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Adachi Tomomi
Born in Kanazawa in 1972, Adachi is a performer, composer, sound poet, instrument builder, and visual artist. Known for his diverse style, Adachi has presented works ranging from performances using his voice and electronics, sound poetry, improvisation, to site-specific compositions and instrumental works. Adachi has showcased his work worldwide including,Tate Modern, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Centre Pompidou, and Aichi Triennale 2022, In 2019, Adachi received the Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for his project ” Voices from Artificial Intelligence in Experimental Improvisation.” And in 2021, was awarded the Grand Prize of the Japan Arts Festival Award and the Keizo Saji Award for“Romeo will juliet,”which utilized the world’s first AI-generated libretto. After being invited to Berlin by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2012, he resided there until 2022, when he relocated his base of activities to Kanazawa. Adachi serves as the director of the “Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival.”
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Old Instruments From the Future, New Instruments From the Past (and Characters)((by Artificial Intelligence))
Adachi tomomi
March 29 – April 26, 2025
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1972 in Kanazawa, Japan
Lives and works in Kanazawa, Japan
Education and Residences
2012 Invited Composer of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin, Germany
2009 ACC Music Grant, New York, USA
1993 Graduated from Waseda University, Japan
Selected Performances
2025 Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival (direction, performance), Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan
2024 Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival (direction, performance), Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan
Voice, Biwa and Electronics, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Lavish Joy, Live streaming & Super Dommune studio, Tokyo, Japan
Sound poetry, Site-specific, Pataecology, Interface: Lecture & Performance, Kanazawa Collage of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
What is the collective instrument? Audience participatory instrumental performance, Kanazawa Night Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
2023 Musica nova Helsinki, Hietsu is Happening! & Tomomi Adachi, Hietsun Paviljonki, Helsinki, Finland
The Painted Bird, Suginami Public Hall, Ogikubo, Tokyo
Mardi Spaghetti, Montreal, Canada
Body without Organs (with Organ)(Opera), Montréal, Canada
Image Forum Festival 2023 “Music as Film,” Goethe Institut Tokyo, Japan
Noh-opera / Noh-tation. Decoding John Cage’s Unrealized Project, Japan Society, New York
2022 John Cage’s “Europeras 3&4”(Japan Premiere), Aichi Triennale, Aichi Prefectural Art Theatre, Nagoya, Japan
Jukka Kääriäinen & Girilal Baars, Au Topsi Pohl, Berlin, Germany
La voce artificiale, Domus Ars – Centro di Cultura, Napoli, Italy
Eröffnung Kulturland Brandenburg, Beelitz, Germany
2021 Opera “Romeo will Juliet,” Kioi Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Transmediale “out of doors, ” the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2020 Xenakis “Persepolis“(Japan Premiere), Concert Hall, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
2019 Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation, ARS Electronica, Linz, Germany
La Voix Libérée, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2018 EM4 Das Subharchord, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
MAVOtek Part IV, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
2017 Rainy days festival with Jennifer Walshe, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tempo Reale Festival, Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Louisiana Literature Festival, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2016 SOUND ART, WDR Funkhaus, Cologne, Germany
Wysing Polyphonic, Wysing Arts Centre, UK
2013 Move on Asia: solo performance for exhibition opening, ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012 Duo with Alessandro Bosetti at Miss Hecker, Berlin, Germany
Solo and with Jaap Blonk, Leevi Lehto, Eiríkur Örn Norddahl, Cia Rinne in La-bas Biennale at Kiasma Theater, Helsinki, Finland
Duo with Jennifer Walshe, Reihe M, Theater die wohngemeinschaft, Cologne, Germany
Solo in Beam Festival, Brunel University, London, UK
MAVOtek Project for Japanese dada group in 1920s with Jennifer Walshe, Cia Rinne and Alessandro Bosetti at Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany
Solo at Ramus, Malmo, Sweden
Direction and performance for TOKYO SOUND POETRY FESTIVAL, involves Leevi Lehto, Joerg Piringer and Maja Jantar at Asahi Artsquare, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Music as Methodology: Performance and symposium, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Solo and collaboration with Orin Buck (video), Light Dreams, Monkey Town, New York, USA
Lecture and Workshop, London College of Communication, London
Solo, presented by Lampo in Columbia College, Chicago, USA
Solo with Kara Feely/Travis Just/Francesco Gagliardi at Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York
Solo, Whenever Wherever Festival 2010 / Dance & Words, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan
Solo poetry performance, Stockholm Poetry Festival, the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 The past, present and future of Sound Poetry: lecture and performance, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Solo performance, Flanders Festival, Ghent, Court House Ghent, Belgium
STEIM@40! presents: The Voice: solo and duo with Jaapn Blonk at STEIM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 Solo performance with Sten Sandell and Paavo at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
Solo performance in Muusajuhlat Literary Festival, Oulu, Finland
7a*11d Performance Art Festival, XPACE, Toronto, Canada
2007 Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, USA
Tonic, New York, USA
Art of Begegnung II:public domain performance, Koeln, Essen and Duesseldorf, Germany
John Cage’s Europera 5, Suntory Summer Festival, Suntory hall, Tokyo
Audiatur – Festival for New Poetry, BIT teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
IETM Meeting, Flanders Festival, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
Melbourne International Arts Festival/Voice Prints, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
2006 La Cave 12, Geneva, Switzerland
STEIM with James Fei and Uli Boettcher, Amsterdam, Netherlands
VOORKAMER, Lier, Belgium
NIME06, Espace de Projection concert hall, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Kagura (traditional ritual dance & music), Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
2005 t-u-b-e soundgallery, Munich, Germany
Sklenena louka, Brno, Czech
Opening performance for photo exhibition by NAKAHIRA Takuma, TAKANASHI Yutaka & MORIYAMA Daido, Aomori, Hachinohe Art Museum, Aomori, Japan
2004 3 VOICES, BankArt 1929, Yokohama, Japan
Openning performance, BankArt 1929, Yokohama, Japan
computer music III, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Performance Art in NRW 2004, Maschinenhaus Essen, Germany
2003 HOTEGPON for 8 CD players by Ghettoblaster, Sweden
Experimental poetry reading, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
2001 Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus, Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Method Art Festival, Kitakyushu Art Museum, Kitakyushu, Japan
2000 c.u.b.a-cultur, Muenster and MeX, Dortmund, Germany
Fluxconcert, Mitaka Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
1999 Music Factory vol.1-4, Mitaka Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
1998 Asian Performing Artists Forum In OKINAWA, Okinawa Art University, Naha, Japan
1997 Minna no uta, alternative symphony no.9, the Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Urawa, Japan
1996 Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate, Theater Poo, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Solo exhibitions
2024 Old Instruments From the Future, New Instruments From the Past (and Characters) ((by Artificial Intelligence)), Art Gummi Kanazawa, Japan
2006 Time is Money!, Uplink Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Three Duster Dancers, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Out Lounge, Tokyo
2003 Out-lounge, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions/Festivals
2024 SOFT CENTRE | SUPERMODEL, Now or Never Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Ishida Takashi: Between Tableau and Window (the closing performance), Museum of Modern Art Kanagawa, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
Music Festival on the Jibeta, Komae, Tokyo, Japan
JOLT Showcase Yokohama 2024, BankART Station Yokohama, Japan
2023 GO:40, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
John Cage’s Japan, Japan Society, New York
Methodicist Art: Rules, Interpretations, Body in Question, the Museum of Fine Arts, GIFU, Japan
Music Festival Frequenz, Kiel, Germany
2022 Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan
2020 John Heartfield – Fotografie plus Dynamit, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2019 La Voix Libérée, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2018 Leandro Erlich, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Flap-flop, Clap-clop: A Place Where Words Are Born, Literature House Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland
Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics, OIST, Okinawa, Japan
2016 Context Art Miami, Miami, US
Rooms for Notes, Alte Schmiede, Vienna, Austria
2015 Silence d’Or. Ilmar Laaban and experiments in sound and language, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
The Voice Observatory, Errant Bodies, Berlin, Germany
2014 Bernard Heidsieck, La Plaque Tournante, Berlin, Germany
Räume für notizen | Rooms for notes, Galerie Wechselstrom, Vienna, Austria
ADACHI Tomomi X MATSUZAWA Yutaka Poetry Performance, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Hunter’s Moon Score Trail 2013, Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland
2010 Speaking up -The spoken word in artistic practice, with David Toop, Brandon LaBelle, Trevor Wishart at Tate Modern, London, UK
EDIT: Processing Improvisatory Writing Technologies, the Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, USA
2008 Repeating Wall(s): collaborative performance and installation with film maker/painter ISHIDA Takashi, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
NIIKUNI Seiichi by ADACHI Tomomi: opening performance for exhibition NIIKUNI Seiichi’s [Concrete Poetry] Between Poetry and Art, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2007 Roodkapje, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 map of meanings II: Tomomi Adachi & Takashi Ishida, MuseumQuartier quartier21; PLATTFORM – Raum fur Kunst , Vienna, Austria
Shoot – dance for screen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Images Contre Nature 2004, Marseille, France
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lumen und dezibel, Museum Kunst Palast, Dueseldorf, Germany
She_story_loop, Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne, Germany
2003 VACA, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp (Cologne), Stadtgalerie (Saarbruecken), MeX (Dortmund), Maschinenhaus (Essen), Cuba-culture (Muenster), Les Voutes(Paris)
2002 AJ Project, Redbrick warehouse, Kanagawa, Japan
2001 Out of JAPAN, Bern, Switzerland and Gdansk, Poland
VACA, Vienna, Hamburg, Cologne and Paris
1995 About sounds or ears vol.3 sound performance, P3, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Rolywholyover A Circus, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Awards
2022 Saji Keizo Prize for the opera Romeo will Juliet
2021 Grand Prize for the opera Romeo is Juliet, Agency for Cultural Affairs National Arts Festival – Music Division (Kansai section), Japan
2019 Award of Distinction, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2007 Europera 5 (Japan premiere), Suntory Summer Festival, Tokyo, Japan