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Bamboo Sound instrument Story
Beyond cyberspace | 2008

”ma” - Excavation and Expression of invisible information Recently, I make use of social media suitable for video distribution,
Information includes ”visible information” and ”invisible information”. such as USTREAM and YouTube. (Unlike in the videoage of B-ISDN when
The ”visible information” refers to logical information like language used communications for a single exhibition cost me approximately from
for describing something. 500,000 yen to 800,000 yen, today technical problems associated with
On the other hand, the ”invisible information” refers to sensational international ISDN do not occur, and research is much easier to carry out.
recognition, which includes ”ma (which is consciousness of space or Accordingly, recently I made a plan for approximately three exhibitions
intervals)”. each year, and each exhibition draws on average 7,000 viewers a day.)
For example, in conversations, we are aware of ”ma (intervals”) between I would like to list below some examples of the research themes around to
one word and another, or silence in ”breathing” in reading feelings of deal with from 1971, and invite people around the world to join my research.
people and communicate with each other. In other words, ”ma” and | Expression of ”ma” between one sound and another.
”breathing”, i.e., the invisible information, is a ”spiritual feeler” for | Expression of ”ma” between one space and another.
reading the feeling of people. | Expression of ”ma” between one action and another.
In the information society today, only the ”visible information” has | Expression of relation between sound and action.
been rapidly developed by globalization, while the invisible information | Expression of relation between space and action.
seems underestimated and declining. I believe that it is one of the most | Expression of relativity of spatial recognition.
important challenges in the fields of culture and art in the 21st century
to combine and fuse ”real space” based on nature, climates, races, and In encounter and exchange with different cultures, using the network
cultures with the ”cyberspace.” In view interactive ”panoramic sliding allows us to look at differences an d characteristics of the culture and to
paper door instrument” and ”diceinstruments” to excavate the ”invisible make use of them. I would like to visualize the relationship in the invisible
information” as described below. world in order to develop new forms of art and culture.

 CoMMENT foR bAMboo INsTRUMENT sToRy. DIRECTOR: kEIgO YAMAMOTO. PERFORMER: TAkASHI IwAMOTO. SEPTEMBER 2008.

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