In 2016, he turned American architect Philip Johnson’s modernist Glass House, which was built in the late ’40s, into an instrument. In recent years, Sakamoto has doubled down on his sound experiments. “I cannot experience that doing my own thing.” “Working on a film is like a journey to an unknown place,” Sakamoto once said. His accolades include an Academy Award, a Grammy, a BAFTA, and two Golden Globe awards. He has scored over 30 films in as many years, including Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant, and Yoji Yamada’s Nagasaki: Memories of My Son. Running parallel to his artistic practice are Sakamoto’s contributions to cinema.
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Expanding on LIFE’s themes of symbiosis and evolution, Sakamoto and Takatani went on to produce several ambient installations together in the 2000s.
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He premiered his multimedia opera LIFE, a collaboration with visual director Shiro Takatani, in 1999. His time in the proto-synthpop group led to solo experiments in fusing global genres, which in turn made way for close studies of classical impressionism and prepared piano.Īs the millennium swam into view, Sakamoto’s attention was piqued by music’s relationship with other artforms. In the late ’70s, he joined Haruomi Hosono’s Yellow Magic Orchestra as a keyboardist and songwriter. When he was a toddler, he was introduced to the piano, an instrument he would go on to examine from many Cageian angles. Sakamoto was born in 1952, the year John Cage composed 4′33″. Throughout his nearly 70 years, he has tested this guiding principle again and again. “Anything can be music,” believes Ryuichi Sakamoto. I'm excited to so widely share the detailed and nuanced sound previously impossible. High-quality sound streaming at an unimaginable level as recently is finally available. Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines Japan, U.S.A., Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Australia MUSIC/SLASH Standard Version 5,000yen (without tax) We apologize to those inconvenienced by these restrictions.Įvent date:Saturday, December 12, 2020, From 19:30
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* Due to payment system restrictions, the live streaming will only be available in Japan, U.S.A., Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Australia,Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines. This concert will be exclusively streamed live in 12 countries and regions. Sakamoto's "year-end piano solo concert " in Japan will be for the first piano solo performance in 7 years, since 2013. The video streaming service, MUSIC/SLASH, with the highest sound quality ever developed in the industry, will be the concert's streaming platform. Also, the up-and-coming artist duo based in New York, Zakkubalan, will be in charge of cinematography and rise to the challenge of filming to bring out the best of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Rhizomatiks.
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Rhizomatiks will direct the live performance, a company led by artist Daito Manabe who is active in design, art, and entertainment, focusing on the relationship and boundaries between analog and digital as the real and virtual. To finish off the year "2020", a year no one will ever forget, Sakamoto will deliver a piano solo concert via live streaming from a Tokyo studio. With the growing tendency for people to stay in their homes due to the COVID-19, he hoped that "music may relieve the tension a bit…" Ryuichi Sakamoto will present his final piano solo concert for 2020.īefore the state of emergency was declared in Japan, Sakamoto was amongst the first to stage a live streaming event on April 2, 2020. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 12122020