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]]> イスラエルの『壁と卵』のスピーチよりもっと踏み込んでいた。氏の作品のテーマにもかなり通じるもの。
メタファーをあまり使わず、現在進行形のことについて具体的なことを氏がここまで語ることは初めてなのかもしれない。
また、スピーチの節々に既存メディアからは決して得ることのできない(ex. 神戸大学名誉教授の石橋克彦氏や小出先生、videonewsのレポート等のことだろうと思う)情報も名指しではないが村上氏は得ている模様。
テレビはこの10年見ていないのでよくわからないが、先のイスラエルの時と比べるとあまり評判になっていないのかもしれないが、これはとても特筆すべきことだと思う。
「効率」という名のシステム。
行きつくところの仏教観からの「無常」。
社会のおける紡いでいくべき「物語」
あたらしい「言葉」の獲得
表現者としてまた人間としての「夢想家」としての生き方。
この三カ月関係ないと笑われるかもしれないが、いい夢は見ていなかったが、久しぶりに幸せな夢を見た。正直に言うと関係ないと思われる場所で、むしろ原発関連のメモ(Facebook 参照)を残しているが、偶に、「もうあなたたちの好きにしたらいい、別に構いはしない、関係ないし」と思うことも多くあるが、やはり小さな希望のともしびをしっかり両手で護るようにこれから生きたいと思う。
因みにこんな長時間「動く・話す」村上氏を観たのは生まれて初めて...
http://mainichi.jp/enta/art/news/20110611k0000m040017000c.html
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performed by : hideaki miyayoshi (from Delicious Four)
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2008は彼ら。
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このツアーの観客は「Composition 0919」という曲の間だけ携帯で写メや録画がこの曲のスポンサーであるサムスンより許可されていました。また、実は2列目真ん中というとても近い席だったのです。ものすごい坂本さんの才能や情熱を堪能できたのです。
And we are already avairable to get all songs and his mc this concert on itunes store.
I've already got them.
最短24時間でこの全てのツアーの模様は itunes store でダウンロード販売しています。
そりゃ、すでに持ってるにきまってるじゃないですか。
Then you can see a lot of flashes in the darkness.
だから、暗闇の中になぜかフラッシュがいっぱいなのです。
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]]> Photo : 河波 隆博 takahiro kawanami (foto office forte)
Hair Make : 野田 幸 yuki noda
Coordinate : 田川 修司 syuji tagawa (nsc.b)
[ collection 02 ]
Photo : 河波 隆博 takahiro kawanami (foto office forte)
Hair Make : 野田 幸 yuki noda
Coordinate : 田川 修司 syuji tagawa (nsc.b)
[ collection 01 ]
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Second, "song 2007-04" V-drums recording with Mr. Watanabe 14th -15th of August. We kept at 1 for days.
As I mentioned before, this system is able to check and re-arrange midi notes after recoding. The bottom right hand corner img is checking by himself actually. Top of window (Blue Squares) is midi notes, bottom (lines) is velocity and exclusive data.
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This recording took about 26 hours over 2 days. However that data was almost entirely edited by myself in the end.
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Third, "song 2007-04"and "sophisticated / unsophisticated" electric guitar recording with T.O on the 16th of August.
He is my best friend since elementary school. When we were in junior high, he began to play guitar first, and he taught me about music. When I started to write songs for real, he got a job in some big company. He is amazingly smart. If I ask him to play guitar, he can nail it the first time, and give me back more than what I need, even though he has another job. Especially it should be able to conform with same thing about my company's all brains.
I often use a plug-in named "guitar rig 2" on guitar recording and mixing. In fact, unaltered guitar sounds were recorded on all tracks. After that, you can change this to your favorite sound like distortion, or more clean sounds like Stratocaster. We could attempt to make those sounds with that software. In addition I attempted to change some guitar tracks to sounds like electronica.
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I recorded acoustic guitars of "song 2007-04" by myself on the 26th of August. First demo track was had recorded electronically, but I needed more unplugged sounds through a condenser microphone. This setting is used with voice recording. However those recording sounds had a little noise ; insect's sounds around my room. I attempted to use the plug-in "waves X-Noise" for the first time. Without erasing the essence of acoustic sound, have to arrange the threshold value, reduction and frequency. Finally I succeed.
native instruments : http://www.native-instruments.com/
waves : http://www.waves.com/
I played the Virtual Piano module synthogy "Ivory". It sounded so real, however the sample files are too large size (40.5G) practically. I performed some piano songs on "cattiveria limited records". The way I see it, recording work might be making the sort of sample. If you play the best on your stage or performance, you could take those samples as a model. But this is the way it work, that's all. The most important thing is what you really want to make and express.
I have no idea how to other people make tracks. In my case, I start to make a basic design first, I look carefully at each detail including timing, velocity, rhythm, space, notes, sounds and so on, as though "somebody is playing there", over and over. I continued until I finish the song completely. "God is in the details". Besides, you don't have to book expensive studios or concert hall. It would be to figure "perfect combination" means "own original" out.
But there are a lot of combinations which someone made or exists in natural law in this world. How can we find out? Only do it and consider it over and over like a drill. Finally we can realize the answer like seeing the light. Sometime we can realize what direction we are going on this journey. It might be the way we can communicate to unknown people through our art work.
"What is worth doing, is worth overdoing" by Robert Brown Parker.
synthogy ivory : http://www.synthogy.com/
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Mr tagawa one of my friends helped my voice recording on 11th of August.
We recorded the demo tracks of "song 2007-05". This song was based as a kind of "lounge music". But it has changing to "funk and alternative rock style" keeping arrangement. Usually I did my voice recording work by myself. But I think if someone helped, it would be easier than done alone. I was able to think more without any outside influence and bring singing into focus.
He is singer songwriter, too, and we worked on some commercial tracks together on Sep.
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First "sophisticated~" bass recording 1st of july.
I ordered Matsushita to play bass for the first time. We attempted sing a 4 string bass and a 5 string bass with the "V-bass" system. V-bass is a similar system to V-drums. If you play some phrases on your bass with a midi controller, it can change and transfer your bass sounds to midi notes in any software. It is very interesting. If you don't have time to book a studio to a record, you can change these notes and your favorite sounds by any software you have later. For instance, it should be able to transfer from Fender bass to a synth bass or an upright bass.
But we recorded an ordinary type of recording, which means we use it as sort of a pre-amp instead. We did it this may because that sound fit into that song exactly.
The bottom right hand corner img is "sonar 6" on my pc. That system had been updated a week before. It improved a lot of tools from the old ver. But it has a few bugs and can't read some presets on "waves" plugins.
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Second, "001-2007" V-drums recording 17th of july.
Ordinarily, we play and set up our v-drums in watanabe's company warehouse. But we moved that system to my room and he set that himself.
The right img midi notes are which he played. Usually that would be wav img but this was different. This is midi note information. We played about 14hours without any breaks. After that we couldn't put that system away soon.
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These imgs are of my voice recording set up
That day I recorded 500 ~ 700 takes of the song by myself. In my opinion software and equipment have made us provided is with high quality sounds without booking expensive recording studio or making people's schedules. They are good points.
But I have to use judgment to fit these tracks perfectly or not and do the engineering by myself. It means I have to play many parts, like singer, recording engineer, arranger and producer at the same time. His project which is behind this album has a lot of themes, basically. It is convenient, sophisticated, minimalist and low cost but with high quality sounds. But we ought to realize the most important thing is that they are just only "tools", that's all.
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BTW these imgs below are of a model of a little planetarium. I made this for a change.
Motif of my songs "heaven_inst" and "pray" made this villa about three years ago, actually. I must have been about pieaces of 5 or 6 songs, more... at the time. Anyway I don't remember.
So I read and studied Stanislavsky's method book "Strasberg at The Actors Studio" by Lee Strasberg and Robert H.Hethman, again. The reason why I read what is that method has common solution for creating high quality works. Adding my favorite TV program is "Inside the Actors Studio". But Japanese title is "***(actor's name) said myself".
Ryu murakami who is japanese writer said in his essay like this:
What an amazing book!
"One of the most serious misunderstanding actor has is the hypothesis what actor forgets himself when acting with confidence. But it is the sort of hysteria (same situation acting and life). Forget means to over one point where doing something with our own will."
Lee Strasberg pointed out a lot of problems actor has like a surgeon. It goes out saying, that is not just theory of act. Almost psychoanalysis.It is so abstractly adding scientifically strict.
Making the most of imagination with own will and never losing self-control, that's all.
"Story of tokyo after I've left" P.047-049
As I'm concerned it makes us more helpful to live in our complicated society and we should attempt. Is it true?
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On th last day, we went to an aquarium named "umitamago" (this means "sea-egg") in beppu-city oita. It is adjacent to beppu-sea, and its architecture design is so cool.
I recommend you to visit it when you come.
This picture is a background-img of "cattiveria limted records"
First, I talked to paul who lives in melbourne Australia and he is my lyric english translater, song writer and singer, after that watanabe and me was trying to listen v-drum sounds what he made and rehearseing a few songs rythm arrangements.
We talked about lyric of my new song named "#001-2007" by skype. We have a few song's translation, basically. That song's motif is this interview of haruki murakami who is greatest living novelist.
"...Sex is another issue. His blockbuster Norwegian Wood is the Japanese equivalent of The Catcher in the Rye: Every young Japanese person has read it. The uncharitable said it sold so well because its characters have so much sex, and talk about it so freely. Murakami takes another view: "Sex is a key to enter a spirit....Sex is like a dream when you are awake; I think dreams are collective. Some parts do not belong to yourself."
"The Elusive Murakami"
From the August 2001 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 48, No. 8).
Matt Thompson, The Guardian (liberal), London, England, May 26, 2001.
http://www.worldpress.org/0801books1.htm
That arrangement has the sort of "altanative rock" style, probably. BTW skype is very usuful tool for us. Just as we finished to talk, watanabe called me "I'm practicing now, I was wondering if you could come?" So I went to his warehouse with my recording system and video camera, soon.
I went to yamaguchi center for arts and media to see "LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ..." by ryuichi sakamoto + shiro takatani.
I already their laptop concert what opening ceremony 3.10 (Sat.) and artist talk ryuichi sakamoto + shiro takatani , moderator：akira asada that next day. It's so amazing experience for me adding I'd never seen before such beatiful sound and installation.
]]> "Yamaguchi center for arts and media" is pubulic in yamaguchi a new type of cultural facilities. If you come this country and you're curious, you should go there.
And I went to there "insen tour : alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto" last year's end.
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"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.
