DOMMUNE Presents “LANDSCAPE MUZAK” PROJECT SADO#3 Keiji Haino × DOMMUNE “Kyo noh(Void Noh Stage)”
Musician Keiji Haino will present a live performance and site-specific art exhibit at a traditional shrine on Sado Island, recreating a Noh stage equipped with special sound equipment.
Keiji Haino's performance at FRACTAL CAMP 2021
Sado Island is known as the place where Zeami was exiled. Noh evolved uniquely as a form of "ritual Noh" dedicated to shrines and is widespread here.
However, in reality, it spread to Sado in a different style from Zeami's Noh, and spread to the general public as "people's Noh" where the people of the village danced, sang, and watched, and developed into a local area. In this way, Noh became integrated into daily life in Sado, and it is said that there were more than 300 Noh stages on the island from the early Edo period to the Meiji period. DOMMUNE's annual project "LANDSCAPE MUZAK" PROJECT SADO♯3 will welcome artist Keiji Haino as an artist and work on a completely new form of Noh that returns to the origins of the expression "virtual Noh".
In addition, by viewing the Noh stage itself as an acoustic device, we will investigate and analyze the reason why jars have been placed under the floor of the Noh stage since the Azuchi-Momoyama period, and the ingenuity of the sound system from long ago, where the mirror panel painted with pine trees is one of the devices that reverberate the drums and voices, by visiting various Sado Noh stages. While inheriting the traditions of engineers who had been exploring the technology to improve the acoustic effects of the stage up until around the Genroku period of the Edo period, Keiji Haino and Naohiro Ukawa, together with the world-renowned acoustic engineers of ACOUSTIC REVIVE, developed a Noh theater as a modern acoustic device by renovating a Noh stage that was opened in the Edo period and is currently unused. On September 8th, Keiji Haino will perform a completely new Noh play called "Kyo Noh" on that stage, which will be made into a program as a "video work". The Noh stage itself will also be exhibited as an "installation work" along with a "sound work" recorded live during the Sadoshima Galaxy Art Festival. Don't miss this primitive and humble "expression element" as 1 born from emptiness and emptiness, which is 0.
⚫Kyo noh(Void Noh Stage)：Keiji Haino × DOMMUNE ⚫Sound Supervision：ACOUSTIC REVIVE × kozmic ⚫Costume：PHINGERIN ⚫Noh mask：メチクロ（MHz）
灰野敬二Keiji Haino
1Born in Chiba on May 3, 1952. Inspired by Antonin Artaud, he aimed for the theatre, but an encounter with The Doors stimulated him into music, where he has examined and absorbed a wide range of expressions from the early blues, especially Blind Lemon Jefferson, or European medieval music to popular songs across the world. In 1970, he joined a group Lost Aaraaf named after Edgar Allan Poe’s poem as a vocalist. Meanwhile, he started to work on home recordings and learned the guitar and percussion autodidactically. In 1978, he formed a rock band Fushitsusha, and since 1988, after a recuperation period from 1983 to 1987, he has been internationally active in various forms including solo, groups such as Fushitsusha, Nijiumu, Aihiyo, Vajra, Sanhedrin, Seijaku, Nazoranai or The Hardy Rocks and DJ as “experimental mixture,” as well as in collaboration with artists from different backgrounds, drawing the performance of the guitar, percussion, hurdy gurdy, string instruments, wind instruments, local instruments from across the world and DJ gears to the extreme through idiosyncratic techniques. He has released more than 200 recordings and performed live at least 2,000 times.
http://fushitsusha.com/
DOMMUNE
DOMMUNE is Japan's first live streaming studio, which was opened in 2010 by Naohiro Ukawa, a unique figure in the contemporary Japanese art scene, as a base for disseminating new culture in the age of social streaming. It suddenly appeared as the "final media" in the age that was said to be the dawn of SNS, and among the profusion of live streaming programs, it boasts overwhelming program quality and number of viewers, and since its opening, it has continued to exist as a unique cultural platform where various guests from all over the world appear whenever they visit Japan. It also influenced the London-based music channel BOILER ROOM, and DOMMUNE is in charge of the Japanese branch of BOILER ROOM TOKYO. It is no exaggeration to say that DOMMUNE created the template for almost all of the sound and art streaming and culture streaming that is currently overflowing around the world. Over the past 14 years, they have distributed approximately 5,000 programs, approximately 10,000 hours, and 300 terabytes of content, with a total audience of over 200 million. In an age where the traditional concepts and formats of "broadcasting," "publishing," and "advertising" are collapsing, they have experimented with live video distribution and continue to innovatively explore new possibilities for visual communication day and night. In 2021, they received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Award.
https://www.dommune.com/
DOMMUNE Presents「LANDSCAPE MUZAK」
DOMMUNE, which was launched in March 2010 and is said to be the originator of live streaming channels in Japan, is an internet streaming station that has been broadcasting talk and live shows to the world for 14 years since its launch. The mastermind, Naohiro Ukawa, considers the act of shooting, distributing, and recording the programs produced daily in the studio to be his own "contemporary art" works. DOMMUNE's latest project, "LANDSCAPE MUZAK," is a series in which musicians from all over the world explore hidden and sacred places in Japan, perform live shows in villages that resonate with them, and turn the road movies into a program. The project also involves visualizing this worldview with collaborating artists and installing works in each region. Following the first collaboration with Terry Riley, whose live performance during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Kitazawa Flotation Plant site, dedicated to the Sado Gold Mine, which later became a World Heritage Site, became a hot topic worldwide, the second collaboration connects Yashiro Aki, who has had ties to Niigata and Sado since her days as a member of the "Truck Guys" in 1977, with Himezu Fishing Port, which boasts one of the largest squid catches in the prefecture. And the third collaboration treats the Noh stage of Sado Island, where Noh has become integrated into daily life, as an "acoustic device," and welcomes Haino Keiji to create a completely new Noh performance that returns to the origins of the expression "virtual Noh." "LANDSCAPE MUZAK" is an earthwork for the SNS era that makes full use of social streaming, and a site-specific post-exotica project.
- Date：Sunday, September 8, 2024
- Time：Open/ 17:00 Start/ performance begins as the sun sets
- Venue：Anyoji Haguro Shine Noh Stage 159 Anyoji, Sado City, Niigata
- Participation fee：Event only: 4,400 yen Artwork Viewing Passport holders: 3,300 yen
Venue & Access
- Location：159 Anyoji, Sado City, Niigata
- Access：Approximately 20 minutes by car from Ryotsu Port.
Parking: There is a parking lot near the venue. Please come to the venue as the attendant will guide you.