Etu{d,b}e is a series of performances including semi-autonomous musical agents improvising with a live musician performing on the eTube, an augmented instrument using a saxophone mouthpiece and custom controller interface.
In くぼみ — kubomi, the author uses a singing bowl and a mere décor piece of metal bowl, along with sounds of piano and western flute, to challenge the cultural appropriation and exotic expectations on singing bowls or sang ohm. These metal bowls are commonly associated with Tibetan Buddhism, but seem more tied to meditation as a popular spiritual practice in the U.S. This phenomenon seems to the author an example of an imaginative exoticism based on mixed information that slowly earned a cultural myth that people accepted as a foreign culture.
