割れるウォーターグラス――
こぼれ散ったその水は、
本来の透明な姿を取り戻していく…
逆再生される記憶の中で、彼女は彷徨う。
The water glass un-spills itself
and recollects its transparent body…
she wonders in a reversed memory.
IMA is the electro-percussion project of electronic sound artist Amma Ateria (HK) and percussionist Nava Dunkelman (JP), based in California and New York. Through restraint and release, IMA depicts expressionistic noise music of Japanese poetry with the meticulous industrial and serene. Striving for a balance between precision of instrumentation, filmic transitions between silence and densities are driven to brinks of breakage, situated by beautification in between. IMA marches forth with starkness and surrender into the aftermath of destruction, and attempt for transformative regeneration of beauty through catalysts of pleasure. Their debut release 炎の中で死にゆく花 - The Flowers Die in Burning Fire (2019), tells an anecdote of the inevitable notion of time, change, decay, the vanished, and rebirth. The duo were presented in residency at The Stone, NYC (2016), San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, SF (2016), San Francisco Art Institute (2018), CCRMA, Stanford University (2018), Other Minds:Latitudes (2019). Performed and collaborated with Ikue Mori, Pauchi Sasaki, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Matmos, Zeena Parkins, Erik Friedlander, Brian Chase, and many others. Amma Ateria is a sound artist / electroacoustic composer, her practice examines the behaviour and physicality of sound in the human experience. Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser born in Tokyo, her sonic palette spans the globe from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde.
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Nava Dunkelman (JP) is a percussionist and improviser born in Tokyo, her sonic palette spans the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan, from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. She has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, George Lewis and many others, as well as performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, Joan Jeanrenaud, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and others.
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Amma Ateria (HK) is a sound artist, electroacoustic composer, and improviser born in Hong Kong, based in California. Her practice examines the behaviour and physicality of sound in the human experience. She studied with Maggi Payne and Fred Frith, performed with Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Tarek Atoui, Paul Clipson, Zeena Parkins, Erik Friedlander, Pauchi Sasaki, John Zorn, and many others. Her work has been presented in SoART, Austria (2013), Titanik Gallery, Finland (2014), The Stone, New York (2016), SFEMF, San Francisco (2016), BAMPFA, Berkeley (2017), Exploratorium, San Francisco (2018), Marfa Sounding, Marfa (2018), CCRMA, Stanford University (2018), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF (2019), Other Minds:Latitudes (2019), Minnesota Street Project (2019).
RELEASES
// 炎の中で死にゆく花
The Flowers Die in Burning Fire - LP
Limited edition release of ‘The Flowers Die in Burning Fire’ with Buh Records. The debut album of IMA tells an anecdote of the inevitable notion of time, change, decay, the vanished, and rebirth. With meticulous, industrial, and filmic instrumentation, IMA marches forth with starkness and surrender into the aftermath of destruction, and attempt for transformative regeneration of beauty through catalysts of pleasure.
BR119
Pre-sale Available Now
Release date: Nov 15, 2019
// LIVE AT LAND AND SEA
LIMITED ZINE + CD
- Land and Sea
Sold Out
Release date: Nov 2018
// ENDE
Debut Cassette Single
The debut single of IMA, Ende portraits the beginning of awakening to the aftermath of destruction and devastation. Percussionist Nava Dunkelman (JP) and electronic sound artist Amma Ateria (HK), depicts noise music of Japanese poetry by deconstructing and dissolving heavy music through meticulous, industrial, and filmic instrumentation.
BR104
buhrecords.bandcamp.com
Release date: October 24, 2018
MEDIA
Active Music Series 10th Anniversary
CCRMA Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
PRESS
- FACT Magazine Oct 2, 2019
- Gonzo Circus #153
“A soft chattering of birds gets overshadowed by a persistent hum. As that starts to fray, the birds fade away, as if a monstrous hand has swept them to another world. This is a track from "The Flowers Die In Burning Fire", the debut album of the East Asian duo IMA. Percussionist Nava Dunkelman was born in Japan as the child of an American father and an Indonesian mother. Amma Ateria hails from Hong Kong and works in the fields of sound art and electro-acoustic music. The two met at the famous Mills College in Oakland, studying with Maggi Payne and Fred Frith. Since then they have performed with pioneering musicians such as Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros and Zeena Parkins. For this album they imagined how everything will perish over time, but also how new life, a spark of hope can arise when everything has turned to dust. They cast those two aspects into sound, in nine pieces that are each a sonic film. Bells are pealing left and right, below and above. Electronic eruptions and ferocious beats and rolls on drums and cymbals may appear like an volatile blanket through which lines of Japanese poetry are woven. But then, in "Eline", the ravaging fire subsides and everything is shrouded in color again, even if it is the brown hues of an Indian summer. These are sounds infused with a deep yearning that flow out into rattling blows, resounding blasts and a pulsating floor. Forbidding soil from which, against all odds and expectation, new life will sprout in time.”
- Rene van Peer
