YCAM Garden of Threads

quartets online

Otomo Yoshihide + Norimichi Hirakawa + Yuki Kimura + Ko Ishikawa + Yoshimitsu Ichiraku + Jim O’Rourke + Kahimi Karie + Sachiko M + Axel Dörner + Martin Brandlmayr + YCAM

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 3:00 am - Thu Sep 9, 2021 11:59 pm
All times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST / UTC +2).
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Online Exhibition: for 1 year from Wed, Sep 9, 2020 3:00 pm (CET | UTC +2)

“quartets” is a performance piece that happens only in the video streaming system. Eight musicians performed improvisation individually for the recording, as they imagined a session with the others. In this piece, the performances are blended or combined at random, and each time a whole new set of improvised music comes to exist. In “quartets”, we will conceive the meaning of ensemble and questioning how we could imagine “others” in this isolated and increasingly complex situation.

Online Exhibition
quartets online, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)

quartets online, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)
Credit: quartets team, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)
quartets online, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)

quartets online, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)
Credit: quartets team, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)
quartets online, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)

quartets online, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)
Credit: quartets team, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (JP)

Project Credits / Acknowledgements

Artist: Otomo Yoshihide + Norimichi Hirakawa + Yuki Kimura + Ko Ishikawa + Yoshimitsu Ichiraku + Jim O’Rourke + Kahimi Karie + Sachiko M + Axel Dörner + Martin Brandlmayr + YCAM
Direction / Sound composition: Otomo Yoshihide
Algorithm design / Programming: Norimichi Hirakawa
Art direction: Yuki Kimura
Guitar / Turntable: Otomo Yoshihide
Voice: Kahimi Karie
Synthesizer / Guitar: Jim O’Rourke
Sho: Ko Ishikawa
Percussion: Yoshimitsu Ichiraku
Trumpet: Axel Dörner
Drums and Percussion: Martin Brandlmayr
Sine waves: Sachiko M
Curation: Daiya Aida (YCAM)
Technical Direction: Takayuki Ito (YCAM)
Streaming system: Junji Nakaue (YCAM)
Web design: METAPHOR Inc.
Art management: Kumiko Idaka
Management assistance: Chiho Yamada (YCAM)
Planning / Production: YCAM
Presented by Yamaguchi city, Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
In association with Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in the fiscal 2020
Co-developed with YCAM InterLab
produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]

quartets (2008) artist credits
*All sounds and video footage were originally recorded in 2008 for the installation ver. ”quartets”.
Credits: ”quartets”
Direction / Sound composition: Otomo Yoshihide
Art Direction (cube screen): Yuki Kimura
Video / Objects (outer screen): Benedict Drew
Algorithm Design / Programming / System: Norimichi Hirakawa
Recording / Sound Editing / Sound System Design / Sound Programming: Takayuki Ito (YCAM)
Recording Assistant: Etsuko Nishimura(YCAM), Chang Yung-Ta, Ryo Takeuchi (YCAM)
Space Planning / Shooting Planning: Richi Owaki (YCAM)
Shooting Assistant: Soichiro Murata, Soichiro Mihara (YCAM), Takuro Iwata (YCAM)
Lighting Design: Fumie Takahara (YCAM), Tetsuya Oda (yano butaibijutsu), Shoichi Nishida (yano butaibijutsu)
Technical Support: Satoshi Hama
Curation: Kazunao Abe
Guitar / Turntable: Otomo Yoshihide
Voice: Kahimi Karie
Synthesizer / Guitar: Jim O’Rourke
Sho: Ko Ishikawa
Percussion: Yoshimitsu Ichiraku
Trumpet: Axel Dörner
Drums and Percussion: Martin Brandlmayr
Sinewaves: Sachiko M
Presented by Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
In association with Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Supported by ASAHI GROUP ARTS FOUNDATION, The Kao Foundation for Arts and Science
In cooperation with sendai mediatheque, callithump, NHK Enterprises, OFFICE SHIROUS
Equipment sponsorship by ATL.INC
Co-developed with YCAM InterLab
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media［YCAM]