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Kei Watanabe is a Sri Lankan Japanese sound artist based in Berlin.
Primarily working with loops, found objects and voice, her current work is strongly influenced by the exploration and finding stillness within inner landscapes, processing of memory, prayer and despair.
Primarily working with loops, found objects and voice, her current work is strongly influenced by the exploration and finding stillness within inner landscapes, processing of memory, prayer and despair.
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The composition “Kelesah” is first collaboration encounter from two Berlin based Indonesian Sound Artist Ghaliz Filkhair Haris and Ariel William Orah (ravenative). Both of them tried to capture the meaning of “Kelesah” in Indonesian which means state of restlessness. A week of intense brainstorming resulted various frequency textures that came from found object such money box that hooked to several guitar pedals, layers of field recording played back from a 4-track cassette recorder, till view desperates black metal signature roar that burst via fender jaguar pickup then fed a modular synthesizer system. The improvisation environment was so fragile, yet so intense at the same time. A live extension set of this composition already presented in Recordhole/Motif Wein Berlin Neukölln and Kunst Werke (KW) Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin Mitte.