A performer, composer, sound poet, installation artist, and theater director, Adachi returned to his hometown of Kanazawa after many years in Germany, and in 2024 founded the Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival. Since relocating his activities to Asia, he has been developing an interest in the experimental music scenes of Southeast Asia. During this fellowship, he will visit these particularly dynamic countries and engage with local musicians and organizers. Through these dialogues, he aims to move beyond Western-centric musical frameworks and explore the connections between artists' lives, society, and their relationships to local traditions, while reflecting these experiences and insights in the future activities of the experimental music festival he organizes in Kanazawa.

Photo by Takayuki Imai, ©Aichi Triennale 2022

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ADACHI Tomomi is a performer, composer, sound poet, installation artist, and theater director, working in improvised music performances using voice, live electronics, and self-made instruments, as well as in collective performances with non-musicians, contemporary music composition, sound poetry, and visual poetry. He has directed performances of important works by John Cage, including the Japan premieres of Europeras 3 & 4 at the Aichi Triennale 2022 and Europera 5 at the Suntory Summer Festival 2007, and guest-curated “John Cage’s Japan” at Japan Society in 2023. In 2024, he founded the Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival and serves as its director. He has presented work at Tate Modern, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, ZKM, and Hamburger Bahnhof. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University, received a grant from Asian Cultural Council for a fellowship in New York (2009–2010), and was awarded the DAAD Residency (2012), the Ars Electronica Award of Distinction (2019), and the Keizo Saji Prize (2022).