Tokyo, Japan
Born 1938, Tokyo, Japan
Pianist for Xenakis, John Cage, Toru Takemitsu and others
I am interested now in small voices and traditional Japanese instruments, or music of different colors and timing in layers, made of intentionally incomplete fragments, sketches, composed or appropriated. Music can become an informal mode of two-way traffic between the living body (i.e. mind) and the changing world.
1976-2006 Collaboration with the painter Tomiyama Taeko for narratives using slides and music about Asian Women in the age of (neo-)colonialism and war
1978-1985 SuigyuBand (Water Buffalo Band), performed Asian protest songs
2005 Anata e - shima / Bpureuneun sori - seom (For you -- the island). Composition for men's voices, and pebbles with poetry by Lee Chong-Hwa
Toi shima no tomo e (To friends on a distant island), Compostion for mixed chorus and piano with text by Lee Chong-Hwa
2000 Doro no umi (Sea of Mud). A theater piece for mixed choir and percussion with poetry by Fujii Sadakazu
1996 Mettasutta. Composition for mixed chorus about the Buddha's teaching on friendship
1995 Ongaku no Oshie (Teachings of Music). Composition for a large ensemble of western and Japanese instruments, and computer. Accompanied the chanting of Buddhist texts about transitory nature of sound and life
1993 Tori mo tsukai ka (Is the bird a messenger, too?). Composition for solo shamisen, vocals, and orchestra
1985 Like a Water Buffalo. Composition for accordion
1981 Kwang-ju. Compostion for piano with slides by Tomiyama Taeko on an uprising against military rule in Kwang-ju, Korea
