KODAMA

a sound and performance
project found between the worlds of . . .

◈ hitoshi kojo　 ◈ michael northam

therein they put together approaches of sound and visual work that intends to evoke a sensual experience that integrates improvisation and immersive fields of hearing and seeing. They embrace the life of material and the materiality of life. A work that is suggestive of actionism but projects from that physical basis towards an immateriality of profound listening.

the practical manifestation of KODAMA has taken place equally in rooms intended for post nuclear shelters as well as open fields on high hills of the alps. At home in spaces for 'musical performances' as well as galleries and friends living rooms. The intention to invite the space to participate in the public intimacy of the act of listening.

using found objects to seduce voices from unlikely sources as well as traditional instruments of wind, wires and wood. KODAMA weaves an unexpected union between personal emotional poesie and impersonal dynamic forces of noises. This liminal space is augmented by objects and visual material to create a synthesis of experience.

KODAMA therefore continually proposes their work in new and challenging conditions - inviting the world as well as themselves to unfold the situation into unexpected involutions of molecular expression . . .


































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