Tetuzi Akiyama (JPN) and Splinter Orchestra at The Church, Paddington

Splinter presents:

Tetuzi Akiyama
and
Splinter Orchestra

The Church
395 Oxford Street Paddington

Tuesday 1st April
Doors open 6pm
Music @ 7pm

Tetuzi Akiyama, born in Tokyo, 1964, is a highly unique and experimental guitarist heavily applying free improvisation and noise. He specializes in creating music with elements of both primitivism and realism by connecting his own aspirations, in a minimal and straightforward way, to the special instrumental qualities of the guitar. Sometimes delicately and sometimes boldly, he controls sound volumes ranging from micro to macro, in an attempt to convert the body into an electronic entity. On this tour to Australia he'll be playing acoustic guitar.

Splinter is a radically inclusive large-scale orchestra that has been a forum for improvising for well over 100 exploratory musicians and sound artists living in or passing through Sydney for over 2 decades. Currently having a diverse membership of roughly 25, the process of co-creation and the resulting music is probably best left undefined—amorphous and ephemeral qualities being inherent to the orchestrating—but it can be said that playing is the group’s fundamental activity. Meeting weekly, with ever-fluctuating line-ups, they do just that. This will be the Orchestra's first public outing for some time.

"Every Splinter Orchestra performance unfolds a unique improvisational sonic ecology combining highly developed music skills with thoroughly experimental sound-making and an intuitive compositional repertoire built from years of collective engagement. The entire space becomes a stage for performers and audience alike to wander, carrying their generative or listening attentions amongst, between and through an evolving sonic unknown.” - Gary Warner, 2017

Thanks to Tone List and Audible Edge Festival, Boorloo, Perth.