Electro acoustic improvisation concert 3pm. May 11, Saturday
MAA-tila, Albertinkatu 19, Helsinki
Welcome! Free entrance.
I am giving an annual lecture on March 26 Tuesday 9:00 – 12:00 at Media Lab/Aalto University. The same topic every year and now the 9th one. Guess what’s the topic: FUTURE OF WESTERN ART MUSIC!?
A Happy New Year 2013! The year of SNAKE and it is MY year!
TEA & MUSICAL EXPERIMENTS, a new workshop by Shinji Kanki is starting.
During September 10 – December 10, I am in Tokyo working for a special project, Cafe Aalto Tokyo.
AAVEMAA (spook country), a new radio show on experimental sounds with new host editors starts on this Sunday, August 12 at 5pm.
PARASITE – a new musical experiment coming soon!
Wolfsburg/Germany web TV released a clip of the church concert and other Alvar Aalto Festival related events. Take a look!
Some video clips from Experimental Sound Workshop held during March – April 2012 are on YouTube. Watch!
RITORNELLO for colored noises and organ
commissioned by City Wolfsburg for Aalto 50 festival, 2012. Performance on June 6, 2012
A radio version for 24 hour DREAM HOUSE concert that started the last year at Harakka island in Helsinki.
During March 7 to April 25 every Wednesday I am giving the evening course of experimental sounds workshop at MAA-tila (Albertinkatu 19, Helsinki).
A Happy New Year 2012! Presenting 2 new compositions and 3 new productions.
he recording of The Art of War – War Symphony would be broadcasted on YLE Radio 1, Ääniversum.
I found a peculiar but clear mistake in the text on STUDIE II written by K. Stockhausen. I wrote a short paper about it. If you are interested in, check the PDF file below.
News: I am playing my new composition, a simple version for colored noises at Kasematti, that is Casemate IV at Harakka Island in front of Kaivopuisto park in Helsinki in DREAM HOUSE 24 hours concert held on June 22 – 23, 2011.
News: May 26, 2011I am presenting my work for colored noised at the Finland Alumni Club of JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) on June 1 at Mekri Lake research center of the University of Eastern Finland.
The last April this year I was featured as the artist of the month by M2HZ community open web TV. M2HZ is one of the web TV productions at STADI.TV.
My new experimental Improvisational piece, A Play for Two Harpists written for Fake Finn Festival would be premiered on April 2, 2011 at Gallery Augusta in Suomenlinna, Helsinki.
Feb 28 – March 11 I am giving a workshop for Nordic Sound Art MA students at Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. The topic is free collective improvisation.
Experimental Electro-Acoustic Improvisation workshop at DIEM in Århus. Feb. 14 – 18, 2011
NEWS: February 8, 2011. Starting Experimental Sound workshop at Art School MAA
Luc Ferrar’s Presque Rien (No. 1)1970 is revisited and “interpreted” newly as an experimental site&time-specific LIVE radio performance work.
NEWS: September 8, 2010. The new composition commissioned by Charm of Sound for the Festival for New Sounds, Nov. 8 – 13 COMPLETED!
THE FESTIVAL CANCELLED! NEWS: April 7, 2010. VIBRA, Audio Lima Experimental has invited me as a guest composer/sound artist this year.
NEWS: August 27, 2010. DIAPASON Gallery in Brooklyn, NY accepted me as a resident composer to work with their surround sound system.
NEWS: July 7, 2010. Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts commissioned Shinji Kanki a new work.
NEWS: May 12, 2010. Sirpa Jokinen, artist and SILAKKA Productions start a CD project, “CONVERSATIONS WITH PLANTS” (tentative title).
NEWS: May 7, 2010.RANK ensemble to whom my composition, Towards White, is composed and dedicated, starts creating a totally new studio version for it.
NEWS: March 20, 2010 Shinji Kanki composition, TOWARDS WHITE coming on April 24、8pm at Korjaamo Kulmasali.
NEWS:March 17, 2010. Postlude will be included in the Biennale Festival 2010 compilation CD.
NEWS: February 14, 2010 Charm of Sound (Äänen Lumo) has commissioned Shinji Kanki a large scale of work!
