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[Machine Translation] The 12th installment of Yasushi Utsunomiya s Utsunomia MIX" series! Noh actor Shunichiro Hisada plays the kotsuzumi and sings. Improvisational musician sara ( .es ) resonates with him on piano and various sound instruments. A live recording of a transcendent, improvised performance held at the venue for visual artist Chang Tengyuan s solo exhibition! Chang Tengyuan, a rising star from Taiwan. On the opening day of his sixth solo exhibition, Everything Has A Cute Face," held at Gallery Nomar," a contemporary art gallery in Osaka, featured an unprecedented improvised live performance on opening day. This marked the first session by the unique duo of Shunichiro Hisada (a koku drummer of the Noh Okura school) and sara (.es). Amid CHANG s contemporary artworks displayed across the walls, Hisada s kotsuzumi drum and voice (poetry) resonated with sara s piano and multi-instrumental sounds in an unscripted performance. With Chan watching and the venue packed with audience members and, of course, the two performers themselves no one could even begin to imagine where the sound would lead. Kuuda s earth-shaking voice served as the signal, and the words of harmony between heaven and earth," the kotsuzumi, and sara s musical instruments gradually intertwined. Noh theater, a traditional performing art; avant-garde music; and contemporary art. As the boundaries between them dissolve and they gradually fuse together, is this not akin to the chaos of the universe s birth!? Experience for yourself the energy of the sound spirits" emanating from the interplay of voice and sound!

宇都宮泰の神音「Utsunomia MIX」シリーズ第12弾! 能楽師 久田舜一郎が小鼓を打ち、うたう。即興演奏家 sara (.es)がピアノと様々な音具で共鳴する。美術家チャンテンユァン個展会場での、次元を超えた即興ライブ音源! 台湾気鋭のアーティスト CHANG Tengyuan (チャンテンユァン)。大阪の現代美術画廊「ギャラリーノマル」で6回目となる個展「Everything Has A Cute Face」」初日、前代未聞の即興ライブが開催された。久田舜一郎 (能大倉流小鼓方)& sara (.es)という異色のデュオによる初セッション。壁面中に展示されたチャンの現代アート作品の中で、久田の小鼓+声 (詩)とsaraのピアノ+倍音楽器という打ち合わせ無しの共鳴の演奏。見守るチャンと満場の観客、もちろん演者二人にとってもその音の行方を想像だにできない─久田の地響きのような声が合図となり、天地和合の言葉と小鼓、saraの音具が次第に絡み合う。能楽という伝統芸能、前衛音楽、現代美術。全てが境目を失い、次第に融合していく様はさながら宇宙誕生の混沌か!? 声と音の間から放たれる、音霊のエネルギーをご体感あれ!