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Yoshio Machida
12+ albums
japaneseambientelectronicnoiseAvant-Garde
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町田良夫 (Yoshio Machida) is a Tokyo-based sound & visual artist. Born in Japan in 1967. He studied minimal art / music / film extensively under Kuniharu Akiyama, Yoshiaki Touno, Sakumi Hagiwara, Kishio Suga at Tama art university in Tokyo. So far Machida has participated in art events / music festivals like ISEA2004, Sonar-Tokyo, Europhonics Jazz Festival, Maerz Musik Festival, etc... He has been introduced in the book "Haunted Weather" by David Toop and has also been introduced with artists such as Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Merzbow, Aki Onda, Haco, Toshimaru Nakamura, Minamo, Yannis Kyriakides, Alejandra & Aeron, in some compilation albums (Improvised Music from Japan, Sub Rosa, Unsound, Cubicfabric). In 2005, "Afterimage" (from the CD "Hypernatural #2", Softl Music) has been used as the soundtrack for the French TV spot "Visual". In the 90's, Yoshio Machida was involved in international cooperation work in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Mexico, etc... Through this work, he was inspired by Pan-East Asian sun worship basis, then he came out with collage painting & field recording works. Now Machida improvises Steel Pan (which was chosen as an instrument that can be symbol of light, like Asian Gong) and makes "PHOTOBATIK" as well. The music includes elements of ambient, experimental, electro-acoustic, noise, electronic, and contemporary music. Machida is also a band member of WALK WITH THE PENGUIN, a collaborative post-rock with Cinc, a S
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