Shuta Hasunuma "Sound → Nakameguro | soundlike 2.5"
Thursday, February 6, 2014 – Sunday, February 16, 2014
12:00-20:00 (open every day during the period)
HAPPA / sakumotto
2-30-6 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 150-0051 Tel. 03-6303-0071
www.happa.tv ｜ www.sakumotto.jp
During the exhibition period, a Shuta Hasunuma pop-up shop will also be open in the gallery's shop space, selling not only CDs and merchandise, but also second-hand books, CDs, and clothing.
◉ Related event: "Shuta Hasunuma's One-Day Manager"
February 15th [Sat] 13:00-21:00
*For event details, please visit www.happa.tv | www.sakumotto.jp
/// Additional information ◉ Simultaneous event: Shuta Hasunuma "Unfocussed"
Thursday, February 6, 2014 – Sunday, March 30, 2014
Opening Reception & Event = Saturday, February 8, 2014
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 6th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Regional Collaboration Program Participation Project
NADiff Gallery
NADiff A/P/A/R/T 1F, 1-18-4 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013 Tel. 03-3446-4977 Fax. 03-3446-4978
Open=12:00-20:00 Closed on Mondays (or the following day if Monday is a public holiday) www.nadiff.com ｜ www.nadiff-online.com
In recent years, musician Shuta Hasunuma has been seamlessly working across a variety of genres, and in 2013 he held his first solo exhibition, "Oteki | soundlike" (Asahi Art Square) in Tokyo, which was met with rave reviews. The exhibition then changed its content and toured as "Oteki → Kobe | soundlike 2" (Kobe Art Village Center), and has now been further updated and is coming to Nakameguro as "Oteki → Nakameguro | soundlike 2.5."
This exhibition will center around the "Graphic Score," a work he created and presented in Kobe. Graphic scores are "musical scores using graphics and other elements," a form of expression that has long been explored by many musicians as a means of indicating music that cannot be fully expressed on staff notation. Hasunuma, who believes that "beautiful shapes do not necessarily translate to beautiful music," has used eight figures from sources including drawings, maps, photographs, and text, transforming each into a performance method through an analysis of visual perspective and form. The exhibition will feature a large-scale installation that plays the eight scores and eight pieces of music that Hasunuma himself realized, performed, and recorded, playing throughout the entire space. For the first time, these one-of-a-kind scores and music sets will also be available for purchase. Please enjoy the musical ensemble created from these eight scores.
Graphic design: Yuri Suyama Exhibition coordinator: Junya Sakumoto (sakumotto)
Production Management: Tomoko Noda (Ippongi Productions)
Cooperation: NO ARCHITECTS NADiff Kobe Art Village Center
///Artist Profile Shuta Hasunuma
Born in Tokyo in 1983.
He has released musical works and organized the Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra, which has performed concerts both in Japan and abroad. In 2011, he held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/Bloomberg Pavilion entitled "Have a Go at Flying from Music Part 3," and in 2013 at Asahi Art Square entitled "Soundlike." Since 2014, he has resided in New York, USA, at the invitation of the Asian Cultural Council (ACC). www.shutahasunuma.com