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Based in Brooklyn, New York, sound artist, composer, core member of SHARE, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for creating various interactive audio environments resulted from her ceaseless pursuits of ways to erase performer's presence and ultimately alter listening situation. After performing with an unique hand-made electronic sound system "tapboard.effector.soundsystem" for a couple of years, Uenishi has been exploring powerbook's mobility and its least distracting state of being. Her powerbook performance has appeared at many places including: Tonic, The Kitchen, Whitney Museum of American Art, Chelsea Art Museum (US); Der Ohrenzeuge Festival, Rhiz & Phonotaktik Festival (Austria); ClubTransmediale festival, (Germany); LU (France); STEIM, WORM (Netherlands); RAS Gallery (Spain); What Is Music? Festival (Australia); Tate Britain (UK). Her sound was described in Wire magazine as "Unleashing an enchanted sea of sound: Fuzzed-out birdcalls flit through submarine drones, and scratchy beats crackle like a thousand records skipping as one". She has collaborated with numerous artists including: Ikue Mori, Eyvind Kang, Sachiko M, Tetsuji Akiyama, Aki Onda, Toshio Kajiwara, Christine Bard, Kaffe Matthews, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Günter Müller, Norbert Morslang, HC Gilje, Eric Redlinger, Takemura Nobukazu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others. She was a member of Marina Rosenfeld's 17 piece guitar/powerbook orchestra, 'Sheer Frost Orchestra 2000', and also was a member of laptops-and-electronics quartet with Ikue Mori, Kaffe Mathews, and Marina Rosenfeld, recorded with a commission by STEIM, Amsterdam, Holland, 2001. o.blaat's first CD "Two Novels: Gaze/In the Cochlea" was released from Portuguese label, cronica in 2004.
Keiko Uenishi will perform at Interferenze 2006 "Moirè", an audiovisual project that examines physical matters of sounds. In 'moiré', audio will be performed according with its own physical outputs on the surface of water. 'Moiré' was premiered in May 2006, at Diapason, Michael Schumacher's sound-art gallery in NYC.