Artist Info: Mitsuhiro Yoshimura

Mitsuhiro Yoshimura (吉村光弘) is a Japanese musician who creates high-pitched sounds through the use of headphone/microphone feedback: "I use a microphone and a pair of headphones for my performance. Although headphones are often thought of as devices for ‘listening’ to music, for me, they are instruments for ‘performing’. In my performances, headphones are not used as objects that exclude outside sounds and cut off the spatial dimensions of the performance site, but rather, objects that work with the space itself. [read more...]