Every Song I’ve Ever Written: Solo私がこれまでに書いたすべての歌：ソロ

Live: Jacob Wren ... And enjoyment is one of the few pinnacles of humanity an individual can currently aspire towards. Perhaps all humanity can be joyously reduced to a single substance. Perhaps that is the beginning of all art. I have no idea what I’m talking about. Say that again. I have no idea what I’m talking about. And again. I have no idea what I’m talking about. (Jacob Wren, Unrehearsed Beauty, p. 82, Coach House Press, 1998)

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Montreal-based writer / performance maker Jacob Wren first visited Japan in 2003 as part of PME-ART to present Unrehearsed Beauty / Les génies des autres, a forum-theatre that examined, inviting audience to speak, the idea of “public space.” He is also an unknown singer / songwriter who wrote 58 songs without intention to have them heard by anyone from 1985 to 2004. Every Song I’ve Ever Written is a cutting-edge project of the Internet age that “gives away” these completely private songs that “no one wants” through, [Website](http://everysongiveeverwritten.com/), where all the 58 songs are available for listening, reading and downloading and anyone can upload their own versions, Jacob’s Solo, Band Night, where local musicians cover Jacob’s songs and Karaoke Night, where audience sing Jacob’s songs. The pay-what-you-can Solo is a totally new performance that is indiscernible between a humble autobiographical theatre, documentary that talks about the world from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century through an individual’s filter, conceptual concert dedicated to all the unknown singer / songwriters in the world or something that he does because he wants to do it. It is certain, however, that the show will demonstrate an extreme of “performance” in our times as Unrehearsed Beauty did. Band Night, where guest local musicians freely interpret and cover Jacob’s songs and talk with him about songs and related topics, invites Momus, the musician who influenced Jacob the most (he lives in Osaka), Reiko Kudo, whose Rice Field Silently Riping in the Night (2001) that he found at a record store in Montreal was an album he has come back to again and again, Maher Shalal Hash Baz with whom he has collaborated several times, and one more band (to be announced). With simultaneous interpretation. Perhaps we can do Karaoke Night at a karaoke box near the venue after the shows. If you want to sing his songs, please let us know.  [Sound Live Tokyo Homepage](http://www.soundlivetokyo.com/2016/en/) Artist Information Jacob Wren  Jacob Wren makes literature, collaborative performances and exhibitions. Much of his performance work is made as Co-artistic Director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. His books include: Unrehearsed Beauty, Families Are Formed Through Copulation, Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, Polyamorous Love Song (one of The Globe and Mail’s 100 best books of 2014) and Rich and Poor. He has also collaborated with Nadia Ross and her company STO Union. Together they co-wrote and co-directed Recent Experiences and Revolutions in Therapy. He travels internationally with alarming frequency and frequently writes about contemporary art. Organized by PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, in the fiscal 2016, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) and the Federal Foreign Office Cooperation: Goethe-Institut Tokyo