In a process-oriented work, Rahel Kraft and Tomoko Hojo will explore the history of Gais as a whey spa during the Klang Moor Schopfe festival in Gais, Switzerland. The former spa buildings on the village square are still a reminder of this. What stories are there about healing? How is the theme of curing represented today? Hojo and Kraft will work with narratives relating to the “waste product” whey, the containers used to transport it, the hidden labour that went into the treatments, down to the goat that had to provide the milk or the dairy farmer who had to transport the whey for miles.
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About
Tomoko Hojo (JP) and Rahel Kraft (CH) perform, install and exhibit sonic works. Besides their solo work, they have been active as a collective since 2016, conducting projects and residencies in Japan and Europe, keeping a steady collaboration via remote communication. Their work has been published by LINE Sound Arts Editions LA in 2020 and 2021, Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2021 and was part of Audiosphere at Museo National Centro de Arte Madrid 2020. They created three geo-localised audio walks, utilising an app as an interface to interact between sound, the environment and walking at ZKM Karlsruhe, Art Center Nairs and Nakanojo Biennale. Their compositions are included in radio programs and play lists word wide. In September 2022 Hojo and Kraft are invited to create a solo exhibition at Komaki City Library.
北條知子（日本）とラヘル・クラフト（スイス）は、「音、場所、親密さ」をテーマに、2016年より日本やヨーロッパで活動を展開してきた。パフォーマンス、インタビュー、フィールドレコーディング、テキストそして即興などの手法を用いながら、音と場所に関係する個人的な関係性に焦点を当てた作品を制作している。発表形態として、展覧会やパフォーマンスのほか、携帯端末の位置情報機能を利用し、道を歩きながらインタラクティブな作品体験ができる「オーディオウォーク」も積極的に取り入れている。「Grass Eater Diary 道草日記」（中之条町、群馬県、2019年）、「Shinonome 東雲」（カールスルーエ、ドイツ、2019年）、「INNERN」（シュクオル、スイス、2018年）などはその例で、これらの一部はのちにアルバムとしてアメリカ、ロサンゼルスのレーベルLINE Imprintからリリースされている。2018年、2019年には、2つのプロジェクトをパフォーマンスとして再構成したパフォーマンス「My Place / My Sound」をロンドン、カールスルーエ、京都で上演、高い評価を得た。 これまで、イギリスのラジオ局、BBC3、ResonanceFM Extraなどをはじめ多数のラジオ局で放送されているほか、2021年にはドイツの公共放送 ドイチュラントラジオ カルチャーでも特集番組が組まれた。
Projects
Our Collaboration
We are interested in the hidden, faint and intimate sounds that are often inaudible in the relationship between people and place. We rethink not only the individual relationship between people and the soundscape, but also the mode of presentation, aiming for a playful and intimate experience. Auditory memories, performative field recordings, listening to snow, rivers and silence, and hours of translating interviews from Japanese to English or German to English and back again form an important backdrop of shared experience. We like to use language as a textural sonic element, focusing not on meaning as such, but on timbre, melody and the beauty of not understanding a language. A starting point for our work is often the location/sonic specificity of a place, getting vibrant inspirations and collecting textural sonic richness through various interventions.
Releases
The loveliness of the work rests in the way they allow these fragments to seemingly evolve organically. With clear nods to Luc Ferrari’s work and his adoration of his surroundings, there is a strong sense of place here. By allowing a meditative spirit to take shape there is a journey of sorts, one punctuated by the occasional sounds of truly being alive.
– Beachsloth, October 21
The album meanders like a horse in a field, content to enjoy the day, to graze on whatever is available, to drink in the sun and the day’s gentle breeze. But shouldn’t the horse be working?
– A Closer Listen, Top Ten Ambient 2021
Contact
Interested in our work? Get in contact, we are available for commissions, performances, talks, lectures all over the world. Please send a message via the form.