KYOTO Experiment 2014「　Sanka's Autumn Ritual 」Ensō Watt　Live Performance

Oct 10, 2014
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2014 . 10 . 10 | UrBANGUILD Kyoto

Ensō Wattの命題とは自然の巡りの探索であり、ストラヴィンスキー「春の祭典」から100年、その意を想像上の部族により祝される日本の季節の変遷へと拡張再解釈します。

このイベントでの主題は秋。

演奏者は立体的に配置され空間音響を生成します。

また演奏素材はカメラを通しパフォーマンス中に処理され投影されます。

The Ensō Watt ensemble will perform its exploration of the cycle of the seasons at this event. A hundred years after Stravinsky’s revolutionary “Rites of Spring,” the members of this artistic collaboration will continue the experience-cum-experiment by focusing on Japan’s seasonal cycles, especially celebrated by the little-known mountainous tribe, the Sanka.

“The Sanka are a mysterious, some say magical people, who retreated to the mountains of Japan when the rice farmers arrived from the Asian continent in the third century. Being a secluded

community their cultural development grew far outside the social framework of the rest of the country. They developed their own language based on natural sounds ie: the hum of the cicada,

and their daily lives became dominated by rituals and esoteric rites.” (Chris Mosdell)

After having performed the summer ritual in july, Ensō Watt will celebrate, autumn in three acts.

The music is inspired by the poetry of Chris Mosdell, navigating between improvisation and scored music, conducted live by Yannick Paget.

The performers, positioned in the audience, will generate an immersive, musical surround-experience.

More than just a musical experiment, the event will be shot live via a series of 6 cameras, and processed and projected on 2 screens during the performance.

Ensō Watt (http://ensowatt.tumblr.com/)

Samuel André ( aka ieva )

{soundscape, 4 speakers}

http://ieva.free.fr/e

Yannick Paget

{composer, conductor, percussionist}

http://www.yannickpaget.com/

江南泰佐 Taisuke Enami

{piano & synth}

http://otodamaradio.blog16.fc2.com/

Ryotaro Sudo

{ accordeon synth }