Education
A member of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Machida studied minimal art, music and film at the Tama Art University under Kuniharu Akiyama, Yoshiaki Touno, Sakumi Hagiwara and Kishio Suga.
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Yoshio Machida
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Career
In the 1990s, Machida worked for an international cooperation in Asia and Africa. Machida"s first album Hypernatural (1999) had been featured with Brian Eno and Oval (band) on David Toop"s article about Generative music In 2001, Machida started to play improvised music by Steelpan with computer program Max/Managing Successful Programmes. Machida has been invited to perform in ISEA2004, Sónar Tokyo, MaerzMusik and other venues.
In 2004, Machida founded an experimental music label Amorfon.
In 2007, Machida formed an electric Dub band miimo with tatsu and Norihide Saji. Machida also organized "Japan-Macedonia exchange art exhibition" and some workshops for children.
As a visual artist, Machida has produced Photobatik like Photogram technique using photographic paper. Photograms are produced by partial exposure and development of the entire photosensitive surface.
Photobatik is "whole exposure and partial development." Machida has expanded his technique to overexposure of the photographic paper followed by only fixing the image, resulting in a pink image.
Civil Defense+Digital Video Disc: Victoria and Albert SILENT ROOM FAKTORY BOX 01 | skoltz_kolgen (Saskatchewan Factory, Canada, 2007)
Civil Defense: Victoria and Albert Yasujiro Ozu - Hitokomakura (and/OAR, United States of America, 2007)
Civil Defense: Victoria and Albert Resonance: Steel Pan in the 21st Century (Quiet Design, United States of America, 2007)
Civil Defense: Victoria and Albert water music (commune disc, Japan, 2006)
Civil Defense: Victoria and Albert seeds of dub (mao, Japan, 2004)
Civil Defense: V.A *Music for Baby! (Amorfon, Japan, 2004)
Civil Defense: V.A library (cubicfabric, Japan, 2003)
Civil Defense: V.A Kraakgeluiden (unsounds, The Netherlands, 2003)
Civil Defense: V.A Japanese Avant Garde (sub rosa, Belgium, 2002)
Civil Defense: V.A (Improvised Music from Japan, Japan, 2002)
Organization of "the park -Contemporary Artists in Asia 2008-" (Yokohama, 2008)
MaerzMusik (Berlin, 2006)
Musical workshop at Sava Zebeljan School (Crepaja, Serbia, 2006)
Lecture at Polytechnic Academy (Berglade, Serbia, 2006)
Musical workshop for children at Minamisuna elementary school/ASIAS (Tokyo, 2005)
Soundtrack for French television spot (Visual, 2005)
Organization of Japan-Macedonia Exchange Exhibition (Macedonia and Japan, 2004)
ISEA2004 (Finland, 2004)
Cooperation to "Ecoute (Listen)" at Pompidou Center (Paris, 2004)
"Dark Symphony" at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria, 2003)
"Sónar Tokyo" live & lecture (Tokyo, 2002)
Solo exhibition at Izba (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 2002)
Solo exhibition at Pepper"s Loft Gallery (Tokyo, 2002).
