July 31 open 19h00 start 19h30 Tokyo Shibuya-ku Kouen Dori Classics

Photo: Samantha Gore

Sunday July 31 2022 open 19h00 start 19h30
Carl returns to Koendori Classics to join with the redoubtable Akaihirume for an evening of solos and duets.

Artists:

Advance ¥3000, Door ¥3500, And 1Drink Order

Kouen Dori Classics
Yamate Kyoukai B1F Udagawacho Shibuya-ku
03-6310-8871
Map (Japanese) here
WEB: http://koendoriclassics.com/

July 17 Open 19h00 Start 19h30 Tokyo Ochiai SOUP


Sunday July 17 2022 Open 19h00 Start 19h30
LIVE :
Carl Stone × 吉田達也 ×
神田綾子 トリオ

DJ :
小林径

Artists:

Reservation: ¥2500 Same Day: ¥3000

SOUP
3-9-10 Mikasa BLD BF1 Kamiochiai Shinjuku-ku Tokyo
東京都新宿区落合3-9-10 三笠ビルBF1
Map (Japanese) here
WEB: ochiaisoup.com

Archive: May 29 open 18h00 start 18h30 Tokyo Shimokitazawa Lady Jane

Sunday May 29 2022 open 18h00 start 18h30
Carl Stone & Michiyo Yagi IMPROV DUO!

Carl’s return to this long-standing and intimate venue in Shimokitazawa, after almost five years. A great place to listen to what can happen when a virtuoso koto player who is constantly pushing the boundaries gets tangled up with a live-sampling sonic Cuisinart blender masquerading as a laptop.

Artists:

  • Carl Stone
  • Michiyo Yagi

¥3000 (w/ pre-reservation), ¥3500 same day
I drink minimum.

Lady Jane
Daizawa 5-31-14Setagaya-ku Tokyo 1F
東京都世田谷区代沢5丁目31−14 第2和泉ハイツ 1F03-3412-2947
Map (Japanese) here
bigtory@mba.ocn.ne.jp
WEB: http://bigtory.jp/
WEB: https://www.facebook.com/LadyJane.bigtory

Archive: May 21 Open 19h00 Start 19h30 Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Hikari no Uma Tokyo Improvisation Carnival vol.5

Saturday May 21 2022 Open 19h00 Start 19h30
Carl and Makiko Sakurai reunite for a duo performance at Hikari no Uma, the intimate cafe space in Okubo. Makiko Sakurai is a vocalist as well as a Shirabyōshi (白拍子), namely a Japanese female entertainer who practiced in the Heian and Kamakura periods, singing songs and performing dances dressed as men.Also on the evening’s bill: WCN v2A (Izumi Gunji + Sean Fujimoto)、Kyohansha (ISSHEE (bass) + Keiko Higuchi (dms.vo.))

Online streaming at: https://www.youtube.com/user/clublunatica

To sign up for online delivery:: https://clublunatica.stores.jp for one week
Resevation: Hikarino Uma  clublunatica@icloud.com
Information: Maripla info@mari-pla.me

Artists:

  • Carl Stone
  • Makiko Sakurai
  • WCN v2a
  • Kyohansha

Advance: ¥3000 Same Day: ¥3500 (+ 1 drink)

Hikari no Uma
Hyakunincho 1-23-17 B1 Ohkubo Shinjuku-ku Tokyo
169-0073 東京都新宿区百人町1-23-17-B1
Map (English) at here
clublunatica@icloud.com

Archive: February 19 Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Root-k Contemporary Gallery

Saturday February 19 2022 17h00
Carl performs in conjunction with ON::OFF::ON, the solo exhibition from artist Gil Kuno. The event features a first time collaboration with Kuno and legendary drummer Tatsuya Yoshida.

Artists:

¥1500

Buy Tickets Online

Root-k Contemporary Gallery
〒162-0836 Tokyo-to Shinjuku-ku Minami-cho 6
〒162-0836 東京都新宿区南町603-6280-8808
Map (Japanese) here
WEB: https://root-k.jp
IG: #rk_contemporary

October 4 The World

Sunday October 4 2020
Musicity and the University of Tokyo’s Memu Earth Lab present a 48 hour broadcast from Memu, a uniquely dynamic location in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The theme is Listening to the present: questions for the future, created by Nick Luscombe, Yu Morishita, James Greer. Music and interview with Carl Stone included. Transmission is spread in 8-hour broadcasts repeated 3 times daily, starting October 4 12 pm JST/12 pm
Full list of the many great participants, and the player to listen all found at https://tinyurl.com/ya49qnxw

https://tinyurl.com/ya49qnxw

October 2 Open 18h00 start 19h00 CST Winnipeg Bijou Patio Send + Receive Festival


Friday October 2 2020 Open 18h00 start 19h00 CST
Carl Stone and Akihirume headline the Send and Receive Festival in Winnipeg Canada. The performance will be streamed for all to watch for free  and will feature Carl in Los Angeles and Akihirume in Tokyo.

Click http://www.sendandreceive.org to watch.

Stream available October 2 from 7:00 PM in Winnipeg

Artists:

  • Carl Stone and Akaihirume (US/JP) http://sukothai.com
  • Xuan Ye 叶轩 (CN/CA)
  • Colby Richardson (CA
  • Sarah Jo Kirsch (CA)

Free/gratuit

Bijou Patio
92 Main Street, 4 Winnipeg MB CANADA
204-995-2267
send.director@gmail.com
https://sendandreceive.org/v22-oct-2nd-all-tomorrows-oceans/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1712856678867281/

Baroo & Himalaya Albums Both Named “Best of 2019” by The Wire, Pitchfork, Artforum, Bandcamp

Both Carl Stone album releases from 2019 found their ways onto a number of Best of the Year lists, from Artforum to The Wire.

THE WIRE:
Himalaya: Best of 2019 14/100
“The world’s pop music has become putty in Stone’s hands. Each piece could, in theory, keep reassembling its particles infinitely”

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/431

THE WIRE:
Baroo: Best of 2019 27/100
“Like a vivd and recurrent memory of somewhere you have never been, or an everday experience suddenly made inexplicable and strange”

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/431

ARTFORUM:
Himalaya: Best Music of 2019 5/10

How much music do you really need? Stone’s work suggests that sometimes a second is enough. As he shows on Himalaya, real-time manipulation of tiny samples can yield extraordinary results, ranging from shattered-beat mosaics to oceanic stillness.

https://www.artforum.com/print/201910

BANDCAMP
Baroo & Himalaya: Best Experimental Albums of 2019
The two albums released by Carl Stone in 2019 bubble with ideas and careen with dizzying juxtapositions. He has an uncanny knack for cutting up songs and samples in ways that retain structure and melody yet still sound deconstructed and disorienting, as if the floor beneath them is bending and warping and could collapse at any time. Baroo and Himalaya both engage with pop music by rearranging its DNA, constructing a new kind of catchiness through circular edits. He can build arcs that rise and fall, and ride loops that hypnotize as they expand. The process is brainy, but both albums are also full of glee, as fun to listen to as they are to contemplate.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-experimental/the-best-experimental-albums-of-2019

PITCHFORK:
Baroo: Best Experimental Albums of 2019
“Like a vivd and recurrent memory of somewhere you have never been, or an everday experience suddenly made inexplicable and strange”

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-experimental-albums-2019/

These titles available through UNSEEN WORLDS as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and finer music stores.

Archive: January 16 19h00 Ho Chi Minh City VN MoT+++ Saigon

Thursday January 16 2020 19h00
Carl’s Ho Chi Minh City debut!
The venue is MoT+++s an independent, artist-run space in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. it collaborates with artists to create an experimental environment that encourages artists to push the boundaries of their practice. Joining for the evening will be Lý Trang the experimental pop/electronic composer and producer based in Hanoi as well as cross genre multi-instrumental musician and sound artist Scobi Wan.

Artists:

100,000 dong

MoT+++ Saigon
1057 Đường Bình Quới, Phường 28, Bình Thạnh, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam

http://motplus.xyz/
https://www.facebook.com/events/581786735990014/

April 18 open 18h00 start 18h30 Kyoto JP Soto

Sunday April 18 2021 open 18h00 start 18h30
Kukan “Tenet” Release Live
A live concert celebrating the latest release from Kyoto-based Kukangendai, as well as the LP+CD release of Carl’s “Stolen Car” on Unseen Worlds.
You can view this on YouTube as a modestly priced ticket event. For more information please go to http://soto-kyoto.jp/210418reservation/
Artists:

  • Carl Stone
  • Kukangendai
  • Sofheso

Advance: ¥2500 Same Day: ¥3000 Web Only: ¥1000
Soto
18, Shishigatani Honeninnishimachi, Sakyo-ku Kyoto-shi,
Kyoto, 606-842
〒606-8427
京都市左京区鹿ケ谷法然院西町18

Map (English) at here
Map (Japanese) at here
http://soto-kyoto.jp/event/210418/
http://soto-kyoto.jp/210418reservation/

January 26 open 18h00 start 19h00 Tokyo Koto-ku KS Loft House


Sunday January 26 2020 open 18h00 start 19h00
Winter Party -Carl Stone, Yasumune Morishige, Akaihirume

A private house next to a temple and cemetery in the Kiyosumi area of Tokyo becomes the venue for a special installation/performance by Carl Stone (electronics) Akaihirume (voice) and Morishige Yasumune (cello). Multiple rooms in the uniquely designed house, plus adjacent areas surrounding, serve as the stage. The three artists find a way for a unique interaction.

*please contact akaihirume@gmail.com
「subject: JAN26」for location details.

Artists:

“Nagesen” (free donation)

KS Loft House
Access details will be provided upon registration

akaihirume@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/504268720423173/

Archive: February 9 7:30 PM San Diego CA White Box Live Arts

Sunday February 9 2020 7:30 PM
Carl returns to San Diego after a 7 year hiatus to perform a solo concert at White Box Live Arts, located inside Liberty Station. This event is part of the Fresh Sound series, produced and hosted by Bonnie Wright. The mission of the Fresh Sound series is to bring a wide range of new music and stellar musicians to San Diego that wouldn’t normally find themselves in the area. Fresh Sound began presenting concerts in 1997 “and will continue ad infinitum.”

$20/$10 students at the door

White Box Live Arts
2590 Truxtun Rd #205, San Diego, CA 92106
619-987-6214
bonniebwright@gmail.com
http://www.freshsoundmusic.com/upcoming-shows.html
http://www.freshsoundmusic.com/020920.html

February 20 8 PM Seattle WA Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center

Thursday February 20 2020 8 PM
Carl returns to the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center after a twelve year hiatus, this time for a shared evening with sound artist, producer, guitarist, composer Robert Millis.

Artists:

$5-15 at the door

Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N Seattle, WA 98103

https://www.waywardmusic.org/?p=4920
https://www.facebook.com/events/614797512603812/

February 21 6:30 PM Portland OR Leaven Community Center


Friday February 21 2020 6:30 PM
Carl returns to Portland after a hiatus of twenty-eight years! Many thanks to Ryan Carlile and Spencer Doran for arranging, It should be a fun show. Carl shares the bill with Takako Minakawa from Japan and Francisco Botello from US/Mexico. Visable Cloaks will be DJ-ing and the whole event will be in 4-channel quadraphonic sound. Set times are 7:00/8:00/9:00

Artists:

$10

Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211,
(503) 287-7553 (Leaven Community)
spencer@visiblecloaks.com

February 22 7PM Bellingham WA AltLib -The Alternative Library

Saturday February 22 2020 7PM
Carl’s Bellingham debut! The venue is Bellingham’s Alternative Library, which offers a curated public book collection and is host to a wide array of events, including concerts, film screenings, workshops, and readings. Music by Hortus Curo, Nice Train Sounds, Steve Sehman. Lights throughout the night from Yarn Thorsau.

Artists:

$6-10 sliding scale

AltLib -The Alternative Library
1309 Billy Frank Jr. St, Bellingham, WA 98225

info@altlib.org
http://altlib.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/609008576501728/

March 13 9:00PM New York NY Experimental Intermedia Foundation *** Cancelled ***

*** Cancelled ***Friday March 13 2020 9:00PM *** Cancelled ***
Carl joins with Ulrich Krieger for a shared evening of solos and duos at Experimental Intermedia (EIF), the place where Carl held his New York debut 43 years before.

Artists:

donation

Experimental Intermedia Foundation
224 Centre St # 3 New York, NY
212-431-6430
https://www.experimentalintermedia.org/concerts/