Takamitsu Ohta
Oto to Secchi
** Editin of 100 ** Tsss Tapes presents Oto to Secchi by Anne-Françoise Jacques and Takamitsu Ohta. A slow walk through Oto to Secchi, a collaborative sound installation by Ota and Jacques at Bonjour! Gendaibunmei, Kyoto. Recorded on August 2019. Installation organized by Takamitsu Ohta. Recorded, edited and mastered by Anne-Françoise Jacques.
Hodokeru Mimi
"The cold December day freezes the atmosphere, making it eternal. Birds pass by. A construction site. The sound of the shijou opens the zazen. Humble gestures and wooden marbles. Steps across the hallway. The floor creaks break the audience’s breathless silence. Air flows between the maple branches. Frogs, water, and forest remind us of the transient beauty of nature. The organ’s mechanical imperfection and resonant glass tubes echo, warming the space. Raw tones, distant spaces, sound molecules …
Two Forms of Contact With Objects
Anne-Françoise Jacques is a canadian composer and performer from Quebecis. She is interested in amplification, erratic devices and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. She is using low technology, trivial objects and rough sounds, prodused by rotation, objects and amplification, most of them are custom made. Takamitsu Ohta is a contemporary artist, Born in Osaka, Japan. He is using material from the exact place and builds his own works. By a process of transformation, …
Elemental Studies
book, 44 pages, color photos, 100 copies. A photographic survey of Ohta's wonderfully minimal installations.
Takamitsu Ohta is a contemporary artist, Born in Osaka, Japan. He is using material from the exact place and builds his own works. By a process of transformation, he makes things visible that everyone knows of, but doesn’t pay particular attention to in daily life. He features sound recordings and cassette loops.