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OTOMO Yoshihide+Tadasu TAKAMINE

  • 2008
  • Installation
  • Commissioned by YCAM
  • World Premiere

The maze of memory above and below the ground

Large-scale sound installation combining waste materials and light

Five mirror devices that can be moved in any direction via a computer are installed in the center of the venue, from where they reflect light showering from the ceiling across the entire space. At the same time, more than 500 objects and pieces of waste material collected at various places in the city, as well as 70 speakers are suspended from the ceiling. Audible from these speakers are various sounds synchronized with the moving rays of light from the mirror devices.These sounds are taken from recordings of improvised performances by a total of more than 100 musicians ranging from professionals to local amateurs, based on a predetermined score. Lights, sounds, objects and waste materials resonate to form a mixed orchestra that stimulates the visitor's memory.
In addition, a gallery type installation made up of vast amounts of disused musical instruments and vinyl records is displayed in the basement under the main installation.

Profiles

OTOMO Yoshihide

Musician

Born 1959 in Yokohama. Has been attracting a lot of attention around the globe with his endeavors across genres and styles, from experimental music to jazz and pop, while also being renowned for his musical contributions in the realms of cinema, TV and theater. In recent years, his focus has been on musical works and sound installations, as well as collaborations with various artists and regular citizens under the name “Ensembles,” presented in a rather unique concert style. At the same time, he continues to engage in a range of participatory projects. After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, he launched a project in the Fukushima area, where he spent his teens, and in 2012, received a Ministry of Education's Award for Fine Arts for his work on the “Project FUKUSHIMA!” His numerous other awards include a Japan Record Award for the score for the TV program “Amachan” in 2013. Since 2014, Otomo has been devoting himself to Ensembles Asia, launched as a vehicle for establishing a network across Asia through music. He was the artistic director of the Sapporo International Art Festival 2017, and in 2019, director of the reorganized Waraji Matsuri, a popular local festival in Fukushima.

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Tadasu TAKAMINE

Contemporary Artist / Theater Director

Born in Kagoshima in 1968 and lives in Akita. Graduated from the lacquer work department of Kyoto City University of Arts and Music, and the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Science (IAMAS) in Gifu. Much of Takamine’s work awakens a feeling of non-verbal compassion and sympathy in the viewer through installations, media art techniques, and performances that emphasize the bi-directional relationship between a work and its audience. His practice also deals with issues related to American imperialism, the sexuality of handicapped persons, and issues facing foreign residents in Japan, highlighting the complex relationships between authority and subject, those implicated within a particular situation, and those who are not, often prompting the viewer towards a process of self-questioning. His works have been highly acclaimed both in Japan and abroad. Takamine participated in the Venice Biennale in 2003, and his solo show “Too Far to See” toured three Japanese museums between 2011 and 2012. He is also the author of “A Lover from Korea” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha,2008), a novel that examines issues related to identity and nationalism through his own personal relationship with an ethnic Korean woman resident in Japan, and an incident that took place at a manganese mine in Kyoto, where Takamine wrote the work."

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Credit

Otomo Yoshihide direction and sound compositionTadasu Takamine art direction

Kotaro Konishi mirror controller programmingHiroshi Kanechiku technical support (headphone device)Ryota Kuwakubo technical support (mirror controller device)

[YCAM InterLab]Takayuki Ito system design, sound programmingRichi Owaki device engineering (mirror controller design)Soichiro Mihara device engineering Takuro Iwata, Mitsuo Uno space constructionEtsuko Nishimura sound engineeringFumie Takahara lighting designTetsuya Oda [yano butaibijutsu], Shoichi Nishida [yano butaibijutsu] lighting design supportRyuichi Maruo documentationAsuka Kamata recordingChang Yung-Ta technical assistant

Satoshi Hama sound editing, recordingMitsuru Tokisato technical assistant

[Volunteer members]Yoshiko Akita, Yumi Fukano, Akiyo Hasegawa, Eiichi Ishii, Mayumi Tahara, Masanori Tamura, Tokiko Tatsuno, Naho Terashima, Kanako Yamane, Tatsunori Yoshioka

[Instrument doner]Shinji Chiba, Yosuke Kawamura, Jun Okubo, Takuro Teranuma, Shiho Tsuda, Atsushi Watanabe

[Sound source doner]Yasutomo Aoyama, Akita Yoshiko, Sawami Asahara, AyA, NAHOMI no ARASE, Yuki Arisa, Yuko Awahata, A Father of Megumi Saito, Eduard Band, Kazuki Banji, Xavier Charles, Clare Cooper, Jozef Cseres, Rhodri Davies, Dickson Dee, DEPP, Naoko Eto, Shota Endo, Yuki Endo, Emde Franz, Fuji Mineko, Aiko Fujii, Keisuke Fujita, Nao Fujita, Miki Fukuda, David Grubbs, Guo Lin Lin, Akiko Hanaoka, Mariko Hamada, Yutaka Hanaoka, Ryu　Hankil, Kanako Harada, Machiko Harada, Yukihiko Hara, Tsuyoshi Harima, Akiyo Hasegawa, Kenichi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Hasuegawa, Sumire Hasuegawa, Mariko Hayashi, Ryoko Hidaka, Shin Hirabayashi, Hajime Hirata, Niko Hirata, Fumi Hirota, Tamaya Honda, Hiromichi Hosoma, Ritsuko Fujiki, Madoka Ichiraku, Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Kentaro Inoue, Koichi Inoue, inside-rivers, Eiichi Ishii, Takayuki Ishikawa, Shin'ichi Isohata, Takayuki Ito, itoken, Jin Sangtae, Choi Joonyong, Haruka Kadowaki, Asuka Kamata, Takaaki Kaneko, Haruka Kaneshige, Hirata Kaori, Kahimi Karie, Kasako, Shinji Katayama, Kengo Kawamura, Hana Kawano, Tsuyako Kawate, Sayaka Kihara, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Yuki Kimura, Tomoka Kinoshita, Kisalagi, You-ichi Kishino, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Emi Komatsu, Tatsuo Kondo, Mariko Kotari, annette krebs, KT, Kenichiro Kubo, Masaki Kurihara, Izumi Kunimura, Kurenai, KURO−chan, Keisuke Kuwamoto, LOCO。, Sachiko M, Machinaka Art1chome, Machinaka Art 3chome, Mai, Takuma Makino, MAO, Mario Brothers 3 members, Osamu Matsumoto, Micchan, Midori, minimumium, Koreyuki Mitsunaga, Nansky Miyacov, Hirokaki Mizutani, Kazuhiro Momo, Hitomi Morita, MU, Soichiro Murata , Kazunao Nagata, Kenko Nakamura, Misaki Nakanishi, Hiromi Nakashima, Tatsuya Nakatani, Tatsuya Nakatani, Yuya Narasaki, Andrea Neumann, NIBOSHI, NIJIROW, Kazumi Nikaido, Masahiro Nishimura, Yusuke Nishimura, nora, Misako Nosaki, num@, NUMASAN, Toru Obata, Makoto Ohtsu, Mai Okada, Ayumi Okaguchi, Chieko Okamoto, Masahiko Okura, Kiyoshi Okutsu, omochi, Jim O'Rourke, Teruyuki Oshima, Yoshio Otani, Naomi Otomo, Otomo Yoshihide, Richi Owaki, Saeko Oyama, Paslette No1, Paslette No2, Rin:-D, Saechan, Saidrum, Hiromichi Sakamoto, Kazushi Sasaki, Masato Sasaki, Mayu Sato, Noriko Shigemi, Shimaken, Shiori, Ayumi Shobun, Shominhagasshoutai, Motoko Soda, Hidetaka Sugiyama, Haruyuki Suzuki, Shigeru Suzuki, Tokiko Tachino, Mayumi Tahara, Koki Takai, Kumiko Takara, Shogo Takenaga, Miyu Takeuchi, Ryo Takeuchi, Kyoko Tanabe, Shiro Tanaka, Shinji Tanaka, Yumiko Tanaka, Ryuichi Tani, TATSU, Takuro Teranuma, Mirai Terauchi, martin t é t r a u l t, Clayton Thomas, Mitsuru Tokisato, Tomoko, Travis7jp, Masahiro Uemura, Naohiro Ukawa, Tetsuya Umeda, venzha christ, VuNhat Tan, Nozomi Watakabe, Mitsuya Watanabe, Yamachin, Maya Yamada, Yoko Yamada, Miki Yamami, Seiichi Yamamoto, Kanako Yamane, Daisuke Yamashiro, Akane Yokoyama, yokozunat, Yoshie, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Shoko Yoshino, Tatsunori Yoshioka, Nami Yuki, Chang Yung-Ta, Zai Kuning

Exhibition

OTOMO Yoshihide / ENSEMBLES

Finished

* Information in Japanese only

Links

Installation

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OTOMO Yoshihide's works

5

Tadasu TAKAMINE's works

5

Works of 2008

35