Chatori Shimizu: Kirin Telephone (2024) [SCORE]

Описание: Chatori Shimizu creates experimental and interdisciplinary sound works through semi-autobiographical narratives, articulated as concert music, site-specific music, or kinetically enhanced music. His practice spans a wide range of methods, including instrumental composition, programming, electronic circuitry, videography, installation, improvisation, and movement-based art. At the core of his methodology is the score - a mix of musical notation, text, and graphic instructions - that invites performers to reimagine and reinterpret each work through a balance of precision and freedom.

Deeply committed to collaborative creation, Shimizu works across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. As a journey-based artist, he has lived and worked in Tokyo, New York City, Dresden, and is currently based in Taipei, fostering artistic exchange and intercultural research.

This piece unfolds with the protagonist in first-person view stepping into a chamber through an iron door - a metaphor of unlocking a smartphone. Throughout this journey, the protagonist grapples with the challenge of identifying their "core true self", and encounters various personas of themselves.

Unlike the physical, tangible space where only one persona can emerge at a time, our smartphones offer a digital arena where we can present multiple personas at once. Just by unlocking our smartphone, we are able to meet our diverse personas dancing on our main, sub, and even secret accounts on various social media platforms.

Every individual harbor a multitude of personas, drawn forth consciously or unconsciously from deep within, to navigate social interactions. In essence, humans boast a spectrum of personalities within self.

This video is possible thanks to the permission of the composer itself Chatori Shimizu. Please check out his compositions! They are really fascinating!

Kirin Telephone (2024)
日本語：麒麟テレフォン
for sheng and electronics
ca. 11 min.​

Kirin Telephone MV:    • Kirin Telephone (2024) for sheng and elect...  
More Information on the work: https://www.chatorishimizu.com/kirint...

Used with permission.