Why Don't You SLIDE...to SEEDS

Calligraphic Mystery Tour on SEEDS

Kyuyo Ishikawa dispels calligrapy mysticism with only three words, "Tong, Suh, and Tong". This simile comes across the tinny sound in mind of the brush strokes. He mentions letters used to be inscribed in stones and calligraphy is the imitation of this carving movement of chisel: Brush is the chisel and paper is the stone. "Tong" is the hitting sound of the chisel and "Suh" is the sound of slide of chisel. With Prof. Ishikawa's view point on calligraphy, you can enjoy it more ever.

Another pleasure of calligraphy appreciation is to understand the history of forming them. Prof. Shizuka Shirakawa, respectable philologist and dead in October, was said to be able to recognize its pronounce and meaning when new chinese charactors descovered in the ruins. That is because the chinese character, or Kanji, compoesd with the several figures each of which has original meaning.

Orie Yoshida, a Japanese calligrapher, draws letters on her deep understanding of the chinese charactor world. That gives us deeper enteretainment to see.
Her "Tong, Suh and Tong" sound takes us trip away to the gate of the deep cavern in Chinese Sichuan maountains.

Don't miss the great journey of live calligraphy drawing @SEEDS, Dec. 9th Sat, 21:00 open.

The Sound of Silence Plant KO,DO,NA

KO,DO,NA on Attention, mark up SEEDS Dec. 9th on your calender

Many artists have mentioned about the tube of body phenominon. As Kieth Richrds said before, “Coming down from the sky, then it passes through the body and get out of it, that is music." Whether you have the fear of "Nature" or not is the litmus paper for the trustable person, or not.

You want a beatutiful melody, then it gone. If you reproduce the sound of nature, it must go over the temperament. It is inevitable that KO,DO,NA choose the trumpet as his instrument to express. He needs the waving sound because what in his brain is filled with the sound of silence, which our ear can not listen. Mamoru Fujieda's great apporoach, "Plant Aspect(Syokubutsu, Monyou)" shows the electric potential music of the plant. KO,DO,NA feels the electricity of Nature, makes it breathing and sound so that we can understand.

Can his body and trumpet spin its sound from the Shibuya underground? The KO, DO,NA's SEEDS first participation, music from past of 0 o'clock.

Must be on your attention.

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Kazutaka Kuroki (黒木一隆、the trumpet and the pianica, electronics, the guitar) due to the solo unit. After the participating in “Ohmimi network”, joined "Kara Gumi" as actor. “BULLETS/COEXIST”, Nishi Azabu you can get his cool performance.

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