Shubunkin
As electronic music evolves and delivers more and more innovative sounds and music, composers/musicians can find themselves stationary at a computer. An ability to engage physically with the music, as might a traditional instrumentalist, is not one that is associated with the electro composition genre.
Shubunkin uses sensory devices which allow the audience to see the music and visual being performed. Notes, melodies, pre-recorded and live recorded visual and audio samples are triggered and manipulated simultaneously using a number of movement sensors and midi triggers.
In the last two years Shubunkin has collabourated with circus performers, aerialists, dancers and digital film and multi media practitioners The guiding principle in all the work is to pursue a creative path that uses technology to create complex work with emotional resonance. These past collaborations demonstrate how other artists can embed the technology in their own practice.
The Blue Room at The Bridge
�Next up was the enigmatic Shubunkin who shot onto the stage with visible sounds and audible shapes that leapt out of his hand and head and cavorted through air and solid and a few unknown dimensions in between. Emblematic images pulsated over the walls and it was poetry in hectic colour and astonishing music. Not quite sure how he did it but very glad he did.�
www.blueroom.org.uk
