I went to "yamaguchi center for arts and media" to appreciate installation  "LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ..." by ryuichi sakamoto + shiro takatani, today, again.





I already watched their "laptop concert" as opening ceremony 3.10 (sat.) 2007 and "artist talk" (ryuichi sakamoto + shiro takatani , moderator ：akira asada) on that next day 3.11 (sun) 2007.
It's so amazing experience for me, adding I'd never seen before such a beautiful  installation, sounds and the most important concept for us. 

That's artist talk made me inspired and gave me encouragement something, exactly.
But my sound assistant couldn't understand almost contexts what they talked....maybe...





"Yamaguchi center for arts and media" is pubulic in yamaguchi a new type of cultural facilities.
If you'll come this country and have curious, you should go there.
But why don't  fukuoka government have public space what has same concept??






And I went to there "insen tour : alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto" last year's end.
That tour's live just opened there in jp, fortunately.
It was amazing, too!!!
If you wanna see that, that DVD had already sold.

"LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ..."

"LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ...", a new installation by Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, is a work that Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(YCAM) has commissioned. Ryuichi Sakamoto is a musician and composer activity working world wide, while Shiro Takatani is an artist who is a leading member of the art group "Dumb Type". Their attempt at a new experimental installation in combination with sound and image has reached fruition as collaborative piece of artwork.

In producing the opera "LIFE" in 1999, Ryuichi Sakamoto attempted to examine the music of the 20th century with a macrocosmic/microcosmic view of the entire flow of art and civilization. Based on various factors of this opera, Sakamoto has shifted to the present time. The subtitle "fluid, invisible, inaudible…" connotes ideas that are perceivable or imperceptible, access to something amorphous, uncertain, or unrecognizable, and also changes in ourselves.

Those two artists' collaboration started when Shiro Takatani was responsible for image supervision in "LIFE", an opera by Ryuichi Sakamoto that was first staged in 1999. Modeled on various factors in the opera "LIFE" in 1999, their new installation work at YCAM is conceived with expressions reflecting today's world. In "LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible…," a new element which uses previously unused material has been included in addition to a large quantity of original material. It is an experiment to fuse sound and image as a new kind of artistic synchronization, and the artists try to get its message across to a wide variety of people in today's world.

http://rsst.ycam.jp/e

Cheers!!