The instrument “Kerberos” (the same name as the “hellhound” who guarded the entrance to the underworld in Greek mythology) uses electricity and air pressure to perform “Zombie music.” However, it takes time to accumulate enough air, and because it is made with a large coffin-like box, it does not easily move forward.
In the “Electrical Parade of the Dead,” you do not merely listen to Zombie Music; because carrying “Kerberos” is a shared activity, it presents everyone who takes part with a sight somewhat different from those of the everyday. After each parade, there will be a gathering to talk about it. Following the final event March 1st, the food artist Eat&Art Taro will present a special carnival party. Nothing fancy; think of it in the same way you would think of taking the dog out for a walk.

* Zombie Music: Not quite human, and not quite robot. Computer controlled “fingers” play automatic music on recorders whose sound is caused by an air compressor.

The 2013 “Toshima Art Station Koso” taking place in Tokyo’s Toshima City takes up “the body expression” as its theme beginning in September. This “Toshima Furumai” program, conducted with the “Furumai Company”, schedules works by dancer Suiso Ogawa in November and playwright Daisuke Kishii in February 2014. The program is dedicated to finding new avenues of appeal for Toshima, and in going beyond conventional theatre and dance to seek for their connection with the human body.

What is “Company Furumai”?
“Furumai”, written with the characters for “shake” or “wave” and “dance”, and which translates very roughly as “behavior”, denotes in the name “Company Furumai” the concepts of “movement, attitude, and (again roughly) entertainment”, concepts which are the basis on which a society is built. Company Furumai was established to investigate “furumai” with new experiments, new manifestations, and new ways of “behaving”.
The character for “shake” or “wave” is also used in the word for “choreography”, but “furumai (behavior)” and “dance” have obviously different meanings.
In what, however, lie these differences? This is what Company Furumai was established to consider, and its first series of experiments runs from September 2013 to March 2014 in Toshima City.
We will look at the ways people “behave” as they come and go, the ways in which they move, and the ways in which they entertain themselves, attempt to reproduce the data we collect, and hold “furumai (behavior)” themed workshops and study meetings. We invite everyone to join us in this “research.
–Company Furumai

Venues
Toshima Art Station “Z”, Chitosebashi Education Culture Center (B1F) , Zoshigaya Cultural Center, others

Dates
Sep, 2013 – Feb, 2014

Organizers:
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Tokyo Culture Creation Project Office (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Toshima-city
Onocoro (General Incorporated Association)

Toshima Art Station “Z”, homebase for “Toshima Art Station Koso,” is now the home of “flat CAFE,”as the name suggests a place of exchange into which anyone is free to drop in and find cultural information, or take part in an art event. There is also an “assistance counter” for those who are new to the art world.