TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL― SOUND，ART ＆ PERFORMANCE　vol.7

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Title	TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL― SOUND，ART ＆ PERFORMANCE　vol.7 Performances by awarded winners
Date	2013.2.27(Wed) - 2013.3.1(Fri)
Admission	see each program
Organize	Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site
Support	Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands / Goethe-Institut Tokyo / The Finish Institute in Japan / Japan Finland Contemporary Music Society
Venue	TWS Hongo

Tokyo Experimental Festival (TEF) is a festivity of music and sounds presented by various artists, regardless of the genre, held in Tokyo from which new cultures spread. At TEF vol.7 in February, 2013, last festival's prize winners come back to perform. The five works have been developed and deepened by activities and experiences since last year. Don't miss them!

Booking

Please write your name, phone number, date/time/name of the
performance and number of tickets by
E-mail to performingart12@tokyo-ws.org or
FAX to 03-5766-3742

Booking of each performance will be closed by 17:00 on the day before the performance or as soon as the seats are fully reserved.
Payment is accepted at the reception desk on site.

Grand Prize

The Paper Ensemble "#9"

Date: February 27 (Wed), 2013　19:00 start *Finished.
February 28 (Thu), 2013 19:00 start *Finished.
Ticket: 2,000 yen

Supported by The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture(Fonds BKVB)

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As a visual artist and composer / musician, Jochem van Tol (1983-)　researches and isolates everyday sounds, everyday materials and thereby develops new media and / or instruments. They are building blocks for his compositions in space, time and form. He tries to catch the magic of a material and enlarges it. This causes poetic, playful and monumental shapes, sound objects, installations and performances.
http://www.paperensemble.com

Special Prize

Masayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamasaki "Video Feedback Live Performance"

Date: February 27 (Wed), 2013 Start at 20:00　*Finished.
Ticket: 2,000 yen

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Masayuki Kawai makes radical and philosophical video works which have been shown in over 30 countries. Stayed in artist-in-residencies in NY, Paris and Israel. He also actively organizes exhibitions and various projects of video art, based on the concept of "Visual Philosophy".
http://masayukikawai.com/

Ryota Hamasaki explores video art to criticize and overcome the present situation of contemporary art.

Encouragement Prize

Depuis1975 ―Fumie Hihara + Kazutomo Yamamoto "Experimental Japanese Traditional Music"

Date: Februrary 28 (Thu), 2013 Start at 20:00 *Finished.
Ticket: 2,000 yen

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After graduating from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Fumie Hihara began her career in Europe, centered on France where her unique performances have been highly praised. Kazutomo Yamamoto has won many competitions throughout the world, including 2nd prize at the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, and JFC Composition Award. His unique works have always been the center of topic.

Encouragement Prize

Junichi Sato "Live Ecolonics!"

Date: March 1 (Fri), 2013 Start at 19:00 *Finished.
Ticket: 2,000 yen

"Live Ecolonics" is the words that I coined by combining the words, "Ecology" and "Live Electronics". The electricity situation in Japan greatly changed after the nuclear power plant accident on 3.11. Live Ecolonics is a Live Electronics performance by clean energy using the photovoltaic power generation.

Encouragement Prize

Syo Yoshihama "Blindness"

Date: March 1 (Fri), 2013 Start at 20:30 *Finished.
Ticket: 1,500 yen

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Syo Yoshihama was born in Okinawa, JAPAN in 1985. He graduated from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, and lives in Naha (prefectural capital of Okinawa). He produces works focusing on events that are found in relation with sounds.
http://syo-yoshihama.tumblr.com/

Related Event

IEMA & TWS Academy Vol.6: Closing Concert

Information

Title	IEMA & TWS Academy Vol.6: Closing Concert TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL― SOUND，ART ＆ PERFORMANCE　vol.7
Date	2013.3.30(Sat)
Time	14:00
Admission	Free *Reservation required
Organize	Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site
Support	Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Goethe-Institute-Tokyo, the Finish Institute in Japan, Japan Finland Contemporary Music Society
Cooperation	Ensemble Modern
Venue	Tokyo Women's Plaza Hall

Ensemble Modern members and young musicians will play works by a variety of composers, from John Cage and Toshi Ichiyanagi to younger generations in the same stream. In addition, the special chamber orchestra organized for this academy will play Toshi Ichiyanagi's Symphony No. 8 "Revelation 2011"，and a tryout of Music Theater will be performed, collaborated with tutors who are active at the frontline of world's art scene.

Don't miss experimental stage where sensibility, technique and experience of tutors and participants from various art fields are mixed together.

Booking

Please send

• your name
• phone number
• number of tickets

with the title of "Concert Booking" by Email or Fax.
E-mail: performingart12@tokyo-ws.org / FAX: 03-5766-3742

Performers

• Ensemble Modern members: Dietmar Wiesner (Flutist), Ueli Wiget (Pianist), Rumi Ogawa (Percussionist), Michael M. Kasper (Cellist)
• Toshi Ichiyanagi (Composer, Pianist, Supervisor of Tokyo Wonder Site Music Program) 
• Young musicians
• Artists

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Revelation 2011 - Cycle and Fleeting

Written by Toshi Ichiyanagi after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Symphony No. 8--"Revelation 2011" (chamber orchestra version) is an evocative work which poses important questions about the relationships among nature, civilization and human. It was born of the artist's wish to know what art can do in the face of this enormous reality. Made up of four sections entitled "Premonition," "Fleeting," "Requiem" and "Revival," the work as a whole is wrapped in images of cycle and impermanence. It asks us the question, "How can we inherit and renew the characteristically Japanese ways of thinking and the wisdom and experience for living which have been developed from unique traditions dating back to ancient times, and which are disappearing and being forgotten due to the spread of Western civilization?"

Music Theater

At this academy, we have produced two music theater works, "TOKYO" (at Vol.4) and "RENGA" (at Vol.4), supervised by Toshi Ichiyanagi. There were no conductors or directors, and we gave importance on spontaneous dialogues and connections in the course of the production. This way of production is not only oriental but also suggests how a new society should be. In "TOKYO", we translated basic components of Japnese gagaku music into modern expression, and in "RENGA" we employed the traditional Japanese poetic form known as renga to express various bonds and connections as prayers for March 11. At this third production, under the theme "John Cage x D.T. Suzuki x Toshi Ichiayanagi", we will step forward from "prayer" to tackle on the question thrown by Ichiyanagi in his 8th symphony "Revelation". We will hold the tryout on March 30 (Sat.), and continue to elaborate the production through workshops. The complete version will be performed in December, 2013.

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Ensemble Modern

Founded in 1980 and based in Frankfurt am Main, the Ensemble Modern (EM) is one of the world's leading ensembles of Contemporary Music. The EM is comprised of 19 soloists from all over the world. Its unique and distinctive program consists of music theater, dance and video projects, chamber music, ensemble and orchestral concerts. The EM gives approximately 100 concerts and 20 world-premieres each year.
+ Dietmar Wiesner (Flutist)
+ Ueli Wiget (Pianist)
+ Rumi Ogawa (Percussionist)
+ Michael M. Kasper (Cellist)

Toshi Ichiyanagi (Composer, Pianist)

After coming back from New York in 1961, Ichiyanagi introduced many new musical concepts, including Cage's idea of indeterminacy, exerting a strong influence on the stream of the Japanese contemporary music. He has composed in most genres of music: operas, orchestral, chamber and instrumental works. He has been commissioned and invited by various music festivals in the world. He also serves as supervisor of Tokyo Wonder Site Music Program. He was honored as one of the Persons in Cultural Merit in 2008.