Keiichiro Shibuya

http://atak.jp/

Born in Tokyo in 1973, Keiichiro Shibuya is a musician with a bachelor of music composition from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
In 2002 he established ATAK, a music label releasing CDs of domestic and international cutting-edge electroacoustic music. ATAK is also actively involved and supports various creators in the field of design, network technology and filming.
In 2004 he released his first solo album “ATAK000 keiichiro shibuya”, which is highly recognised for its perfection and elaboration of musical structure, focused on the tone and rhythm and use of various sounds and is described as “a perfect work that displays every aspect of the history of electronic music” (Atsushi Sasaki).
Keiichiro’s cross-field collaboration work of music and science with Yuji Takahashi, and Takashi Ikegami, associate professor of complex system research in Tokyo University has been highly regarded by professions of the field. The work has began in 2005 when Keiichiro held a concert with Takashi at the Inter Communication Centre (ICC) located within Tokyo Opera City to perform their jointly produced sound installation work and to announce so called, “the Third Term Music”, a musical theory of sound variation and the motion dynamics based on nonlinear physics.
In 2006 Keiichiro presented his sound installation work “filmachine”, composed of creative use of 3D digital sounds and LED lighting at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in Yamaguchi, Japan.
In the following year he released an album, “ATAK010 filmachine phonics”, the world first 3D digital music on CD for head phones and an award winner of the digital music division at the Ars Electronica in 2007.
In 2008 “filmachine” was presented in the world’s largest annual contemporary and digital art festival called Transmediale in Berlin.
Also in the same year he was asked to create a sound for pedestrian crossing by the International Association of Traffic Safety. His work captured a lot of attention when it was experimentally implemented in Tokyo’s busy crossing in Ginza.
In 2009 he is planning to visit several cities in Europe for “ATAK NIGHT4 Tour”, including Berlin for “Transmediale”. His second album for his solo piano work will be released in July.
Alongside his musical profession he worked as an associate professor at the Tokyo University in 2006 and Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2007.

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Keiichiro Shibuya(ATAK): Maxima ver.2.0 for sound and visuals
Sound-generating and visualization/reassembling/fragmenting, by the applications of nonlinear science, chaotic itinerancy, genetic algorithm, cellular automaton, and logistic map. The data that is used generating voluminous information of sound is applied to the visual projection, and are variant to information of sounds in real time. This is also a mid-stream report of a third-item music project between the researcher of complexity, Takashi Ikegami (Professor of University of Tokyo).
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Founded in 2002 by musician Keiichiro Shibuya and Maria, ATAK is a music label releasing CDs and DVDs of domestic and international electroacoustic music. ATAK is also actively involved and supports various creators in the field of design, network technology and filming. ATAK is highly recognised as one of the top music labels of the genre in Japan as well as in Europe for its cutting-edge technology and art.


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ATAK night 4
Maxima ver.2.0 for sound and visuals
Sound-generating and visualization/reassembling/fragmenting, by the applications of nonlinear science, chaotic itinerancy, genetic algorithm, cellular automaton, and logistic map. The data that is used generating voluminous information of sound is applied to the visual projection, and are variant to information of sounds in real time. This is also a mid-stream report of a third-item music project between the researcher of complexity, Takashi Ikegami (Professor of University of Tokyo).
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1995
perform a co-starring live with yuji takahashi at a self producing concert “suikenshichiku”.
also release a music tape of this the live performance, which records an annual best seller of tower record contemporary music in this year.

1998
b.a., composition, Tokyo national university of fine arts and music.
compose a orhcestra piece, “La musica della Battaglia”
perform a live “under construction” at paris ready to wear collection.

1999
compose, arrange and play piano for many artists' recording such as seigen ono, mari natsuki, The Boom and miu sakamoto etc.

2001
compose music for a dance performance “metamorphosis” (ad: katsuhiko hibino, costume design: kozue hibino, choreography: junko kikuchi).

2002
04
start ATAK.
perform a slipped disk live for various places such as CAY, maniac love (aoyama, tokyo) etc.
appear in cd “leap”, also compiling Mokira, Mikael Stavostrand etc.
06
perform a laptop duo live with yuji takahashi, for a workshop of the carsten nicolai 's exhibition “parallel lines cross at infinity” at watarium museum, tokyo.
11
release “ATAK001 slipped disk”
sound produce for a fashion brand cocoon s/s tokyo collection.
12
organize an event, “ATAK presents feat. carsten nicolai”.
appear in a cd “OPEN MIND” for the pre-opening of the mori art museum, which compiles most important sound artists such as merzbow, ryoji ikeda, numb etc.
also perform a solo live for the pre-opening event for the mori art museum at roppongi think zone.

2003
03
perform slipped disk live for an electronic music event “port vol.02” organized by osaka city.
06
produce “lang”(album “irony”) for ACO.
10
perform a solo live for an event “intoxicate” organized by tower record with clammbon, yuji katsui + akira sotoyama.
11
present a permanent installation “drill”, at a hair salon superstars in daikanyama tokyo, which contains both sound and web interaction.
12
ATAK west japan tour, starting at yamaguchi center for arts and media, also touring fukuoka and kumamoto.

2004
02
perform a live and give a lecture for the “ATAK show case” at Apple Store Ginza, tokyo.
03
perform a slipped disk live at ageHa, tokyo.
06
edit a feature article “sound/design/technology” for a magazine “Design News” all by ATAK.
release “ATAK003 stilluppsteypa” by an electronica unit from iceland, stilluppsteypa.
present a intallation “s[a:ou]nd” for “Building” at yokohama, produced by trico design.
09
appear in a cd “port doc.1-5” produced by a label “port”, organized by evala (also a member of ATAK), which also compiles evala, numb, AOKI takamasa etc.
10
joined a compilation CD "port doc.1-5", which was released from music label "port"by Evala, a sound artist, an ATAK member.
11
performed at Apple Store Ginza, Tokyo, for launch event of "port doc.1-5". released album "ATAK004 kim cascone + Jason kahn + steinbruechel" and "ATAK005 goem"
12
released his own solo album "ATAK000".
performed with Stilluppsteypa etc., at launch events in Superdeluxe in Tokyo, Bridge in Osaka, and Rooms in Fukuoka.

2005
01
appeared and performed at the talk & live event "unknownmix returns vol.2" held by Atsushi Sasaki.\
02
appeared as a guest panelist and performed at "oval link 2005", an event sponsored by nikkeibp.jp and oval link.
03
performed as a guest artist at Unit Daikanyama, Tokyo, at the event "ova-proudly presents"
06
re-edited the sound source of the installation drill into CD "drill circle" as a 60 minute track for the photo book by Superstars.
07
released original T shirts ATAKT1.0(HOMME/FEMME), which was developed from the body pattern.
appeared as a guest lecturer at brain scientist Kenichiro MogiI's lecture series "Artistic anatomy", did lecture and live performance.
released "ATAK006 yuji takahashi"
09
did 6 times series lecture for students major in art and media technology at Tokyo Zokei University.
10
did 6 times series lecture for students major in art and media technology at Tokyo Zokei University.
12
exhibited sound installation "description instability" at ICC, with Takashi Ikegami, complex system researcher.
produced a talk event "do we feel other people's pain?" by Yuji Takahashi(musician)+ Kenichiro MOGI (brain scientist), and a concert Yuji Takahashi "gaps and bones".
produced and performed at presentation/concert "The Third Term Music -- Non-Fourier Concepts and the Beyond" with Tahashi Ikegami.
all those event was presented under the title "ATAK@ICC".

2006
01
released "ATAK007 yuji takahashi+keiichiro shibuya+maria".
02
went on a Europe tour (Paris, Valencia and Madrid) with Christophe Charles and Yoshihiro Hanno etc.
produced an musical event "ATAK NIGHT 2" at SPACE FORCE, Nakameguro, Tokyo.
03
related event "The sound art scene in cotemporary Switzerland" was held at Tokyo University, Komaba campus.
04
Became an adjunct instructor at Tokyo University, started a lecture "the third term music evolutionism" with Takashi IKEGAMI. -