Performing Arts Yamashiro Group Performance Aisan Gekokutan (Akira Je Gogudan)
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Geino Yamashiro-gumi Performance Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
2020 Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant
Business Overview
"AKIRA" (directed by Katsuhiro Otomo) is the gold standard of animation films that Japan is proud of around the world. More than 30 years after its release, Akira's Symphony Suite continues to gain high acclaim and popularity in Japan and abroad. Experience the "hypersonic effect" discovered by scientist Tsutomu Ohashi, also known as Shoji Yamashiro (winner of the 2020 Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Achievement Award), in which the coexistence of audible sound and ultra-high frequency sound enhances the brain's functions of beauty, pleasure, and emotion, in the world of AKIRA's sound, which weaves together the gigantic bamboo percussion ensemble "Jegog" from Bali, Indonesia, electronic instruments, and human voices. Performance: Geino-yamashiro-gumi [Chapter 1: Kaiko Awakening] Showcasing an unknown and magnificent world of sound awakened by an encounter with Jegog [Chapter 2: Kaimei Emergence] Dismantling Jegog and unraveling the secrets of its sound [Chapter 3: Aikira Jegoku] Revolutionary Akira sound bursts through the interweaving of Jegog, electronic instruments, and diverse voices, united with the performer.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, May 29, 2021: noon performance starts at 14:00, night performance starts at 18:30
- Venues
- Nakano Zero Great Hall (Nakano Ward, Tokyo)
Profile
【 Geino Yamashiro-gumi Performance Executive Committee 】
The purpose of this committee is to contribute to the improvement and development of comfortable urban life and urban culture through the performance of 80 different performances of various ethnic groups around the world by Geino Yamashiro-gumi, which realized the world's first multi-musicality, and planning and planning of creative activities in theatrical spaces that combine tradition and modernity, art and science based on these performances.