Thursday, May 8th at the West End Cultural Centre (586 Ellice Avenue)
Doors at 7pm, music at 8pm | $30 – Tickets available now

Carl Stone’s Re:Gendo is a hallucinogenic portrait of Tokyo that veers far away from the standard clichés found in many photographs and imagery taken of the city where Stone has lived for more than twenty years, It is an hour long live performance work utilizing multi-channel sound, video projection and live performance by Japanese vocalist Akaihirume. As Classical Voice San Francisco wrote in its review of the world premiere at the Other Minds Festival 2023, “throughout the prologue, drones shimmer, each effusion zooming us (with video processing by Stone and Yuichi Ito) further into Tokyo. Stretched to delicate spikes, visuals of staircases and alleyways are as revelatory as geodes. When the images morph into coherence, you realize it’s the lack of people that makes them striking. Stone shot the photos on his pandemic-era night walks, but this deserted Tokyo is no wasteland. It’s just a different kind of life with which this landscape teems, Trees pulsate, gates gleam, and even the drab high-rises twinkle in technicolor.”

Carl Stone performs live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space, utilizing field recordings of the urban soundscape in Tokyo and other materials.

Akaihirume’s ear is always tuned to the world’s sounds which she keeps as material in what she calls her shell. She has a wide range of vocalizations ranging from the angelic to the demonic, with lupine growling alternating with vocal etherea.

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has used computers in live performance since 1986. He has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.”. RELIX has written that “Stone makes music that can hit your ear holes like a DMT flash.” He was born in California and now divides his time between LA and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is the emeritus professor in the Department of Media Engineering at Chukyo University in Japan.