Cherry Music Festival CPH 2025

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Vær med, når kirsebærtræerne blomstrer og Cherry Music Festival, den årligt tilbagevendende festival for japansk samtidsmusik og lydkunst, atter rykker ind på Støberiet.

PRAKTISK
Fredag d. 25. april 2025
Støberiet, Blågårds Plads 5, 3. sal
Døre åbner kl. 19.30
Billetter: 90 kr. (+ gebyr)

LINE-UP
Moskitoo (Sanae Yamasaki)
FourColor (a.k.a. Keiichi Sugimoto)
Momose Yasunaga
Mads Kinnerup
Li///Motorsaw

MOSKITOO (SANAE YAMASAKI)
Moskitoo er en lydkunstner og sanger fra Tokyo. Hun fik sin solodebut i 2007 med albummet 'DRAPE', udgivet på det NY-baserede label 12k grundlagt af Taylor Deupree. Siden da har hun samarbejdet og arbejdet med mange musikere, herunder FilFla. Moskitoos musik udforsker nye forhold mellem lyd, musik og stemme. Hendes værk starter med hendes egen stemme som fundamentet og væver sig ind i forskellige instrumenter, herunder guitar- og legetøjsklokkespil, sammen med hverdagslyde, ikke-instrumentelle lyde og tilfældige elementer. Gennem improvisation og uventede lyde navigerer hun i rummet mellem lyd og stilhed og sporer konturerne af usete verdener.
Moskitoo har turneret rundt i Europa, Nordamerika, Canada og Australien og optrådt ved forskellige arrangementer i Danmark, Korea med videre. Ud over sine liveoptrædener har hun bidraget med lyddesign til videoværker, kortfilm og vokal til tv-reklamer og firmaers lydlogoer.
I oktober 2024 udgav Moskitoo sit seneste album 'Unspoken Poetry' på det japanske HEADZ/WEATHER label.

FOURCOLOR A.K.A. KEIICHI SUGIMOTO
Keiichi Sugimoto er en kunstner og komponist fra Japan. Han spiller i flere lydprojekter såsom FourColor, FilFla, Minamo og Fonica. Hans kompositioner er blevet udgivet på pladeselskaber over hele verden, såsom 12K (USA), apestaartje (USA), TOM LAB (Tyskland) og HEADZ (Japan). Som FourColor blev hans album 'Water Mirror' udpeget blandt de bedste electronica-albums i THE WIRE magazine (UK). Han har også turneret flittigt i Europa, Asien, Australien, USA og Canada.

MOMOSE YASUNAGA
Momose Yasunaga spiller på modulær synthesizer og er en elektronisk musikkunstner og vokalist fra Tokyo. Momose fokuserer på at skabe magiske lyde, der bevæger sig mellem virkelighed og abstraktion ved organisk at kombinere elektroniske lyde og stemme.
Momose Yasunaga blev udvalgt som prisvinder ved Miss iD2020 sponsoreret af Kodansha. Udover sine soloaktiviteter deltager hun også i forskellige projekter som vokalist. Momose Yasunaga har udgivet albummerne 'Body In Ether' og 'Listen in a Cool Room' på
PURRE GOOHN.
Hun arbejder med både musik og kunst og har bl.a. optrådt på Tokyo Festival of Modular, Kansai Festival of Modular, Japanese Music Festival Harukaze, Okayama Triennale, Nerima Art Museum og DOMMUNE.

MADS KINNERUP
Mads Kinnerup er en dansk kunstner, musiker og musikproducer. Med en baggrund i elektronisk eksperimentel musik og IDM er han interesseret i at rykke grænserne for, hvordan musik kan fremføres og produceres på nye originale måder. Kinnerups musik fremføres live ved hjælp af modulære synthesizersystemer og selvudviklede softwaresystemer, hvilket skaber en musik, der er minimal, enkel og repeterende i forhold til melodien, men alligevel kompleks i klangen.
Kinnerups selvudgivne debutalbum 'Parademons' fra 2019 byder på ambientuniverser i Warp-stil og vintage trommemaskinelyde. Hans andet album 'Heart 1993' fra 2022, udgivet på det danske pladeselskab Janushoved, er en atmosfærisk instrumental udgivelse, der leger med minder om barndomslyde, ødelagt og dekonstrueret.
På sit tredje album 'Interpolation' fra december 2022 præsenterer Kinnerup ny rytmebaseret IDM-musik.

LI///MOTORSAW
Li///Motorsaw har skabt de audio/visuelle rammer for Cherry Music Festival årligt siden 2014 og er de kunstneriske værter der med interludes og backdrop sætter scenen for de inviterede japanske kunstnere.
Motorsaw er bl.a. kendt for videokunst på Roskilde Festival, og Li’s ambient lydunivers kan høres på adskillige værker og produktioner som albummet 'Inkubation' i samarbejde med Martin Hall.
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ENGLISH VERSION

Cherry Music and Støberiet present: Cherry Music Festival CPH 2025.
Join us when the cherry trees bloom and Cherry Music - festival of Japanese contemporary music and sound art - moves back into Støberiet.
Friday April 25th 2025
Støberiet, Blågårds Plads 5, 3rd floor
Doors open at 19.30
Tickets: DKK 90 (+ fee)

LINE UP
Moskitoo (Sanae Yamasaki)
FourColor (a.k.a. Keiichi Sugimoto)
Momose Yasunaga
Mads Kinnerup
Li///Motorsaw

MOSKITOO (SANAE YAMASAKI)
Moskitoo is a sound artist and singer based in Tokyo. She was born in Tokyo and raised in Sapporo, she made her solo debut in 2007 with the album DRAPE, released on the NY-based label 12k founded by Taylor Deupree. Since then, she has collaborated and worked with many musicians, including FilFla. Moskitoo's music continues to explore new relationships between sound, music, and voice. Her work starts with her own voice as the foundation and weaves in various instruments, including guitar and toy glockenspiel, along with everyday sounds, non-instrumental noises, and accidental elements. Through improvisation and unexpected sounds, she navigates the space between sound and silence, tracing the contours of unseen worlds. With an acute sensitivity to the subtle phenomena created by the textures and spatiality of sound, she handles every aspect of her creative process including design, to craft her unique world. She has toured across Europe, North America, Canada, and Australia, performing at diverse events in Denmark, Korea, and beyond. In addition to her live performances, she has contributed sound design for video works, short films, and vocals for TV commercials and corporate sound logos.
In October 2024, Moskitoo released her latest album Unspoken Poetry on the Japanese HEADZ/WEATHER label.

FOURCOLOR A.K.A. KEIICHI SUGIMOTO
Keiichi Sugimoto is an artist and composer from Japan. He plays in several sound projects such as FourColor, FilFla, Minamo and Fonica. His compositions have been released from record labels throughout the world such as 12K (US), apestaartje (US), TOM LAB (Germany), and HEADZ (Japan). As FourColor, his album "Water Mirror" was chosen among the best electronica albums in the THE WIRE magazine (UK). He has also toured extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia, the United States, and Canada.
Artist statement: It is not too difficult to appreciate the melodies of the piano. We have all been familiar with for such a long time, and to notice it as "beautiful". But when you hold piano strings inside of a piano, wrapped around each other, it makes a dull, dim sound, and you realize a different appeal that is separated from the way it originally sounds. My music is a quest in search of these new, unique, and funny sounds underneath, that would attract listeners, not only to perceive beautiful sounds as beautiful, but by layering each of the sounds delicately, it would form original subtleness and textures. By composing them together precisely, they are transformed into "music": Harmonies and dis-harmonies, vagueness and clearness, digital and analog, necessity and accidents. My aim is to deal with these opposite factors on the same level to create a unique music.

MOMOSE YASUNAGA
Momose Yasunaga is a modular synthesizer player, electronic music artist, and vocalist from Tokyo.
She expresses her own fantastical world using modular synthesizers and voice. Momose focus on createing magical sounds that move between reality and abstraction by organically combining electronic sounds and voice.
Momose Yasunaga was selected as the winner of each award at Miss iD2020 sponsored by Kodansha.
In addition to her solo activities, she also participates in various units as a vocalist.
Momose Yasunaga has released following albums "Body In Ether" and "Listen in a Cool Room" on PURRE GOOHN.
She works in both realms, music and art and has performed at Tokyo Festival of Modular, Kansai Festival of Modular, Japanese Music Festival Harukaze, Okayama Triennale, Nerima Art Museum, DOMMUNE, and others.

MADS KINNERUP
Mads Kinnerup is a Danish artist, musician and music producer. With a background in electronic experimental music and IDM, he is interested in pushing the boundaries of how music can be performed and produced in new original ways. Kinnerup's music is performed live using modular synthesizer systems and self-developed software systems, creating music that is minimal, simple and repetitive in terms of melody, yet complex in timbre.
His self-released debut album Parademons from 2019 features Warp-ish style ambient universes and vintage drum machine sounds. His second album Heart 1993 from 2022 released on the Danish label Janushoved is an atmospherical instrumental release playing with memories of childhood sounds, mangled and deconstructed.
On his third album Interpolation from December 2022, Kinnerup presents new rhythm basedIDM music.

LI///MOTORSAW
Li///Motorsaw has created the audio/visual framework for the Cherry Music Festival annually since 2014 and are the artistic hosts who, with interludes and backdrop, set the stage for the invited Japanese artists.
Motorsaw is known for his video art at Roskilde Festival, and Li's ambient sound universe can be heard on several works and productions such as the album 'Incubation' in collaboration with Martin Hall