Modulisme, So. 14.8., 20-22:00

Modulisme Session 041 und 042 mit Yoshio Machida und Wang Inc.

Yoshio Machida is a Japanese sound & visual artist and steel pan player. He studied minimal art / music / film extensively under Kuniharu Akiyama, Yoshiaki Touno, Sakumi Hagiwara and Kishio Suga at Tama art university in Tokyo. In 2004, Machida founded Amorfon, a music label / platform for contemporary art events.

In 1999, I self-released my first CD box set “Hypernatural”. The concept of the “Hypernatural” series is that of a sound collage with meanings that each sound is, like a visual collage, an art work. I was really influenced from the works and concepts of Russell Mills and Ian Walton. I used gong sounds a lot as a symbol of light (from ancient Asian and Japanese myth). After that, I chosed steel pan for my improvised performing because of its metal sound. In parallel I was playing some synthesizers.
Later on I had an opportunity to get a Synthi AKS. “Music from the Synthi” was released by the French label Baskaru. This album was made playing my Synthi without any outboards.

Yoshio Machida

Bartolomeo Sailer aka Wang Inc. started to make music in the beginning of the 90s after he had developed his musical taste by hosting a radio show airing early Acid music, Industrial, (Post-)Punk, Avant-Garde and the likes. By then, he used an Amiga 2000 with a tracker software and a DIY 8 bit sound card, just sampling cutting and pasting and eventually sequencing. Later on, he added a Yamaha CS-5 and started to develop a personal style while DJing at the mythical underground club in Bologna called LINK. His idea was to use concrete sounds to produce Techno.
Ever since Wang Inc. has managed to bring some rhythmic playfulness to a good dose of experimentations. Pleasure for body and mind!

In 1999, my first record as Wang Inc. appeared on Sonig/Thrill Jockey and it was called “Plastic / Metal”, a title I had chosen because of the sounds I used. Then the second album “Risotto in 4/4” came out on BiP-HOp and a few years later another album on Context.fm and a few singles on Persistence Bit.
At this point of the 2010s I was married, had a child and was forced to feed the family, so I embarked into five dark years of music for jingles. Divorce took place, life got fucked up. I sold my CS-5 to buy a Doepfer Dark Energy mark 1, my first semi modular synth. The projects called Walking Mountains (a sort of computer programmed post rock) and White Raven (romantic techno) appeared and disappeared.
I started my own label with the friend Carlo Mameli called Random Numbers and Wang Inc. came back with a new 12” called “Mediterraneo”.

Bartolomeo Sailer aka Wang Inc.