Japan, Music, 2010
Yutaka
Makino
Born 1976 in Japan, lives in Los Angeles. After his studies in science and art at Royal Conservatoire Den Haag and at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Makino studied computer music at Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), Paris, Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatoire Den Haag and with Curtis Roads at University of California Santa Barbara. Numerous grants and residencies; awarded the Prix Ton Bruynel 2007 (Amsterdam).
Active primarily in the field of computer music, Yutaka Makino has also created sculptures and sound installations. On the basis of his investigations into spatial perception and new methods of sound synthesis, his works make use of concepts inspired by his current research into areas such as complex dynamic systems and emergence. His music is mainly concerned with the complex processes of sonic motion that emerge as mass phenomena from the continuous transformation and circulation of large clouds of sound particles; he uses sound projection processes such as wave field synthesis for their presentation. Pieces such as Amorphous, premiered in 2008 at the International Gaudeamus Music Week, are representative of his work in this context.
With the turntablist Takuro Mizuta Lippit alias DJ Sniff (STEIM, Amsterdam), he performs live electronic music as Audile.
In 2009, he founded an independent computer music label, Strukto.
During his stay as guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program, Yutaka Makino plans to use the wave field synthesis apparatus at the Technische Universität Berlin – currently the world’s largest system of its kind, with 2700 loudspeakers and 832 signal channels – for a series of new computer music compositions and sound installations. Besides his activities in Berlin, He will work on a new commission for STEIM at Japan Society, New York.
Homepages:
http://www.yutakamakino.com/
http://www.strukto.org/
Photo: Kai Biener
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Relational Conditions
Yutaka Makino2015, Catalog
The artistic situations created by Yutaka Makino can best be understood as integrated states at the crossroads between art, music, philosophy, perception, and science. Each of these aspects generates an access point to works that usually take the form of installations or performances. Intellectual understanding is coupled here with the viewer’s perceptual and physical interaction with the created environments. The audiovisual situations are based on a specific concept and limited to a specific scenario conjured using concise and reduced means. Bright, white light or laser beams in the mist, an anechoic chamber, directional speakers, gradually unfolding sound processes – these are the aesthetic tools Makino commands in his dissolution of spatial boundaries. The texts in the catalog track various links between this artistic work and general discourses on perception and spatial esthetics.
Yutaka Makino, born in Japan and currently based in Berlin, was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program in 2010 in the field of music. He studied environmental science in Japan, visual arts in the USA, and computer music in the USA and Europe. The catalog presents the first comprehensive overview of his work 2010 – 2014.Order: contact@kehrerverlag.com
