Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2010

Where is the next Yellow Magic Orchestra or Takeshi Murakami? You might just find them working together at the Experimental Sound, Art & Performance Festival, hosted by the Tokyo Wonder Site project for emerging artists. The cross-disciplinary festival takes in everything from the “sound objects” of +LUS to Mamoru’s Etude no.13 -ice-, an ice cube-based audiovisual installation. There’s also the butoh-meets-electric guitar improvisation of Azumaru x Takuya and the audiovisual dance show by Duo X (Naomi Sato and Laura Carmichael, left). Exactly what Hiroko Okuma’s “A Modern Puberty Woman” is about one can only imagine, but apparently it involves some sort of meditation on female identity and aging.

Experimental Sound, Art & Performance Festival
Experimental artists from around the world converge in Tokyo. Until Feb 28, various times, ¥500-¥3,000 (per performance). Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo. Tel: 03-5689-7501. meturl.com/sound