Overture is a creative unit of Jason and Aya Brown exploring the unconscious through storytelling in animation, illustration and live performance. They have developed collaborative processes, improvisational in nature, that enable them to reach creative places neither could arrive at on their own. In this way they tell stories are for everyone, strange but familiar, reaching toward a common human core.

/////Animation2012 Ludic Chase, personal animation with music by rec.tangle (United States/ UK)2012 Mr. Sandman, music video for The Kleenrz (Hellfyre Club, United States)2012 Halfway, music video for Rayons (Hipland Music, United States/ Japan)2011 Mushroom Hunting, dublab Film Flash promo (dublab, United States)2010 Little Vs, Vimeo Festival & Awards promo (Vimeo, United States)2010 Bless, music video for Kira Kira (United States/ Iceland)2009 Bryum & Kapok, music video triptych for Hauschka (FatCat Records, United States/Germany/UK)2008 Animal Sounds, music video for television program, Yo Gabba Gabba! (Nickelodeon, United States)2007 Rhubarbidoo, music video for Múm (FatCat Records, United States/Iceland/United Kingdom)2006 Sesame, personal animation (Sweat Lodge/ Mail Art Gallery, Japan)2005 Cosmic Talento, animated interstitials (Cartoon Network Japan, Japan)2005 Uzugiriyama, personal animation (Weave/ Loopline Gallery, Japan)

/////IllustrationMagazine Book Print2011 Perfect Wave Issue #1 (United States)2010 KASINO Annual (Finland)2009, 2008, 2007 Kasino A4 Magazine Issue #6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Finland)2009, 2008, 2007 PlanB Magazine Issue #18-39 (United Kingdom)2008 Shift Magazine Online Cover (Shift Magazine, Japan)2008 German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ, Japan/Germany)2008 Playful Type: Ephemeral Fonts and Illustrative Type (Die Gestalten, Germany)2008 Veli Magazine (Finland)Music2012 Kira Kira, Feathermagnetik (Morr Music, Germany, United States)2012 Rayons, After the Noise is Gone (Hipland Music, Japan, United States)2009 AZUL/ Six Organs of Admittance (PSF Records, Japan)2008 KiraKira, Our Map to the Monster Olympics (Smekkleysa, Iceland)2008 Amargosa, S/T (self released, United States)2007 KiraKira, Minimonster EP (Smekkleysa, Iceland)Apparel2012 MAGI NIGH Tshirt (Magi Union, Japan)2010 Oneiric Caravan Tshirt (flau, Japan)2010 UNIQLO Playful Type (UNIQLO, Japan)2009 KASINO A4 R.I.P. Tee (KASINO A4, Finland)2007 Design TShirt Store Graniph (Graniph, Japan)2007 Knotted Tower Tshirt (Poketo, United States)2006 BEAMS T (BEAMS, Japan)2006 FatCat Tee (FatCat Records, UK)2007 Matatabi Matsuri (Through the Music Gallery, United States)2006 Sweat Lodge (Mail Art Gallery, Japan

/////Festivals2012 Fest Anca (Slovakia), Supertoon (Croatia), Sapporo International Short Film Festival 2012 (Japan), The First Setagaya Video Festival (Cafe Study, Japan)2011Animated Dreams (Estonia), Salt Lake City Film Festival (United States), Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia), International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart (Germany), Citrus Cel Animation Festival (United States), XIII Mecal International Short Film Festival of Barcelona (Spain)2010Istanbul Animation Festival (Turkey), Vimeo Festival and Awards (United States), DOTMOV (SHIFT, Japan), Open Circuit, FatCat Records Festival (Belgium), Green Design Festival (Greece), Krakow International Film Festival (Poland), Psychedelic Midnight Mix (Pictoplasma, Germany), KLIK! Festival (Netherlands), FANTOCHE (Switzerland), SPORE Incident (Mexico) 2009Swatch Young Illustrators Award Nominee (Illustrative, Germany), Little Pencil Workshop (Institute of Contemporary Art London, U.K.), Imaginaria Film Festival (Italy), TWEAK (Ireland), 30th Durban International Film Festival (South Africa), NIPPON Connection, Indie Animation Festival, Laputa Animation Festival (Animation Soup, Japan/ South Korea), PICTOPIA (Pictoplasma, Germany) 2008DOTMOV (SHIFT, Japan), MirrorBall Festival (Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland), Floating World Animation Festival (Floating World Comics, United States), Animation Soup (Japan), KITCHEN MOTORS NIGHT (Kitchen Motors, Belgium)

/////Exhibition Event PerformanceEvent/ Performance2012 Fruiting Bodies 1 & 2 (dublab.jp, Japan)2012 Projecting Together (Movie Theater Liberté, Japan)2012 MAGI NIGH Ritual Exchange (Super Deluxe, Japan)2012 MAGI NIGH Wayfinding (Myonichikan, Japan)2012 MAGI NIGH Lodge (Minami no Kaze Sansou, Japan)2012 Labrat Matinee 10: The Light Bends (dublab, United States)2011 Labrat Matinee 09 (dublab, United States)2011 Peskeomskut Noisecapades Inaugural (United States)2010 Storytellers (STONE/ Kichimu, Japan)2010 Storytellers (Ivana Helsinki & Love Contemporary PopUp Store, United States)2010 Oneiric Caravan (flau, Japan)2010 Storytellers (Arthur Radio, United States)Group Exhibition2012 Pictoplasma Festival (Pictoplasma, Germany)2011 Post Digital Monsters (Pictoplasma/ la Gaîté Lyrique, France)2011 Let’s Sweat! Summer Tshirt Show (Kichimu, Japan)2010 Alfa Romeo Anniversary Exhibition (Illustrative/ Alfa Romeo, Italy)2009 Yo Gabba Gabba! Exhibition (Pink Hobo Gallery, United States)2009 Phobia Exhibition (MOYTOY, Lithuania)2008 Greetings From _____, Postcard Exhibition (Sunshine Studio, Japan)2008 Wine Label Exhibition (Chubby’s, Vin Santo, Japan)2008 POKETO First Editions Print Show (Poketo, United States)2007 Forever Home (Little Cakes Gallery, United States)2007 Wurstminster Dog Show (Wurst Gallery, United States)2006 Flywheel (United States)Solo Exhibition2010 MoonHare (Blue Ballen Gallery, VACANT, STONE, Japan)2010 Elliot St. Cafe Exhibition (Elliot St. Cafe, United States)2008 Caffeine Exhibition (Mocha Maya’s, United States)2007 Matatabi Matsuri (Through the Music Gallery, United States)2006 Sweat Lodge (Mail Art Gallery, Japan)

////Press Publications2012 The Character Compendium (Pictoplasma, Germany)2011 100 Video Artists 2011 (BNN, Japan)2010 Public-Image.org Interview (Public-Image Ltd., Japan)2010 QUOTATION (Japan)2010 “The New Twenties” (IdN x Society6)2010 FrizziFrizzi Interview (FrizziFrizzi, Italy)2009 CG Magazine (China)2009 Atmosphere (GAS AS INTERFACE, Japan)2009 Playground (Spain)2008 AFTERHOURS Issue 25 (AFTERHOURS, Japan)

/////Animation - 2012 Halfway (Hipland Music, United States/Japan) Overture: Direction, Animation, Story - animated video for Japanese musician, Rayons

/////Animation - 2011 Mushroom Hunting (dublab, United States ) Overture: Direction, Animation, Story - animated promo for dublab’s Film Flash series (music by Andrew Peklar)

/////Animation - 2010 Bless (United States/Iceland) Overture: Direction, Animation, Story - animated video for Icelandic musician, KiraKira - premiered on Pitchfork.tv

/////Animation - 2010 Little Vs (Vimeo, United States) Overture: Direction, Animation, Design - A short promotional video for video site Vimeo’s first festival. (music by Magical Power Mako)

/////Animation - 2009 Bryum & Kapok (FatCat Records, United States/Germany/United Kingdom) Overture: Direction, Animation, Story - an animated music video triptych for Dusseldorf composer/musician, Haushcka -all three parts premiered on Pitchfork.tv

/////Animation - 2008 Animal Sounds (Nickelodeon, United States) Overture: Direction, Animation, Story - short animated music video for children’s television program, Yo Gabba Gabba! - aired on Nickelodeon

/////Animation - 2007 Rhubarbidoo (FatCat Records, United States/Iceland/United Kingdom) Overture: Direction, Animation, Story - animated music video for Icelandic band, Múm

/////Animation - 2006 Sesame (Mail Art Gallery, Japan) Overture: Direction, Animation, Story - A short animation introducing the characters of the story, Sesame, for the exhibition, Sweat Lodge at Mail Art Gallery in Oita, Japan

/////Illustration - 2012 Hand-drawn type design for Kira Kira’s third album, Feathermagnetik. (AfterHours/ Morr Music, United States/ Iceland)

/////Illustration - 2012 Cover art for Rayons’ debut album, After the Noise is Gone, with tie-in to animated music video. (Hipland Music, United States, Japan)

/////Illustration - 2011 Panoramic looping illustration of the interior of cafe, Sesame, published in online magazine, Perfect Wave (Perfect Wave, United States)

/////Illustration - 2010 MoonHare illustrations describing, in storybook form, the origin story of how the MoonHare lost his ears and gained the power of the full moon. (Blue Ballen Gallery, Yufuin, Japan; VACANT, Tokyo, Japan; STONE, Tokyo, Japan)

/////Illustration - 2010 Dreamer illustrations, portraits of the researchers at the MoonHare Society who study the movement and messages of the MoonHare. (Blue Ballen Gallery, Yufuin, Japan; VACANT, Tokyo, Japan; STONE, Tokyo, Japan)

/////Illustration - 2010 Hairy Scissors, published in Kasino Annual (KASINO, Finland)

/////Illustration - 2009 R.I.P., published in Kasino A4 Magazine (KASINO, Finland)

/////Performance - 2012 MAGI NIGH, three events covering workshops, constellation-making, live-drawing, live-scoring and puppetry. (Japan)

/////Performance - 2010 Oneiric Caravan, Japan tour sponsored by record label, flau, with the band Sheeprint. Mask-making, live drawing and storytelling (flau, Japan)

/////Performance - 2010 Storytellers, performance mixing storytelling, illustration and animation screening (United States/ Japan)