Hot Cat 23: Oriental Sounds and Painting 2
Li-chin Li --- Sheng (Chinese Mouth Organ)
Vincent Laju --- Shakuhachi, Cello
Yurika Saito --- Live Painting
Fumio Okura --- Violin
Venue
Richten 25: Gerichtsstr. 25 13347 Berlin
The Artists
::Li-Chin Li (Sheng : Chinese Mouth Organ)
Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. She has been working between Taiwan and Europe in recent years. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians' subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts. Recently, she strives to express her musical creativity beyond auditory stimuli. In her performance, she wants the audience to enter a world to experience the unknown.
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::Vincent Laju (Shakuhachi, Cello)
Shakuhachi player, Cellist, improviser & composer, he studied and graduated in France where he received "premier prix from conservatoire in Aix en Provence". He has performed in National Centers for Music Creation like GMEM, for festivals and concerts in Europe, Asia, Middle east and US.
Based in Berlin, he collaborates with composers and artists from all discipline, he can be heard from solo to large ensembles such as "Berlin Improvisers Orchestra" and "Grand 8" (Marseille). His graphics and sound work series « Zeilen » is performed and exhibited in France and in Germany.
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::Yurika Saito (Live Painting)
Born and raised in the mountains area of Tokyo, Japan. She encountered mountain landscape painting in Canada during her travels, and has been working with nature and art as the theme of her work. She pursues a wide range of possibilities in painting, embroidery, herb dyeing, and performance with the theme of connecting nature and humans.
Finding similarities between the improvised sounds played by musicians and natural phenomena, she began painting with sound in 2023 Berlin.
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:::Fumio Okura (Violin, Organization)
Studied Violin, Conducting and Musicology in Tokyo and in Berlin. Further Conducting Study with Prof. Peter Eötvös and also as a Guest Student at Staatsoper Berlin. In parallel with strong interest in Music and Theater he pursues the Sound Possibilities in various styles and with various backgrounds. His project "Hot Cat" tries the Integrated Arts with Experimental Music and Film, Live Painting, Performance or Butoh-Dance.
In 2023 the CD "Your Dramatic Joy" was released
In 2024 he played in various concerts in Tokyo.