ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! Electromagnetic Room
Artist / Musician, Ei Wada is at the heart of “ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS！”, a project to revive outdated electronic devices as electronic musical instruments and perform together with other members in a festival. Since launching in 2015, he has produced 『TV Gamelan』『Sempookin (literally, “electric fan harp”)』『Black Teleringer』, and other devices-turned-instruments. In 2017, he held a revival festival where performers played festival music on old domestic electronic devices and danced the Electromagnetic Bon Odori around a tower in memory of technology. He actively adapts the original functions of electronic devices, converts them into instruments, and spins fantasies as he dreams about native music and its festivals born from city waste. In this MAT, an “Electromagnetic Room” will be available for 2 days, where one can play the instruments and enjoy Ei Wada’s live performance.
Artist Profile
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Photo by Mao Yamamoto
Ei Wada
和田永
Born in Tokyo in 1987. Works between music and art. He performs in the group “Open Reel Ensemble” that uses reel-to-reel tape recorders as instruments, and also plays CRT monitors as an instrument in the “Braun Tube Jazz Band” and won the top prize in the 13th Media Arts Festival Art Department. For ISSEY MIYAKE’s Paris Collection, he has provided music 11 times. Since 2015, he has launched and is engaged in the project “ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS！” to revive old domestic electronic devices and turn them into electronic musical instruments.