Floating Tokyo EP Launch by EARS

Overview

Sydney multimedia artist Daniel O'Toole, aka EARS, is best known for his chimerical faces; however, his skilled hands have also been playing and producing music for the past 12 years. A violinist, self-taught pianist and eclectic collaborator, EARS produces chilled electronica with equal parts glitchhop and floating ambience.

EARS will be launching his new six-track EP Floating Tokyo, an ode to Japan's contemporary digital atmosphere and its traditional folk roots, as part of the Central Park precinct of the 2015 Vivid Festival. The launch features EARS performing live alongside a screening of his film clip for the titular track.

Filmed during a recent trip to Tokyo, Floating Tokyo collages different photographic techniques, blending the eye's experience of Japanese architecture, weather effects and human faces in a dream-like flow. Not only is this an apt accompaniment to EARS' music, the style is intelligently contiguous with his painted aesthetic.