GuestRoomMaribor2013

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Keisuke Oki (J)

Keisuke Oki is a musician and a conceptual artist that plays classic instruments and creates experimental electronic music. He prepared two live events. In Gallery K18 the artist actualised a performative- presentational event, where he performed traditional and electronic composition in combination with the interpretation of concepts, phenomena and issues which represents the basics of his media-technology projects. Either with the instrument guqin, either with electronics the artist performed four compositions. Wild gooses landing on the island / 8', “M+P” /15', Three variations of the Plum blossom / 8', and The Sea of the city Ise / 5'. On this occasion the artist exposed notations of the performed compositions on the walls of the gallery. A simple gesture of exposing Japanese characters additionally sharpened the basic features of different procedures that the author collaboratively and intertwiningly uses in his work. Musical performance in K18 presented techniques of playing the traditional Japanese song and Chinese aesthetics with emphasized slower sound textures as well as some of the author’s approaches to electronic music and at the same time problematised the usability of the musical notation. The artist connected with the local community through a musical collaboration with (in the city living and working) author Marko Ornik. Their concert at the Central Station was based on live processed electronic music. Keisuke Oki noted that for their musical collaboration he for the most part used “granular synthesis”, inspired by uselessness of the western musical notation in the notation for the “non-western” music.

Text: Petra Kapš