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at Float, Osaka
April 27th, 2013
Sugimoto performs at Float as part of Sleeper Hallucination Camping #26.
Float
V I S U A L A I D.
Individual notation systems of sound & music.
at District, Berlin
April 25th - May 25th, 2013
Sugimoto's sheet music for film scores will be presented in the exhibition at District Berlin, as part of collaborative installation and opening performances by Epiphany Now, Tore Honoré Boe and Liz Kosack. It will be displayed among the documents by other participants Alpha Couple, Tore Honoré Boe, Duchamp, Ellen Evers, Epiphany Now, Beck Hansen, Houwaida Goulli, Jasmine Guf fond & Ilan Katin, Maximilian Hohlweg, Liz Kosack, Andrew Kemp, Jason Levis, Thessia Machado & Merche Blasco, Florian Merkel, Loretta Myr, Frank Schültge and Golden Diskó Ship.
(Dis)playing paper, hours and constellations #4.
Lublae
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013
January 20th, 2013
Anocha Suwichakornpong's short film Lublae featuring the score by Sugimoto covers the official website of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013. Watch the film.
© Electric Eel Films, 2013
Mysterious one-minute leader commissioned by Hubert Bals Fund, will precede each HBF selection film screened in the festival. Ms. Suwichakornpong, Thai director of Tiger Award winner Mundane History (2009), features Sugimoto's minimalistic score recorded in Japan ealy this year. The festival opens on January 23rd.
Anocha Suwichakornpong Electric Eel Films
Thai PBS Media Museum
October 17th, 2012
Sugimoto composed music for a video installation Power of Seeing by Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong, now on exhibit at Thai PBS Multi Media Museum, Bangkok.
© Electric Eel Films, 2012
This is a part of the permanent exhibition of the museum, located in newly opened headquarter of Thai PBS, Thailand's national television.
Anocha Suwichakornpong Electric Eel Films
Into the New World
in New York Japan CineFest
June 8th, 2012
Haruhito Naka's short film Into the New World which features a score by Sugimoto will be screened in the New York Japan CineFest at Asia Society .
© Haruhito Naka, 2012
The film has also been featured in New York City International Film Festival 2011, NYC Indie Film Festival 2011, Central Florida Film Festival 2011, New Filmmakers New York 2011 and Queens World Film Festival 2012.
Fukushima 2011
May 1st, 2012
Sugimoto releases a live recording from the performance at ISSUE Project room in May 2011. A forty-minute-long improvisational ambient piece with Kenya Kawaguchi (Shakuhachi) and Jeremy D. Slater (Electronics). Available on BandCamp.com now.
Although the performance was not specifically intended for a Japan benefit, it was held under the shock of the disaster. Sugimoto decided to release the recording for a contribution to the recovery of Tohoku, still in a critical situation even a year after, facing a long-term threat of radiation effect from Fukushima Daiichi power plant. All the profit will be donated to the Japan Society "Japan Earthquake relief fund" www.japansociety.org/page/earthquake
The Patterned Scarf
October 11th, 2011
The first New York screening of The Patterned Scarf, short film directed by Martin Flusser was held at Cantor Film Center. The film was produced by Brian Streem in 2011, starring Margot White and Catherine Curtin. Sugimoto scored the film featuring the string quartet led by Skye Steele. It also features instrumental tunes by Jazz pianist Toru Dodo.
© Guerre de Plume Productions, 2011
Brian Streem www.brianstreem.com
Anna Saito Solo Exhibition
Sep 3 - Sep 25, 2011
As a collaboration with Fukushima-born artist Anna Saito, Sugimoto's music from the album Leukon will be played during her solo exhibition at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, September 3rd through 25th. The exhibition is titled "Soshitsu", means "loss" in Japanese.
http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/hongo/index.html
Artist website (Japanese): http://annasaito.blog130.fc2.com/
© Anna Saito, 2011
애증 - Eh Jeung
June 28, 2011
Eh Jeung, short film directed by Matte Chi for which Sugimoto composed the original score, has won the prize in two categories at Palm Springs International Shortfest.
- Best Student Cinematography
- The Alexis Award for Best Emerging Student Filmmaker
http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/news/detail.aspx?NID=300&FID=47&year=2011
© Matte Chi, 2011
Shinya Sugimoto / KenYa Kawaguchi / Jeremy D. Slater
@ ISSUE Project Room
May 29, 2011
Sugimoto performed at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn. Playing the piano and electronics, he presented a 40-minute long improvisational ambient piece with Kenya Kawaguchi (Shakuhachi) and Jeremy D. Slater (Electronics & Video).
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=763
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/uncategorized/share-–-free-audio-video-jam-42/
Equilibrium RED
April 3rd, 2011
Shinya Sugimoto's FUTR WRLD was used in the video installation by Norwegian artists Roderik Kelderman and Mary Hasavari. The video is featured in Scandinavian Visual Arts Magazine.
© Bowery Pictures, 2011
Asher Levine Spring/Summer 2011 Collection
September 12th, 2010
Sugimoto produced music for Asher Levine's spring/summer collection runway show.
room 507 Live at Loading Dock, Brooklyn
March 27th, 2010
Jazz unit "room 507", Arisa (vocal), Toru Yamauchi (guitar), Shinya Sugimoto (piano/sound effects) performed at Loading Dock.
New Single "My Favorite Things" featuring Yosvany Terry (Saxophone) will be available in iTunes Store soon.
Shinya Sugimoto Live at Issue Project Room
January 24th, 2010
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=649
Issue Project Room
Leukon
December 30, 2009
Sugimoto's first full length solo album in over 5 years, "Leukon" is now available as a free download at Bandcamp.com.
01. Sanguis
02. Weltschmertzen
03. Rosa
04. Josepha
05. Unseen, Unheard, Unknown
06. Feu la cendre
07. Tenebrae di Gesualdo
08. Cocytus
09. Daydream
10. Aqua
Shinya Sugimoto & room 507 Live @ Ouchi Gallery
Sugimoto will be performing at charity fashion show "MIDORI", 9/12 (Sat) 7 p.m. at Ouchi Gallery roof top. His band room507 also will play in the event.
Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary Street Suite 507
Brooklyn, NY 11201
MIDORI -
Reopens your eyes to what you can do on and for the earth!
Each one of your steps can help the nature's re-generation, fertility, and re-birth.
Not someone else but YOU are the power to MIDORI. What is your RE-action?
FUTR WRLD
July 20th, 2009
Sugimoto's New EP, 30 minute live performance at ZAKKA NYC DUMBO Brooklyn, July 2009. This is a collaborative project with picture book "FUTR WRLD" by ANTIMOTION. Book + audio CD is available at ZAKKA NYC.
listen to the sample on shinyasugimoto.bandcamp.com
ZAKKA
155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Shinya Sugimoto Live @ Issue Project Room
Photos and Videos from the solo performance at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY - 6/14/2009
http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/06/03/share-featured-guest-shinya-sugimoto/
Out Now
Ex Machina
EP digital download only / download on
shinyasugimoto.bandcamp.com
Released on May 10th, 2009
Truth - Requiem
Shinya Sugimoto / Epiphany Blue
EP digital download only / free download on
shinyasugimoto.bandcamp.com
released on Apr 5th, 2009
Shinya Sugimoto released a two track EP, "Truth - Requiem". Both tracks are remixes of a rap artist Epiphany Blue. They first collaborated on the song "For Life", the title track of Shinn's first collaborative album, in 2007. Ever since then they have been good partners. Like other two releases, this EP is a free download, licensed under Creative Commons.
Nymphes des bois
single track digital download only / free download on
shinyasugimoto.bandcamp.com
released on Mar 24th, 2009
Africa
Nolo and Shinya Sugimoto
single track digital download only / free download on
shinyasugimoto.bandcamp.com
Released on Mar 15th, 2009
Shinya Sugimoto released a new single "Africa" as free digital download through Bandcamp. The song is a collaboration with a Ghanaian singer/songwriter "Nolo". Sugimoto, a composer/producer represents MONKHAUS, produced its instrumentals as a huge complex remix work. Many sound materials were derived from other music, TV documentaries and internet. This song is released under Creative Commons license. To see the details, go click CC link above.
Artist information
Nolo is a singer/song writer whose life began in Cote d’ Ivoire. Ghanaian through family lineage, his heritage attributes to his unique sense of music. The artist currently lives in New York and has been exposure to the city's vibrant music scene. He has also traveled to many parts of West Africa where music is an integral part of the people's culture.
He is a pioneer of Afro-Abissa music which he uses as an instrument to advocate awareness about some of the pressing issue facing our world, and more importantly Africa. Nolo forms and leads a band in New York named "The Lifters". He has many influences ranging from Fela Kuti, Meiway, and Bob Marley to James Brown, Ray Charles, the police and early U2. His aim is to create uplifting groovy African-style music with a modern edge.
Africa is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
room507 performed in the charity event "The Normadic Decob in NY" at Zakka, Dumbo Brooklyn NY - 6/13/2009
room507
Formed in 2009, the art unit room 507 is based in Brooklyn, New York. Members are Arisa (Vocals), Toru Yamauchi (Guitar), and Shinya Sugimoto (Sound effects). Aiming at composite art, room 507 fuses old Jazz, electronic sound and visual elements into the new style of music performance.
http://www.cool-ny.com/decob/lang/en/archives/843/
room 507 @ Art Walk | Hello Living Vol.1, Brooklyn - 4/25/09
Shinya Sugimoto performed at Art Walk @ Hello Living Vol.1 - Condo open house with Art exibition at Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
Shinya Sugimoto @ Ouchi Gallery, Brooklyn - 3/24/09
Shinn performed in "Super Competiton", the charity event for African children at Ouchi Gallery on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009.
by Haruhito Naka
