Sound Composition / Design
Artist Collaborations
(Selection)
Blind Flower, 2023
Tama Art University
Tokyo, Japan
// Live Performance
Jun Mizumachi composed sound sequences and accompanied Kentaro Sugi’s live performance, a flower path practitioner with a unique approach rooted in the art of "ikebana". He manipulates elements like seeds and pollen as "flowers" and extracting the inner essence of flowers, which is the source of life. It's a ritualistic act, even reviving flowers that have returned to the soil.
Collaboration w/ Carsten Aniksdal
Landskaplser #1
Video | 05:00 | HD | 2022
Oslo, Norway
2022
// Sound Design
Collaboration w/ Annebarbe Kau
Plop
Cologne, Germany
2021
// Sound design
The project OPEN CALL: Billboards was a pragmatic response to the closures of cultural institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of the Ebertplatz passages being paused during this period, as many artistic positions as possible were brought into the outdoor space to give pedestrians and transit visitors the opportunity to see something and to correspond with the character of the passages during this time.
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Collaboration w/ Yngvild Rolland
Portrait of a Woman by the Piano
Bergen, Norway
2021
// Sound Design
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[extract] Rolland’s large-scale sculptures are passive yet activated by sound and therefore given a new function. Resonating trough the sculptures is a three channel sound piece, Passings, 2021, with one channel in each sculpture. For this conceptual piano work she has collaborated with sound designer Jun Mizumachi, and the original acoustic piano was recorded by Sebastian Rolland. A dramatic sequence that makes use of all 88 piano keys starts off the sound in Passings. The following composition happens in the interaction between audio channels. Each channel contains tones with specific note names, such as C-#C-D-#D, that have been arranged by a non-hierarchic approach to tonal arrangements. This idea of selecting different notes for different objects leaves a possibility for an absurdly large installation with 88 sculptures carrying one note each, with audible tones attacking and passing.
