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Live Soundtrack to Onibaba:
Mike Cooper will perform a live soundtrack to the 1964 Japanese film Onibaba, by Kaneto Shindo.
Wednesday April 23rd @ 8pm
Building 5, Room G.22
Central Queensland University
University Drive -
Experimental audio workshop:
Mike's soundtracks are played using his lap-steel guitar and an array of digital effects processors and samplers which he manipulates live. At this workshop, Mike will explain his techniques and methods and present demonstrations of his works.
Thursday April 24th @ 2pm
Access Studio
Bundaberg Arts Centre -
Live-mixed audio-visual performance:
For this performance, using samplers, digital audio processors, laptops and VJ software, Mike Cooper and new media artist Grayson Cooke will collaborate on a live audio and visual improvisation on the theme of "Tropica Exotica."
Thursday April 24th @ 8pm
4th Dimension Space
Bundaberg Arts Centre
Mike Cooper:
For the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. He is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on Pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker... and a collector of Hawaiian shirts.
Onibaba Synopsis:
ONIBABA is a cautionary fable with a dark and erotic atmosphere. The plot focuses on a pair of women in feudal Japan who live in the marshlands and eke out a meagre existence by murdering passing soldiers and selling their clothes and armour. However, they suddenly find the very nature of their daily existence thrown into turmoil by the arrival of Hachi, their neighbour, who returns from the wars with the news that the younger woman's husband is dead, The central theme of the film is the darkness of the human soul, perhaps represented by the deep, black pit into which the two women throw the corpses of their victims...
