YLEM

Japanese art collective and label named after the primordial material of the universe as named by George Gamow in the 1940's. Lead by Ueda, the members worked in design, pictures, poetry, music, tapes, photos, video, movies and dance. Other members included Ohmori, Konishi, Nonomura, Ohyama, Fukushima, Kato, Shiraishi, Hara, Aoki, Hagiwara, and Kataoka. The artists coming from the YLEM collective were Airyfarm, Summition, Bushman-19, Perfect Mother, Mad Tea Party and A.N. They also collaborated with Junko Tange (Tolerance (3)), Yoshifumi Niinuma (Sympathy Nervous), Ohtomo (Marionett Karma), and Takahashi Oda (Ka Chi Fu Sui). Should also be found credited as: Sound Studio YLEM, Creative Studio YLEM and similiar.