I will performing light art in real time during a live music show at the Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo on April 17th. Admission is free and is bound to be good with a great line up of musicians. The official press release is below.
*THE FAST AND THE FLUTERIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT. 4/17/12. APPLE STORE GINZA.
TOKYO*
*WITH INTERACTIVE LIGHT ART BY TREVOR WILLIAMS AND SUPPORTED BY GRAPHICA*
*Tokyo-April 4, 2012*
“The Fast and the Fluterious: Tokyo Drift” will be anything but a typical
flute recital. Fluterscooter will play her own arrangements of classical
and pop music fused with live art and technology in her Japanese debut with
several pieces on the program being premieres in Japan. She will be
collaborating with famed Japanese beatboxer Dokaka, DJ Dave Clark III,
Taiko phenomenom Eva Kestner, as well as backup dancers, all during an
interactive light art performance by expert light painter Trevor Williams;
it will be an experience like nothing you’ve ever seen!
Trevor Williams blows our minds with his three-dimensional light graffiti.
Williams, who is originally from Canada, founded the group Fiz-iks, which
is based in Japan. For this event he has taken his techniques and applied
them to video allowing him to light paint in real time to create an
interactive light show. He developed a way to control the required
software wirelessly through his Iphone allowing him to perform with the
lights without being behind a control booth and opening up opportunities
for the audience to participate as well.
Knowing there was more to this interactive real time light art theme,
Williams called on some old friends at Graphica, a leading
DJ/audio/lighting design company, to kick it up a notch. Graphica decided
to create customized light suits for the dancers and will use a sound
system that is guaranteed to blow out some windows. In the end there is
going to a groundbreaking art performance during the flute music that
combines the organic nature of light painting and combining it with cutting
edge technology and making it all happen in real time in front of the live
audience.
Fresh to Tokyo from NYC, Fluterscooter (born Andrea Fisher), is a classical
and hiphop flutist, a 2 time graduate of the Juilliard School, and a past
collaborator with John Legend and 50 Cent. Having toured several times with
the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Sapporo, with Thee Phantom and the
Illharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo, and also invited to compete in the
prestigious Kobe Flute Competition, Fluter is no stranger to Japan, and it
has always been her dream to produce and play her own show here.
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More info on Time Out Tokyo
The facebook event page
Will be featured in the Thursday, April 12 print edition of The Japan Times
