mitchell akiyama

mitchell, first and foremost, is a musician. he has been composing emotive electronic music for about three years. influenced by artists and musicians ranging from steve reich to autechre, james joyce to john coltrane, his music is concerned with piquing all the senses. he is currently studying at concordia university, majoring in interdisciplinary studies - a program that encourages students to focus on the sometimes obscured and overlooked spaces between media, disciplines and ideas. he has drawn many lines for himself in practice and principle. he doesn't sample any other musicians' work - he generates his own samples or pulls them from field recordings, he doesn't use presets of any kind. essentially, his sounds are his own. having studied classicalmusic as well as jazz, he is also concerned with composition. his new independently produced cd, intr verse, is an exploration in all of the above. it is as much a series of 99 prints, or objets d'art, as it is an album of music. it is his first release.
mitchell will be giving an in store performance at noize music (3697 st. laurent) on dec.
3rd at 4:00 p.m. with naw (a.k.a. neil wiernik, sensoria, audi sensi, t.o.). as well, he will be
performing at a party called intr_version later that night (a pseudo-launch for the cd) with
daniel lui (chair recordings, t.o.) and again with naw. for information visit the intr_version
website (www.connect.to/intr_version)
mitchell can be contacted at the phone#/email address listed above or at phonesringin@
hotmail.com
[email protected]
(514) 845-9537
22.11.99