Ayako Kanda Trio

Ayako Kanda is an improviser and performance artist whose medium is her voice. Currently based in Tokyo, Ayako's work moves between total improvisation and standard jazz, quick sketches and impressionist painting, creating rules and then breaking them as she roams freely between linguistic and alinguistic facets of expression.

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Corset Lore

is the electronic music project of Tamara Yadao, Asian-American composer/musician who began playing piano at the age of 4. She writes electronic, avant-pop in a lyrical and baroque style using Game Boys, synths and vocals.A Brooklynite at the beginning of the 21st century, she performed freely improvised sound with laptop-processed guitars, toys and radio transmission. She worked in Brooklyn’s conceptual art/music community either performing at or organizing improvised sound and/or chip music shows at DIY spaces and galleries. During this time, Yadao developed a fascination with writing music using vintage game console sound chips and utilizing creative approaches like repurposing hardware and software. She liked to imagine her own purposes for things, using objects in unintended ways. Corset Lore, her chiptune project, is one of these “things”, not just a means to a genre end. Her music deftly expresses neurodivergent worlds of idiosyncratic thought, where innovation is a coping mechanism for existential discomfort. In part, Yadao feels her natural affinity for recycling technology is rooted in diskarte, a defining Pinoy value that embraces Filipino cultural ingenuity, seen in iconic inventions like the Jeepney bus.Some of Yadao’s influences include: YMO, Japan (band), Haco, Wendy Carlos, city pop, fantasy, science fiction and the demoscene, a computer art subculture.

https://www.corsetlore.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzV75iX3Kk