Kankyō Brighton: Yumiko Morioka, Nick Luscombe and James Greer.
About this Event
Join us for Kankyō Brighton!
Japanese pianist Yumiko Morioka will perform from her album Resonance, the seminal 1987 Japanese ambient environmental music work, alongside collaborators Nick Luscombe and James Greer of MSCTY Studio - the trio will also present their new work, Music for Rest Rooms.
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While Resonance is regarded as a classic of the Japanese kankyō ongaku style of the 1980s, it is not rooted in the synth textures or natural sounds usually associated with that genre. Instead, it merges Satie's simple piano phrasings with Brian Eno's ambient minimalism, and focuses on 'the space between the carefully chosen notes', as a representation of the Japanese concept of 間 (ma).
After initially being overlooked, the album was reissued in 2020, and quickly sold out, much to the surprise of Morioka.
https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resonance
At that time Nick Luscombe interviewed Morioka for his radio show, and was astonished to learn that she had never performed the album live. Soon after, Nick, together with his MSCTY Studio co-producer James Greer, convinced her to perform the music live for the first time, and accompanied her in new reinterpretations of it, presented in Thailand and Japan.
Whilst performing music from Resonance live for the first time outside of Asia at other events in London at the Royal Albert Hall and Spiritland, this event at St Nicholas' Church in Brighton will be a special opportunity to hear this atmospheric music performed in the beautiful acoustics of Brighton's oldest church.
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Yumiko Morioka studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1974-78, attending classes held by John Adams, then head of the composition department. Other attendees included Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, and Terry Riley. Morioka says she decided to write her own music there and then. As well as Adams' piano works, she has cited Brian Eno's Music for Airports and Erik Satie as influences.
She has also written for other artists, such as Toshihiko Tahara's 1980 debut single "哀愁でいと (New York City Nights)" and the idol pop group King & Prince in 2018.
Morioka moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1994 to raise a family with her American partner, before moving to Marin County. Her house was burned in the 2017 California wildfires, and she moved back to Tokyo, where she is now a chocolatier, running the truffle shop Setagaya Truffle.
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Nick Luscombe and James Greer will accompany Yumiko's piano performance with field recordings and sample processing. Nick and James are core members of MSCTY Studio, working with field sources, found sounds and site-specific conditions in processing new musical productions.
https://www.mscty.space/en-US
Support from:
Performing Live -
f.ampism is paul wilson is f.ampism.
This sound/visual artist based in Brighton also plays in Kaloja; a duo with Jan Anderzén, and Yayoba; a trio with Johannes Schebler and Jani Hirvonen.
Check out his monthly radio show The Infinite Inward, on Resonance Extra
https://extra.resonance.fm/series/the-infinite-inward
We recently listened to his new album The Vertical Luminous and fully anticipate it will sound amazing in the big spaces of the church...
https://fampism.bandcamp.com/album/the-vertical-luminous
DJ Hivemind Records
Hivemind Records founder Marc Teare will be joining us to explore the more ambient sections of the borderless sounds of the label's releases, and more...
Performing Live - chalkestra
chalkestra are an improvisational collaboration between Maria Marzaioli, Neil Cantwell, Tim Grabham and Tim Slade.
Having first come together to create parts of this will be the group's first public performance. Expect gongs, hand percussion, extended violin techniques and piano as part of relaxed reworkings of compositions by Nujabes, Sakamoto, and Satie.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 15.00
