home of the free because of the brave metal sculpture

I didn’t have the confidence for improvised music because I was trained playing written composed music. Was there a moment earlier when you realized how powerful sound is?

When you were doing these collaborations you were already spending your life in sound and music. The sound on the water becomes very soft with a little bit of vibration from the water. I played one side of the sculpture and on the other side was the boat with speakers, so my sound spread wide and the sound came back softened by the water. I put speakers on a boat and the boat on the opposite side of the lake sculpture. Once I played a big iron sculpture, it was three meters or four meters high, built on the lakeside. Sometimes I’d hit a glass bowl to them, or I’d hit it with mallets or bars of iron. When you’re looking at a sculpture, is there usually a first space on it that you want to explore? And what tools do you use to interact with the sculpture? I played their sound installations in the ’80s artists were doing a lot of collaborations with sound and art. I worked with many fine artists and sculptors. When did you start playing professionally?Īfter graduating I worked as a professional musician. But I was always against it, so my mother took me to a different teacher.

Not exploring – my mother taught me first. Every day she played piano beside my bed.ĭid you find yourself playing with the piano? Did you find yourself exploring? What types of songs did your mother play on the piano?Ĭhopin, Bach and Beethoven. And my father was teaching in high school and after that university – he taught English literature, so he gave me lots of books. No, no sonic imagination, but my mother played piano every day, she was teacher of piano. Was there a sonic component to the imagination or was that not a part of it? So my heart wasn’t there, my brain was playing in a different world from very young. Is there something about the equilibrium that you think was a good thing? Sometimes you use your imagination and you start to dream more. But that was normal life at the for people, so everybody after the war, everybody same. I was born in Tokyo soon after the second war, so people were poor then. Where were you born? How was music part of your early life?

Home of the free because of the brave metal sculpture