THE INTERVIEW PROJECT

PARTICIPANTS
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Satoru Aoyama　
Tokyo, Japan. He keeps making very detailed works using a 1930-1940s sewing machine.  He is navigating a path to expand the meaning of academics in Art.
 
Ken Ikeda 
Tokyo, Japan. He is a composer / instrumentalist. By confronting sound as daily routine, he creates his own instruments to keep tracing sound to visualize sound.
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Noriyuki Haraguchi 
Hanamaki, Iwate. He ventured to live remotely. He is considered to be the leading post Mono-ha artist. 
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Yusuke Kinoshita
Tokyo, Japan. Directing his own scripts, he continues to produce movies to be true to himself.
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Yukio Fujimoto
Osaka, Japan. He is a practitioner of artistic thought who roams the streets, making the most of his senses, playing with the attributes of the objects he encounters, and creating artistic toys that make viewers skeptical of their own existence.
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Yasuko Tsukamoto  
She believes that "making is one of the natural phenomena in my introspection, just as various elements promote fermentation," and creates works in various forms, from book art to installations, as a catalyst for remembering sensations that we tend to forget every day.
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Yukinori Yanagi  
Lives and works in Momoshima, Onomichi. He uses the ruins of an abandoned school as his studio/exhibition space, and orchestrates the islands of the Seto Inland Sea to inspire viewers to "create" his works. 
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Atsushi Nishijima 
Lives and works in Kyoto. He is a visual and auditory explorer of tradition and the avant-garde hidden in Kyoto. He is a sorcerer who draws viewers to the moment when sound is generated and space is created.
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Ushio Torikai 
Lives in New York. She grew up listening to classical music of the East and the West, and is familiar with music ranging from concrete music to Tendai Shomyo music, to the New York noise scene. She has been working on the restoration of the kugo, an ancient Japanese instrument.
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Yoshihiro Terazono 
Lives in New York. Wandered around India after graduating from college. Thirty years later, he became an assistant professor at Urasenke in New York. He is an avant-garde tea master who insists that the premise of tea ceremony is to make good tea. He has been teaching the essence of chanoyu to American intellectuals for several decades.
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Wendy Miller
Lives and works in Rhinecliff and New York, NY. Abstract artist. Her vibrant, layered paintings are inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, which she has practiced and taught for several decades. Her paintings are an invitation to slow down, reflect, and find connection within disconnection. 
 
Peter Cherches
Brooklyn, NY. An innovative short fiction writer, poet, singer, lyricist, cofounder of legendary literary magazine “Zone."     
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Vyt Bakaitis
Brooklyn, NY. A poet, polyglot wordsmith, literary translator known for his translations of Lithuanian poets, including the late Jonas Mekas. 
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Jennifer Bolande
Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California. Artist using photography, film, sculpture, and constructed environments; Professor Emerita of Art, UCLA.  
 
Cannon Hudson
Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA. Painter, sculptor,  architectural designer, fabricator. Continuing the legacy of a family of artists from the San Fransisco Bay area.
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Linda Mary Montano
Saugerties, NY. Groundbreaking performance artist, a founder of the Art/Life Institute, dedicated to dissolving boundaries between art and life. 
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Kim Connerton
Brooklyn, NY. A writer, lecturer, researcher, multimedia artist and a consultant. Has taught at Parsons School of Art, Pratt Institute, the Art institute of San Francisco, and universities in Australia.  
　
Bradley Lastname
Chicago, Illinois. Prolific Neo-Dadaist mail artist, painter, poet, sculptor, publisher.    
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Hai-Kyung Suh
NY, NY. A classical concert pianist of thundering power and exquisite lyricism.    
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Residents of Saitama, Japan 2018
Hiroto Masuda. 
Kawagoe, Japan. A painter who keeps an Italian supercar, Ferrari, as a subject matter in his studio and depicts it from the viewpoint of the material. High school art teacher, graduated from Saitama University.
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Masayuki Tamura
Kawagoe, Japan. An installation artist / curator, high school art teacher, Tama Art University graduate, who illuminates contemporary art on the "streets made of storehouses" remaining in Kawagoe City, Saitama.
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Kenichi Kanazawa
Kawagoe, Japan. A sculptor and sound sculptor who visualizes and auditoryizes the vibrational state of sound. Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
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Tokihiro Sato
Omiya, Japan. He is a photographer who continues to believe that “Making" is the purpose of life through themes such as "light and breath. Professor at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
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Masami Kondo
Saitama, Japan. A socially conscious painter who roams the streets, a professor at Tokyo Zokei University.
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Miyuki Ichijo
Saitama, Japan.  A painter/artist who expresses the flexibility of the mind.
Graduated from Düsseldorf Art Academy.
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Tomoko Ueno
A painter who avoids settling down and lives in Saitama, Kagawa, and Hokkaido. Elementary school art teacher.　　
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Maki Saito
Ishigaki Island of Okinawa, Japan. A painter and a former city council member of the Japanese Communist Party. After retirement, she resumed creative activities and then migrated to Ishigaki Island to create conditions better suited to her Art.
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Tokyo, 2019
Takahiro Kawaguchi
Tokyo, Japan.  Artist, Performs with handmade objects and instrumental.
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Mirai Osawa
Tokyo, Japan.  A documentary filmmaker who creates improvisational films based on meticulous research.
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Keisuke Oki
Tokyo, Japan. Works in a variety of fields including electronic art, information design, and video. Specially appointed professor at Tokyo Zokei University.
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Keiko Miyamori
New York and Yokohama, Japan. Formerly a pre-med student, she became an artist who encounters "things" in various parts of the world, brings them back to her studio, and tries to have a dialogue with them. Graduated from University of Tsukuba.
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California 2019
Mark Pauline
Petaluma, CA. Performance artist. A pioneer of Robot Performance in the 80’s. Influential figure in many fields. Founder of legendary art performance group, Survival Research Laboratories.
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Live interview 2021
Elliott Sharp
NY, NY.  Composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, writer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since 1970’s.
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Matt Sullivan
NY, NY. Oboist, composer, performance artist, New York University professor. His creative work bridges the traditional orchestra and the downtown avant-garde music scene. 
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Juan Puntes
NY, NY. A multitalented creative force; founder of WhiteBox.
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Beatrice Martino
NY, NY. A dancer and choreographer who seeks to heal people through art.
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Email interview
Rie Nakajima
London, UK. A performance artist who turns any object into sound.
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Zai Nomura
Brooklyn, NY. A survivor of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, he is a sculptor and photographer who prints images in a water tank and then allows them to dissolve. 
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NY 2021
Yoko Toda
NY and Mie, Japan. An abstract painter, she left Japan in the 60's and has lived in Paris and Milan.
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Salvador Oliveros
NY, NY. He is a world traveller and polyglot, an abstract painter and raconteur.
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Maho Ogawa
Brooklyn, NY.  An innovative choreographer who attains all skills from Western ballet, traditional Japanese dance, and contemporary Butoh performance.
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Mariko Fujimoto
Brooklyn, NY.  A skillful painter of bewitching anime figures. A myth maker.
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Kenji Kojima
NY, New York. He is an isolated soul, of artist who discovers a binary code as a new tool for art making. And he states that there should be no human emotion involved for making art.
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Tom Chiu
Brooklyn, NY. New York-based avant-garde violinist and a composer. A founder of Flux String Quartet. 
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Phill Niblock
NY, NY. Experimental sound artist. A founder of Experimental Intermedia in New York.  Phill discovered his art in 1968 and has not stopped innovating.  He is not just an audiophile inventor but a practitioner of his instruments. In fact, he still uses a big speaker with a large woofer he built in 1953.
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Oscar Deric Brown
NY, NY. He is a composer, pianist, producer, and session man of notable artistry. He brought musical legends together as the producer of a benefit concert after the Kobe Earthquake of 1995.
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NY 2022
Noritoshi Hirakawa
NY, NY. He is a provocative, challenging, or outrageous artist we need to see more of.
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Hans Tammen
Brooklyn, NY. NY-based sound artist. Hans, once a union organizer in Germany, became addicted to “Making” as his secret drug. 
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Dafna Naphtali
Brooklyn, NY. A sound artist, Experimental Vocalist, Guitarist. She is a master of Max/MSP programming.
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Tamiko Kawata
NY, NY. A sculptor, Product & Jewry Designer. She initiated using safety pins as fine art material.
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Derek Berg
NY, NY. NY Street photographer who devotes his days to capturing the ephemeral dramas of the Lower East Side. 
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Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Queens, NY. A performance artist. Graceful and Powerful performance artist.
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Yohanna M Roa
Originally from Columbia. A New York-based Feminist visual artist, scholar, archivist, curator, and Art Historian who combines routines, skills, and perspectives from these different disciplines. 
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Neil Leonard
Boston, MA. A sound artist, saxophonist and composer is willing to collaborate with artists in different communities and curiosity about environments move Neil to explore and create.
 
Japan 2022
Seiko Matsushita
Fujisawa, Kanagawa. She is a painter and performance artist and attempts to revel in the idea that beauty is everywhere, and therefore bodily perception enfolds beauty. 
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Content Is Using Me
Nagano, Japan. "Content Is Using Me" is the artist name of a collagist and documentary filmmaker. Originally from France, he has mastered the language and manners of Japan, where he currently lives.
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Natsumi Omori
Tokyo, Japan. A sound engineer in various music venues. She is the shadow performer on stage.
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NY 2022
Julie Harrison
NY, NY.  She paints neurons on paper and canvas, thinking “Art making is like alchemy!"
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Oscar Oiwa
NY, NY.  Brazil born Japanese visual artist Oscar Oiwa trained in architecture. He paints with an architect's eyes.
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Peter Wortsman
NY, NY. As his routine linguistic meditation, he translates German to English.  During his making process, he seeks to become as empty as possible, so as to allow the invisible waves to pass through him.
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Sao Tanaka 
Tokyo, Japan.  Sao is a rising painter trained in Japanese-style painting, Nihonga. She inherited ancestral eyes to be able to see “cool things” in the present from her artist grandfather, Shinbi Tanaka.

NY 2023
Toru Hayashi
NY, NY.  Trained in Mathematics, artist Toru Hayashi engages in a longitudinal art practice. He has drawn lines and points in sketchbooks following his memory of the day, every day since 1998. 
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Keiko Uenishi
Brooklyn, NY.  Keiko is known for her works involving experiments in restructuring and analyzing one’s relationship through aural memory/perception in sociological and/or psychological context. She was a core member of SHARE.nyc.
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Robert Palumbo
Brooklyn, NY.  Robert is well-known as a filmmaker/producer for National Geographic, HBO, and many other media outlets. He is also an award-winning fine art photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and collected.
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Michelle Jaffe
Brooklyn, NY.  Michelle is a sculptor and a media artist. Previously she rocked the fashion world as a designer of high-end hats.
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Carl Stone
Tokyo, Japan.  Carl is a pioneer of live computer music, and a global citizen; with bases in both Tokyo and LA. He is a longtime resident of Nakano, settling there before the neighborhood turned trendy and attracted anime fans. coffee buffs, and other otakus.
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Kenji Endo
Gifu, Japan.  Kenji makes his own shakuhachi (Japanese traditional flute). He adopted the style of the legendary master Watazumi Doso, who influenced John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, and Allen Ginsberg.
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Taro Chiezo
Berlin, Germany.  Taro was a trailblazer as an artist back in the 1990s in NYC. The risks he took paved the way for other artists. Taro now lives in Berlin and continues to innovate in his artworks.
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Shoko Nagai
Brooklyn, NY.  Shoko is a versatile keyboard performer, a virtuoso on both piano and accordion. She is fluent in all styles of music emerging from contemporary classical and avant-garde jazz idioms.  Her multicultural range makes her a sought-after collaborator. 
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Elico Suzuki
Tokyo, Japan.  Elico is a sound artist formally trained in visual art. She remembers making tiny house for crickets as a child, supposedly to give the insect at home, but really for her love of Making.
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Mari Kimura
NY, NY.  Mari is a violin virtuoso, who actually extended the range of the instrument for the first time in history with an innovative bowing technique. She also invented a motion sensing device.
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Shelley Hirsch
Brooklyn, NY. Shelley is an internationally and critically acclaimed vocal artist/composer/performer/storyteller.
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Allan Bealy
Brooklyn, NY. Allan was a co-publisher and editor of Benzene, a groundbreaking arts magazine whose contributors included internationally known artists and writers such as Nam June Paik, Gary Indiana, David Wojnarowicz, and Dennis Oppenheim.
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Jeff Rothstein
He has been a street photographer in New York City for over 50 years.  A Brooklyn native, he witnessed the grittier New York of the 70s and has been trying to capture the theater of the street daily since then.  
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Tomomi Adachi
Kanazawa, Japan. Tomomi provides insight into his avant-garde approach to experimental and electronic music, particularly in the field of vocal art. 
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Gil Kuno
Brooklyn, LA, and Tokyo.
Gil is a multimedia artist is based in three different locations, Los Angels ,Tokyo, and New York.  After receiving MFA from UCLA, he started to travel around the world to nurture open-ness for Making.  
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Toshiki Hayasaka
Tokyo. Japan. Toshiki is a self-taught painter, began an artistic transformation during the height of the Covid pandemic. Amidst turbulent times, he found a compelling way to cope and express himself through his art.
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Chihilo Ito
Brooklyn, NY. Chihilo is a Bushwick-based graduate of Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Chihiro’s artistic journey is a nonstop flowing stream. He is constantly exhibiting his work to build momentum and refresh his inspiration through reaction.
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NY 2024
Lorin Roser
NY, NY. Lorin is a Chinese-Alsatian intriguing artist with a wide range of interests. A Princeton-trained architect, Lorin explores sound art, animation, painting, multimedia art, and experimental rock.

Chuck Bettis
In our interview at the Winter Garden in lower Manhattan on January 20th 2024, declared, "Everyone needs sound!" Initially involved  both in the Washington DC punk rock scene and the Baltimore improvised music movement, Chuck has evolved into a versatile musician, exploring contemporary experimental improvisation with MAX interface and modular synthesizer control.
 
Dan Joseph 
Park Slope studio. Originally from the Washington DC area, Dan was educated at CalArts and Mills College, where he was deeply shaped by the teachings of renowned composer Pauline Oliveros. Active for many years as a curator and presenter, he currently produces the monthly music and sound series Musical Ecologies at The Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
 
Kristin Norderval
I interviewed Kristin Norderval in a well-resonating public space in midtown Manhattan on 2/12/24. Highly trained as an opera singer and a composer, Kristin is also unusually well traveled. She traveled extensively during her youth due to her parents' careers as political science academics, which exposed her to diverse environmental and cultural sounds, honing her auditory perception.
 
Ellen Pearlman
I had a fascinating interview with Ellen Pearlman on 3/18/24 in historical Bushwick, Brooklyn.  Besides being a new media artist, critic, writer, educator, and curator, she is proficient in the stealth tactics of Ninjutsu, fusing martial arts prowess and artistic exploration. I was surprised that Ellen and I studied Ninjutsu with the same teacher at different times!
 
Nina Kuo
Nina Kuo, a Chinese American multimedia artist, is renowned for her activism as well as her art. Like several other artists I have interviewed, early exposure to different cultures and environments affected her deeply. She traveled across Asia many times. This formative experience led her to a profound connection to nature that is Kuo's driving force for Making.
 
Devin Gray on April 7 ’24
I was moved to request an interview with Devin Gray recently after hearing him perform. An electro-acoustical drummer and composer, Devin captivates audiences with his awe-inspiring solo performances. His guiding principle is honesty and humility in Making. He is committed to genuine expression above all. Motivated by a desire to connect with his community, he embraces every aspect of his craft as an integral part of his journey.
 
Marc Nasdor
Last April I interviewed Marc Nasdor, a poet who was also the resident DJ Mahanata Bulgarian Bar. He did web and IT work for the composer Charlie Morrow. Nasdor organized international literary festivals and was program director at Poets House and the Gas Station in New York City in the late 80s and 90s. I knew he was central to those hubs for literary activity in NYC, and I wanted to hear about his approach to Making.


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Many thanks to :
Camilo Martinez   
Sakurako Mizuno   
Donna Ratajczak   
Kyoko Sato
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