Body Con Radio Show at Nadiff

  I organised a closing event for Body Con, which has been on at Nadiff art bookshop in Tokyo, on Friday 18 Feb. Four of the Japanese participant artists came along to chat and share their views on works. Muneteru Ujino performed for the first time on his new updated 'Rotators' music machine in front of an audience of around 50. I have blogged about his 'Rotator' noise machines earlier, but Ujino's new versions have certainly upped the ante. Operating on the same principle of rotating records on turntables which trigger the switches on a range of ordinary electrical applicances (hairdryer, mixer, drill), his performance at Nadiff was an amazing hybrid of industrial noise music finely toned by elegant techno beats. Ujino even made a delicious banana milkshake using the mixer during his set.      
The second part of the evening comprised a 'radio talk show' with the Body Con artists - Ujino, Hiroko Okada, Mayumi Kuronuma and Naotaka Shimamoto. This is a form I have been interested to try for a while now...one way for me to get round my inability to write in Japanese. Being a fluent speaker, live events are a media for me. I asked each artist to bring along one CD track and played these while asking questions about their works and its links to body issues. I think it worked quite well - it managed to find a space somewhere in between the all out seriousness of talks and the slackness of DJ events and became a little living room. I hope to continue this.....tracklists from the radio show below:
'High Spirits' - Albert Mayer/ 'Every Little Step' - Bobby Brown/ 'Last Dance' - The Cure/ 'Quero Sossego' - Araci Cortez with orchestra/ 'Teenage Kicks' ; The Undertones/ 'Flower' - Madonna/ 'Bitches Brew' - Miles Davis.