shotahirama by Shota Hirama. New website: SIGNAL DADA

SIGNAL DADA new official website for Sound Artist shotahirama.

shotahirama:

shotahirama is a Sound Artist/novelist from New York, US and currently live in Tokyo, Japan. Inspired by Modern Art, Dada, Bauhaus and Postmodern literature. Also known for the founding of the SIGNAL DADA, Edition NIkO (NIkO Label), ENG (electronoise group) and JANDEATH. His musical focus is characterized by digital synth and field recording with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; grainy textures, complex patterns of smooth drones, and microscopic clicks and cuts.

Shota, as a solo artist or in other project, has released music on the following record labels: Improvised Music From Japan (Japan. BOOK/CD compilation, 2009), Re-Records (Hongkong. CDR album, 2010), mAtter (Japan. BOOK/CDR, BOOK/DVD, coming 2010), Symbolic Interaction (Japan. CD compilation, coming 2010), Under The Spire Recordings (UK. CDR album, coming 2010), and more.
net labels: TecnoNucleo (Spain. mp3 album, 2007), Alg-a (Spain. mp3 album, 2008), NTNS Radio (Netherlands. mp3 compilation, 2009).

And from 2009, Shota launched a collaborative project "Giuseppe La Spada + shotahirama", with Italian Webby awards winner, Giuseppe La Spada. Known as "one of the most highly rated film-artist of the moment" -Drome Magazine. In 2008 he strengthened the collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Fennesz following the two artists with his visual comments during the tournèe Cendre. This "Giuseppe La Spada + shotahirama" will be release out soon from mAtter label (Japan). Stay tuned for more information...

For Japanese, please go to shotahirama's official myspace:

myspace.com/shotahirama

Recent works:

"Tapepoiesis"
release date: 20th Aug 2010
label: Edition NIkO (Japan)
price: 2,100 Yen (Tax Inc.)
buy: popmuzik and more coming...
cat number: NI008R
format: CDR
LTD: 50
cover design: shotahirama (All self made: Lists of 50 at flickr)

Info:
shotahirama, not his solo album but his side-project, radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG) is back!
Their new album "Tapepoiesis" is a dedication album to legendary tape music community LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society, The Lowest Form Of Music). ENG head shotahirama (now a novelist and still a laptop musician releasing some materials from Japanese sound-art label mAtter, and Re-Records from Hong Kong) is back on ENG music after their last album "Dokument 2006-2009". Bizarre, dada, surreal, all anti-real factors are concrete together as a hyper-reality tape music. This is their new masterpiece and it is a new epic for the noise-concrete music. (-text by Edition NIkO)

Japanese:
GRAFKAVAN.

"Unhappy American Lost In Tokyo"
release date: 4th May 2010
label: Re-Records (Hongkong)
price: 1,575 Yen (Tax Inc.)
buy: ABC Roppongi, Lona Records, popmuzik and more coming...
cat number: RE-CD-005R
format: CDR
cover design: Re-Records

Info:
Tokyo based sound artist, shotahirama's newest album "Unhappy American Lost in Tokyo", inspired by the ideas of person who has a dual nationality, multiple citizenship and explores themes of their loneliness, alienation, insomnia, existential ennui, and culture shock against the backdrop of a modern Japanese cityscape. Sounds move across a broad range of spheres from electronic based composition, through to evocative field recordings that seek to reveal those sound spaces largely ignored or inaudible. Capturing sounds as delicate as sand grains in motion. Shota uses laptop computers to makes multilayered compositions that blend synthesized melody and conventional musical instruments with harsh, irregular glitch-influenced sounds and washes of white noise. Shota also used amount of field-recording materials (taken by shota himself) to create concrete noise for dynamic sounds of drone. (-text by Re-Records)

Japanese:
GRAFKAVAN.

"Improvised Music from Japan 2009"
release date: 20th Dec. 2009
label: Improvised Music from Japan (Japan)
price: 2,625 Yen (Tax Inc.)
buy: HMV, Tower Records, Diskunion and more...
cat number: IMJ-310-312
format: Book, CD
cover design: Tetsuya Umeda
cd mastering: Toshimaru Nakamura

Info:
shotahirama his new track "Music for Narita Airport" and the article about his private-label, Edition NIkO and "Deep Listening Chair festival" appears on Improvised Music from Japan's new Book/CD, "Improvised Music from Japan 2009", released on December 20th. Among the assembled musicians/writers are such familiar names as Cal Lyall, Chihei Hatakeyama (Spekk), and Keiichiro Shibuya (ATAK), Taku Sugimoto, Yoshihide Otomo, etc. You can buy at HMV, Tower Records, DiskUnion and more... Further information on this release can be found at www.japanimprov.com

Japanese:
www.japanimprov.com

News:

11th Aug. 2010:

shotahirama new BOOK+CD coming soon from mAtter (Japan)

shotahirama new book and CD『ALL THE PRETTY HORSES』coming soon from mAtter. Over 100 pages booklet and 60 min CD! more info TBA at mAtter (JAPAN).