Saturday, 3rd June 2006: hadakac @ the Singapore Art Museum

Beautiful flyer, and now who’s hadaka: c?

Hadaka: C, the first in the series, presents world renown avant garde improvisor, and one half of Japanese psychedelic / punk / free rock duo, the Ruins (!!!!!), drummer and vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya. Also in Hadaka: C is Dickson Dee, a sound artist from Hong Kong who also runs the successful NoiseAsia label, and Koichi Shimizu, a sound artist from Bangkok, who recently sound designed Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s critically acclaimed new film, Invisible Waves. They will be joined by Timothy O’ Dwyer, Yuen Chee Wai and Zai Kuning.

note: ricecooker heart ruins

now read the rest:

“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” – Lao Tzu

Hadaka is a series of four sound performances featuring acclaimed local and international artists and producers. The central concept of Hadaka is reduction and subtraction, hence its name: to strip down, to denude. The four performances also correspond to the four-colour subtractive model of the CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) colour standard. By tearing away the embellishments of structure in music – the ordered configurations of tonality, melody and and rhythm – and reducing it to its most primal elements, Hadaka represents a return, not so much to the unchallenged notions of the past, but to the fundamentals of sense, thought and action, privileging the exploration of basic sounds, raw perception, and untutored collaboration above overformulated stylistics or the mastery of forms.

An amorphous assemblage of human wills and ever-shifting meanings as well as a sonic palette that ranges from the darkest to the exuberantly physical, Hadaka resides within the nooks and shadows that punctuate the line between music and sound, between art and thought, between noise and non-noise, between randomness and design. While music is commonly presented as fully-formed hierarchical compositions, the performances in Hadaka use sound as basic concepts to construct free-form rhizomatic fields,
extending sound laterally and spatially.

Hadaka is conceived by Yuen Chee Wai, researched by Alwyn Lim and Alex Goh, and produced by Vivian Wang.

Hadaka: C, the first in the series, presents world renown avant garde improvisor, and one half of Japanese psychedelic / punk / free rock duo, the Ruins, drummer and vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya. Also in Hadaka: C is Dickson Dee, a sound artist from Hong Kong who also runs the successful NoiseAsia label, and Koichi Shimizu, a sound artist from Bangkok, who recently sound designed Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s critically acclaimed new film, Invisible Waves. They will be joined by Timothy O’ Dwyer, Yuen Chee Wai and Zai Kuning.

The sequence of performance for the night emphasises on the reductionist idea of Hadaka. The number of performers within the improv units decreases from 3, to 2, to 1.

Performing in this order:

Zai Kuning, Tim O’Dwyer & Koichi Shimizu
Dickson Dee & Yuen Chee Wai
Yoshida Tatsuya

3 June 2006 (Saturday), 8pm
at the Singapore Art Museum, Auditorium
$15 tickets available at the door.
For more details, please email cw mail