Merzbow, Balázs Pándi & Richard Pinhas with Lieko Shiga: “Bipolar”

This visual concert marks the first collaboration between photographer SHIGA Lieko, who creates the video works for the concert; Merzbow, a noise project by AKITA Masami; Balázs PÁNDI, a drummer who worked with AKITA on the album Cuts; and Richard PINHAS, who pioneered experimental rock in France from the 1970s onward and continues to work as an author and guitarist. The layered, improvised sounds created by the three musicians blend with SHIGA’s new videos, which are edited live. Shaping SHIGA’s work is a focus on pursuing the relationship between society and nature, thinking about life through imagining death, and, since the Great East Japan Earthquake, exploring the inner reality of the madness of the human mind and body that continues to be suppressed by the earthquake reconstruction plan promoted by the national government and big corporations. Hearing the music resonate in a spacious theater, not through a pair of headphones, and seeing the images come into view across an expansive screen, no