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NOBUO
KUBOTA
MÚSICA
I PERFORMANCES SONORES:
MUSIC/SOUND PERFORMANCES:
2000
Performed at WORDS & VOICES, Festival of Experimental Literature
and Music
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
1999 Performed at Northern Lights Festival Boreal, Sudbury, Ontario
1999 Performed at POLYSONNERIES, a live arts festival, Lyon, France
1999 MOUTH MECHANICS, a solo sound performance, YYZ Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario
1998 Performed at BOBEOBI, Festival of Sound Poetry, Berlin, Germany.
1998 Performed at E-Werk with Jurgen Olbrich and Mark Sutherland,
under the sponsorship of ACC Gallery and the Bauhaus University, Weimar,
Germany.
1997 Performed at the "SIA POESIE/YESBE POETRY" Oralita
European network in Poetry and Multimedia Events, University of Bologna,
Bologna, Italy
1997 Performed at Container, Centro Cultura Contemporanea, Firenza,
Italy.
1996 Performed at the Electronic Music Festival, Toronto, Ontario
1995 Solo performance of Voice/Mouth Improvisations, Hart House, University
of Toronto.
1995 Solo performance, Asian Heritage Festival, Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Onario.
1994 Concert of Sound Poetry in Villafranca di Verona, Italy with
sound poets Enzo Minarelli, Carla Bertola and Alberto Vetacchio.
1993 Voice/Mouth Improvisations at the Saw Gallery, Ottawa
1993 Guest performer with the Glass Orchestra at the Music Gallery,
Toronto, Ontario.
1992 Performed at the Sound Symposium, St Johns, Newfoundland.
1992 Performed at the Workscene Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1991 Duo performance with poet Paul Dutton.
1989 Solo performance at the Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1989 Performed in"Lavoixlecorps", a dance opera by Peter
Chin.
1988 Solo performance at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta.
1988 Duo performance with Michael Snow, Quebec City, Quebec.
1987 Solo performance at the KAAI, Kingston, Ontario.
1987 Performed at the Hamilton Artists' Centre, Hamilton, Ontario.
1984 Duo performance with poet Roy Kyooka, The Music Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario.
1983 Duo performance with artist/musician John Kamevaar, The Music
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1982 Solo performance, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1982 Solo performance, Niagara Artists' Centre, St Catherines, Ontario.
1982 Performed at "A Matter of Sound" festival, Glendon
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1981 Solo performance at the Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1981 Solo performance at the Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
1981 Solo performance at York University, Toronto, Ontario.
1981 Group tour, solo performance, Musee de Beaux Art, Montreal, Quebec.
1981 Group tour, solo performance, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
foto:
Xavier Moreno
Nobuo
Kubota (Vancouver, Canadà, 1932) és un expert en tècniques
vocals que exploren els límits de la veu humana i la seva relació
amb el cos, incloent-hi la mímica facial. Tot i que la seva
obra no es basa en el llenguatge, utilitza els elements fònics
de la llengua en la seva expressió i, a més, procura
explorar a fons i amb llibertat l'aparell del mecanisme vocal per
presentar una forma de comunicació diversa. L'obra vocal de
Kubota es basa en la poesia sonora i la improvisació del free
jazz a través de la seva experiència com a antic membre
de la Artist's Jazz Band (l'orquestra del dinamisme i la improvisació),
el CCMC i la influència rebuda de l'obra de Four Horsemen.
Va viure i estudiar al Japó amb el màster de Zen Sohaku
Kobori, amb qui va entrar en contacte amb l'oració budista
dels sutras. Kubota combina el procés d'improvisació
amb el seu propi entorn cultural i els interessos per la música
de cambra japonesa i coreana i les històries cantades coreanes.
És la improvisació el punt de mira de la seva obra vocal
més que no pas les formes preconstruïdes o composades.
La seva obra recent inclou auto-acompanyament amb tota mena d'artefactes
que produeixen sons diversos i samplings en el temps real de creació.
Kubota era un arquitecte en exercici abans que de dedicar tot el seu
temps a l'art visual, la música i les performance vocals i
sonores. Continua dedicant gran part del seu temps a les instal·lacions
escultòriques i altres formes d'art visual. Actualment la seva
obra visual s'ha centrat en la poesia visual sonora que explora l'estratègia
d'"intermedia" i serveix com a extensió del seu treball
vocal. Com a músic, Kubota toca el saxofon i utilitza l'electrònica,
sons pregravats i una sèrie d'aparells que produeixen sons.
Recentment, ha actuat com a vocalista en solitari en alguns dels festivals
de poesia sonora més prestigiosos d'Europa, entre els quals
el YesbePoetry Festival (Universitat de Bolonya, Itàlia), el
Bobeobi Festival (Berlín, Alemanya), el Polysonneries (Lió,
França) i el Words & Voices Festival (Deutsch-Amerikanisches
Institut, Heidelberg, Alemanya). El seu últim treball, sota
el títol de Mouth Mechanics, investiga el mecanisme del vocalisme
i la dramatització de les possibles fonts i desenvolupament
dels sons creats amb la boca.
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Nobuo
Kubota is a master of extended vocal techniques which explore the
boundaries of the human voice and its relationship to the physical
body, including facial mime. Although his work is not based in language
it uses the sonic and phonetic elements of language in its expression
and attempts to freely and fully explore the apparatus of the vocal
mechanism to present a diverse form of communication. Kubota's vocal
work is fore-grounded in sound poetry and free jazz improvisation
through his experiences as an original member of the Artist's Jazz
Band, the dynamic improvising orchestra, the CCMC and his exposure
to the work of the Four Horsemen. He lived and studied in Kyoto, Japan
with the Zen master, Sohaku Kobori where one of the disciplines that
influenced his sound work was the chanting of Buddhist sutras. He
combines the improvisational process with his own cultural background
and interests in Japanese and Korean Court Music and Korean Story
Singing. Improvisation rather than pre-constructed or composed forms
is the focus of his vocal work. His recent vocal works include self-accompaniment
with various sound making devices and real-time sampling.
Kubota was a practicing architect before devoting himself full time
to visual art, music and sound/vocal performance. He continues to
devote much of his time to sculptural installations and other forms
of visual art. Currently, his visual work has been focused on visual
sound poetry which explores the strategy of "intermedia"
and serves as an extension to his vocal work. As a musician, Kubota
played saxophone, electronics, pre-recorded sounds and a barrage of
sound making devices . Recently, he has been performing as a solo
vocalist in Europe's most prestigious sound poetry festivals, including
YesbePoetry Festival (University of Bologna, Italy), Bobeobi Festival
(Berlin, Germany), Polysonneries (Lyon, France) and Words & Voices
Festival (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany). His
new work, under the title of "Mouth Mechanics", investigates
the mechanics of vocalism and the dramatization of the possible sources
and development of vocal/mouth sounds.
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