Black Editions Presents electronic and computer music pioneer Carl Stone and Japanese vocalist Akaihirume performing a live soundtrack to Stone’s hallucinogenic film portrait of Tokyo, Re:Gendo.

Carl Stone’s Re:Gendo is a portrait of Tokyo that veers far away from the standard visual clichés of the city where Stone has lived for more than twenty years, It is an hour long live performance work utilizing multi-channel sound, video projection and live performance by Japanese vocalist Akaihirume. As Classical Voice San Francisco wrote of the 2023 world premiere, “Throughout the prologue, drones shimmer, each effusion zooming us further into Tokyo. Stretched to delicate spikes, visuals of staircases and alleyways are as revelatory as geodes. When the images morph into coherence, you realize it’s the lack of people that makes them striking… but this deserted Tokyo is no wasteland. Trees pulsate, gates gleam, and even the drab high-rises twinkle in Technicolor.“

Carl Stone performs live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space, utilizing field recordings of the urban soundscape in Tokyo and other materials.

Japanese vocalist Akaihirume will join stone in this performance. Her ear is always tuned to the world’s sounds which she keeps as material in what she calls her shell. She has a wide range of vocalizations ranging from the angelic to the demonic, with lupine growling alternating with vocal etherea.