history

25 May 1997 at Cafe Blue Osaka "Club YMO"
Miharu Seki & Takehiro Yoshimura formed nova express
for this event by offering from Organ (Mitsuhiko Iwata).
There met me-mi (Childisk) = Junko Tanaka.

3 July 1998 at Club Gross Osaka "Axel Dancer"
By Tetsuya Shiomi's offer, played "Dead on Arrival"
and "Pink Orange Red" .

12 October 1998 at Club Metro Kyoto "Mortal Mind Night"
Offered some pieces of sounds for fashion show organized
by students of fashion design college.

22 November 1998 at Club Gross Osaka "Axel Dancer"
Collaborated with contemporary dancers ; Hiromi Miyakita,
Noriko Nishino and Mizuko Saitoh.

7 February 1999 at Kyoto prefecture hall "Alti Buyoh Festival"
Played for three dancers mentioned above "kahm KA CaMu".

14 March 1999 at Cafe Blue Osaka "t.e.e.1"
nova express & Organ organized non-genre music event.
(Just for confortable, cool music)
Any types of music techno, noise, Chinese classical, played.
VJ : Studio Captain
Flayer design : Room H

21 March 1999 at Cafe Blue Osaka "t.e.e.2"
Seki Miharu & Hiromi Miyakita played as "1.008H57".
Takehiro Yoshimura played as "SHIFT".

Summer 1999 at Kinryu Gallery Osaka
Played for Ryoko Kanai's event.

12 December 1999 at Cafe Blue Osaka "t.e.e.3"
Takehiro Yoshimura (guitar) and BEKKI (techno) played as
"SHIFT + BEKKI"

12 February 2000 at Kyoto prefecture hall "Alti Buyoh Festival"
New unit "HOSTUNKNOWN" from "kahm KA CaMu" first played.
(Hiromi Miyakita + RAY + Mizuko Saitoh + nova express.)
Photographer yoshiko and Indian classical dancer Sachiko Murakami joined.

12 March 2000 at Cafe Blue Osaka "t.e.e.4"
Steel band "Panple", Dijuridu player Hakusan Masataka, and classical Chinese
music player Naruo Makiko joined.

30 July 2000 at Cafe Blue Osaka "Club YMO"
YMO freak Masaomi Yamaoka organized.
nova played "Focus".

20 November 2000 at Torii Hall Osaka "Dance Circus"
Made sounds and picture for Hiromi Miyakita solo dance.

20 January 2001 at Nakagyo Youth House Kyoto "FLASHBACK"
Played as "HOSTUNKNOWN" HIromi Miyakita + Miharu Seki
(sounds & picture) + Tomoko Ishida (Installation)
+ Seth Yarden (lighting).

3 June 2001 at DICE Osaka "ha-gakure"
Former Rg-Field free-style hip-hop band "ha-gakure"
organized. Audience thought nova was "weird".
nova thought too much about weird & unconfortable matter.

Autumn 2001 at Kyoto art center "Coaching project"
The most famous contemporary dancer in Kansai area
Sanae Kuroko coached younger dancers.
nova made sounds for her offer.

8 October 2001 at DICE Osaka "ha-gakure"
Again, nova joined them.

21 & 22 January 2002 at Torii Hall Osaka "Metal Brain"
Played as "HOSTUNKNOWN".
The opening song "ambient" wiped away puzzlement since 3 June
2001 at DICE.
We realized that we just play "our" comfortable music.
Hiromi Miyakita + Sanae Kuroko + Zan Yamashita (dancers),
Tomoko Ishida (installation) , Ayano Mitoma (advertizing),
Junko & Akiko Gotoh sisters & Yuko Inomata (soplano vocal)
helped.

20 - 27 April 2002 at Gallery OU Osaka "Who sowed the seeds of beginnings ?"
Collaborated with Installation artist Tomoko Ishida.
Offered endless sounds for this exhibition, played back 5.1ch.
Put speakers into her art works.
Sanae Kuroko & nova collaborated there.

3 - 12 July 2002 at Gallery Satomu Kobe "blue...."
They asked picture + music installation, we made "CYANURAGE".
Contrary to "Who sowed ...." , "CYANURAGE" sounded hard and stressful,
but picture made the music easier.
Yuki Anyouji (music) , Yoshiko (installation) and Hiromi Miyakita (art)
joined.

23 September 2002 at DICE Osaka "Skin tone 2"
Organized by ha-gakure.
Projected picture on race screen, played "CYANURAGE",
"Dead on Arrival" etc. behind it.

20 October 2002 at DICE Osaka "nova express"
Played new song by Takehiro Yoshimura "In the Park" and
"Evangeline" , "Know Who You are at Every Age" (original by
Cocteau Twins) etc.
Yuki Anyouji (bass) , Junko & Akiko Gotoh sisters (vocals) joined.

18 January 2003 at Banana Hall Osaka "t.e.e.5"
Junko & Akiko Gotoh joined as vocals.
Played some Cocteau Twins songs and "In the Park" ,
"Shoot the Ghost !", etc.
Cozy event.

1 - 6 April 2003 at Gallery Den Osaka "Kazuko Takahara & Miharu Seki"
Collaborated with the artist Kazuko Takahara with full of maternal
love. Made quiet and whispering sounds.

1 June 2003 at Gallery Paraiso Osaka "A Moment"
Only Miharu Seki played for a group exhibition "A Moment".
Used MAX program.

4 November 2003 at cocoroom Osaka P.P.P.P.C.B.N "Quiet Life 1.0.1"
Suddenly the booking manager of cocoroom asked us live show.
A poet Kanayo Ueda is an originator this space, after short talk,
decided a live show.
Hiroyuki Kageyama (drums) from ha-gakure joined.
Edited pictures and collaborated with Sanae Kuroko.

3 - 11 January 2004 at cocoroom Osaka "Pictuares at the War"
A photographer Kiyoshi Makita took photos of Kayayo Ueda in
Nishinari area Osaka.
Made sounds with mainly Kanayo's reading.
At the space, sounded very theatrical.
(CD release at cocoroom since middle of April 2004)

18 January 2004 at cocoroom Osaka"t.e.e.6"
Miharu Seki organized this event.
The main show was Sarajin (percussion) + Kenji Kawano (Karate).
Great combination.
nova played "Quiet Life 1.0.2" with Sanae Kuroko & Kanayo Ueda.

3 - 15 Fabruary 2004 at Gallery Paraiso Osaka "Art with beans"
Group exhibition for Japanese Setsubun (The day before the first day of spring).
They indeed thought Miharu Seki made music, but ..... exhibited weird ? thing.

23 March 2004 at cocoroom Osaka P.P.P.P.C.B.N "Quiet Life 1.0.3"
Only Miharu Seki and Yukiko Toudou appered on the stage.
Cut 5 minutes due to editing scene #3.

29 April 2004 at cocoroom Osaka "Golden Week Japan Minority's Festival"
We dared to play more "Majority" side pop music. Haze from "Mitsuboshi Denki" (usually he plays Japanese instrument "Shamisen") sung his 2 original songs. We played "This Real World" (nova) and "Behind the Mask" (Original by YMO). YMO still have a lot of fans, everybody enjoyed.

9 October 2004 at cocoroom Osaka "Reading the Big Issue"
At an event for "The Big Issue"(as you know "The Big Issue" is a magazine for supporting homeless people) instead of music I wrote a text based on my experience at a hospital I work. Kanayo Ueda (poet) read the text.

23-28 November 2004 at Gallery Bi-Damas Osaka Reiko Nonaka Photo Exhibition "L' histoire de mes voyages"
Sudden offer from a photographer Reiko Nonaka. I got less information and it was 2 weeks before the exhibition. I used "max base" as I do on "Quiet Life" series, recorded 60 min. CD. Mixing and sound turned very delicate.

7-12 Fabruary 2005 at Early Gallery Osaka "Reiko Nonaka Photo Exhibition"
Made approx. 50 minutes music for her photos taken at Kyoto she's living now. Used max program without samplings, music turned to be dark and lean. It fitted old city Kyoto that has sarcasm.