The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture.
ADACHI Tomomi is Japanese performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and installation artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed improvised music and contemporary works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, etc. in all over the world including Centre Pompidou, Merkin Hall, STEIM, Fylkingen, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Flanders Festival. He will present performances by self-made electronic instruments built in tupperware packages, an amplified acoustic sculpture and a vegetable instrument in the Bent Festival.
Adachi is currently visiting the United States as a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council
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