ヨアヒム・バデンホースト Joachim Badenhorst　マルチリード奏者（クラリネット、バス・クラリネット、テナーサックス等）
1981年ベルギー、アントワープ生まれ。ヨーロッパ、諸外国のエクスペリメンタル/インプロヴァイズドミュージックシーンで活動を行う。
ハーグ王立ジャズスタディで修士号を取得後は、時を隔てアメリカ、ヨーロッパの都市を点在しながら精力的に演奏活動やレコーディングを行う。
各地でのジャズや実験的な音楽、アーティストとの関わりの中でTony Malaby、Noel Akchote、Frantz Loriot、John Butcher と Paul Lytton のプロジェクトやHan Bennink トリオにも参加するなど、多彩な活動を展開している。
絶え間なく身体の内側からほとばしるような音のエレメント、その表現の幅はソロインプロヴィゼーションから彼が率いる大編成の即興集団Carate Urio Orchestraにまで至る。

Joachim Badenhorst (°1981 Antwerp) has been active in the experimental and improvised music scene in Europe and abroad for the past 15 years. Following his master degree in jazz studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, he has since divided his time between Belgium and cities in the US and Europe, collaborating and recording with jazz and experimental music ensembles and artists, such as Han Bennink, Tony Malaby and Noël Akchoté while incessantly exploring the visceral elements of sound. His output ranges from solo improvisation to leading large formations, such as his own Carate Urio Orchestra.

Badenhorst is artistically interested in integrating ideas from various different art medias into his musical compositions. He also takes deep interest in revealing the inherent relation between contemporary and traditional musics, having collaborated with traditional musicians from Turkey and Japan, and toured in China with reinterpreted traditional Chinese music.

In recent years, Badenhorst is contemplating the evanescent site specificity of sound as well as the relation between space and sound. In recent years, his work has taken a deeper focus on composition, namely that of computer­based composition and processing. Through continual research and experiment, he delves into a re­imagination of the boundaries between improvisation and composition, of abstract sound explorations and harmonic passage, and continues to attempt at a personal aesthetic language that interact with spaces and engage with different audiences.

Badenhorst appears on over 50 cd’s on over 10 record labels. In 2012, he launched his own label KLEIN, as a creative platform to initiate collaborations, experiment and play with unconventional design, and as an outlet for fringe musical projects.

Since 2010 Badenhorst has been developing his solo​programme consisting of improvisations and compositions for solo acoustic and electro­acoustic wind instruments. Badenhorst released three solo albums: The Jungle He Told Me (Smeraldina­Rima 2012) , Forest//Mori (Klein 2014) and Kitakata (Santé­Loisirs 2016).
Solo performance highlights include Météo Festival (France 2016), Mengi (Iceland 2015), Brussels Jazz Festival (Belgium 2015), Taktlos Festival (Switzerland 2015), Molde Festival (Norway 2014), Stanser Musiktage (Switzerland 2014), Orléans Festival (France 2014).

Badenhorst is a composer and performer of the ensembles:

​Carate Urio Orchestra​. This ensemble released the albums Sparrow Mountain (KLEIN,2013), Lover (KLEIN 2016), Ljubljana (Cleanfeed 2016).
Carate Urio performance highlights include Jazz Middelheim (2014), Brand! Festival (2015), Bimhuis Amsterdam (2015), Ljubljana Jazz Festival (2015), Gent Jazz Festival (2016) and tour of the east coast of the USA in June 2016.

The Icelandic quintet​Mógil​ released the albums Ro (Radical Duke 2008), I​ stilluni hljomar (Mogilmusic 2011), ​Korriro (Mogilmusic 2015). Mogil performance highlights include the Reykjavik Jazzfestival (2015), Dranouter aan zee (2012), Iceland Airwaves (2008 and 2012) Womex Festival (2009).

The acoustic duo Rawfishboys with French bassist Brice Soniano released the albums War (self­released 2005), ‘Piano works/worksnt’ (Spocus 2010) and an upcoming album for De Werf in 2017.

The acoustic trio​Baloni​(with Frantz Loriot and Pascal Niggenkemper) released the albums​ Fremdenzimmer (Cleanfeed 2011), ​Belleke (Cleanfeed 2014), Ripples (Cleanfeed 2015).
Baloni’s performance highlights include Meteo Festival (2013), Banlieues Bleues Festival (2013), Jazz Nevers Festival (2013), JIGG Lissabon (2014).

中村としまる Toshimaru Nakamura
舞台音響技術、遊戯施設の効果音および音楽制作、或いはまた楽団でギターを弾くなどの２０歳代を経てたが、結句、何物も身につかなかった。唯一、ひょんなことから興じていったオーディオ・ミキサーを用いたフィードバックの演奏のみが、手に馴染み且つ精神との整合も取れるものとなり、それが我れも演奏家の端くれであるという大胆な誤認を自らにもたらす。この悲劇的な思い上がりを前提として、演奏の機会が与えられればこれに応じ、現在に至る。

No-input mixing board player

Toshimaru Nakamura’s instrument is the no-input mixing board, which describes a way of using a standard mixing board as an electronic music instrument, producing sound without any external audio input. The use of the mixing board in this manner is not only innovative in the the sounds it can create but, more importantly, in the approach this method of working with the mixer demands. The unpredictability of the instrument requires an attitude of obedience and resignation to the system and the sounds it produces, bringing a high level of indeterminacy and surprise to the music. Nakamura pioneered this approach to the use of the mixing board in the mid-1990’s and has since then appeared on over one hundred audio publications, including nine solo CD’s.

He has performed throughout Europe, North America, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Korea, China, Singapore and Malaysia, performing and recording both as a soloist and in collaboration with numerous other musicians.

As an active organizer of concerts in Tokyo, Nakamura has helped many musicians coming to Japan find places to perform, both with himself and with others. From 1998 to 2003 Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama ran the concert series Improvisation Series at Bar Aoyama and then later the Meeting at Off Site series of concerts. Both these concert series were crucially important in exposing a new manner to improvised music (referred to as Electro Acoustic Improvisation) to the Japanese public and to foreign musicians visiting Japan, making Tokyo one of the global hotspots for this new approach to music.

　
　
大上流一　
1978年生 guitarist。潮流や新奇性にとらわれない極めてプリミティブな即興演奏による音楽的アプローチを実践している。 2004年ソロシリーズ「Dead Pan Smiles」をplanBで開始し、 独自の作業性を包摂しつつ2013年までに109回に及ぶ定点ソロコンサートを行う。 2015年ソロシリーズ音源からの抜粋「Dead Pan Smiles」5CDboxをファーストリリース。 また平行して多様なミュージシャンとの共演も重ねているが、 2013年からは初共演者との積極的な交わりの場として「Shield Reflection」を水道橋Ftarriにて定期的に開催している。

Riuichi Daijo
Guitarist. Born in Yokohama, Japan in 1978.
started playing the guitar and soon came to concentrate on improvisation.
Since 2004 he had continued regular solo concerts until 2013 Sep, as an approach to delve into the workability of solo playing.
also he try to meet other musicians.