Kawol SamarQandi, JuDai (Gretchen Jude + Kiyomitsu Odai)

Noumenology of Sounds II ~ 音自体の世界へ 其の弐 ~ Kawol SamarQandi, guitar & voice JuDai: Gretchen Jude, voice Kiyomitsu Odai, computer & synthesizer   3/13 (Fri.) 2026 open 18:45 | start 19:30 Boiler Room　ボイラー室 2-2-14 Nishiogi Kita Suginami-ku Tokyo Kishi Corpo B1F Tickets: Advance ¥3,000 | At the door ¥3,500 + 1 drink order For reservation, please email: boilerroom.nishiogikubo@gmail.com   performers' biographies Kawol SamarQandi: He was born in the port town on October 7. as a child, the first music he listened to was the noise of shortwave radio and hymns. He began writing poetry at the age of 6. He began to playing guitar and singing at the age of 12. He began composing at the age of 14. He joined the fringe of the Tokyo new wave music scene at the age of 17. then he has performed as a odd singer-songwriter in a variety of venues. Mid-20s, he wandered about North Africa (Tunisia) and the Mediterranean region and studied Arabic traditional music under Mr. Ali Sriti. After performing theater solo concert, festivals, TV appearances, etc. there, returned to Japan, he did a lot of commercial work (e.g. “City pop”) as a guitarist, arranger, composer, lyric writer and vocalist in recording studios, on the airwaves, and on tour. In 1997, he launched his private label PLAKA for EARDRUM. In the new century, he began his lifework of creating non-nationality “poor” music by improvising with only his faltering guitar and trembling voice. And he collaborates with musicians across borders (sometimes face to face, sometimes on the Internet) to make works and to perform in various places. In 2007, he formed REFUGEES with Mary Meacha Goldfish. In August 2021, Ramble Records (Australia) released vinyl record album “silence, notes and structures 1”. In April 2024, he was invited by the Sharjah Art Foundation to perform solo and REFUGEES concerts and workshops in UAE. Same month, Ramble Records released CD album “Noli me tangere”. In 2025 October, he will release a brand new vinyl record album called “energeia” recorded in a historical place in Sharjah, UAE. And also, he and Meacha are scheduled to perform in Athens, Greece. the will to keep listening attentively to the world through the austerely and beautiful silences, notes and structures of improvisation. Gretchen Jude: Gretchen Jude is an experimental composer who performs using various instruments, including voice, koto and shamisen. Jude studied music at the Sawai Koto Institute in Tokyo as well as Mills College and University of California, Davis. Thanks to growing up in the wild state of Idaho, Jude loves nature. She teaches at the University of Utah and spends her summers in mountains of Niigata. Kiyomitsu Odai: Kiyomitsu Odai is a composer/improviser born and brought up in Tokyo, Japan. After receiving a B.A. in law from Waseda University (Tokyo), he moved to the U.S. and started his artistic career. As an improviser (piano and computer), he has performed at numerous venues including Hotti Biscotti, WNUR (Chicago), Muddy Waters (Santa Barbara), and Dům kultury Vítkovice (Ostrava, Czech Republic). Journalist Josef Woodard mentions him as a “striking musically neo-expressionist keyboardist” in Santa Barbara News-Press. As a composer, he has adopted multidisciplinary (mathematical, psychoacoustic, linguistic, algorithmic, etc.) approaches to his own music, pursuing the “transcendental structures” that spiritually overcome the systems within themselves. He has participated in a number of music festivals and international conferences including Ostrava Days and ICMC, and worked with both professional and non-professional orchestras; Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, for example, featured his Passacaglia di Fibonacci in 2011. The recording of another orchestral piece of his, Menetekel：「あー、いぬ。アーメン。」, as well as his own paper on it, was published in the 22nd volume of Leonardo Music Journal in 2012. He has studied with Don Malone, Hilda Paredes, Roscoe Mitchell, Curtis Roads, and Clarence Barlow. He holds a Ph.D. in music composition from University of California, Santa Barbara.