Cinemage

by Aki Onda (US/JAP) & Jean-François Pauvros (FR)

About Cinemage

Cinemage is Aki Onda's audio-visual project, which performances are composed of slide projections of still photographs and guitar improvisation. Cinemage means "images for cinema," or "homage for cinema." The visual images in Cinemage are snapshots taken from Onda's daily life. By documenting fragments of his personal life, something is revealed in their accumulation--the particulars within lose significance. What emerges is the architecture, and the essence, of memory. The sensibility is essentially filmic. The photos are more like moving images than stills and the style is similar to Chris Marker's La Jetee. Projected on a screen, the images have the eerie familiarity of an out-of-focus memory and evoke a feeling of déjà vu. On this occasion, Jean-François Pauvros plays guitar along with Onda's visual images.

About Aki Onda

Cinemage is Aki Onda's audio-visual project, which performances are composed of slide projections of still photographs and guitar improvisation. Cinemage means "images for cinema," or "homage for cinema." The visual images in Cinemage are snapshots taken from Onda's daily life. By documenting fragments of his personal life, something is revealed in their accumulation--the particulars within lose significance. What emerges is the architecture, and the essence, of memory. The sensibility is essentially filmic. The photos are more like moving images than stills and the style is similar to Chris Marker's La Jetee. Projected on a screen, the images have the eerie familiarity of an out-of-focus memory and evoke a feeling of déjà vu. On this occasion, Jean-François Pauvros plays guitar along with Onda's visual images.

About Jean-François Pauvros

A guitarist with an inimitable technique is not entirely unknown on the New York scene. He has composed and played with musicians such as Elliot Sharp - Arto Lindsay - Jonathan Kane - Rhys Chatam... His taste for musical and human encounters, which lead him to form the most improbable and cosmopolitan groups’ can only find and maintain its unity when subtended by a style and an original and continuous inspiration.

http://akionda.net
http://jf.pauvros.free.fr