DJ Sniff, US/NL
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. While studying Art History and Philosophy in Tokyo, he was active as a DJ in the underground electronic music scene and formed a collective called smashTV productions which organized genre-mixing events such as anti-Gravity and bistro-Smash!. In 2002, he moved to New York to pursue graduate studies in computer music and physical computing at NYU’s ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Programm). Since 2005 he has been involved with STEIM’s (Studio for Electo-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 Keri Neuringer and bassist Raed Yassin.
DJ Sniff will be playing as part of QuWack (with Infinite Livez, Bass Clef, Team Brick, Katapulto, Gabriel Ferrandini, Alfredo Cargjillo, Tiago Morna): Live Performance, ZDB, Rua da Barroc, 1200 Lisboa [Bairro Alto], Fri 13 Nov, 22hrs. €8
