Though this isn’t your own work, how does it feel to see that period of your life on screen? The documentary ‘Ryuichi Sakamoto coda’ recently premiered. Nothing has been set yet, but I want to show something in 2020. Currently, I am brainstorming with Shiro Takatani on a daily basis. What I am doing now is a stepping-stone between async and the opera, but something completely different from what we did 20 years ago.
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My idea is still vague, but I am using my shows as an experiment, thinking about how performers can move, how to ring sounds, how to move them, how to stage lights and so on.
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Something theatrical, but not in a way of classic theatre, more where it has sounds, imagery, lights and shadows, and the space is versatile. For the next one, I am picturing a hybrid of installation and performance. About 20 years ago, in 1999, I worked on an opera called LIFE with Shiro Takatani as a visual director. I am trying to make an opera – something that is different from what people know as opera.
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So your next project would be an album with that concept? I am attempting to turn this thinking into the actual sound. An object always exists in some space and when it touches something, it produces a sound wave and reaches human ears, which is how a sound becomes a material for music. These are two inseparable things, as music has to do with sounds that objects make. I am interested in the spatial aspect of sound and music – how sound exists in a space. One of the themes for async was to make asynchronous music. So, this time around, the project is still in development and continuation, both consciously and subconsciously, I think.Ībstractly speaking, it is experimenting with the concepts of time and space.
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That process has been trial and error, trying to figure out how to breath life into what I made in the studio. Since I released the album about a year ago, I have played 8 to 10 shows. I can’t say that it won’t happen this time, but the difference is that I am trying to hold on to what I tried with async – which was quite important to me – pursuing how I could be on the path of continuation or development. By the time I was ready to start working on a new project, my interests would have shifted and I'd approach it with new things in mind.
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I’d work on soundtracks or produce other people’s work, or just get into other things and let time pass. In the past, after an album release, I tended to wait until I'd feel like doing something new. Now that your long-awaited album has gone out to the world, what is next?