MODE 2024, featuring experimental music, audiovisual and performing arts, will be held in Tokyo.
"MODE 2024" will be held in Tokyo.
June 1, 2024 - June 9, 2024
MODE 2024, an event series featuring experimental music, audiovisual and performing arts, will be held in Tokyo.
The lineup features eight acts across four programs, including Bendik Giske, who will be performing in Japan for the first time, as well as INCAPACITANTS, Puce Mary, Okkyung Lee, Akira Sakata, and Valentina Magaletti.
[Program details]
MODE 2024.06.01 at WALL&WALL
Performance date and time: Saturday, June 1st, doors open at 17:00, performance begins at 17:30
Ticket price: Advance ticket 5,000 yen [standing] * Available on ZAIKO
Performers: INCAPACITANTS (Incapacitants/JP)
Puce Mary (DK)
Yuko Araki (JP)
Venue: WALL&WALL, Festa Omotesando Building B1, 3-18-19 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
This edition will kick off with a program that allows you to feel the evolution of noise music, featuring performances by Japanese underground noise music legends INCAPACITANTS, Danish experimental musician and composer Puce Mary, who is internationally acclaimed as one of the leading figures of the 2010s, and Yuko Araki, a Tokyo-based multi-instrumentalist and composer who has developed an approach to free-form analog noise that is active internationally.
MODE 2024.06.03 at Sogetsu Hall
Performance date and time: Monday, June 3rd, doors open at 18:15, performance begins at 19:00
Ticket price: Advance sale 6,000 yen [unreserved seating] * Available on ZAIKO
Cast: FUJI|||||||||||TA (Fujita/JP)
Okkyung Lee (KR)
Venue: Sogetsu Hall 7-2-21 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
This program will feature a performance by cellist, composer and improviser Okkyung Lee, known for his collaborations with many big-name artists such as Christian Marclay, Steve Beresford and Phil Minton, and who has exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale and in museums and galleries around the world. As a double headliner, FUJI|||||||||||TA, a sound artist based in Japan who has been highly acclaimed in Europe and the United States in recent years, will make the world debut of a new live set he created during his residency in Barcelona, Spain in March 2024. The performance will take place in the Sogetsu Hall, located in the basement of the Sogetsu Kaikan, the headquarters of the Sogetsu school of Ikebana, which was completed by Japan's leading architect Kenzo Tange. The hall, with its rock garden "Heaven" by artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi at its entrance, was also the home of the Sogetsu Art Center, which played a central role in Japanese avant-garde art from 1958 to 1971. Internationally acclaimed artists will come together to perform in a space with a historical background that has supported experimental expression in Japan.
MODE 2024.06.04 at Sogetsu Hall
Date and time of performance: June 4th (Tue) Doors open at 18:15 / Show starts at 19:00
Ticket price: Advance sale 6,500 yen [unreserved seating] * Available on ZAIKO
Cast: Bendik Giske (NO)
Akira Sakata (JP)
Valentina Magaletti (IT)
Venue: Sogetsu Hall, 7-2-21 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
In this program, Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske, who has collaborated with Beatrice Dillon, Buttechno, Laurel Halo, and others, and has been nominated twice for the Norwegian Grammy Award, will perform in Japan for the first time. Also appearing will be Akira Sakata, a leading Japanese free jazz saxophonist and Daphnia researcher, and Valentina Magaletti, a London-based avant-garde percussionist who has been making waves in the experimental music world in recent years and will be performing her first solo concert in Japan. The performance will take place in the Sogetsu Hall, located in the basement of the Sogetsu Kaikan, the headquarters of the Sogetsu school of Ikebana, which was completed by Japan's leading architect Kenzo Tange. The building, with its rock garden "Heaven" by artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi at its entrance, was also the base of the Sogetsu Art Center, which played a central role in Japanese avant-garde art from 1958 to 1971. Internationally acclaimed artists will come together to perform in a space with a historical background that has supported experimental expression in Japan.
MODE 2024.06.08,09 SOUND CEREMONY at Ito House (Former Takahiro Sonoda House)
Performance dates: Saturday, June 8th and Sunday, June 9th
①9:30 Doors open / 9:45 Show starts *
②12:00 Doors open / 12:15 Show starts*
③14:30 Doors open / 14:45 Show starts*
Ticket price: Advance sale 5,000 yen [includes snack and drink] * Available on ZAIKO
Music Selector: Bar Nightingale (JP)
Venue: Ito Residence (formerly Takahiro Sonoda Residence), somewhere in Meguro Ward
*This program is available three times a day (time slots specified). Only those who purchase tickets in advance can participate.
A home listening program, "SOUND CEREMONY," will be held at the Ito Residence (formerly the residence of Takahiro Sonoda), a mansion built by Junzo Yoshimura, a representative architect of Japanese modernist architecture, for Takahiro Sonoda, a pianist who has made a great contribution to the Japanese piano and classical music world. The address of the venue is not disclosed, and this program allows you to enjoy a musical experience in your own living space. The music selection will be handled by Bar Nightingale, an experimental music bar with members around the world.
