03 – 05 – 07 EKIM 2010
Sound Migration
continues to migrate to
Izmir -> Cairo -> Budapest
Japan-Turkey Contemporary Music Collaboration Sound Migration
iDans 04 – Japan-Turkey Contemporary Music Collaboration Sound Migration
3 Ekim (October) 2010 / 20:00 Adnan Saygun Sanat Merkezi – Izmir
[http://www.aassm.org.tr/index2.html]
5 Ekim (October) 2010 / 20:00 Cairo Opera House – Cairo
[http://www.cairoopera.org/ecalendar/week.aspx?day=2010-10-03]
7 Ekim (October) 2010 / Duna Palota (Danube Palace) – Budapest
[http://www.dunapalota.hu/pdf/egyeb_20101007.pdf]
Composer / Besteci : Kazuki Kunihiro
Vocal / Vokal : Saadet Türköz
Contrabass / Kontrbas : Jun Kawasaki
Performance Artist / Performans sanatçısı : Micari
Guitar / Gitar : Şevket Akıncı
Japon besteci Kazuki Kunihiro; Kazak Türklerinden vokalist Saadet Türköz; Japon kontrbasçı Jun Kawasaki; Türkiyeli gitar doğaçlamacısı Şevket Akıncı; ve Japon oyuncu ve performans sanatçısı Micari Sound Migrations (Ses Göçleri) adındaki çağdaş müzik projesinde bir araya geliyor. Japonya Vakfı’nın önerisi üzerine gerçekleştirilen proje, herbal apayrı kültürel ve müzikal arkaplanlardan gelen bu beş sanatçıyı birleştirerek, eczema fakat aynı zamanda heterojenliklerini koruyarak, angina oldukça yoğun ve özgün bir ses performansı ortaya koyuyor.
The Japan Foundation will be conducting a project called “Sound Migration” which is a contemporary music collaboration between Japan and Turkey. Four musicians and an actress will be working together in Istanbul, Turkey, in September, to create new pieces, and then in the beginning of October will be performing them in Izmir, Cairo, and Budapest as well as Istanbul. The performance in Istanbul will be held as the opening in the ‘Istanbul International Contemporary Dance & Performance Festival (iDANS)’. Furthermore, the performances in Istanbul and Izmir will be a part of the ‘Japan Year 2010 in Turkey’.
Coming together from the two countries will be: Kazuki Kunihiro, a Japanese composer; Saadet Türköz, a Kazakh Turkish vocalist; Jun Kawasaki, a Japanese contrabassist; Şevket Akinci, a Turkish improvisational guitarist; and Micari, a Japanese actress. These five persons, all soloists in their own right, provide an extremely intense sound as well physical movement and they use this intensity to construct a world that is something quite unique, which is the reason for their being selected.
Türköz’s keen individuality, a blend of Central Asian narrative tradition and jazz improvisation, cannot be without influence from the fact that her parents had fled East Turkistan as refugees and made their way to Turkey over the course of more than ten years. Kawasaki and Akinci, utilizing the high level improvisation techniques, will explore the connection between ‘self’ and ‘other’, which will not likely be something reducible in meaning to national differences. Micari, through her unique expressiveness, which rouses the imagination of the audience, will undoubtedly liberate the body movement from its subordination to the music. The creative process of these five individuals from completely differing backgrounds is expected to produce a harmony as well as a deliberately persisting sense of heterogeneity. Standing at the center of this subtle balance and giving it a sense of wholeness is Kunihiro who displays a sure-footed compositional ability in his international theatrical collaborations. It is this harmony together with the diversity of elements that generates the power to create a new music and makes this project something to believe in.
The pieces will be developed for three weeks in Istanbul. The whole work will be comprised of eight musical scenes. The five performers together with these scenes will be allowed to freely ‘migrate’ through the joint creative process, recurring in altered forms and, in due course, bringing forth an evocative world of sound. It will be an original act of creation that cuts off a slice of ‘now,’ the present moment, where the migration of peoples is occurring on a global scale.