1st Set : Mat Pogo (Vocal) / Marie Takahashi (Viola）
2nd Set : Shingo Masuda (Qanun etc.)
3rd Set : Wolfgang Schwabe (Guqin) / Shiomi Kawaguchi (Shamisen) / MADZINE (Audio / Visual) / Fumio Okura (Violin)
Curation : Fumio Okura
Host : Full Moon Sound Experience
Wanqian Lin, Lena Lena, Mizuki Ishikawa
Venue : KunstRaum der Künstlerkolonie Berlin e.V. Breitenbachplatz. 1, 14195 Berlin
(U3 Breitenbachplatz)
19:00 Door Open
19:30 (Sharp) Concert Starts
The Full Moon in June is called “Strawberry Moon”.
“Full Moon Sound Experience” celebrates the 10th Anniversary Concert in Cooperation with “Hot Cat” as “Hot Cat 25: Strawberry-CatMoon Special” with All-Star Artists !!
※ Cover Design : Hot Cat
—– The Artists Tonight —–
::: Mat Pogo (Vocal)
Mat Pogo is a vocalist, improviser, music producer, DJ and cartoonist.
Pogo has developed his own language as a singer/voice-artist using his experience as a rock singer, an improviser and radio-artist where music, sounds, rock’n’roll, noise, nonsense language, electronics, anecdotal and narrative elements fuse constantly.
Active in the European underground scene since the early 1990s, he co-founded the multimedia collective Burp Enterprise, the Burp Publications label, the avant-garde pop group Jealousy Party and the DJ collective Sistemi Audiofobici Burp.
www.burpenterprise.com
burpenterprisejournal.tumblr.com
::: Marie Takahashi (Viola)
Marie Takahashi viola, baroque viola, composition, improvisation
After her studies and career as a classical musician in Japan, France and in Germany she moved to Berlin where she started more original and creative activities such as improvisations, compositions and collaborations with artists from various disciplines.
Her experimental compositions using calligraphy techniques, shapes and numbers have been presented in Europe and in Japan.
https://marietakahashi.info
:: Shingo Masuda (Qanun etc.)
Originally from Japan, Berlin-based oriental zither “Qanun” player, composer, and improviser.He plays a wide range of genres, from jazz and classical to experimental music, as well as Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music.
He also composes music that incorporates various genres and styles.
He also plays darbuka and framedrums, and from 2022 he started playing the Bulgarian oblique flute “Kaval”
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::: Wolfgang Schwabe (Guqin)
learnt to play qin with the Qin master Ge Hancong (葛瀚聰) in Taiwan. After random performances with LTK, a Taiwanese punk band, in the late nineties, he has been regularly performing in Taipei and Berlin playing Echtzeit Musik.
In 2018 the CD “180818” with Lin Hui-Chun was released (https://huichunlin.bandcamp.com/album/180818).
He is the co-founder of the “International Conference on Guqin, Aesthetics and Humanism” and has published numerous articles on Qin aesthetics.
https://wolfgang-schwabe.de/
::: Shiomi Kawaguchi (Shamisen)
Since she was a child growing up in Tokyo, she started learning Shamisen (a Japanese three-stringed instrument) and Min-yo (Japanese folk songs).mIn 2017, after years of traveling silk-road with the Shamisen, she moved her base to Berlin.
She is a member of the all-female ‘Shamisen Trio Mitsune’ http://mitsune.de/ ,
the psychedelic folk band “Jaguar no me” http://www.jaguarnome.com/
and jazz band ‘The Japs’ https://aandjaps.wixsite.com/sitetop
::: MADZINE (Audio / Visual)
MADZIND (MAD) is a multimedia artist from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, operating primarily in Europe and Japan. He examines the mathematical principles of nature using a distinctive methodology, combining natural, electronic, acoustic, and digital elements while emphasizing improvisation and equilibrium. His artistic career emerged from the underground art communities of Tokyo and Berlin, where engagement with the dynamic cultural contexts of these cities shaped his evolution into a cross-disciplinary practitioner.
https://www.dropbox.com/……/MADZINE_2025_H.png……
::: Fumio Okura (Violin, Organization)
Studied Violin, Conducting and Musicology in Tokyo and Berlin. Studied Conducting further with Prof. Peter Eötvös and was also the Guest Student at Staatsoper Berlin. He also works as a Voice Actor. In parallel with strong interest in Music and Theater he pursues the Sound Possibilities of the instrumental combinations with various styles and backgrounds. Furthermore, his project “Hot Cat” tries the Integrated Arts with Experimental Music and Film, Live Painting, Performance or Butoh-Dance.
In 2023 the CD of String Quartet “Your Dramatic Joy” was released
https://ernestorodrigues.bandcamp.com/……/your……
In 2024 he played in various concerts in Tokyo.