Akio suzuki biography of williams
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Grew up amongst the Canterbury music life of the ’s with a strong broad jazz root and a love of songs.
First formal performance in improvisation in duo with Chris Biscoe for the British council, Brighton Moved to London in and worked with the Ghanaian drum ensemble Mask and toured with the experimental and innovative Ritual Theatre.
Invited to play at the Beckenham arts lab free festival in the arts lab band ((organised and compered by David Bowie, and the first U.K free festival )).
Since work was primarily concentrated on opening the way to a more personal percussion language, working in the U.K. with John Russell, Steve Beresford, Gary Todd et al.
Started the first collaborations with London improvisors John Russell, Steve Beresford, Nigel Coombes, Gary Todd.
first concerts outside the U.K. with Gary Todd in Belgium and at the Setubal os Comicos festival in Portugal , and to work with Carlos Zingaro in the U.K., Portugal and Italy.
invited into John Stevens sh
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"Akio Suzuki is known as a pioneer of sound art, but the breadth of his activities and the form of his works far exceeds the normal boundaries of sound art. It is perhaps more as a "quester after sound and space" that he has received the most attention from artists in many 's journey as an artist began in with a performance at Nagoya station, in which he threw a bucket full of junk down a staircase. The inspiration behind this performance - the idea that if one were to hurl an object down a well-balanced stairway, a pleasant rhythm might be the result - took the desire to "listen" as its subject. That desire to hear, to listen has remained the one constant in Suzuki's stance as an artist.
During the sixties, Suzuki's sense of playfulness led him to undertake a series of Self-Study Events, where he explored the processes of "throwing" and "following", taking the natural world as his collaborator. The experiences he gained in these events led him in the seventies to invent an echo in
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