Rainer Kohlberger / Carl Stone + AkaiHirumeライナー・コールバーガー ／ カール・ストーン＋赤い日ル女

LIVE: Rainer Kohlberger (from Austria) A/V set Carl Stone + AkaiHirume Artist information: Rainer Kohlberger   Born 1982 in Austria, is a Freelance Visual Artist living in Berlin. His work is primarily based on algorithmically generated graphics that are exposed in live performances, experimental films and installations. For his work “field” he won the ZKM App Art Award for artistic innovation. He received the Crossing Europe Local Artist Award 2013 for his work humming, fast and slow. [Rainer Kohlberger official website](http://kohlberger.net) Carl Stone + AkaiHirume  Carl Stone and Akaihirume began their collaboration in 2015 in Tokyo, and have since performed around Japan, in Singapore and in New York. In writing about the recent New York performance, critic Brian Zhukov has written: “What unfolded onstage was both sonically accessible and temporally exhaustive as Akaihirume and Stone entered into what could be described as an esoteric and aural courting dance that entranced the entire audience.” Carl Stone Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling." and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between California and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Information Media Technology Department, School of Information Science and Technology at Chukyo University in Japan. [Carl Stone official website](http://www.rlsto.net/) AkaiHirume Akaihirume is a young Japanese singer whose ear is always tuned to the world’s sounds, which she keeps as materials in her shell. As both an original songwriter and an improviser she has worked with a variety of artists, musicians, action-painters, photographers and more. Recent collaborators include Simon Fisher Turner, Yasumune Morishige, Akiko Nakayama and Carl Stone. First classically trained, then took a stint as a rock drummer in several Japanese garage bands. She began her career as a singer/songwriter in 2012. Her singing has been used in the soundtrack for the film Dies Irae by Eori Wakakuwa, and is also featured in Songs For A Thousand Duets, part of the, the sound installation by Duncan Speakman & Sarah Anderson as part of the Saitama Trienniale 2016. [AkaiHirume official website](http://akaihirume.wixsite.com/akaihirume)