STUDIO YUTAKA MAKINO

 

 

 

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BIOGRAPHY

Yutaka Makino was born in 1976 in Japan and lives in Berlin. Active primarily in the field of computer music, Makino also uses installations and performances to explore the various dimensions of human perception. On the basis of his investigations into spatial perception and new methods of sound synthesis, his works make use of concepts inspired by his current research into areas such as phenomenology, experimental psychology and complex dynamic systems. Makino’s recent works provide environments in flux to experience shifting modes of perception. He works with computational dynamic systems to generate and control elements such as sound, light or fog. These pseudo matters lay out the environments of which the audience becomes an active part.

He presented his works internationally such as DAAD Gallery (Germany), Clubtransmediale (Germany), Akademie der Künste (Germany), Kontraste (Austria), Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetics of Space (The Netherlands), STRP Festival (The Netherlands), and Japan Society (USA). He has had extended residencies at the MacDowell Colony (USA), STEIM (The Netherlands), Technical University Berlin (Germany) and ZKM (Germany).

He has been received prizes and grants from DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (Germany), Prix Ton Bruynèl (The Netherlands), Agency of Cultural Affairs (Japan), Pola Art Foundation (Japan) among others and commissions from Foundation Ton Bruynèl (The Netherlands), STRP Festival (The Netherlands), STEIM (The Netherlands) and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (Germany). He also has given lectures and presentations at numerous institutions and festivals.

In 2009, he founded an independent computer music label, Strukto.

 

SELECTED PERFORMANCES / EXHIBITIONS

 

2011

DAAD Gallery
Berlin, Germany

Kontraste
Krems, Austria

ZKM
Karlsruhe, Germany

MaerzMusik
Berlin, Germany

Clubtransmediale
Berlin, Germany

2010

Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetic of Space
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Japan Society
New York, NY

Akademie der Künste
Berlin, Germany

Inventionen 2010
Berlin, Germany

STRP Festival
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2009

Loop Gallery
Seoul, South Korea

Divus Gallery
London, UK

Worm
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

International Generative Art Exhibition
Machine Dreams
Seoul, South Korea

2008

International Gaudeamus Music Week
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Night of the Unexpected
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007

Seoul International Computer Music Festival
Seoul, South Korea

MusikTriennale Köln
Köln, Germany

International Gaudeamus Music Week
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sonorities Contemporary Music Festival
Belfast, UK

2006

Transmediale
Berlin, Germany

STRP Festival
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

DNK
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

STEIM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands


COMMISSIONS

 

2011

DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
Berlin, Germany

2010

STEIM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008

Foundation Ton Bruynel
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

STRP Festival
Eindehoven, The Netherlands

 

DISCHOGRAPHY

 

2012

Relational Synthesis
Ausreihe, Germany

2010

Lee Gamble / Yutaka Makino - SPLIT
Entr'acte, UK

2009

BLACK
Strukto, USA

2006

STRP1 - Reactions To The Music Of Dick Raaijmakers
Basta Records, The Netherlands

Audile
33.99 Records, Germany

SELECTED AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS

 

2011

Project Grant
ZKM
Karlsruhe, Germany

Visual Arts Grant
Nomura Foundation
Tokyo, Japan

2010

DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program 2010 - 2011
Berlin, Germany

2009

Leon Levy Foundation Fellowship
MacArthur Foundation Travel Grant
The MacDowell Colony
Peterborough, NH USA

2008

Finalist
Musica Nova 2008
Prague, Czech Republic

2007

Winner
Prix Ton Bruynel 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

Artist Fellowship 2006 - 2007
Pola Art Foundation
Tokyo, Japan

2005

Artist Fellowship 2005 - 2006 (Media Arts)
Agency for Cultural Affairs
Tokyo, Japan

Finalist
The Bourges 2005 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music & Sonic Arts
Bourges, France

 

SELECTED LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS

 

2011

University of Arts
Institute for Spatial Experiments
Berlin, Germany

ZKM
Karlsruhe, Germany

Clubtransmediale
Berlin, Germany

2010

Japan Society
New York, NY

University of Arts
Sound Studies
Berlin, Germany

Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetics of Space
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Royal Academy of Art
ArtScience
The Hague, The Netherlands

Clubtransmediale
Berlin, Germany

2009

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sound Department
Chicago, IL USA

University of Arts
Art and Media
Berlin, Germany

Newcastle University
Culture Lab
Newcastle, UK

Tokyo University of the Arts
Art Media Center
Tokyo, Japan

International Generative Art Symposium
Seoul, South Korea

2008

Royal Conservatory
Institute of Sonology
The Hague, The Netherlands

2007

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Art
Los Angeles, CA USA

California Institute of Arts
The Herb Alpert School of Music
Valencia, CA USA

MuzikTriennale Köln 2007
Computer.Music.Instrument
Köln, Germany

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

 

2011

ZKM
Karlsruhe, Germany

2010

DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
Berlin, Germany

STEIM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2009

MacDowell Colony
Peterborough, NH USA

2008

Visby International Center for Composers
Visby, Sweden

2007

STEIM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

Electronic Music Studio, TU Berlin
Berlin, Germany

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