Pratt Digital Art Lecture Series: dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) + STEIM: Electronic Music Lab :: April 29, 2010; 12:30 – 2:00 pm :: Digital Arts Lecture Hall E2, ARC Building, Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY.

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) believes in the instrumental autonomy of the turntable and the musicianship of the DJ. He is a turntable musician working in the field of improvised and experimental music. His music focuses on the live reconstruction and narratization of the phonographically amplified – the music, the sound, the technology and the past. To achieve this, he uses a unique setup consisting of hand-made hardware interfaces and a custom Max/MSP software along with one turntable and DJ mixer. He is also a concert/event curator for electronic music and a researcher of music technology.

Since 2005 he has been involved with STEIM’s (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam) R&D lab. From 2007 on, he is STEIM’s Artistic Director, curating public events and representing the institution through performances and lectures.

dj sniff regularly performs with computer musician Yutaka Makino as Audile and with saxophonist Keir Neuringer and Bassist Raed Yassin.

This lecture is free and open to the public (though space is limited)

In addition to Takuro Mizuta Lippit’s talk at Pratt, he has organized a performance of international artists from STEIM at the Japan Society.