Half the Sky Rock in Opposition France and Tokyo Performance and Workshop
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Half the Sky
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY28 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 1st term
Business Overview
In the 1970s, he became the first musician to bring the bassoon to the still conservative world of rock, established irregular metre as a composer, stood firm against discrimination against women, and played with Comus, Henry Cow, Mike Oldfield, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Egg, Mike Westbrook, and others. Although he moved lightly between contemporary music, jazz, rock, film music, and free improvisation, he began to struggle with multiple sclerosis in the 1990s, and performed works written by Lindsey Cooper, who sadly passed away in 2013, for Henry Cow and News from Babel in a Japanese-English mixed band including Yumi Hara, Chris Cutler, Cloy Herrington, Wataru Okuma, Miwazo Kogure, and Mitsuru Nasuno. With his original arrangement incorporating Chindon and Soh, he aims to create international music in the 21 century beyond copying the original.
- Period of Activity / Project
- France - Sunday, September 18, 2016 Tokyo - Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - Friday, December 2
- Venues
- Maison de la Musique (Camus) Akihabara Club Goodman (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
[Half the Sky]
In November 2014 Japan the main members met at the first RIO (Rock in Opposition) Festival Japan (Arts Council Tokyo 26 grant adoption project). Afterwards, Cooper's memorial concerts were held in England and Italy under Cutler's organization, and Yumi, who regretted that all the female performers who did not participate among the original members, including Cooper himself, were men, came up with a project to continue performing Cooper's works mainly by female performers. Wataru Okuma, who lives in Tokyo, who has long admired Cooper, agreed, and Cutler also participated.