Installation, performance and composition (mostly online) 2021
October 29th : full-length album with D’incise, Superpang label Digital Release
September 24th: Xciting festival Stuttgart, Germany
August : Dartington Music Summer School and Festival 2021
July 2nd – 11th : hiatus, Ready Making Berlin 2021
June 28th : Illuminating the archives – 80th anniversary of Krzysztof Kieślowski
May : twelve seasons’ (Martin Thomas Nutt & me, 2020), video performance with Ed Cooper
June 18th : a full-length album FIRST ALBUM by a.hop, Superpang label Digital Release
April 15th : Sara Constant & An-Laurence Higgins @ Oh My Ears festival (Phoenix, Arizona), performing acorn
April : Audiograft Festival, Oxford Brookes University, a new band a.hop performing envelopes (Monday 5th) , a rhythm and portrait song (Wed 7th), The dress of Jean Baret (Fri 9th)
February : Vibrant Matters, Berlin, Three performance videos with Stine Janvin Motland and Rebecca Lane
January : Apartment House @ Cafe OTO, performing these very people
January : Occam xx (Eliane Radigue, 2014) for In a Landscape GMEA Albi
January : Mistake Television, archive performance in Milan 2017 with Gerard Lebik
January : Full length album In Another Place on Takuroku Label with Anne-f Jacques and Tim Shaw
past selected concerts and installations 2020
July
11th Avantwhatever Online Festival, Australia / solo performance ‘shimatsu 始末 07’
14th album In Another Place on cafe OTO’S Takuroku Label / by Anne-f Jacques, Tim Shaw and Ryoko Akama
15th Standards Quarantine Workout QW.5 / Garden Piece, a composition for any performer at any space
20th Darmstadt summer school online 1000 score project / music for every day’s score, a composition for any performer at any space
June
10th Miji Concert 66 (密集音乐会 66) / Zhu Wembo performing my score ‘reaction (2020)
12th YSI a scuplture a day video project / 5 minutes video on Yorkshire Sculpture International IGTV
19th TOPH Housebound #13: The End online show / video works ‘garden piece’
May
1st Oscillation—Mayday Radio Marathon / interviews on Why they do it—artist-organisers about their motives by Julia Eckhardt
6th Proposal from the Future #5 / performing the score ‘PPM book (2014)’
11th Miji Concert 66 (密集音乐会 66) / Zhu Wembo performing my score ‘on and off (2018)’
16th New Music Show on BBC Radio 3 / ‘a sense of coming back’
18th Music We’d Like To Hear Apartment House + Another Timbre
24th Miji Concert 66 (密集音乐会 66) / performing Anne-F Jacques’Pieces for domestic waste and objects
24th Miji Concert 66 (密集音乐会 66) / kevin corcoran performing my score ‘on and off (2018)’
April
8th Klangmanifeste Online Festival / ‘garden
23rd AMPLIFY 2020 / solo recording ‘she attempts to amplify things and quite likes it
March
14th Another Timbre label Coronavirus quarantine 5-hour
February
9th New Weird Huddersfield, UK / solo performance 始末５
21st Technosonics@ The university of Virginia, USA / solo performance 始末６ and talk
23rd Red Room, USA / duo with Bonnie Jones + Ian Power
25th The University of Baltimore, USA / ensemble performing dial 45-21-95 and places and pages
January
18th New Departure @ Hepworth Gallery / solo performance 始末４
past selected concerts and installations 2019
December
4th Open Sessions @ GuildHall Music School / talk
November
16th FOR/WITH festival @ The Project Room, N.Y. / my score for Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (Voice), Lea Bertucci (Bass Clarinet), Russell Greenberg (Percussion) and Nate Wooley (Trumpet)
15th HCMF, Yoko Ono ‘grapefruits’ realisation @ Temporary Contemporary, Huddersfield
17th Ftarri Festival @ BuOY, Tokyo / quartet with Zhao Cong, Yoko Ikeda and Wakana Ikeda
20th 닻올림 Dotolim, Seoul / solo performance + duo with Inkyong Kim
21th Namsan, Seoul / with lo wie performing ‘heather’s day’
October
12th No Bounds Festival@ Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield / duo with Nakul Krishnamurthy
20th spot the difference 01 – @ small 小 hall, huddersfield / a series of solo installation spot the difference
26th Mikrozvuk: Ryoko Akama + Tania Chen + Avsluta @ LOM, Bratislava / solo performance shimatsu 01
27t pole performativního umění @ TEREN, Brno / solo performance shimatsu 02
September
12th Erwan Keravec/ Mathieu Bec trio/ Ryoko Akama @ Remouski, Canada / performance as Ensemble
17th Jean-François Laporte / Ryoko Akama+ Anne-f Jacques @ La Chapelle des Jésuites, Quebec, Canada / performance with Anne-F Jacques
18th Mathieu Bec trio / Ryoko Akama + Anne-f Jacques @Belgo, Montreal, Canada / performance with Anne-F Jacques
August
10-11th Go Compose Everyday Everywhere is a Sound @ Huddersfield University / Workshop with Eleanor Cully
13th ‘performing your own scores’@ Ftarri / solo performance
July
2nd-6th GMEA workshop and performance, @ GMEA, Tarn
14th Heroines of Sound, Berlin / Lappetites Performance
18th practices in the imaginary @ Archade, Huddersfield / performance with Luke Martin + Jorge Boehringer + Eleanor Cully
June
May 21st – June 22nd The Diagonale du Silence, group exhibition @ centre o international poesie Marseille, France
21st Longplayer Day, London / solo performance ‘sono mama’
22nd (-6th July) Yorkshire Sculpture International @ Bothy Gallery, YSP / Associated Matters Group Exhibition / Installation ‘the way they are’
29th Associated Matters @ Bothy Gallery, YSP / talk and solo Performance ‘sono mama’
May
9th -2nd Spor Festival, Denmark / Solo Installation ‘Composition of Happiness (2019)’
14th Curious Ear with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh/Andrew Cheetham + Ryoko Akama + Julia Reidy @ The Peer Hat, Manchester / Solo Performance
19th Algomech Festival / Solo Performance + trio with Mark Fell and Ryan Fell
22nd APARTMENT HOUSE – THREE-DAY RESIDENCY @ Cafe OTO, London / new compositions performed by Apartment house
February
6-14th Space as Instrument @ 21 Market Place, Huddersfield / Group Exhibition – ‘a variation at twenty-one (2019)’
14th TPAM, Yokohama, Japan / duo with Gerard Lebik – ‘what are they doing?’
15th Hopken, Osaka, Japan / duo with Gerard Lebik – ‘what are they doing?’
16th OTOOTO, Tokyo, Japan / duo with Suzueri
22nd – 24th Sonic Acts Festival + STEIM, Amsterdam / Solo Installation ‘kosetsu’
April
26th Colour Out of Space, Brighton / solo performance
past selected concerts and installations 2018
November
1st The Magic City and ame present: Takamitsu Ohta. Anne-F Jacques and Ryoko Akama @ The Magic City, Todmorden / trio show
9th /CODING in GE @ Iklectik, London / The Lappetites performance
17th Circular Score Performance & Artist’s Talk @ Huddersfield Gallery / solo performance
October
2nd Kammer Klang @ Cafe OTO, London / score ‘reaction’ performed
13th BLAUES RAUSCHEN, Dortmund, Germany / solo Performance
30th Anoikis presents: Takamitsu Ohta. Anne-F Jacques and Ryoko Akama, Bangor / trio performance
September
7th Standards @ Milano, Italy / duo with Gerard Lebik
8th Librairie HumuS @Lausanne, Swiss / duo with Gerard Lebik
9th Cave 12 @ Geneva, Swiss / duo with Gerard Lebik
21st SONA @ Sheffield / solo performance and talk
August
July-August Full of Noises + ame Barrow Park Artists-In-Residence @ Barrow Park, Barrow-In-Furness
17-19th FON festival, Barrow-In-Furness / ’14 cuttings’ sound installation
2nd – 29th Sep UNKNOWN RESULTS || THE PERCEPTION OF ORDER WITHIN @ Aviary Gallery, Boston / Group Exhibition
July
21st Konfrontationen Festival @ Jazzgalarie Nickelsdorf, Vienna / duo performance with Gerard Lebik
19-22nd Konfrontationen Festival @ Jazzgalarie Nickelsdorf, Vienna / group exhibition ‘ploughs and harrows’
24th-27th The Electronics Atelier 2018, Darmstadt Summer Course @ Darmstadt, Germany / workshop + performance
June
30th Verz Imprint and ame presents @ The Northern Quarter, Huddersfield / duo with Phil Mcgiure
May
17th Cuspeditions presents: Miki Yui UK tour @ Access Space, Sheffield / duo with Charlie Collions
19th Motley Muse, Creative poetry symposium @ The Heritage Quays, University of Huddersfield, UK / ‘a poem piece’ sound installation
April
8th Counterflow Festival, Glasgow, Scotland / as Rhodri Davies Ensemble
12th Kontraklang, Berlin, Germany / as Lappetites
13th EXPERIMENTICA, Cardiff, UK / as Rhodri Davies Ensemble
March
2nd Verz Imprint and ame presents @Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK / Duo with Phil Maguire
3rd Verz Imprint and ame presents @ Coffeevolution, Huddersfield, UK
9 / 10th Audiograft Festival, Oxford, UK / solo performance
17/18th Eavesdropping London @ The Chapel In Oxford House, London, UK / trio with Jennie Gottchalk and Nomi Epstein
24th DNK DAYS Project Presentation #1 mumei six, Amsterdam / duo with Heather Frasch
29th Anothertimbre presents: withTaku Sugimoto and Minami Saeki, Mick Beck’s house, Sheffield, UK
31st Interwoven Histories closing event @ the Industrial Museum of Leeds, Leeds, UK / with Taku Sugimoto and Minami Saeki
January
19th-28th Coincidence Festival @ Washington Street Art Center, Somerville, USA
29th Experimental Intermedia, N.Y. / duo with Anne-f Jacques
30th Somerville, Boston / duo with Anne-f Jacques
February
9th (- April) loiners or @ the Industrial Museum of Leeds, UK / solo exhibition
23rd Post Paradise @ Centrala, Birmingham, UK / composition & performance
past selected concerts and installations 2017
November
2nd CRiSAP research centre @ LCC, London, UK / performance and talk
7 -10th Algomech Festival Residency @ The Access Space, Sheffield, UK / residency with Anne-F Jacques
11th / 12th Algomech Festival @ The Access Space, Sheffield, UK / duo with Anne-F Jacques
14th Upstairs @ 21 Market Place, Huddersfield, UK / duo with Anne-F Jacques
22nd Composition of Happiness Special event at Cafe Ollo, Huddersfield, UK / with Ben Gwilliam and Gerard Lebik
23rd HCMF @ Bates Mill, Huddersfield, UK / as Rhodri Davies Ensemble
October
1st Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre ‘POLYproject’ at The Cello Factory, London / quartet with Will Montgomery, lo wie and Stefan Thut
12th ame concert series 06 @ Access Space, Sheffield, UK / with Jason Kahn, Patric Farmer, Cristian Wolfarth etc.
14th No Bounds Festival @ Trafalgar Works, Sheffield, UK / duo with Charlie Collins
September
18th – 18th January 2018 @ cafe Ollo, The Media Centre, UK / solo exhibition ‘composition of happiness’
27th – 1st Oct @ Avant Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland / solo exhibition ‘objects migration 02’
27th @ Avant Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland / opening event solo performance
29th ame concert series 05 @ Access Space, Sheffield, UK / trio with lo wie and Stefan Thut
August
11th Bradford, Luciano Maggiore / Louie Rice / Ryoko Akama @ FUSE art space, uk / solo performance
16th Wroclaw, between foundation myths and new territories, @ Air Wro, Poland / panel discussion
18-20th Sokolowsko, Sanatorium D?wi?ku Festival @ Sanatorium, Poland / solo installation ‘objects migration 01’+performance
July
14th Sheffield, Sonic Pattern 2017: Live code and sonic machines @ The Access Space, solo
27th Sheffield, Eun-Jung Kim & Charlie Collins plus special guests @ The Access Space, duo with Beatrix Ward-Fernandez
June
20th Sheffield, Arts and the Creative Process Improvisation Gathering @ Access Space, UK / workshop
10th Sheffield, Lush Spectra Festival, UK / solo performance
May
19-24th Sanatorium D?wi?ku residency, Soko?owsko, Poland / Residency
10th Radio show with Helmut Lemke, LISTEN BACKWARDS to ADVANCE, UK / duo with Lemke
8th Sheffield, Isaiah Ceccerelli & Katelyn Clark + Akama/Farmer/Chase, UK / trio with Chase and Patrick Farmer
April
29th The University of Edinburgh, Scotland / improvisation Festival&Workshop
18 – 5th June AiR exhibition 2017, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, UK / group exhibition
13th Florence, Italy @ Frittelli Arte Contemporanea / 21:00–22:00 / solo performance
12th Turino, Italy @ Atelier Giorgi / CoMET Sound Club #3: / 21:30–0:00 / solo performance
11th Bologne @ Giardini Margherita / 19:30 to 22:00 / solo performance
March
24th Liebig12, Berlin / with Seiji Morimoto + Yan Jun
22th Yka?, PROZA, Wroclaw, Poland / solo performance
February
19th Iklectik, London, UK / UK / with Kilt, Makoto Oshiro + Suzueri
18th The Coach Station, Brighton, UK / with lo wie + Suzueri
9th Access Space, Sheffield, UK / with Charlie Collins, Neil Carver, Suzueri + Oshiro Makoto
6th The Islington Mills, Manchester, UK / with Suzueri + Oshiro Makoto
past selected concerts and installations 2016
30th December Ftarri, Tokyo, Japan / duo with Yui Nakamura
18th November Ftarri, Tokyo, Japan / with Simon Whetham + Takahiro Kawaguchi
3rd November FUSE, UK / with Miki Yui + Ben Gwilliam
2sn November Access Space, Sheffield, UK / with Miki Yui
20th October Made In Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK / with Morgan + Scott
16th October FUSE, Bradford, UK / quartet with Yoko Ikeda, Wakana Ikeda, Charlie Collins + lo wie
14th October Access Space, Sheffield, UK / al quintet with Yoko Ikeda, Wakana Ikeda, Charlie Collins, Derek Saw+ Beatrix Ward-Fernandez
13th October PRAXIS 4, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London / with Yoko Ikeda, Wakana Ikeda +lo wie
01st October Tor Festival, Todmorden, UK / solo performance
30th September European Researcher’s Night, The University of Huddersfield, UK / water table installation
29th July FUSE, Bradford, UK / with Ben Gwilliam + David Velez
04th June A journey around my room, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK / solo performance
08-11.June The Festival Art of Improvisation, CK Agora, Wroc?aw, Poland / reductive journal exhibition
11-31st May Echo Bücher, Berlin, Germany / mumei publishing exhibition and performance
09th May Labor Sonor, Berlin, Germany / solo performance
08th April WHPK 88.5 FM, the University of Chicago, USA / solo performance
10th April Elastic Arts, Chicago, USA / with Joseph Clayton Mills, Adam Sonderberg + Graham
19th March K.R.O.P.P, Uppsala Consert house, Uppsala, Finland / with Su-En and Su-En Butoh Company
06th February Electric Knife Records, London, UK / with Joseph Clayton Mills
07th February Bang the Bore, The Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK / with Joseph Clayton Mills, Dominic Lash + Seth Cooke
past selected concerts and installations 2015
17th December shicho-shitu, Yokohama, Japan / with Suzueri + El Grande
18th December Violon, Asagaya, Tokyo, Japan / with Yoko Miura + Kaiji Nakao
19th December ftarri, Suido-Bashi, Tokyo, Japan / with Taku Sugimoto
28th December Peter Pan Cafe, Sendai, Japan / with Takahiro Sato + Yoshihiro Kikuchi
30th December ftarri, Suido-Bashi, Tokyo, Japan / with Yumiko Tanaka, Tetsuji Akiyama etc.
03th December Tsuonami Festival, Chile/ duo with Cristian Alvear / performance of place #1
04th December performing Nick Collin’s “Roomtone Variations” at NAVE with TárabusT Project
05th December Tsuonami Festival – performing ‘derivas’ with rolando hernández, gudinni cortina, felipe araya and santiago astaburuaga
06th December Tsuonami Festival – performing ‘derivas’ with rolando hernández, gudinni cortina, felipe araya and santiago astaburuaga
07th December Tsuonami Festival – duo performance of place #2
10th December performing ‘grado de potencia #1’ at CP
28th November mumei/Bore Publishing/Compost and Height presents…, Hundred Years Gallery, London / with Heather Frasch, Sarah Hughes, David Stent + Manfred Werder
27th November reductive journal FOUR book launch #2, Hundred Years Gallery, London / with Heather Frasch, Sarah Hughes, David Stent + Manfred Werder
25th November reductive journal FOUR book launch, hcmf// 2015 / with Heather Frasch, Sarah Hughes, David Stent + Manfred Werder
01st October OTO space, London, UK / with Cristian Alvear + Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
26th October The Access Space, Sheffield, UK / with Yoko and Charlie Collins
11th August moreorlessthan, Todmorden, UK / with Ben Gwilliam + Minoru Sato
27th March Compost and Height Presents, the church of st. john the evangelist, Oxford / with Patrick Farmer, David Lacey, Ryoko Akama, Sarah Hughes, Jane Dickson + Paul Whitty.
25th March koto?mono – things and matters, Performatik Festival, Belgium, UK / with Miki Yui + Rie Nakajima
17th March Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford, UK / with Taku Sugimoto + Bruno Guastalla
04th April Hearing Barrow Park, Huddersfield, UK / installation treow
past selected concerts and installations 2014
05th November Jurg and Friends, Cafe OTO / with Anton Lukoszevieze, Seth Woods, Dominic Lash + Mira Benjamin
03th November Either Ears, Cafe OTO space, London, UK / installation ajar
13th September Cultural Nights, Uppsala Museum, Sweden / installation 1?5
10th September Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden / with Lisa Ullen + Thomas Bjelkeborn
25-26th October Hearing Greenhead Park, Cumbria, UK / installation treow