Been in Japan two or three weeks and this was the first traditional style Japanese toilet I’ve encountered:
Baby Copperhead + AEN @ Superdeluxe:
Caught this duet u+uco at Bonobo, a small venue in Harajuku:
I talked to them before their set, they told me they basically cover themselves in barcodes and use barcode scanners to trigger musical events via a bit of software they wrote using Max/MSP. They did a few different pieces using this stuff, and at one point started covering the audience in barcodes too. Once they started their set, I was like, “Welp, looks like that’s pretty much as awesome as I expected.”
I played a little bit later in the evening, in this upstairs room:
I ended up doing an impromptu duet with the DJ guy downstairs - totally rad dude from Osaka, never learned his name, but we traded signals between the two floors and jammed for maybe 40 minutes? It was kind of a mess but a lot of fun. Later on, during this noise trio’s set, DJ dude got naked and did some wild modern dance along with the apocalyptic laptop / pedal soup. Dude had chops, wish I’d gotten pictures.
More walking through Harajuku at night:
The toilet that kills fascists:
