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An artist and composer whose works are catalyzed by and structured around memories. Curator-at-Large for Western Front, Vancouver.

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My solo performance in STUK in Leuven @stukleuven on Sep 17.

Many thanks to @gilles.helsen to make this happens and @joerithiry to for these excellent photos! taken in STUK - House for Dance, Image & Sound by @akionda_official

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24 hours in Berlin for meetings and excellent exhibitions and nice meals :)
@kamilametwaly @sibhecht @somilili Alicja & Bozana Wahl @ccaberlin @fabianschoeneich Gabriele Stotzer @gropiusbau @yusukehashimotoo @bienalsaopaulo @hkw_berlin by @akionda_official

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A lovely night out with @makikaoru at a local favorite @il.transitfolks in Mito. by @akionda_official

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@kaput_mag published my interview with @senemcelikorslu, where we discussed my installation Ugnayan in the 2026 Whitney Biennial at @whitneymuseum in depth.

Just so you know, the Ugnayan installation will be on view on the 6th floor of Whitney until October 12. One more month to go!

Special thanks to Senum Celikorslu and the full interview here:
https://kaput-mag.com/critics_en/proposing-another-way-to-listen-revisiting-jose-macedas-ugnayan-with-aki-onda/

Photo of the Ugnayan installation by Darian DiCanno. Courtesy of Whitney Museum.
2nd image: Audiences at one of Ugnayan Centers. Photo published by Times Journal on January 4 (1974). Courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology. by @akionda_official

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I’ll be flying to Brussels soon and performing a solo cassette set at STUK in Leuven (@stukleuven) on September 17 (8 pm), as a part of STUK START 2026 festival, returning there after performing there with Akio Suzuki and Rie Nakajima in 2019.

Thanks @gilles.helsen for making this happen. by @akionda_official

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I made a cosmic playlist for @friezeofficial and gathered the tracks of artists striving to engage otherworldly realities.

https://www.frieze.com/article/frieze-dj-residence-aki-onda-261

#alicecoltrane #sunra #waltersmetak ##namjunpaik #ctherinechristerhennix @therammellzee @wolencki @jessikakenney @eyvindkang @lee_scratch_perry

Image: Aki Onda in front of Nam June Paik’s former residence on Mercer Street, Soho, New York City, 2020. Photo by Maki Kaoru. by @akionda_official

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My work is featured in the September issue of @friezeofficial

Special thanks to @xeniab.vlsk for writing this thoughtful piece about ghosts, obsolete media technologies, memory, and Nam June Paik, and how these ideas continue to resonate in my practice.

http://frieze.com/article/aki-onda-tunes-nam-june-paik

The first image: Aki Onda untitled, undated, from the ‘Collage on Cassettes’ series.
The second image: photo by Yang Lei at my Cassette Memories performance, Yanbian, China, 2025, organized by @_naaa_official by @akionda_official

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Thanks for coming to my studio @tomoya_iwta by @akionda_official

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Nikko 8/28 @tvms_nikko It was lovely to hang out with @anneyuki @henkasuru_wfmm @makikaoru Michael Smith, Tam Ochiai and talented young artists 💕 by @akionda_official

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I’ll be staying in Brussels next month and presenting a listening session at Q-O2 on Sep 13.

It’s a rare opportunity to hear the music of the legendary Japanese ensemble Suigyu Gakudan (1978–1985), founded by Takahashi Yuji. I’ll also share documentation photos and talk about the group’s political activities and context.

Second Sundays @q_o2werkplaats
Aki Onda on Suigyu Gakudan
13/09/2026 - 17h
Free admission

This session traces Suigyu Gakudan's activities and explores how their music was intertwined with citizens' movements and political solidarity — performing with portable instruments, they brought music directly to political rallies and expressing solidarity with social movements across Asia. Their internationalist vision later expanded the repertoire to include songs supporting the Polish trade union Solidarity, Chile’s pro-democracy movement, and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

https://www.q-o2.be/en/event/second-sundays-71-aki-onda-on-suigyu-gakudan/

Image: Takahashi Yuji, Yamaki Mie, Kameda Itsuko rehearsal for an outside concert. Early 1980s.
Photographer unknown.
The rest of the images: Photos by @yuichironoda Courtesy of @mode.exchange by @akionda_official

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2 months ago

Free Event !

José Maceda — Cassettes 100
SITE Saturday 26 Sept.

Cassettes 100 is work by pioneering Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist José Maceda. Activated by 100 performers, it creates a shared soundscape built from recordings of indigenous instruments and environmental sounds.

Originally performed in the lobby of the cultural centre of the Phillipines in 1971, we are thrilled to present this reimgination of Maceda’s work in collaboration with SITE under the guidance of artist and curator Aki Onda, with choreography devised by Lisen Ellard and technical support by Benedic Justine Velasco.

“Maceda’s music is a proposal and exemplar for a profound change in our feeling and thinking toward the society and culture in this troubled world. It gives a vision for each of us to investigate.” — Yuji Takahashi

maceda photos courtesy of UP centre for ethnomusicology. cassettes 100 performance photo © nathaniel gutierrez

josé maceda (1917—2004) was a filipino composer, ethnomusicologist and university professor whose interdisciplinary works have been performed throughout the world. a number of his works have also been recorded and released via john zorn’s tzadik label who called him “one of the the most original and underappreciated composers in contemporary music.”
maceda studied piano at the academy of music in manila and later at the école normale de musique de paris and during his early career introduced new works to the philipines as a performer. he undertook further studies in the usa, studying musicology at queens college and columbia university before earning a phd in ethnomusicology from the university of california. from the early 1950s maceda devoted his time to ethnomusicological studies of the music of the philippines and southeast asia and composed a number of his own works based on asian musical practices and folkways.
today josé maceda’s archive is managed by the u.p. center for ethnomusicology in quezon city.

aki onda’s works are often catalyzed by and structured around memories—personal, collective, historical—such as their widely-known project, cassette memories (2004–ongoing), drawn from three decades of field recordings.
crossing genre taken in SITE Sweden by @akionda_official

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At my performance at @dennistonhill.

A huge thank you to Paul Pfeiffer (@pmp2021), Julie Mehretu, and Lawrence Chua for your incredible support.

Thank you also to Chan Sook Choi (@chan_sook_choi), Michelle Lopez (@michellelopezstudio), and Klancy Miller (@kalncycooks) for being such wonderful company.

And a special thank you to my excellent co-performer, Zach Rowden (@zach___rowden).

And, of course, thank you to everyone who came and shared the evening with us. It was truly a memorable night!

Photos by Isaac Green Diebboll, except the last one by Kelsey Valencia by @akionda_official

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