April 4 Jofukuji Temple Memento Mori: Remembering

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Saturday open 18h00 start 1830 April 4 2026
A day long event musing on the transience of life and the inevitability of death. Concluding the day after panel discussions, Carl Stone (laptop electronics)and Yasuaki Shimizu (saxophones) will perform an hour set on the grounds of temple. Before the performance, everyone meditates zazen for 5 minutes in the main hall, with all the doors removed and the gardens in full view. After this moment of silence, the performance will begin.It can be cold at night, so please bring your own cold weather gear
Optional dinner after the performance ¥1500

Artists:

¥3000 (reservation required)

Jofukuji Temple
2516 Shindo, Minami Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0326
〒252-0326 神奈川県相模原市南区新戸２５１６046-251-5530
Map (Japanese) here
bigtory@mba.ocn.ne.jp
WEB: https://www.jofukuji.or.jp/live/
https://www.jofukuji.or.jp/

May 8 Kanazawa JP 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa Carl Stone / Asuna Tour

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Friday 18h30 start 19h00 open
開場 18h30 開演 19h00
May 8 2026
Carl Stone and Asuna celebrate their new release on the Room40 label with a performance at the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, ,one of the most beautiful museums in all Japan.Also on the bill, the redoubtable Lawrence English (Australia) paired up with filmmaker Takashi Makino. DJ Susumu Kakuda starts the evening off.

Y2000 regular ¥1000 for under 25 yrs)
25歳以下は1,000円）

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa
1-2-1 Hirosaka, Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken, 920-8509
〒９２０−８５０９石川県金沢市広坂１丁目２番１号
+81 80-4259-5823
Map (English) at here
Map (Japanese) here
windowofacloudyday@gmail.com
WEB: https://sites.google.com/view/room40kanazawa
WEB: https://www.kanazawa21.jp/event/#general

May 9 Niigata JP Yoshihara Photo Studio Carl Stone / Asuna Tour

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Saturday Open 17h30 Start 18h00
開場17:30／開演18:00 May 9 2026
Carl Stone and Asuna celebrate their new release on the Room40 label with a performance in Niigata, under the auspices of the Experimental Room project, co-presented by Yoshihara Photo Studio. Also on the evening will be two exciting collaborations. One is between musician Lawrence English and filmmaker Takashi Makino, the other is the father/son collaboration of shakuhachi player Reishuzan Fukushima + media artistSatoshi Fukushima. Pop-up Coffee by Sankaku Frasco. It’s going to be a great night!

Artists:

Reserved:¥4000 / Same Day:¥4500 / Niigata Prefecture residents: ¥3500 / High school students and under: free
予約4000円／当日4500円／県外3500円／高校生以下無料

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Yoshihara Photo Studio
吉原写真館
2-6-22 Otemachi, Shibata Niigata Prefecture
新潟県新発田市大手町2-6-22
+81-254-22-2056
Map (English) at here
info@experimentalrooms.com
WEB: http://experimentalrooms.com/events/51.html

THE PRESS SPEAKS!

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1. Electronic Music from 1972-2022 (50th Anniversary Release)

The Wire: Described this retrospective as being “filled with irony, misdirection and enchanting mischief,” noting that the best way to listen is to “delight in the sheer charm.”

Obladada: Called it a “staggering” overview of his career, specifically highlighting that even his teenage compositions are “nothing short of staggering” and “knock you sideways from pure dazzling creativity.”

2. Himalaya (2019)

The Wire (Best of 2019, #14): Remarked that “the world’s pop music has become putty in Stone’s hands,” and that each piece feels like it could “reassemble its particles infinitely.”

Artforum: Ranked it at #5 on their “Best Music of 2019” list.

3. Baroo (2019)

Pitchfork: Included it in the “Best Experimental Albums of 2019,” describing the listening experience as “like a vivid and recurrent memory of somewhere you have never been, or an everyday experience suddenly made inexplicable and strange.”

Relix: Described the album as “hypercaffeinated” and “music that can hit your ear holes like a DMT flash,” praising Stone’s “speed-racer loops.”

4. Stolen Car (2020)

Brainwashed: Called the album a “gleefully deranged place to be,” describing the track “Pasjoli” as sounding like “an Egyptian disco album being pulled apart by a black hole in the middle of an ’80s hip hop block party.”

The Wire: Named it one of the “Top 50 Albums of 2020.”

5. Mom’s (1991)

All Music Guide: Hailed the album as Stone’s “masterpiece,” specifically describing the title track as a “jubilant, kinetic symphony of ecstatic international samples” that feels like “several hours of travel shows in 11 minutes.”

NEW CARL STONE REMIX for “8 Automated Works”, the first full release by Componium Ensemble (Visible Cloaks) out Oct 17 2025

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Coming October 17th, “8 Automated Works”, the first full release by Componium Ensemble, an “indeterminate chamber music” ensemble helmed by Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks, featuring a special CARL STONE remix available only in the CD version. .

More information and to order:

emrecords.bandcamp.com

https://emrecords.shop-pro.jp/?pid=187793310

New Release: CARL STONE and KEN IKEDA Live in Tokyo

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ARTIST : CARL STONE and KEN IKEDA
TITLE : Oaken Tides
LABEL : mykesrhiza
FORMAT : CASSETTE (Includes download code）

Side A AUGUST　38’46”
Side B JANUARY 33’46”
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Pre-orders and previews are available at capricious records, to which mykesrhiza belongs.

To Order go to:
http://capricious-records.com/?pid=186944466

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The powerful old oak tree symbolizes ancient wisdom and a deep connection with nature, while the tidal currents evoke not only the ebb and flow of the tide but also the ebb and flow of time and emotions, which can be gentle or violent.

CARL STONE and KEN IKEDA
The duo show recordings by STONE and IKEDA at KNOCK Koenji in Tokyo Japan on 20 January 2024 and 17 August 2024 were mixed and mastered by Carl Stone himself, and the sound was finally mastered by Mr Isao Kumano, a representative of Phonon|, an audio equipment manufacturer known for its high quality headphones.

New Album Release!

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New Album released August 4th on Unseen Worlds!

“The through-line of Stone’s genius from primordial, early vocal cut-ups to strobing samepledelia becomes apparent across the eons charted here.”

From Boom Kat:

Stuffed with revelatory wonders spanning fifty years of Stone’s decimated compositions, the followup to installations in 2016 & ’18 offers the broadest overview of work by a true maverick in his field. Injecting humour and playfulness to an often unyielding framework, Stone is responsible for some of computer music’s wittiest and playfully psychoactive work, bar none. This set scrolls right back to his earliest work circa 1972 at CalArts, under Morton Subotnick and James Tenney, and brings us bang up to date with his tekkerz in 2022, dilating the purview of previous instalments for the wildest, and arguably best, primer to his vital avant-garde side-spins on pop, Latin, folk, and experimental musics.

It all begins with a practice stemming from his graduate job at CalArts, when he systematically preserved to tape some 10,000 vinyl records ranging from Renaissance music to early electronics and global folk styles, where he effectively developed a process of pause-button editing foreshadowing hip hop. Also influenced by his studies of electro-acoustic music and the possibilities of computer memory as prototypical samplers, his music can be heard as an innovative sort of meta-archiving, and the through-line of Stone’s genius from primordial, early vocal cut-ups to strobing samepledelia becomes apparent across the eons charted here.

Whether working with the laborious techniques of early computers, as on 1972’s uncannily future-proofed ‘Three Confusongs’ or smearing the vocals of Stefan Weiser (aka Z’Ev) into Roland Kayn-esque drones in ‘Ryouund Thygizunz’, or beyond the speed-of-thought algorithms of contemporary CPU’s in the trio of 2022 works, including the AI-alike sea shanty ‘Kustaa’, the effortlessness of Stone’s work is belied by very crafty mechanics and concept under the hood. And the way which he can truly tease out a sample before fully revealing its source simply never ceases to leave us reeling, as with the transformation of ‘Flint’s’ from Ace of Base like airport reggae lilt to a Max/MSP gobbled ‘Barbie Girl’, or indeed with his V/Vm-meets-Paul DeMarinis-like dissection of Queen’s in ‘Moranguk’.

November 17 time tba San Francisco CA Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival

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Friday time tba November 17 2023
The first of two appearances by Carl at the 27th iteration of the famed Other Minds festival. for this concert Carl performs a solo composition, followed by a duo with the estimable pianist Sarah Cahill, and then a trio performance featuring Carl with Ned Rothenberg and Paul Dresher. Also on the evening will be the first live performance of Mary Kouyoumdjian‘s They Will Take My Island, a string octet about the life of Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky with film by Atom Egoyan, world and American premieres by leading Armenian composer and pianist Artur Avanesov.

Artists:

Taube Atrium Theater
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-934-8134
WEB: https://www.otherminds.org/festivals/
IG: #othermindssf
Twitter: OtherMindsSF

November 19 time tba San Francisco CA Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival

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Sunday time tba November 19 2023
The second of two appearances by Carl at the 27th iteration of the famed Other Minds festival. For this concert the festival moves to Gray Area, in San Francisco’s Mission District. the evening features the world premiere of Carl Stone‘s Re:gendo. Stone will perform live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space, utilizing field recordings of the urban soundscape in Tokyo combined with his unique take on music from Japan as well as other parts of Asia. The music shares the immersive space with multi-channel video using specially commissioned drone footage shot over Tokyo. Featured as part of the performance will be Japanese vocalist Akaihirume.

Artists:

Taube Atrium Theater
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-934-8134
WEB: https://www.otherminds.org/festivals/
IG: #othermindssf
Twitter: OtherMindsSF

December 8 Open 7PM Start 8 PM Brooklyn NY Roulette 70th Birthday Lollapalooza

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Friday Open 7PM Start 8 PM December 8 2023
The first of two nights of the Carl Stone 70th Birthday Lollapalooza at Roulette in Brooklyn. The program will consists of largely new works written especially for the performers. Both nights will include a Carl Stone solo as well as ensemble performances. Anticipated number of world premieres: three. All music composed by Carl Stone. For the first night the special guests include Senile Felines (Carl Stone (electronics), Ned Rothenberg (winds)+ Soo Yeon Lyuh (haegeum)) and
MIN Xiao-Fen (voice, pipa)

More details to follow soon!

Artists:

$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)

Buy Tickets Online

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11217
(917) 267-0363 (Box Office)
roulette@roulette.org
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-1/
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-2/
IG: #roulette_intermedium
Twitter: Roulette_nyc

December 9 Open 7PM Start 8 PM Brooklyn NY Roulette 70th Birthday Lollapalooza

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Saturday Open 7PM Start 8 PM December 9 2023
The second of two nights of the Carl Stone 70th Birthday Lollapalooza at Roulette in Brooklyn. The program will consists of largely new works written especially for the performers. Both nights will include a Carl Stone solo as well as ensemble performances. Anticipated number of world premieres: three. All music composed by Carl Stone. For the second night the special guests include Matthew Sargent, Todd Reynolds, Elliot Sharp, MIN Xiao-Fen and Booker Stardrum.
More details to follow soon!

Artists:

$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)

Buy Tickets Online

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11217
(917) 267-0363 (Box Office)
roulette@roulette.org
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-1/
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-2/
IG: #roulette_intermedium
Twitter: Roulette_nyc