A groundbreaking lineup of avant-garde sound arBsts is heading to Japan in September and October of 2025, bringing an electrifying fusion of noise, industrial, drone, and experimental music. Featuring legendary and cuHng-edge acts Dimmer (Thomas Dimuzio & Joseph Hammer), Scot Jenerik, Thomas Dimuzio (solo), Mason Jones (solo), and Swing Chandeliers (Joseph Hammer & Sayo), this tour promises immersive sonic exploraBons that push the boundaries of live performance.

★Dimmer –
A duo with electronic alchemists Thomas Dimuzio and Joseph Hammer creaBng expansive hypnoBc soundscapes through synthesis, tape manipulaBon, and deep signal processing.
★Scot Jenerik –
Known for his visceral, high-intensity performances, Jenerik blends custom-built and tradiBonal instruments, for a sonic energy that delivers an unforgeTable sensory experience.
★Thomas Dimuzio –
Using a Buchla Electronic Music Box, FM radio signals, and outboard processing, Dimuzio explores deep, otherworldly atmospheres drawing listeners into evocaBve sonic worlds.
★Swinging Chandeliers –
The duo of Joseph Hammer and Sayo Mitsuishi merges analog tape loops, hypnoBc rhythms, and surreal sound layering into an ever-shiWing dreamlike soundscape.

27 September 2025 SATURDAY
@ 外 SOTO kyoto

OPEN 16:30
START 17:00
CLOSE 21:00
Performance: until 20:00
Chat time: until 21:00

ADV 3,000JPY
DOS 3,500JPY

*The show will start earlier than usual. please note.



TICKETS is here - who@parallaxrecords.jp -

★Make sure you have your tickets booked by one day in advance.


contact - who@parallaxrecords.jp -
tel: 075-211-2543 ( TUE,THU,FRI 13:00-19:00 SAT,SUN 12:00-19:00)
PARALLAX RECORDS

venue: 外 soto
18, Shishigatani Honeninnishimachi, Sakyo-ku Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8427, Japan

- 1 minute walk from 'Kinrin Shako-mae' stop of Kyoto City Bus.
(Route 51, 17, 32, 93, 100, 102, 203, 204)
- about 10 minutes by taxi from 'Jingu-marutamachi' or 'Demachiyanagi' station of Keihan Railway.

Thomas Dimuzio

Thomas Dimuzio is a San Francisco-based musician, composer, improviser, sound designer, mastering engineer, and music technologist whose work creates immersive and cinemaBc worlds. Described by Peter Marsh of the BBC as having a “narraBve, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners... brilliant and rarely less than entertaining,” Dimuzio’s music transports listeners to otherworldly sonic realms.
His internaBonally acclaimed recordings have been released by renowned labels including RéR Megacorp, Asphodel, RRRecords, Drone Records, Odd Size, Sonoris and Seeland. Dimuzio has collaborated with a diverse array of arBsts such as Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Matmos, Joseph Hammer, Marcia BasseT, NegaBvland, 5uus, ISIS, and Voice of Eye, showcasing his versaBlity and collaboraBve spirit.
Dimuzio’s performances have been featured at prominent venues and fesBvals, including AngelicA FesBval Internazionale di Musica, San Francisco Electronic Music FesBval, CCRMA at Stanford University, Recombinant Media Labs Buchla Memorial, and the Ende Tymes FesBval of Experimental Art and LiberaBon.
As the former host of Frequency ModulaBon Radio on KPFA radio, Dimuzio spotlighted sonic innovators pushing the boundaries of experimental music. His current SculpBng Electric series features real-Bme composiBons using the legendary Buchla 200 series Electronic Music Box.

Joseph Hammer

Joseph Hammer is an American experimental musician born in 1959 in Hollywood, California. A longtime member of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), Hammer has been active since the 1980s, exploring the intersections of noise, musique concrète, and electronic abstraction. His work delves into the complexities of listening, memory, and improvisation, often using real-time tape loop manipulation to shape immersive sonic environments.
Throughout his career, Hammer has been involved in numerous influential projects, including Dinosaurs With Horns, Solid Eye, Points of Friction, and Dimmer (with Thomas Dimuzio). He has collaborated with artists such as Aaron Dilloway, Wolf Eyes, and Rick Potts, among others. His discography includes releases on labels like PAN, Melon Expander, and Art Into Life, featuring long-form, evolving compositions that challenge conventional notions of time and musical structure.

Dimmer

Dimmer is an experimental electronic music duo consisBng of Thomas Dimuzio and Joseph Hammer. The project blends live electronics, tape manipulaBon, and noise improvisaBon, creaBng dense and immersive soundscapes. Dimuzio, known for his pioneering work in live sampling and signal processing, joins forces with Hammer, a key figure in the Los Angeles experimental tape music scene, to craW unpredictable, evolving sonic experiences. Their performances oWen feature real-Bme looping, found sounds, and textural layering, pushing the boundaries of ambient, drone, and musique concrète aestheBcs.

Swinging Chandeliers

Swinging Chandeliers is an immersive collaboration between artist/hypnotist Sayo Mitsuishi and experimental musician Joseph Hammer, merging live visual art with evolving sonic landscapes. Mitsuishi draws simultaneously with both hands on an overhead projector, creating intricate, symmetrical gestures that exist somewhere between movement and representation—a fluid dance with sound.
Hammer, a pioneer of real-time tape loop manipulation, constructs ever-shifting soundscapes where recorded fragments of instrumental, electronic, and found sounds transform and dissolve unpredictably. His loops, always in flux, create a dreamlike interplay of memory, perception, and repetition.
Together, Swinging Chandeliers weaves a hypnotic audiovisual experience in which image and sound mirror, influence, and distort one another—blurring the line between ecstasy and fatigue, chaos and control, presence and illusion.

Scot Jenerik

Scot Jenerik is a mulBdisciplinary arBst/instrumentalist, instrument builder, composer and sound engineer. He has performed, lectured and distributed works extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan for over 35 years. He is co-owner of MobilizaBon Records; has an MFA from the San Francisco Art InsBtute; founded 23five Incorporated (the first non-profit arts organizaBon in the US, dedicated specifically to the development and increased awareness of sound works in the public arena); and co-hosted the No Other Radio Network on KPFA.
Mr. Jenerik's explosive performances, incorporaBng hand built instruments of metal and fire, are infamous both around his home of San Francisco/Portland and throughout the world. Combining elements of Kodo drumming, drone and noise, Jenerik transfers the intensity of physical performance into a throbbing soundscape of rhythms, drones and direct elemental contact. His most recent performances are exploring harmonies and harmonics through the non tradiBonal use of tradiBonal instruments from Turkey and India.

Katsura Mouri

京都を拠点に、ターンテーブルを媒介とする演奏や作品を展開。Technics SL-1200を用いたユニットでの活動を経て、ポータブルプレーヤーや光・ノイズとの連動を取り入れ、楽器としてのターンテーブルの可能性を探究している。映像やインスタレーションを含む、音と物質、空間との関係に焦点を当てた表現を行っている。