ATMOSPHEREx’s working maxim is “proposing a new way of understanding and approaching the arts.”
Its latest offering is a collaboration between tanka poetry and music. ATMOSPHEREx composed a new piece of music taking as its theme the work KITAKOROMO by IMAEDA YUTO from Tokyo University of the Arts’ Department of Intermedia Art. The piece was performed on clarinet, piano, cello, and koto. To accompany the music, ATMOSPHEREx asked MIYATA SOSUKE and IKEZAWA HIDEAKI from the University’s Department of Vocal Music to read tanka poems aloud.
Along with the focus on tanka poetry and musical performance, the group also paid close attention to lighting and sound, turning the event itself into a “work of art.”

Members
Clarinet: ISHIDA RIO
Piano: KOIKE HARU
Cello: KURATA SYUNSUKE
Koto: SIKANO RYUSEI
Composition: NAKAMURA YOUTA
Composition: SATOU NOBUAKI

Guests
Tanka: IMAEDA YUTO
Readings: MIYATA SOSUKE
Readings: IKEZAWA HIDEAKI
Composition: SHIKADA AI
Composition: ARITA CHINATU

Production staff
HASEGAWA MOTOKI
ASANUMA TAIYO
YOSHIDAYA RYUSUKE
MATUMURA DOCHI
HARASAKI ARISA
FUJIYOSHI KANON
WAKUI RIHO