Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble Gagaku 2024 Tradition and Innovation 2: Unraveling Classics and Creating Future Traditions
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY2024 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
The venue was regarded as three or four stages including the audience seats, and the musicians were arranged so as to surround the audience seats, aiming at a three-dimensional sound structure in which the whole venue became an acoustic space. In such a space, the program explored the creation of tradition and the future, the history of avant-garde compositions, and the future of gagaku. Program ★ From Kagurauta: "Shinonami" ★ Kaito Nakabori: "Starlight and Frost" 1, 21 Starlight and Frost I, II★ "Heicho-choshi" ★ "Banshiki-choshi" ★ "Soto-choshi" ★ "Ojingo-choshi" ★ "Kishunraku" Introduction and Break ★ Kei Hitotsuyanagi: "Okanraku" (1980/1996) Performers/NMGE Sho: Naoyuki Manabe, Takaaki Toyogo, Taishi Nagai, Soki Aoki, Ayako Kawakami Hichiriki: Motonori Miura, Yoshie Kunimoto Flute: Yutaka Ota, Tatsuya Iwasaki, Ryo Fujiwaki, Takuya Koketsu Special appearance Sho: Hideaki Toyogo, Supporting appearance Sho: Hirosei Shimomiya Hichiriki: Osamu Kashiwagi, Tomoko Nakamura Koto: Sakura Kido Percussion: Kari Tozaki
- Period of Activity / Project
- Sunday, November 17, 2024
- Venues
- Kitatopia Azalea Hall (Kita-ku, Tokyo) * Information such as the project outline is provided by organizations and individuals that provide subsidies.
Profile
【Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble】
The group was formed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic with the philosophy that only musicians who value tradition and continue to study can create new traditions. While rooted in tradition, they have performed in a new style of performance using gardens, archaeological sites, and theatrical spaces, and using a performance style that is not bound by the format of the stage and audience seats. Taking out the musical elements of gagaku, the composer Naoyuki MANABE devised a new style of performance using "choshi" (tune), and the playing technique of withdrawing and withdrawing the melody by two groups, and withdrawing the dance. We continue to create projects that can become new traditions.
2020: Film production "For the Understanding of Koshiden-gaku: Introduction to Gagaku Performances (Appreciation)," garden concert (Kuraki Noh Stage, Otsuka Ruins)
2021: A project adopted by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (AFF)
2022: A project adopted by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (AFF) 2
2023: "Gagaku Listened at Shosoin in the West," Misato Town, Miyazaki Prefecture, "Tradition and Innovation," Toyosu Culture Center Rec Hall
2024: Received the 16 th Creative Tradition Award.