Suzuribako Trio
Japan Tour 2023
October 19 - November 2
12 Locations in
Sapporo, Furubira, Morioka, Ogose, Takasaki, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Fukuoka
Frantz Loriot, viola (Zurich), Sebastian Strinning, reeds (Lucerne), & Ayako Kato, dance
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SUZURIBAKO in UKIHA, Fukuoka
in Collaboration with Nori Tanaka, drum
Photo by Elizabeth Suenaga
Frantz Loriot by Philippe Pierre; Ayako Kato by Ralph Kühne, Sebastian Strinning by Dragan Tasic
Suzuribako is a multicultural, interdisciplinary improvisation trio featuring Sebastian Strinning, Frantz Loriot and Ayako Kato. Named after a Japanese calligraphy box, this trio creates its own ink from ancient stones, draws fine lines in wide landscapes and jumps into the mysticism of the universe.
2023 Japan Tour
◆ Thur, 10/19: Coo, Sapporo, Hokkaido w/ Yuta Yokoyama, trampet map Door: 7 pm, Start: 7:30 pm, Advance Ticket: 3,000 yen, Door: 3,500 yen (both + 1 drink 600 yen)
◆ Friday, 10/20: Gano Temple, Furubira, Hokkaido map Door: 6 pm, Start: 7 pm, 2,500 yen
◆ Saturday, 10/21: Cafe Bar West38/Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Museum (ｍap), Morioka, Iwate, with Ken Sakagami, dance & Ryohei Kanazawa, percussion Start: 7 pm, 3,000 yen Flyer
Ken Sakagami, dance, in Morioka & Shibuya
Photo by Masahiro Takahashi
◆ Sunday, 10/22: Yamaneko-ken (map), Ogose, Saitama, with Naoto Yamagishi, percussion. Start: 6pm, Advance Ticket: 3,000 yen + 1 order, Door: 3,500 yen + 1 order. Reservation: info@naotoyamagishi.com Flyer
Naoto Yamagishi, percussion, in Ogose, Shibuya, and Sengawa
Photo by Yoshiyuki Oki
◆ Monday, 10/23: Palais de Paris (map), Takasaki, Gunma, Door: 7 pm, Start: 7:30 pm, Tipping System Flyer
◆ Tuesday, 10/24: Koendori Classics (map), Shibuya, Tokyo, with Michiyo Yagi, koto and Naoto Yamagishi, percussion, and Ken Sakagami, dance. Door: 7 pm, Start: 7:30 pm, 3,500 yen Reservation (Scroll down toward the bottom)
Michiyo Yagi, koto, in Shibuya
Photo by B.B. Balboa
◆ Wednesday, 10/25: Karada Junction Workshop@ Annex Sengawa Factory (map) with Naoto Yamagishi Instructor: Suzuribako & Naoto Yamagishi, percussion. 1st session: 3-5 pm & 2nd session: 7-9 pm (Contents will be the same). Tuition: 3,500 yen Workshop Reservation, Inquiry (scroll to the bottom) Flyer
◆ Thursday, 10/26: Karada Junction Performance@ Annex Sengawa Factory (map) with Naoto Yamagishi. Door: 7 pm, Start: 7:30 pm, 3,500 yen Live Reservation, Inquiry (scroll to the bottom) Flyer
◆ Friday, 10/27: Permian (map), Gotanda, Tokyo, with duo Yasumune Morishige, cello/Akaihirume, voice 1,000 - 3,000 yen (Sliding Scale)
◆ Saturday, 10/28: MIIT, Osaka map Door 5:30 pm, Start: 6 pm 1,000 yen
◆ Sunday, 10/29: Studio T-Bone (map), Osaka, with Ezaki Masafumi, Nakada Kayu, Arimoto Rabitto and Shinichi Isohata & Shin Sakuma Door: 4 pm, Start: 5 pm, 2,000 yen + 1 order
◆ Tuesday, 10/31: UrBANGUILD (map), Kyoto with Dancers: Eiichi Maeda, Kenta Kuroda, Manaki Uno、Niina Namie. Door: 7 pm, Start: 7:30 pm, Adv.: 2,200 yen + 1 drink, Door: 2,500 yen + 1 drink, Dancer: 1,600 yen + 1 drink
◆ Wednesday, 11/1: Yanoke・Kura Gallery (map), Ukiha, Fukuoka with Noritaka Tanaka, percussion. Door: 7 pm, Start: 7:30 pm, 3,500 yen Reservation, Flyer
◆ Thursday, 11/2: Guggenheim House (map), Kobe. Door: 7 pm, Start: 7:30 pm, Adv.: 3,000 yen, Door: 3,500 yen. Reservation: guggenheim2007@gmail.com *Please write your name, the date, and how many tickets you need/ *Our response will mean the completion of your reservation/ *We are off on Tue & Wed, so please wait our response until Thursday.
2022 Euro Tour
September 4th: Subsol, Düsseldorf, Germany September 6th: Joined by Tomeka Reid, cello at Grafschafter Museum im Moerser Schloss, Moers, Germany
September 7th: Gemeinde, Köln, Germany
September 8th: Joined by Angela Stöcklin, Diego Kohn, Beat Unternährer at Mullbau, Luzern, Switzerland
Sebastian Strinning, reeds
Born on the 1st of June 1985 in Brugg (Switzerland) and currently living in Lucerne, Strinning is a Swiss/Swedish jazz musician whose focus is on experimental jazz and free improvised music. From 2006 to 2013, Strinning studied at the Musik Hochschule, Luzern. He took lessons from, amongst others, Urs Leimgruber, Gerry Hemingway, Hans Koch und Fredrik, Ljungkvist. In 2011 he was awarded the Friedl – Wald Bursary and went to Stockholm for a year on an explorative mission. He studied with Swedish folk music extensively and worked closely together with musicians from the free improvised music scene. Since 2013 he’s been involved with organising concerts in Mullbau and performs with Gerry Hemingway and Manuel Troller in the trio 'Tree Ear'. In 2014 he won the 'Credit Suisse Jazzförderpreis' with his solo project and worked with Marc Unternährer to put together the Dienstags_Jazz Concert Series in the Kleintheater, Luzern. In 2016 he won the „Werkbeitrag“ from the county of Lucerne and founded the Band „Le String’Blö“ alongside Lino Blöchlinger. In 2017 he won a residency in Chicago.
Homepage: http://strinning.ch
Frantz Loriot, viola
French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot performs solo and is active in a number of international ensembles. He has contributed to interdisciplinary projects related to dance, image, theatre and poetry. Loriot initiated and led two large ensembles, the European Notebook Large Ensemble and the NYC based Systematic Distortion Orchestra. Active in a number of international collective ensembles, his current projects include solo and divers duos, trios and quartets (see projects' page). Loriot regularly performs around the globe (Europe, USA, South America, Japan & Middle East) and has been invited to be artist in residence at the Météo - Mulhouse Music festival (2016 edition) and Moods in Zurich (December 2018). Loriot has also been commissioned to write and perform his composition with the Tel Aviv based ensemble for new music, Musica Nova (January 2019). He occasionally organises concerts series when he has the opportunities (WIM-Hearings in Zurich, for ex.). While living in NYC, he created and curated (co-curated later on) the musical series Ze Couch in Brooklyn, and co-curated the Avant-Post series with Tonino Miano in Harlem. Both series were mainly dedicated to avant-garde/new music. Loriot appears on over 40 records released on international labels such as Peira, FMR, Sickcore, Impressus, Prom Night, Edible Onion, Komma Null, Klein, Neither/Nor, OutNow, Shhpuma, Intonema, Clean Feed, Creative Sources, Veto Exchange etc.
Loriot studied music in Paris with several professors (Mari Yasuda-Raclot, the Pons brothers, Nicolas Dupin, Ivry Gitlis, Yukari Tate & Pascal Robault) and was brought to improvisation by Régis Huby, Joëlle Léandre, Barre Phillips, and David S. Ware. He was initiated to soundmassage by Thierry Madiot. After having lived in Paris and New York City, Frantz Loriot relocated in Zürich (Switzerland).
Ayako Kato, dance
Click HERE for Ayako’s profile
Music & Dance Trio, 30 - 60 minutes, Live Music, No Set required
Art Union Humanscape Duo
Jason Roebke, double bass & Ayako Kato, dance
Photo by Ben Billignton
“moving everyday sculptures, artfully cast in naturalness”
—Luzerner Zeitung, Switzerland
Reaching nearly 25 years in collaboration, Art Union Humanscape (AUH) Duo, Ayako Kato, dance & Jason Roebke, double bass, creates a sonic and kinetic landscape meditatively superimposed with silence and stillness.
Art Union Humanscape (AUH) Duo, Ayako Kato, dance & Jason Roebke, double bass, creates a sonic and kinetic landscape meditatively superimposed with silence and stillness. Their ritualistic performance is grounded on experimental performance and the aesthetics of fūryū, Japanese for “wind flow,” as it relates to cyclical transformation, human motion in nature, and cosmic ephemera. The duo deliberately construct radical transgression and the web of non-linear tensegrity (tension and integration) for the audience members to travel through their own imaginative journeys. As if the repetitive patterns emerge in nature form fractal spontaneously under the principles, the AUH's sound and movement energetic waves slowly engulf space-time and the audience members, making the intangible into the tangible. In resonance with their own memories and experiences, the audience members envision and experience their being through new layers of perspectives and awareness.
Jason Roebke
is a bassist and composer who tours widely in the US and Europe. In addition to playing bass in Chicago’s most compelling jazz groups such as Mike Reed Flesh & Bone and Tomeka Reid Quartet, he has composed music for his own Octet and groups. His playing is intensely physical, audacious, and sparse. The Chicago Reader called his work as “a carefully orchestrated rummage through a hardware store.” He is a recipient of Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Music Composition.
Ayako Kato
is a dance artist originally from Japan. She has collaborated with more than sixty musician-composers, and toured in the US, Japan, and Europe. Working on dance as the art of being, she received residencies at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA and Camargo Foundation in France through 3Arts; Best of Dance from the Chicago Tribune and SeeChicagoDance; fellowships from the High Concept Labs and Links Hall; a 3Arts Award, a Meier Achievement Award, a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award.
Music & Dance Duo, 1 - 60 minutes, No/Some Sets & Props, Live Music
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Race in a Space Festival Kreis in Lucerne, Switzerland
Tuning with Peter Maunu, strings
2022 Euro Tour 2
October 2022
Tomeka Reid, cello; Rachel Bernsen, dance; Ayako Kato, dance
October 20th, 7:30 pm: DE STUDIO as part of Sound in Motion VISITATION II - 2022, Antwerp, Belgium: First Set: with Joe Morris (double bass); Second Set: also with Raf Vertessen (drums), Will Greene (sax), Elisabeth Klinck (violin), Anke Verslype (drums), Andreas Bral (synth, piano, harmonium, voice) October 22nd, 8:00 pm: Schlosstheater Studio, as part of Tomeka Reid’s IMPROVISER IN RESIDENCE, Moers, Germany First Set: with Caroline Davis (saxophone); Second Set also with Angelika Niescier (saxophone): Watch Video: Part 1 (Ayako enters from 9’35”), 2, 3, 4. Captured by Peter Hoeger-Wiedig, Event Power Moers October 24th: Lokal Harmonie, Duisburg, Germany with Özün Usta (drums) October 25th: The Improviser Residenz Moers: Tomeka Reid (cello), Özün Usta (drums), Ayako Kato (dance): Watch Video: Part 1, 2, 3 (till 6’49”). Captured by Peter Hoeger-Wiedig, Event Power Moers
Photo by Hani Alrstum (3rd-5th & 7th)
October 29, 8:00 pm: No More than Remembered Light: Collaboration with Hildegard Kleeb, CH, Piano / Marie-Cécile Reber, CH, Electronics
October 30, 5:00 pm: Thoughts of Spirals: Collaboration with Radim Hanousek, CZE, Saxophon / Roland Dahinden, CH, Posaune / Ayako Kato, dance
Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape Music Collaborators: 1998 - present
Europe: Sebastian Strinning (reed), Frantz Loriot (viola), Hildegard Kleeb (piano); Marie-Cécile Reber (electronics); Roland Dahinden (trombone, percussion), Radim Hanousek (saxophone); Andreas Bral (synth, piano, harmonium, voice); Joachim Badenhorst (reeds), Han Bennink (drums), Eric Boeren (cornet), Leonzio Cherubini (percussion); Axel Döner (trampet); Mary Oliver (violin), Michael Moore (reeds), Tristan Honsinger (cello), Tsubasa Hori (taiko), Wilbert de Joode (double bass); Seijiro Murayama (percussion); Elisabeth Klinck (violin), Urs Leimgruber (saxophone): Marta Warelis (piano); Oscar Jan Hoogland (piano); Kaja Draksler (piano); Karen Ng (saxophone); Aki Takase (piano); Anke Verslype (drums), Raf Vertessen (drums); Middle East: Özün Usta (drums); Chicago & USA: Jim Becker (violin and multi instruments), Josh Berman (cornet), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Brian Labycz (electronics), Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone), Jim Baker (piano), Michael Zerang (percussion), Tim Barnes (drums), Caroline Davis (saxophone); Jorrit Dijkstra (saxophone), Hamid Drake (drums), James Falzone (clarinet), Darin Gray (double bass), Will Greene (sax), Keefe Jackson (tenor saxophone), Kent Kessler (double bass), Jeff Kimmel (clarinet), Mabel Kwan (piano, toy piano, accordion), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Peter Maunu (violin, guitar, mandolin); Joe Morris (bass, guitar), Mike Reed (percussion), Tomeka Reid (cello), Dave Rempis (saxophone), Jason Roebke (double bass), Frank Rosaly (drums), Ned Rothenberg (reeds), Stephen Rush (electronics, voice), Matt Schneider (guitar), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Wilson Tanner Smith (cello), Tsukasa Taiko, Adam Vida (drums); Albert Wildeman (bass); Katherine Young (bassoon), Michael Zerang (percussion); Japan: Michiyo Yagi (koto); Haco (voice, electronics); Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board); Taku Sugimoto (guitar); Seijiro Murayama (percussion); Ayako Yoshioka (piano); Nishino Megumu (taiko)
Photo by Johnathan Crawford