100 Keyboards

Moire Resonance by Interference Frequency

3 October - 5 October, 2026

Presented By HOTA

100 Keyboards

Moire Resonance by Interference Frequency

Presented By HOTA

100 toy keyboards. A shimmering field of sound exploring the acoustic phenomena of interference, resonance, and the subtle beauty of imperfect tuning. Because no two keyboards are tuned exactly alike, the overlapping tones generate evolving patterns, beating frequencies, and shifting harmonic textures. Like an auditory moiré, these layers of sound continually interact, creating a sonic landscape that is constantly changing as to where you are seated. Or simply turn your head—and the music transforms around you. Every listening position reveals new harmonies, pulses, and textures as the sounds combine in different ways. Each listener experiences a unique sonic perspective, discovering details that exist only from where they are seated. Immersive, hypnotic, and endlessly evolving, this is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and lose yourself in a living landscape of sound.

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ASUNA

ASUNA

ASUNA is Japanese sound artist who has recently been reevaluated in the experimental music and art scene in recent years. Since teens in the late 90s, he has been producing in the experimental and improvised music scene in Tokyo. His works is simultaneously an interdisciplinary perspective in art and a hardcore/punk and a sweet, musical orientation that seems to be its opposite. His signature work was “Each Organ” (2002), a sound installation that reinterpreted the concept of things from etymology. Then also released an album of reed organ drones and idyllic electronics, “Organ Leaf” (2003), on Lucky Kitchen in Spain, and has since released on labels around the world such as Meeuw Muzak, Senufo Editions, Faitiche, 12k and etc. He also often toured with “100 Toys” avant-garde performance, which featured a large number of toys. ASUNA's recent work "100 Keyboards" is a site-specific performance featuring over 100 toy-keyboards. This focuses on physical acoustic phenomena such as interference sound and moire resonance. This work has performed at many international art festivals and theaters such as BAM in New York. (Japanese Text) ASUNA 語源から省みる事物の概念とその再考察を主題として作品を制作。同時に音の物理現象に関する美術作品の制作/パフォーマンスも行う。代表作に「organ」の語源からその原義である「機関・器官」としてオルガンを省みた「Each Organ」(2002)、本の語源としてのブナの木を元に情報の記録・運搬について扱った作品「Epidermis of Beech」(2012)などがある。近年は、干渉音の複雑な分布とモアレ共鳴に着目した作品「100 Keyboards」(2013)で、「メルボルン国際芸術祭」(2018)、「シンガポール国際芸術祭」(2019)、「ベルファスト国際芸術祭」(2019)、「ブルックリン・アカデミー・オブ・ミュージック(BAM)」(2021) など、海外のアート・フェスティバルから多数の招待を受け展示/パフォーマンスを行う。並行した音楽制作では、10代の頃から東京の実験音楽/即興/音響シーンに関わり、様々なアコースティック楽器やコンピュータによる作曲作品から即興演奏を行いつつ、無数のオモチャ楽器と電子音楽によるパフォーマンス「100 Toys」を中心に、多岐に渡りつつも一貫した作品制作を行う。これまで海外25カ国以上で演奏/展示、CDやレコードなどをリリース。ドイツの電子音楽家のヤン・イェリネクや、美術家の佐藤実-m/s、トラックメーカーのshibataらと長年に渡るコラボレーションによる制作も行なっている。 ASUNA INFORMATION DISCOGRAPHY - https://sites.google.com/site/aaaaasunaaaaa/ INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/asuna_aotoao/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/asuna.aotoao TWITTER - https://twitter.com/asuna_aotoao BANDCAMP - https://asunaarashi.bandcamp.com/ SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/asuna_aotoao

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Location

135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217

100 Keyboards