Marginal Consort is
Kazuo Imai
T Koshikawa
Kei Shii
Masami Tada
Although the collective improvisation project Marginal Consort performed only once a year for a long time since its inception in 1997, they have been drawing international attentions recently. Their performance, which is completely free from abstract, political or sometimes mystical ideas about improvisation, neither contraposes the immediacy of “action” or anonymousness of “sound” against “music” nor dramatizes the dialectics between the individual and the whole. Even the words “collective” “improvisation” “project” do not really tell the way they work.
The members from different backgrounds (Kazuo Imai, T Koshikawa, Kei Shii and Masami Tada), who got to know each other at Takehisa Kosugi’s workshop (Bigakko, 1975), produce sonic phenomena using anything available, whether instruments or objects, from viola da gamba to electronics or from bamboo to water, and that develops spatially and temporally. A three-hour performance that feels like a moment when experienced. Try different positions across the venue, which should drastically change the sonic quality.
Limited edition DVD that features their last performance with Yasushi Ozawa, a member who passed away in 2008, and booklet will be released at the venue!
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Artist Information:
Kazuo Imai
Studied the guitar with Masayuki Takayanagi from 1972 to 1985. Started his activities mainly in the field of improvisation in 1974. Participated in Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at Bigakko in 1975. Launched “Solo Works” in 1991, which has been performed 69 times since then. In 1997, he started collective improvisation with Yasushi Ozawa, who passed away in 2008, and the current members as “Marginal Consort.” In 2005, he formed “Kazuo Imai Trio” with Atsuhiro Ito (optron) and Manabu Suzuki (handmade electronics).
T Koshikawa
Participated in Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at Bigakko in 1975. Creates tape music, and has experienced rock and jazz bands as an amateur since becoming a local government employee. He is also familiar with Indian music (North Indian classical music) and Noh chant (Kanze School).
Kei Shii
Studied the fine arts with Genpei Akasegawa and music with Takehisa Kosugi from 1973 to 1975. Creates sound systems involving various sensors and sound installations making use of physical science principles. He also supports a number of performers and dancers in technical and sound design. An engineer at Aoromi Contemporary Art Centre since December 2001.
Masami Tada
Formation and activities of an improvisation group “GAP” from 1974 to 1979. Participated in Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at Bigakko in 1975. Shot the same tree everyday for 365 days in 1978, which would be re-printed for his first solo exhibition at Pennings Gallery in the Netherland in 2000. Serious Circus exhibition, where audience would peep into a tent in a gallery, in 1996. Having watched old festivals in Nepal since 2002, he had “Art-Full Nepal,” a live performance / drinking bout with local artists, in 2006.
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
SupernaturalDeluxeでの初となる展覧会は、日々の中で無意識に過ぎ去る“時間の流れ”を、感覚を通じて静かに見つめ直すためのインスタレーション。敷地内に佇む火入れ蔵の闇に浮かぶのは、Shinobu Hashimoto のキネティック・モビール。重力に揺れ続けるその姿に呼応するように、VJ Wasabi のプログラムによる光と音が響き、絶え間なく移ろいます。その一つひとつの揺らぎが、観る人の記憶や感情と結びつき、言葉では語れない体験を静かに刻んでいきます。
＊日曜日〜金曜日はインスタレーション展示とモビール販売のみの公開となりますが、展示空間は時間とともに変化していきます。初日から少しずつ敷地内の装飾を施し、最終日に向けて雰囲気がどんどん深まっていきます。
料金：￥500（お茶付き）Admission: ￥500 (includes one cup of tea)
