hi everyone!

this is the "i am robot and proud" mailing list. please reply to be removed or see the link at the bottom.

it has been cold in toronto! so i thought i would hide inside my house and write some news.. it's been a while! how have you been doing?


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TENORI ON SPRING TOUR

what would we do without musical gadgets?! toshio iwai is a media artist and inventor (you may know him from a video game called 'electroplankton') who has produced a new musical instrument for yamaha called 'tenori-on'. there will be some launch events around the world and i have been asked to participate... a great honour to be playing with people like mouse on mars and to rococo rot! come and say hi if you are in the area... dates are:

03/12/2008
Frankfurt at Nachtleben

04/08/2008
Berlin at Berghain

04/09/2008
Paris at Maison de la Villette

04/11/2008
Montreal at SAT

04/16/2008
Brooklyn at Southpaw

04/18/2008
San Francisco at 1015 Folsom

tour information here:
http://www.global.yamaha.com/tenori-on/event/index.html


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JAPAN TOUR EPs

thank you to everyone who came out to the shows over new years in tokyo! i even got to practice some of my japanese when someone on the street asked me for a lighter... here are some photos from that trip:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawhan/sets/72157603714939408/

i still have a few copies of the tour EPs (repress of 'my sky your sky' and 'travel sounds), so if you are interested they are up on 'the blue house':

http://thebluehouse.org/seller.php?id=2


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VIDEO POSTCARDS

i've received some great videos over the past little while. please watch these and let them know if you like them. i hope i can make something like this one day...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gk1kRG-pw_M
"Learn from Mistakes" by Aric Huang (USA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtaPVOcUqI
"Quick Life" by Henk Loorbach (Netherlands)


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NEW ALBUM

there will be a new record in 2008.. work has slowly been turning into tiny pieces of songs. today i recorded a mandolin part... who knows, maybe it'll be "the new sound"?

also, some remixes for De De Mouse (avex trax, jp), Chihiro, and a collaboration with Gentleman Reg. here comes 2008!!!


thank you for listening! talk soon,

shaw-han