Test Tone

Test Tone vol. 60

Principles of Symmetry and White Noise

Featuring: Veltz / TV-OR (Dedicated to Television Performance), Missing Man Foundation (Cal Lyall + Peter Slade) + special guest, Xtronic (from France) and DJ Evil Penguin

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Veltz / TV-OR (Dedicated to Television Performance)

In a pioneering new unit, VLZ Produkt label head Akira Matsuoka takes a mountain of discarded televisions and recycles them in wonderfully ear-popping ways. "Dedicated to Television Performance" takes Nam June Paik as a starting point for a visceral exploration into our relationship with the cathode ray tube. Half-installation, half-performance, the light, sound and movement of these nearly-obsolete devices will be controlled by three performers in an orchestral cacophony of channel surfing.
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Missing Man Foundation (Cal Lyall + Peter Slade) + special guest

Missing Man Foundation is a collaboration between Cal Lyall (Tetragrammaton, Jahiliyyah) and Peter Slade (Legofriendly). The music takes a semi-improvised approach, emerging into shifting structures from sound sources such as tabletop guitar, manipulated electronics and drum machines. Since 2001, MMF has released three albums, scored music for film, and have appeared on a number of compilations. Ponderosa, MMF's latest recording soon to be released on NKR Records, is the first to mix composed and entirely reconstructed pieces with improvisation.
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Xtronic (from France)

Electronic musician and performer Xtronik constructs a dense tapestry of electronica and digital textures in which percussive noise and bleeps collide in a world where division and fragmentation create industrial ambiences, hypnotic melodies and polar atmospheres. Xtronik has collaborated widely with video producers, artists, graphic designers, theater producers and choreographers. He is also one of the founders of POS-K records.
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Evil Penguin

Master of disguises, Mexican top-hats, ambient rockabilly to minimal Hawaiian Kumulipo chants, the Evil Penguin poses the primordial question of evanescence against a backdrop of New Wave folk. Celebratory, subliminal, moment-to-moment. A Tasmanian treasure with a penchant for open spaces.

About Test Tone

A monthly experiment offering irregular art, music and performance in Tokyo.
The Test Tone series aims to offer a venue for diverse and challenging artists to bring their ideas to a larger community. As a free event open to the public, we hope to bypass the old economies in order to create new ones, while encouraging collaboration in all forms. A collage of media, sound and art in a space available to anyone off the street, the event is a bazaar of potential collisions, where passersby are treated to the unexpected.
For all of this, we found our home base at Super Deluxe, a unique space in Tokyo's midtown, providing a relaxed atmosphere within its modular interior. The event continues to be a celebration of off-kilter creativity in the city: from installation pieces to performance art and visual collaborations; from noise, electronica, ambient sounds and free rock to disorderly jazz and manipulated field recordings. To date, close to 500 artists have been a part of the event, together creating opportunities for unexpected improvisation, collaboration, and festival spirit.