Tashi Wada

Tashi Wada

História

Tashi Wada (US) is a Los Angeles–based composer and performer whose works explore resonance and dissonance through precise tuning and gradual change in pitch. Grounded in a belief that “music should be as direct as possible,” his compositions use apparently simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. Wada studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney and for many years performed alongside his father, Yoshi Wada. Wada is the founder of the record label Saltern. His most recent album Nue was released by RVNG Intl.

Perfil

Tashi Wada

Filmes

Revenant
Revenant
Director
Hand-painted frames that oscillate between red and blue. Alongside the frames emptied of figuration, the relentless tones of Revenant form a wall of sound, an intense viewing and listening experience.
As Water Is In Water
As Water Is In Water
Music
Paintings collide to produce panels of time distended with space, set to music by Tashi Wada. While the score is spare, the image is excessive, the meter working with and against the imagery. The picture is made from paint-soaked 16mm film strips, reinterpreted with a digital camera, edited to cycle in short, hallucinatory loops, forming abstract thaumatropes.
Light Year
Light Year
Music
A commission for the San Francisco Exploratorium, this film-collage studies the water systems and architecture of the San Francisco waterfront, in abstract and formal contexts.