Jill Fraser ●

Jill Fraser is a composer and electronic music pioneer whose career encompasses over 40 years of work making music for films, commercials, games and, in the wild, as quote-unquote, ‘entertainment.’ Her ever-evolving curiosity about music as both a science and an aesthetic/spiritual force to be reckoned with is showcased on her forthcoming album, Earthly Pleasures, a resetting of American revival-style hymns of the late 19th/early 20th century. Exploring the music as language and code via arrangements with early Serge systems and newer m

odules like the Ableton Push 3, Jill is not simply making expressive and personal music. While her new work speculates upon death and what comes after it, it also considers how the things we derive meaning from today will look and sound like when encountered by the diverse and unknowable seekers and technologies of the future.

Jill set the controls for a path leading in this direction long ago. She was mentored by Morton Subotnick, studied with Mel Powell and Earle Brown at CalArts and attended master classes with, among others, John Cage and Lou Harrison. As these encounters interacted with her own impulses, she could only emerge as an open-eared and expansive maker of music! Her work at Serge Modular in Hollywood elevated her craft to a visionary level as well. In the 1980s, she took her modular synths into the Hollywood studios to score films, heralding a new approach to the genre, with composing credits including Personal Best, Cruising (both in collaboration with composer Jack Nitzsche), and Hardcore (directed by Paul Schrader). Jill was part of the vibrant Los Angeles punk and spoken word scene in the 80s as well, touring with singer Buffy Sainte Marie and performance artist Ivan E. Roth. Playing modular synthesizer, she opened for acts like The Minutemen and Henry Rollins, and released the CD Alphabetical Disorders with Ivan in 1988 on the short-lived electronic label Periodic Music.

Over the years, Jill has composed electronic and acoustic music for hundreds of TV commercials for Lexus, BMW, Honda, Porsche, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Mattel, Carl’s Jr, NBC, Apple Computers, Adidas, Estee Lauder, Baskin Robbins, Yamaha Motorcycles and many, many others. She has won 3 Clios for original music and is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 2018, she wrote and performed music with the Zzyzx Society; the following year, she contributed sounds alongside her daughter Sofia Arreguin on the opening track of Wand’s 2019 album Laughing Matter. Jill is currently performing live with re:VOLT and released her new album Earthly Pleasures on Drag City Records in September 2024.

山本達久 / Tatsuhisa Yamamoto

主にドラムスを担当。

独創的なソロや即興演奏を軸に、Jim O’Rourke/石橋英子との様々な活動をはじめ、カフカ鼾、石橋英子ともう死んだ人たち、坂田明と梵人譚、禁断の翼棟、オハナミ、NATSUMENなどのバンド活動多数。ex.芸害。

青葉市子、UA、岡田拓郎、カヒミ・カリィ、笹倉慎介、七尾旅人、phew、藤原さくら、前野健太、山本精一など歌手の録音、ライブサポート多数。

演劇の生伴奏・音楽担当として、マームとジプシーなど、主に都内を中心に活動。

2011年にはロンドンのバービカンセンターにソロパフォーマンスとして招聘されるなど、海外公演、録音物も多数。

2020年、オーストラリアのBlack Truffle Recordsより「ashioto」、日本のNewhere Recordsより「ashiato」をLPとDLでそれぞれリリース。

ashiotoはイギリスのMOJO Magazin誌において2020年のBest underground record部門で1位を獲得するなど好評を博す。

活動は多岐に渡る…。

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Tatsuhisa Yamamoto is a drummer from Yamaguchi, Japan well known throughout the country for his  work with a surprisingly wide range of musicians and theatre groups.
He performed on the recently acclaimed Drag City records “The Dreams My Bones Dream” & “Antigone” by Eiko Ishibashi, “Simple Songs” by Jim O’Rourke,
as well as Japanese singers Phew, Ua, and kahimi Karie. His wide interests have led him to be drummer of choice for Free Jazz legend Akira Sakata, composer/performer in many restagings of Terayama Shuji’s works, film score for NHK, as well as performing with artists as wide ranging as Keiji haino, Oren Ambarchi, Giovanni Di Domenico amongst others. He has toured extensively throughout Europe as well, in improvised music settings as well as the theatre group Swanny.
Australian label Black Truffle records released his first international album “ashioto”, Japanese label Newhere records released “ashiato”.

https://tatsuhisayamamoto.bandcamp.com/

松本一哉

環境ごとにあるモノ・造形物・自然物・身体など、本来楽器では無いモノも用いて多様な音表現を行う。自身で起こす音と場所毎に偶然に起こる環境音とが渾然一体となるように働きかけていき、日常の聴き慣れた事象に新たな切り口を与え、音に没入させる即興表現を追究している。

これまでにソロ作品「水のかたち (2015)」「落ちる散る満ちる (2017)」「無常 (2022)」の3作品をミニマル・アンビエントの名門レーベルSPEKKからリリース。

その他リリースに、バストリオのレジデンスプログラム内で制作した「オープン・グラインドハウス(2018)」、TAMARUと津田貴司とのトリオ音源「Amorphous (2021)」、坂本龍一追悼企画アルバム「Micro Ambient Music (2024)」などがある。

偶然に起こる環境音との即興による音源制作を基に、ライブパフォーマンス、サウンドインスタレーション、展示会場に滞在・生活して音を展示し続ける動態展示、映画・映像作品・舞台公演・商業施設への楽曲制作、全都道府県演奏ツアー、コロナ禍にライブ公演を行わず人に会いに行く事を目的に企画した「人の音を聴きに行くツアー」、今野裕一郎が主宰するパフォーマンスユニット「バストリオ」との企画や公演に参加や、2021年から北海道知床で開催されている「葦の芸術原野祭」の立ち上げから実行委委員として参加するなど、音による表現を軸に活動を展開している。

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