Notthatbalai and SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur) presents:

MusicWorksplus-Live in Kuala Lumpur, a video-music concert by KojiTambata
Date & Time: 4 August, Saturday, 8:30pm
Venue: Central Market Annexe
Guest sound artists: Tham Kar Mun, Yandsen, Kok Siew Wai

Artist’s Talk and Sharing “Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji Tambata
Date & Time: 2 August, Thursday, 8pm
Venue: SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur)

Born in Tokyo, Japan, video artist Koji Tambata will
present his Video-Music Performance series "Music
Works" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will collaborate
with Malaysian musicians from the EMACM/SiCKL
collective. It will include the screening of "Music
Works", "Pre-Music Consciousness" and new works in
video and performance.

"Tambata’s work concerns about process and execution,
in other words, of what is happening at the moment.
This is similar to the practice of meditation. As a
music lover, Tambata finds that his philosophy and
methodology in art making is very similar to the
process of improvisation in music. Also interested in
the physical reality of energy flow, he has found a
way to apply this understanding in art and music.
Tambata shoots live music performances, then
re-arranges the images and adds new footage,
visual/sound effects during editing, and finally
creates a new audio-visual composition in video. He’ll
then incorporate the pre-edited video in his live
video-music performance. This is “MUSIC WORKS”, his
long-term video-music project since 1996.

Tambata regards the act of video shooting as a
meditative activity where he is witnessing and
documenting another meditative activity by the
musicians who are performing improvised music. Video
shooting is a very quiet and minimal act. It involves
movements, but they are very subtle, almost unnoticed.
It is like the silent moments in music. Tambata
appreciates this quietness as something essential to
reach a kind of spiritual awareness. In his
multidisciplinary work, video shooting, editing and
screening run parallel with one another, and
simultaneously they give birth to a holistic piece of
artwork."

Koji Tambata is a performing video artist who has been
working with video, music and performance since 1996.
He has collaborated with musicians such as Tony
Conrad, Steve Baczkowski, Jonathan Galove, Hylozoa,
Eliav Brand, King Sunshine, the Knowmatic Tribe Sound
System and more. He is currently living in Thailand.

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Artist’s Talk and Sharing
“Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji
Tambata

Tambata will share his journey as a performing video
artist: from using the video camera as a medium of
expression, to developing live video performances with
music. And how the ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism
in which he regards as “the first and the last
philosophy”, has influenced his work and his
perception of nature and the world.

“Albert Ayler has a song called Music Is The Healing
Force Of The Universe. I interpret that as the
awareness of tension (energy blockage), in which, by
letting it vibrates through its hardness and softness,
will become a powerful growing force – an energy
flow.” (Tambata)