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Yoshio Machida is a sound and visual artist, Steel Pan player. 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 Serbian band and Miimo, dub-electronica unit by Tatsu (bass) and Norihide Saji (drums).
In 2004, Machida founded AMORFON, a music label / platform for contemporary art events. From this label, he has released his solo albums, unique artists' works from Eastern Europe that have not been introduced so much and "Kindermusik: Improvised Music by Babies", a unique compilation album consisted of only Babies' improvisations as expressing concerns about music. He organized "Japan-Macedonia Exchange Art Exhibition" in Japan and Macedonia for the first time for both countries. In 2007, Machida started to run a podcasting station, SOUNDROOM.JP with Yasufumi Suzuki (commune disc) to introduce experimental music and art. Machida also writes for magazines, gives lectures and has some unique workshops for children through his art activity.
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 Serbian band and Miimo, dub-electronica unit by Tatsu (bass) and Norihide Saji (drums).
In 2004, Machida founded AMORFON, a music label / platform for contemporary art events. From this label, he has released his solo albums, unique artists' works from Eastern Europe that have not been introduced so much and "Kindermusik: Improvised Music by Babies", a unique compilation album consisted of only Babies' improvisations as expressing concerns about music. He organized "Japan-Macedonia Exchange Art Exhibition" in Japan and Macedonia for the first time for both countries. In 2007, Machida started to run a podcasting station, SOUNDROOM.JP with Yasufumi Suzuki (commune disc) to introduce experimental music and art. Machida also writes for magazines, gives lectures and has some unique workshops for children through his art activity.
Finally, the conclusion of the Hypernatural electroacoustic trilogy...
Six years after the release of "Hypernatural #2", Yoshio Machida is rounding up his magnificent trilogy of electroacoustic collages with "Hypernatural #3". A unique and highly personal work, the Hypernatural series has made of Machida a world-class sound artist. Assemblages of field recordings and treated instrumental sounds, the music on "Hypernatural #3" evokes simultaneously the universal and the intimate, Mankind and Nature.
Yoshio Machida has been working on this series since 1997. The first volume was self-released in 1999 and had for theme memory in Eastern Asia ; Volume 2, released by Softl Music in 2001, focused on transparency, unconsciousness and invisible existence. "Hypernatural #3", the last instalment in this triptych, is about oblivion. Machida explains: "Oblivion is characteristic of the correlation between matter and time. Oblivion has a positive aspect: it appears as a natural phenomenon in the passage of time and becomes a factor in creating new worlds. Nature consists of a myriad of different memory-oblivion cycles".
Born in 1967, Japanese artist Yoshio Machida studied minimalist art. While working for international cooperation, he had the opportunity to travel and make field recordings. Since then, he has been using these field recordings, combining them to the treated sounds of real instruments, including gongs and steel drums (the latter instrument playing a non-negligeable role on "Hypernatural #3"). Machida has performed at music festivals, including ISEA2004 and Maerz Musik. David Toop has introduced his music in his book "Haunted Weather", and a track from "Hypernatural #2" was featured in a commercial on French television. He also runs his own Amorfon label.
"Hypernatural #3" is being released by the French label Baskaru. Baskaru’s previous releases (by Lawrence English, Maurizio Bianchi, GoGooo, ENT, (etre), and Urkuma) have established uncanny artistic and visual standards, by which this new opus fully abides.
Six years after the release of "Hypernatural #2", Yoshio Machida is rounding up his magnificent trilogy of electroacoustic collages with "Hypernatural #3". A unique and highly personal work, the Hypernatural series has made of Machida a world-class sound artist. Assemblages of field recordings and treated instrumental sounds, the music on "Hypernatural #3" evokes simultaneously the universal and the intimate, Mankind and Nature.
Yoshio Machida has been working on this series since 1997. The first volume was self-released in 1999 and had for theme memory in Eastern Asia ; Volume 2, released by Softl Music in 2001, focused on transparency, unconsciousness and invisible existence. "Hypernatural #3", the last instalment in this triptych, is about oblivion. Machida explains: "Oblivion is characteristic of the correlation between matter and time. Oblivion has a positive aspect: it appears as a natural phenomenon in the passage of time and becomes a factor in creating new worlds. Nature consists of a myriad of different memory-oblivion cycles".
Born in 1967, Japanese artist Yoshio Machida studied minimalist art. While working for international cooperation, he had the opportunity to travel and make field recordings. Since then, he has been using these field recordings, combining them to the treated sounds of real instruments, including gongs and steel drums (the latter instrument playing a non-negligeable role on "Hypernatural #3"). Machida has performed at music festivals, including ISEA2004 and Maerz Musik. David Toop has introduced his music in his book "Haunted Weather", and a track from "Hypernatural #2" was featured in a commercial on French television. He also runs his own Amorfon label.
"Hypernatural #3" is being released by the French label Baskaru. Baskaru’s previous releases (by Lawrence English, Maurizio Bianchi, GoGooo, ENT, (etre), and Urkuma) have established uncanny artistic and visual standards, by which this new opus fully abides.
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