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Adachi Tomomi

  • Born 1972 in Ishikawa, Japan.
  • Based in Berlin, Germany.

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Adachi Tomomi is a performer, composer, sound poet, instrument builder, and visual artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed his own voice and electronics pieces, sound poetry, improvised music and contemporary music works and also presented site-specific compositions, compositions for classical instrumental ensembles, and choir pieces for untrained musicians around the world, including Tate Modern (London, UK), MaerzMusik (Berlin, Germany), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin, Germany), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) and Poesiefestival Berlin (Germany). He uses a wide range of materials in his work, including self-made physical interfaces and instruments, artificial intelligence, brain waves, artificial satellite, Twitter texts, fractures, and even paranormal phenomena.

Adachi presents an intermedia space which is composed of the acts of seeing, reading, listening to and touching texts using audio, visual, hologram and 3D printing in the Contemporary Art exhibition.

For Aichi Triennale 2022’s Performing Arts program, Adachi will direct John Cage’s late work, Europeras 3 & 4. Adachi will also present a solo performance of sound poetry.

Selected Works & Awards
2021
Grand Prize for the opera Romeo will juliet, Agency for Cultural Affairs National Arts Festival – Music Division (Kansai section), Japan
2019
Award of Distinction, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2012
Invited Composer of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin, Germany
2009
ACC Music Grant, New York, USA
2007
Europera 5 (Japan premiere), Suntory Summer Festival, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibition

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Adachi Tomomi, a composer of vocal performances, often uses a technique in which the sound of his voice captured by a microphone is acoustically transformed using a system that tracks his own gestures. In doing so, he focuses on the vocal aspect, rather than the semantic aspect, of poetry, referencing the history of sound poetry. In addition to performing, Adachi also makes his own instruments and creates sound installations. While based in Germany, he has presented his work all over Europe at venues including Tate Modern, the Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, and Centre Pompidou. At this festival, Adachi will direct John Cage’s Europeras 3 & 4, present a solo performance, and mount an installation in an exhibition room at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art.

Adachi explores the latent potential of characters through 3D prints suspended from the ceiling, a huge digital drawing on the walls, images and a hologram unfolding in a cube-shaped screen. His 3D prints show the possibility that characters-which up to now have been printed on flat surfaces due to technical constraints-can extend in a third dimension; in other words, the possibility that characters can be transformed from something that is seen to something that can be physically touched. In his digital drawing displayed on a 2D plane, the word “Silence” is deafeningly repeated. This reminds us that conventional letters and characters are sets of lines that form shapes, and when they are combined they indicate meaningful sounds. The texts that appear as a hologram in the cube-shaped screen are a reference to the pioneers of sound poetry, the Russian avant-garde and Japanese MAVO poets of the first half of the twentieth century. On the screen is projected Adachi’s own performance interpreting these poems as they emerge three- dimensionally.

  • Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2022
  • MAVOtek Part V, 2022
  • Photo: ToLoLo studio
Open
10:00-18:00 (20:00 on Fridays)

*Last admission 30 min before closing time

Closed
Mondays (except for public holidays)
Venue / Access
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (10F)
  • 3 minutes on foot from Sakae Station on the Higashiyama Subway Line or Meijo Subway Line.
  • 3 minutes on foot from Sakae-Machi Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line.

Performances

Sound Poetry Solo Performance

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  • Courtesy of the artist
Dates
Sun, Aug 7, 14:00 / 18:00
Duration
50 min.
Tickets
Adults¥2,000
U25¥1,500

・Door tickets for adults, and U25 cost an additional ¥500.

Note
Children below school age are not permitted.
Venue / Access
Large Rehearsal Room, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater (B2)
  • 5 minutes on foot from Sakae Station on the Higashiyama Subway Line or Meijo Subway Line.
  • 5 minutes on foot from Sakae-Machi Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line.
Performance brochure
Performer:
Adachi Tomomi
PHOTO
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai

Performances

Europeras 3 & 4

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  • Photo: Christopher Felver
Dates
Sat, Aug 13, 17:00
Sun, Aug 14, 15:00

◆= Childcare Service

Duration
120 min.
Tickets
Adults¥3,800
U25¥2,500

・Door tickets for adults, and U25 cost an additional ¥500.

Note
Children below school age are not permitted. Childcare Service
For details (In Japanese)
Venue / Access
Mini Theater, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater (B1)
  • 5 minutes on foot from Sakae Station on the Higashiyama Subway Line or Meijo Subway Line.
  • 5 minutes on foot from Sakae-Machi Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line.
Performance brochure
Composition:
John Cage
Direction:
Adachi Tomomi
Performers:
Sano Noboru (Noh performer / Shite-kata)
Matsuda Wakako (Noh performer / Shite-kata)
Nishimoto Mako (Soprano)
Fukuhara Sumie (Mezzo-Soprano)
Nakai Ryoichi (Tenor)
Komada Toshiaki (Baritone)
Kuroda Aki (Piano)
Yano Yuta (Piano)
Arima Sumihisa (Sound)
Nakayama Nami (Lighting)
Co-operation
Kanazawa Phonograph Museum
PHOTO
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai
  • Photo: Takayuki Imai

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