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Featuring members of the Kitchen Orchestra (from Norway) going head to head with some of Tokyo's most adventurous improvisors! Japanese Musician: Manabu Suzuki (electronics) Junji Hirose (sax) Daysuke Takaoka (tuba) Kelly Churko (guitar) Kaoru Suzuki (drums) & Kitchen Orchestra ##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. [Test Tone Homepage](http://www.soundispatch.com/ttsnews/) [Cal Lyall and Yasufumi Suzuki Special Interview!! (JP only)](http://sdlx.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html) Artist information: ##Manabu Suzuki  [Manabu Suzuki Homepage](http://www.geocities.jp/ijnsz) ##Junji Hirose  [Manabu Suzuki Homepage](http://www.junjihirose.jp) ##Daysuke Takaoka  [Daysuke Takaoka Homepage](http://www.myspace.com/takaokadaysuke) ##Kelly Churko  [Kelly Churko myspace](http://www.myspace.com/kellychurko) ##Kaoru Suzuki  ##Kitchen Orchestra  For many years Stavanger, Norway has produced some of Norway’s most profiled improvisational musicians. 22 of these professional players, ranging from local jazz musicians to the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, have come together under the name Kitchen Orchestra as a music collective exploring the improvisational relationship between the individual and the ensemble in the context of modern and jazz music. Kitchen is a rotating body of musicians with no one leader. A collective force of creativity combined with an invited external composer/bandleader directing them into unrestrained and unpredicted musical territories. This results in wide ranging musical ventures and collaborations that have include Alexander von Schlippenbach, Øyvind Torvund, Inbal Pinto, Evan Parker, Keith Tippet, Trevor Wishart, Reidar Larsen, Svein Tang Wa, Steve Beresford, David Kane, and Lotte Anker. Kitchen has most recently recorded an album with Alexander von Schlippenbach to be released later this year.  Member: Petter Frost Fadnes - Saxophone / Electronics Didrik Ingvaldsen - Trumpet / Electronics Gunhild Seim - Trumpet / Electronics Nils Henrik Asheim - Hammond B3 / Electronics John Lilje - Electric Bass Thomas Bang - Electric Bass Dag Egil Njaa - MaxMSP Ståle Birkeland - Drums, Electronics Dag Magnus Narvesen - Drums Dominique Brackeva - Trombone / Vocals Support: EU-Japan Fest Norsk Kulturråd Stavanger Kommune FFUK Royal Norwegian Embassy in Japan