"Behind the scenes" photo appreciation

Since the late 1970s, Ryuichi Sakamoto has been exploring interdisciplinary cooperation between music and art in Japan and even internationally. From promoting the development of Japanese electronic music as a member of YMO, winning many international awards such as Oscar and Grammy with film soundtrack, and paying close attention to the current global climate issues, Ryuichi Sakamoto constantly challenges people's usual cognition of art and expands its boundaries and possibilities.

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From 20021March 15 to August 8, Jiang Mumu Art Museum exhibited the largest and most comprehensive research exhibition in Ryuichi Sakamoto so far. An art album recording the exhibition came into being-"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin Listening Time", which became the first published art album about Ryuichi Sakamoto in China. ?

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Ryuichi Sakamoto is also "Sakamoto Ryuno".

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People first heard the name Ryuichi Sakamoto, mostly because of two movies, Merry Christmas in the Battlefield, The Last Emperor and their theme music. No matter in a noisy street or in a crowded carriage, whenever the rain of BGM, which is regarded as countless short videos, rings, people will always know that it is a professor.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time, 100, 10 1.

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From YMO's wild years, the highlight and glory behind the scenes of the last emperor, to his fame on the international stage, or his close attention to the current global climate issues, Ryuichi Sakamoto constantly challenges people's usual cognition of art and expands the boundaries of music.

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During his decades of artistic career, the professor has released countless albums and singles individually or in cooperation with other artists. From classical, electronic, popular and experimental, to world music, Bossa Nova … ...

Many netizens joked that Ryuichi Sakamoto actually has ten doppelgangers, namely, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryuji Sakamoto, dragon three Sakamoto ... Ryoshi's versions, and it's hard to believe that these different styles of music were written by one person because they were just listening to one song after another.

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In addition to constantly trying between musical styles, the professor's great energy is more fully reflected in artistic exploration outside music. Most fans don't have a deep understanding of this, so that when people heard that Ryuichi Sakamoto would hold an art exhibition in China at the beginning of the year, they couldn't imagine how this exhibition about Ryuichi Sakamoto would be presented.

Poster of "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin Listening Time"

M Woods museum

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Energy beyond music

And Ryuichi Sakamoto's Chinese dream.

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If you have read the professor's autobiography "Music is Freedom", you will find that whether you started to learn piano in kindergarten or started to write music in elementary school, whether you have been browsing a series of books on the bookshelf where your father is an editor, or whether you are not good at taking classes in the music department when you go to college, you often go to the art department next door. The influence of music, literature, philosophy and modern art has long been subtly rooted in the professor's body.

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As early as 1984, Ryuichi Sakamoto made an all-star video with NamJune Paik, an artist whom he admired decades ago. After 1985, he began to publish books in cooperation with artist Murakami Takashi for many times. 1994, the piano as an image device produced in cooperation with multimedia artist Toshi Utsumi Iwai was exhibited in the Mito Art Museum in Ibaraki for one day. In the past twenty years, Ryuichi Sakamoto also created a multimedia opera, turned a glass building into a musical instrument, and went to the North Pole to record the sound of melting snow.

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Life flows, invisible, inaudible ... (2007)

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time, pages 64 and 65.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Cage and NamJune Paik are on the set.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time, 29 1.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto was shot dead in Greenland waters.

Music is freedom, pp. 236 and 237.

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It is a professor's dream to exhibit installation works on a large scale in China.

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After a sudden epidemic and disturbing cancer recurrence, after a long wait and several years of preparation, the largest and most comprehensive research exhibition "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin Listening Time" finally opened as scheduled with the efforts of the Ryuichi Sakamoto team and the Jiang Mumu Art Museum.

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This exhibition is Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo exhibition in China, showing almost all Ryuichi Sakamoto's works in the past 20 years! And a special album that can make this exhibition last for a long time has finally been officially released when the countdown to the exhibition is one month!

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time.

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Focus on the present and look back.

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As Ryuichi Sakamoto's first and most comprehensive art album in China, "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Listening Time to Guanyin" focuses on and reviews Ryuichi Sakamoto's music career in the past 50 years while presenting the exhibition works.

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As the main contents of the exhibition and the album, the third and fourth chapters of the album respectively introduce eight works of art installations by Ryuichi Sakamoto and four artists. Among them, the impressive piano at the beginning of the documentary "Ryuichi Sakamoto: The Grand Finale" became the first work in the exhibition and even in the album.

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The light and shadow in the environment, the deformed rusty strings, these macroscopic scenes and extremely clear details are replaced by photographic images. ?

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time, 124, 125.

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This piano, called "the piano tuned by nature" by Ryuichi Sakamoto, experienced the impact of the 201east Japan earthquake and tsunami, and experienced the journey from land to sea and back to land, which reflected the uncontrollable nature and the shaping effect on the surrounding environment. Artists believe that this power remains in this instrument to some extent, and because it is exposed to natural factors and global disasters, it shows original and natural timbre and tone.

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Life flows, unseen, inaudible ... As another audio-visual installation co-created with Kotani Shiro, it is the key work of the exhibition.

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The artist tries to use this as a starting point to extend and construct an experiential sound space. There are two important clues in this work: his deconstruction and re-creation of 1999 opera life challenges the one-way expression of opera art; Secondly, through the integration of technology, image and nature, the work gives the audience an experience of walking in Japanese gardens, thus realizing the "convergence of sound and image" proposed by the artist.

Life flows, unseen and inaudible. ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time, 150.

Asynchronous-Space Pulse, co-produced with Sake Boland, consists of twenty-four iPhone and iPad, just like a small window in a closed space, emitting a faint and private light. The images on the screen show the professor's studio, living room and courtyard in new york. After suffering from laryngeal cancer for eight years, Ryuichi Sakamoto made his first album Asynchronous in new york.

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Asynchronous spatial pulse

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time, 20 1.

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In Ryuichi Sakamoto: In addition to the real-time recording of Guanyin's listening time at the exhibition site, in-depth research articles from different angles by three curators followed closely. While reading the exhibition works, it also reviews the life of Ryuichi Sakamoto, and more precious historical pictures are integrated into it.

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It is worth noting that the end of the book is based on the artist's timeline rearranged by Matsui Shigen, in contrast to the "time scale" pattern on the back cover. It is a clear, detailed and rare precious information about professors.

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Poster of "Ryuichi Sakamoto 1996 World Tour Background Concert"

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin Listening Time, pp. 88 and 89.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin Listening Time, p. 289.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin Listening Time, p. 293.

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The professor personally supervised the restoration, and the ultimate design was seen in the real chapter.

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On the silvery geometric pattern, the text information seems to be scattered in a certain logic, just like the tide accumulating water marks on the beach and leaving sand at will. "It is inaccurate for human beings to tap the piano with sea water, but in essence it just restores them to the original state of nature ..." From Mr. Sakamoto's interpretation, we think that perhaps words and patterns should also return to "nature", and the text information scattered on a piece of paper is not a "original state". So, under the guidance of Mr Sakamoto's minimalist design, we made the design results of this exhibition catalogue. (no entry)

In order to finally choose the binding method and production technology that best conforms to the catalog temperament, and to facilitate the comparison and selection, four different sample books were sent to the professor. As a knife designer, Riri entered the forbidden design room "knowing Mr. Sakamoto's pursuit of minimalist style and understanding that the exhibition catalogue is generally different from the artist's book." .

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After the overseas package arrived safely in Japan and the subsequent reply, including discussing the relevant details with all the teams, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin Listening Time was finally displayed perfectly with full respect for the artist's design concept and the guidance of Ryuichi Sakamoto himself and his team.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time.

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For design, banning design work means that all inspiration comes from Ryuichi Sakamoto's asynchronism. As the album title async said, the musicians played in a staggered way, and the sounds of each channel came from all directions, but they did not step on the same rhythm, resulting in an "unsynchronized" state.

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The art album follows this design concept. On the geometric pattern of silvery white, the text information seems to be scattered in some logic. The exhibition catalogue of cloth hardcover, the text information of the cover and spine, the photo patch of the cover and the back cover pattern are all made by hot stamping and embossing, just like a kind of engraving, which makes this catalogue an eternal continuation of the exhibition. ?

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time, 136.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Guanyin listening time.

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