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For those of us living today, our interactions with music have always been through buying a package, downloading it, singing along at karaoke, or attending a live concert, and have always been through opportunities to come into contact with it as an industry.
Despite this, in recent years, led by local or participatory art projects, the "public" and "music" have gradually come into contact, and new relationships are beginning to form here and there. However, playing music in public spaces still poses various problems.
Does the "public" need "music"?
I imagine that by reexamining our relationship with each other, we may be able to create a space that no one has ever seen before, where society and music can truly intertwine.
We will hold a symposium in which we invite people who are sincerely involved in "music" and "public affairs" from their respective positions to introduce their own activities and deepen our thoughts together. (Ryoichi Kiyomiya, NPO Topping East)
*This symposium is part of the program "BLOOMING EAST East Tokyo Total Stage Project East Tokyo Play Tour vol.1 'Yahiro, Higashi-Sumida, Hatsuhana'." "Yahiro, Higashi-Sumida, Hatsuhana" is an open-participation event that expresses the charm of the town in various ways at venues in Yahiro and Higashi-Sumida, which have supported Tokyo's manufacturing industry.
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Date and time: Saturday, March 12, 2016 Time: 15:00-17:00
Venue: Yahiro Regional Plaza "Azuma no Sato" 2nd floor conference room | 4-35-17 Yahiro, Sumida-ku, Tokyo
Admission: Free Speakers: Yuichi Kishino (studyist/musician), Junko Kumakura (professor at the Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment, Tokyo University of the Arts), Takahiro Saito (lawyer/co-director of Let's DANCE), Shuta Hasunuma (musician), Fuyuki Yamakawa (artist)
Web: http://www.toppingeast.com/news/1737/