Juandros (Jun) is a NY based visual/auditory interactive artist, who works on Japanese zither(Koto) playing, composing, film making, painting and interactive programming. As a multimedia performer, Ando uses Japanese zither called Koto with effect processor and Max/msp for the real-time rendering interactive sound/3D graphic visual projection.
Pursuing the strong passion for creating new music style combining western classical and Japanese traditional music in modern style of music, He acts as a solo performer, a member of improvisational ensemble, traditional Japanese ensemble, and work with jazz fusion band.
Jun studied physics and quantum mechanics in college which now fuels his philosophy and creations about existence. He views the world as a flowing river or stream; and that behavior and life has a little importance. His existential mind expresses these influences with the tones and score of an abandoned spirit.
To express all the aspect of his creativity, he has formed multimedia dance company, ARis//Absolute Reality of the Indefinite Sense in 2011.
Contact;
info@juandros.com
[Performance venues]
Dusty Multiverse of Burning man official VR streaming (2020), Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art, DC (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2017), Herbst Theater, SF (2017), Queens Library, NY (2018, 2017), Japan Society, NY (2017, 2016), Barge music, NY (2017, 2016), Tenri Culture Center, NY (2017, 2016,2015), The Dr. Richard T. Mamiya Theatre, HI (2017), Staten Island Museum, NY (2015, 2016), Times Square, NY (2015), Javits Convention Center, NY (2014), Snug Harbor Center Music Hall, NY(2013, 2014), Grand Central Station, NY (2015,2013), Shanghai Eastern Art Center of Music, China (2009), and many public & private schools
[Award]
John Lennon Song Writing Competition
International Song Writing Competition
Rain Dance Film Festival
Monaco International Film Festival
New York International Independent Film Festival
[Artist statement]
Art is to relieve the pain of life.
Life is a process of death. Humans are going to die and fear to die. All of the distress comes from the fear of death. When people worry about their life, their existence, they also wonder why humans live. People start to believe there isn’t any reason to live. Therefore, people made heaven and yearn for heaven. Humans wanted a place which made them believe that they were absolute. Death is a part of life, as the same for birth. When people know what death is, people will know what life is.
Through his all the aspect of his art projects, he tries to represent his world view based on his own philosophy. Through the studying of physics and quantum mechanics in his college, he draws the unique definition of world view, especially about the existence. He believes that this world which we recognize as the present is just like a form of the stream in the river in a moment, and that behavior itself does mean nothing, which is same as the life itself. However, this world and the life is as it is, and the life is worth as it is.
The final concept of my art work is to help relieve the pain of life from the root and entertain people to supply human’s imperative want same as the fundamental function of art. People want fundamentally the image of nature, heaven, hypothetical idol, and dogmas to ensure their existence as firm truth. June’s art work is to show you the answer of his thought about the philosophical issue of life by his own interpretation in multilateral way.