
Tokyo based artist Takashi Makino (1978) has studied in the atelier of the Quay Brothers in London. Creatively, he moves between exhibitions and film and music festivals. In his work, he combines both classic and digital film technologies. Besides his own musical production, he often collaborates with American musician and producer Jim O’Rourke, Dutch creator Machinefabriek and others. Space Noise 3D performance is created by combining and interweaving the visual outputs of a 16mm projector and a data projector. The effort to physically represent the image before it touches the screen flows through the noise performance, where the author also creates the sound. The viewers watch the resulting image via 3D glasses.
MM You create your own sound and music during the performance, using synthesizers for video and audio outputs. Is the starting point for your collaboration with other musicians or sound artists on your films and videos an improvisation?
TM The video I will play is already prepared. I also project 16mm projector on the same screen. Image of video and film will be joint on the screen to create deep 3D abstract images. In this time, I will play music by myself. During 2005–2011, I collaborated with many of great musician and video artist, but from 2012, I started making music by myself. Because if I find the clear concept about sound for new film, then I can make sound. But if I find that I can’t make music, then I have to ask my favorite musician. For example, my latest film’s [Cinema Concrete] soundtrack is made by Machinefabriek.
MM I have read somewhere, that you studied music and lighting design in the atelier of the Quay Brothers. Was this experience important for your moving images based on texture?
TM Yes, their advice about how to collaborate with musicians had a real impress on me, but they said I should use my experimental mind for more commercial films. Maybe I will try, in the future.
Takashi Makino interviewed by Martin Mazanec
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4 Dec | 3 pm | FA | Takashi Makino (JP): Film | presentation | Animation beyond Animation
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4 Dec | 11 pm | T | Takashi Makino (JP): Space Noise 3D | AV performance | Animation beyond Animation
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Part of the Festivals of Live Cinema project activities.