Otomo Yoshihide started The Asian Meeting Festival in 2005 to foster creative interaction between Japanese and other Asian musicians, since 2014 curated by DJ Sniff, and here in the 2017 edition at GOK Sound, in Tokyo, Japan with a who's-who of players including Yoshihide, Ryoko Ono, Ko Ishikawa, Son X, KEITO, Yuji Ishihara, Yuen Chee Wai, &c. &c.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Japan Packaging: Digipack Recorded at GOK Sound, in Tokyo, Japan, during February 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th & March 11th, 12th, 13th, 2017, by Yoshiaki Kondo.
"The Asian Meeting Festival was started by Otomo Yoshihide in 2005 with the hope of promoting a robust creative interaction between Japanese and other Asian musicians. With the festival nestled within the auspices of Ensembles Asia, and with the inclusion of Yuen Chee Wai from Singapore and Hong Kong-based dj sniff as curators since 2014, AMF has evolved into one of Asia's foremost experimental, improvisational and noise music festivals."-doubtmusic
"We aim to form a new network centered on musicians and organizers who are doing independent activities without being caught by traditional values and commercialism. In addition, collaboration model that deepens the understanding of the cultural situation of each city of Asia where various elements are intertwined complicatedly through local research and artists with diverse background can pursue possibility of new music together.
Takuro Mizuta / dj sniff
Musician, curator, Visiting Associate Professor, City of Hong Kong Born in 1978. Turn table player, DJ, curator. In the STEIM electronic musical instrument studio in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he has been a research, curation and residency program for many years as an Artistic Director, and has planned / produced more than 100 concert programs and artist projects. As a musician, he works in the field of experimental music / improvisation / electronic music while combining a turntable and his own playing tool. He has released works from labels all over the world including CTM Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, Flow Festival Helsinki, REDCAT LA, March Meeting Sharjah, Jazz em Agosto Lisbon, Taipei TranSonic, Platforma Moscow and so on. Currently I move to base in Hong Kong and continue activities.
Yuen Qi Wai
Musician, designer He works in sound design and composition in a wide range of fields such as installation, dance, movies, television, radio, and he works not only in Singapore but also overseas. It is known for creating innumerable electronic devices, music by style / method of drone ambient field recording, improvised sound, and quest for noise."-Asian Meeting Festival Website, translated by Google