Global Sonic Culture
Sound Arts Visiting Practitioner Lecture Series – 5th May – Makoto Oshiro
Makoto Oshiro is a Tokyo-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and the movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments based on electronic devices, everyday materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He released his first solo CD Phenomenal World on Japanese label Hitorri.
We were listening to Makoto Oshiro ‘s live improvisation online with his self-made instrument. I loved the textures of sound he was running from his ‘self-made’ instrument, and his composition of irregular and random movements which was really unique from other sound artists. The Japan style of bells and beatings were also showing significance in his project, bring a kind of ‘禅意’ aesthetic.