Aki Onda in&nbsp;La douceur d’un son nouvel at&nbsp;anciens locaux de La Manivelle, Die, France ︎October 22 (Tue) Aki Onda at Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France ︎October 12 (Sat) Aki Onda at Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels, Belgium ︎October 8 (Tue) Aki Onda “Cassette Memorires” at Stone Bell House in Sonic Circuits&nbsp;(organized by G HMP and Agosto Foundation), Prague, Czech Republic ︎October 5 (Sat) Aki Onda at Nub Project Space, Pistoia, Italy ︎October 4 (Fri) Aki Onda at Giardino dei Droidi Custodi (organized by Hybrida), Venzon,&nbsp;Udine, Italy ︎October 3 (Thu) Aki Onda at Paradoxes, Ravenna, Italy ︎October 2 (Wed) Aki Onda at Macao, Milan, Italy ︎September 29 (Sun) Aki Onda in Ausland, Berlin, Germany ︎September 25 (Wed) Aki Onda in Avant Art Festival, Wrocław, Poland <img width="600" height="350" width_o="600" height_o="350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/805c1a0aea6580e41b53009281adc41159a90e4b5ee5377d996ee1f3ac786dff/thumb_375884_600x350_0_0_crop.jpg" data-mid="43839753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/805c1a0aea6580e41b53009281adc41159a90e4b5ee5377d996ee1f3ac786dff/thumb_375884_600x350_0_0_crop.jpg" /> ︎August 25 (Sun) Aki Onda &amp; Loren Connors&nbsp;in Spectare Vbilibet (organized by Tabitha Piseno) at Magenta Plains, New York, NY, USA <img width="956" height="956" width_o="956" height_o="956" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeaab7875368bfcdbe325418a04daffc95b2907af605d84789161ba834062bc0/825.jpg" data-mid="48626077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/eeaab7875368bfcdbe325418a04daffc95b2907af605d84789161ba834062bc0/825.jpg" /> <img width="1078" height="1078" width_o="1078" height_o="1078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e2379733a678670441acce33c2b2051b2c82b86816e5fbb76c00ea42c94ebb2/825_3.jpg" data-mid="48626606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e2379733a678670441acce33c2b2051b2c82b86816e5fbb76c00ea42c94ebb2/825_3.jpg" /> ︎July 18 (Thur)Aki Onda, Sean Ali, Zach Rowden at H0l0, Brooklyn, NY, US ︎July 14 (Sun, 7-10 pm) Sean Ali, Leila Bordreuil, Joanna Mattrey trio, guest musicians: Aki Onda and&nbsp;Ben Bennett at 355 Chauncey St, Brooklyn, NY, USA ︎ July 5 - July 14 (Fri - Sun) Archway Sound Symposium at Five Years Gallery, Archway, London, UK &nbsp;Artists: Rita Evans, Paul Good and Kirsty Wood, Katz Mulk, Georgia Lucas-Going, Christian&nbsp;Marclay, Makoto Nomura, Aki Onda, Jennifer Walshe <img width="1138" height="1170" width_o="1138" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45f331aa994df3d53479fba494e9331182ac93c6a1390e8cfaf7f81ad65414f6/archway.jpg" data-mid="45200946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45f331aa994df3d53479fba494e9331182ac93c6a1390e8cfaf7f81ad65414f6/archway.jpg" /> ︎ June 26 - 28 (Wed - Fri) Bard MFA Summer Seminar on José Maceda with Aki Onda,&nbsp;Marina Rosenfeld and Bill Dietz, Bard Collage, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA ︎May 8 (Wed) Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda in Angelica Festival, Bologna, Italy ︎May 5 (Sun) David Toop, Aki Onda and Akio Suzuki in Flutter Echo Festival at Cafe Oto, London, UK ︎May 3 (Fri) Rie Nakajima, Aki Onda and Akio Suzuki at STUK, Leuven, Belgium ︎April 30 (Tue) Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda at iii, Den Haag, The Netherlands ︎April 28 (Sun, durational performance from 2 - 6 pm) Rie Nakajima, Aki Onda, Akio Suzuki and David Toop "dara dara" at LA SENNE in Oscillation Festival and Art Brussels (organized by Q.O.2), Brussels, Belgium <img width="998" height="1172" width_o="998" height_o="1172" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a12fa922f11de19a9bcb3fd4cbc40436b30d8d6c5adc129d38a6069fd20603f/oscillation.jpg" data-mid="35784296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/998/i/2a12fa922f11de19a9bcb3fd4cbc40436b30d8d6c5adc129d38a6069fd20603f/oscillation.jpg" /> ︎ April 26 (Fri) Aki Onda talk on José Maceda at RITCS School of Arts in&nbsp;Oscillation Festival (organized by Q.O.2), Brussels, Belgium ︎April 7 (Sun, 8:25 pm) Aki Onda at Ende Tymes 10 Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation, Brooklyn, NY, USA <img width="1155" height="1740" width_o="1155" height_o="1740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f1a4080e4b96b32c36458a823008c6659f7e154e56cf3db1fe192e2f68950ee/Ende-Tymes-X-poster-1_OK.jpg" data-mid="38170730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f1a4080e4b96b32c36458a823008c6659f7e154e56cf3db1fe192e2f68950ee/Ende-Tymes-X-poster-1_OK.jpg" />︎April 4 (Thu) Aki Onda "Reflections and Repercussions" with Samita Sinha at Crow Museum of Asian Art in Soluna Festival, Dallas, TX, USA ︎March 22 (Fri)Aki Onda, Sean Ali, and Zach Rowden at Areté Gallery (67 West St #103, Brooklyn), Brooklyn, NY, USA ︎March 18 (Mon)Cecilia Lopez and Aki Onda "Bifurcations" at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY, USA ︎March 13 (Wed) Ka Baird and Aki Onda at Fridman Gallery, New York, NY, USA ︎February 13 (Wed) "Recalling Voices" - Lin Chi-Wei and Wang Hong-Kai curated by Aki Onda at Kosha33 (organized by ARTWAVE) in TPAM - Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan ︎ February 11 (Mon) José Maceda "Music for Five Pianos", "Two Pianos and Four Winds" curated by Aki Onda, performed by Aki Takahashi, Yuji Takahashi and others, conducted by Josefino Chino Toledo at KAAT Hall in TPAM - Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan <img width="938" height="1322" width_o="938" height_o="1322" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98e67d63d8a1dd8e8c61d60102c98120804fee158b0da95b309cc9a942027df5/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.56.36-AM.png" data-mid="33733333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/938/i/98e67d63d8a1dd8e8c61d60102c98120804fee158b0da95b309cc9a942027df5/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.56.36-AM.png" /> ︎ February 10 (Sun)José Maceda "Cassettes 100" curated by Aki Onda, choreographed/directed by Yoko Higashio and Toshio Kajiwara (ANTIBODIES Collective) at KAAT Atrium in TPAM - Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan <img width="2476" height="3505" width_o="2476" height_o="3505" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1f0c6cf612b6f0c8da4dd2f0b2ec59591703d783da9d8310b65f779babbedc5/__Cassette100_Calling_OK.jpg" data-mid="38171431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1f0c6cf612b6f0c8da4dd2f0b2ec59591703d783da9d8310b65f779babbedc5/__Cassette100_Calling_OK.jpg" /> ︎ January 18 (Fri, 2:30 - 4 pm)Aki Onda talk "Sound + Space" followed by conversation with Kazuo Imai (Marginal Consort) at Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in PuSh Festival, Vancouver, Canada ︎ January 7, 9, 14, 17, 21, 24 (Mon, 9 pm &amp; Thu, 9 am) Aki Onda radio shows “Music of José Maceda”— episode 1, episode 2, episode 3 at Resonance FM, London, UK https://akionda.net/BIO-1 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:11:08 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/BIO-1 &nbsp; Aki Onda is an artist,&nbsp; composer, performer, and curator. <img width="570" height="570" width_o="570" height_o="570" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7736f8a705396557ff43b17d1acff8b9541a1ae4a86d04cdb5bd5db31c1da6bd/____aki_photo-by-Brian-Whar_2_LowRes.jpg" data-mid="160342434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/570/i/7736f8a705396557ff43b17d1acff8b9541a1ae4a86d04cdb5bd5db31c1da6bd/____aki_photo-by-Brian-Whar_2_LowRes.jpg" /> Onda’s works are often catalyzed by and structured around memories—personal, collective, historical—such as their widely-known project, Cassette Memories (2004–ongoing), drawn from three decades of field recordings. Crossing genres, Onda has been active internationally in art, film, music and performance. Their artistic collaborators include Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Paul Clipson, Raha Raissnia, Ho Tzu Nyen, Loren Connors, Alan Licht, Annea Lockwood, David Toop and Akio Suzuki. Onda has presented their work at The Kitchen, MoMA, MoMA P.S.1, New Museum, Blank Forms, ICA Philadelphia, REDCAT, Time-Based Art Festival, Walker Art Center, Novas Frequências, documenta 14, Louvre Museum, Pompidou Center, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Argos, Bozar, ICA London, La Casa Encendida, Caixa Forum, Serralves Museum, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nam June Paik Art Center and many others. Onda has been also active as a curator and organized major performances and exhibitions throughout Asia and North America. They were Guest Director of TPAM-Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (current YPAM), Japan from 2016-19 and currenty work as Curator-at-Large at Western Front, Vancouver.&nbsp; https://akionda.net/INFO-1 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:52:17 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/INFO-1 akiondamusic@gmail.com journals ︎ &nbsp;videos&nbsp;︎design&nbsp;︎&nbsp; https://akionda.net/Space-Studies Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:56:16 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Space-Studies Space Studies&nbsp; <img width="5000" height="3338" width_o="5000" height_o="3338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccf553940094f23cf859f9d5f346f624ebf0203404d5d6b75b9de4bec5b9ce96/00_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_053.jpg" data-mid="28064859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccf553940094f23cf859f9d5f346f624ebf0203404d5d6b75b9de4bec5b9ce96/00_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_053.jpg" /> Space Studies (2017) multi-media performance / installation Sound is&nbsp;a&nbsp;primarily&nbsp;spatial&nbsp;phenomenon.&nbsp;How&nbsp;exactly&nbsp;does&nbsp;sound&nbsp;take shape and move within an environment?&nbsp;How&nbsp;do dynamics, reflection, and absorption transform&nbsp;sound?&nbsp;How&nbsp;does&nbsp;the visual interact with the listener's aural perception? With my “Space Studies” performance-installation project, I explore the interplay between the acoustic, architectural, and emotional relationships within a&nbsp;given space. I perform with analog equipment such as radio, tape recorder, slide projector, and found objects such as&nbsp;a&nbsp;bucket,&nbsp;a&nbsp;mirror,&nbsp;a&nbsp;fan, lights, etc. I arrange and rearrange these tools and objects, manipulating the sonic and visual fields within&nbsp;a&nbsp;space as&nbsp;a&nbsp;total environment. There is&nbsp;a&nbsp;rich history of composers drawing attention to&nbsp;sound's spatial&nbsp;qualities –&nbsp; Alvin Lucier, Maryanne Amacher, and Phill Niblock have designed works that utilize the acoustic characteristics of&nbsp;a room. Aligning myself within this lineage, I hope to explore new possibilities by investigating the relationships between&nbsp;sound&nbsp;and the visual,&nbsp;sound&nbsp;and movement,&nbsp;sound&nbsp;and light. &nbsp; Residencies 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp; Q-O2, Brussels, Belgium Performances 2017&nbsp; &nbsp; South London Gallery, London, UK (organized by thirty three thirty three) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Galerie des Étables in Sound &amp; The City - Interference, Bordeaux, France (organized by &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; monoquini) Reviews2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; “Aki Onda Space Studies” ArtReview by Daniel Wilson <img width="5000" height="3338" width_o="5000" height_o="3338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bf2657a3fc1d36897b495c69fae20bf26ce3d63926b0a8338a0acb59bbbd32a/01_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_007.jpg" data-mid="27819917" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bf2657a3fc1d36897b495c69fae20bf26ce3d63926b0a8338a0acb59bbbd32a/01_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_007.jpg" /> <img width="3338" height="5000" width_o="3338" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a3788982891ae54ed3f7df29a0e3c5df2225a0b9f0b518d3be080506af51d20/07_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_042.jpg" data-mid="27819921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a3788982891ae54ed3f7df29a0e3c5df2225a0b9f0b518d3be080506af51d20/07_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_042.jpg" /> <img width="3338" height="5000" width_o="3338" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dea53a58fede257441916f5b6676933793002057775c5c5fa7f9349ca7b0dff/08_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_058.jpg" data-mid="27819922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dea53a58fede257441916f5b6676933793002057775c5c5fa7f9349ca7b0dff/08_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_058.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3338" width_o="5000" height_o="3338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e17e416bdb7dbb7031e177e95fe962f300057ccc97775f5e7f280b135a6f933/02_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_006.jpg" data-mid="28064860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e17e416bdb7dbb7031e177e95fe962f300057ccc97775f5e7f280b135a6f933/02_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_006.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3338" width_o="5000" height_o="3338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8317fe45aa4c148cc53284de9a8e62b62f924e6359bcb9dbf1ad48c99bad4c7/04_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_033.jpg" data-mid="27819919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8317fe45aa4c148cc53284de9a8e62b62f924e6359bcb9dbf1ad48c99bad4c7/04_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_033.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3338" width_o="5000" height_o="3338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8310864e680ae78ff71ca19a063fae85bdb1a3ad7ba3ccbeef34886025700961/06_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_008.jpg" data-mid="31980584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8310864e680ae78ff71ca19a063fae85bdb1a3ad7ba3ccbeef34886025700961/06_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_008.jpg" /><img width="5000" height="3338" width_o="5000" height_o="3338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/732c03433734e63be073a4a2df1e2c754ec9c0cefd9d6a32030dec43d67d7082/10_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_049.jpg" data-mid="27819924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/732c03433734e63be073a4a2df1e2c754ec9c0cefd9d6a32030dec43d67d7082/10_AKI_ONDA_SLG_17.06.24_049.jpg" />Photos by Brian Whar https://akionda.net/Reflections-and-Repercussions Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:19:28 +0000 Aki Onda https://akionda.net/Reflections-and-Repercussions Reflections and Repercussions <img width="1700" height="1133" width_o="1700" height_o="1133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bd1cf1427f6e1b4d5fd42dd94727b05436a6f8f906fb1832e576e603b246f1c/___DSC0058.jpg" data-mid="55327955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bd1cf1427f6e1b4d5fd42dd94727b05436a6f8f906fb1832e576e603b246f1c/___DSC0058.jpg" />Photo by Kate AveretReflections and Repercussions (2018 – on going) multi-media performance&nbsp; A multi-media performance exploring the interplay among luminosity, acoustic, and architectural relationships within the space. Performing with various types of lightning equipment such as theater lights, flashlights, bare light bulb, mirrors and other objects, I arrange and rearrange the tools composing the visual and aural as a total environments. The complex relationship between the concrete and the ephemeral is explored. Performances2018 &nbsp; &nbsp; Drawing Center, New York, USA (with Ying Liu) 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; Crow Museum of Asian Art / SOLUNA International Music &amp; Arts Festival, Dallas, USA (in collaboration with Samita Sinha) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, USA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada (with&nbsp;Candice Hopkins) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY, USA (with Lemon Gao) 2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; Bankart KAIKO, Yokohama, Japan (in collaboration with Manami Kakudo)&nbsp; <img width="4375" height="3371" width_o="4375" height_o="3371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5341f9f87ba327e54955fa863a2cabf163e8bcca51b2e28f306bf908544946b8/AO_score_reflections_and_repurcussions_BMCM_2019.jpg" data-mid="55879745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5341f9f87ba327e54955fa863a2cabf163e8bcca51b2e28f306bf908544946b8/AO_score_reflections_and_repurcussions_BMCM_2019.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a261fbc334e70f47ef2a0af8696e7bbe40b21f14376e465a57cec5a63182fa2d/_DSF8675_light.jpg" data-mid="60680658" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a261fbc334e70f47ef2a0af8696e7bbe40b21f14376e465a57cec5a63182fa2d/_DSF8675_light.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ff656d519c156f0eefab62b9a234bb1454986fce6ae03fa7848dabf6638594c/_DSF8554_light.jpg" data-mid="60680984" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ff656d519c156f0eefab62b9a234bb1454986fce6ae03fa7848dabf6638594c/_DSF8554_light.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/721b7809cebc6ff5df4ad9e3d8e19bf750136332fb34612558160eaae0bbf89c/_DSF8725_light.jpg" data-mid="60680659" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/721b7809cebc6ff5df4ad9e3d8e19bf750136332fb34612558160eaae0bbf89c/_DSF8725_light.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e26642f7ce15a25335afddf20cc79c760433a180365578683c1f6176f8fc262f/_DSF8244_light.jpg" data-mid="60680620" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e26642f7ce15a25335afddf20cc79c760433a180365578683c1f6176f8fc262f/_DSF8244_light.jpg" />Experimental Intermedia, New York, 2019 Photo by Makiko Onda <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cceeda7ac5c4698e732e26def13eb8d3149cf228191b3102d3db712140116b1/__DSF3581_light.jpg" data-mid="49647945" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cceeda7ac5c4698e732e26def13eb8d3149cf228191b3102d3db712140116b1/__DSF3581_light.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/522954634aeec064d7ddc52d8f98dba50074c8c7d6b6f2059499b15e17e9b88b/__DSF3671_light.jpg" data-mid="49647946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/522954634aeec064d7ddc52d8f98dba50074c8c7d6b6f2059499b15e17e9b88b/__DSF3671_light.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19057286df0b987251ab716de28c5ffe5d2e6bab64ea8a98017395ae70b4bb14/__DSF3756_light.jpg" data-mid="49647948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19057286df0b987251ab716de28c5ffe5d2e6bab64ea8a98017395ae70b4bb14/__DSF3756_light.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4528293dd23a39740e864fe765642e46fb6bd986129f5a1914815413364b096/__DSF3552_light.jpg" data-mid="49647944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4528293dd23a39740e864fe765642e46fb6bd986129f5a1914815413364b096/__DSF3552_light.jpg" /> Drawing Center, New York, 2018Photo by Makiko Onda