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Tamaki Ueda (Banetoriko) with Luca Proietti

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Tamaki Ueda says each track on Yorioto Hogyokuri represents a different yokai.

The room remains audible. Robert Simpkins opens the project as a podcast about art, authorship, anthropology, and relational creativity across cultural contexts. Then Luca Proietti introduces himself as a SOAS PhD candidate researching Japanese noise music and sits down with Tamaki Ueda, also called Banatoriko. Noise is not treated like a backdrop or a mood. It has texture. The conversation talks about conventional and unconventional instruments, vocal techniques, and practices that use noise directly. It also refuses to pin Banatoriko down too quickly, which is part of the charm. Proietti keeps asking how making, performing, and self-understanding build up over time. Ueda treats art as something tied to daily life, expression, and perception, not as a special zone for intelligent people, entertainment, or approved seriousness. When asked when she began thinking of herself as an artist, she will not hand over a neat origin story. Banatoriko is one possible beginning, mainly because it made public something that had already been happening privately through painting, sculpture, poetry, and short stories. Childhood comes back too, especially being around eleven and loving adventure game books, the choose-your-own-path kind she liked to write. Even the favorite yokai question keeps that same care: choosing one might offend the others.

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A reflective art conversation about authorship, daily practice, and the sound of a live room.

Artery follows a thoughtful conversation about art, authorship, and anthropology. Luca Prioetti, a researcher of Japanese noise music at SOAS, gives just enough context to keep the genre approachable, while Tamaki Ueda, aka Banatoriko, treats art as something ordinary, daily,…

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