Musical Exhibition by Hibiki Mukai
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Hibiki Mukai
- subsidy category
- Startup Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 5(2023) 2nd Startup Grant
Business Overview
Ningyo joruri is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Among them, I focus on Otome Bunraku performed by a female performer, and I am producing new musical art works by reinterpreting social events, history, memories, and relationships by restoring puppetry from archival materials. This concert presented the possibilities of Ningyo Joruri and beyond with works for electronic sound and instrumental music, which are still rarely performed in Japan: "Tokyo Seventh District" (2017) for piano and computer; "Magnolia no Hana" (2023) for cello and computer; "Drama Queens" (2022) for euphonium and computer; "Partita" (2022) for unaccompanied violin; "Ninin Shizuka" (2021) for shakuhachi and recorder; and new productions for video, electronic sound, and Otome Bunraku in collaboration with Hitomiza Otome Bunraku.
- implementation period
- Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 21st (Wed)
- Place of implementation
- Tokyo Concerts Lab (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[Mukai Hibiki]
Composer. He graduated from Toho Gakuen University. Completed a master's degree at the Institute of Sonomology at the Royal Hague Conservatory. He won the first prize in the composition category of the 84 th Japan Music Competition, the Martin Givol International Prize for Composition, the ORDA-2019 Composition Category, and the 33 th ACL Youth Composition Award. Winner of the Lawson May Composition Prize and the Marin Goreminov International Composition Prize. He has been commissioned by NHK, the Karoust Gulbenkian Foundation, the Moscow State Electronic Sound Centre and the Strasbourg Contemporary Music Festival. He was an RMF scholarship student and a 2021 Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs overseas trainee for emerging artists. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Porto.