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Art & Music — Search for New Synesthesia

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mot Music and visual art have evolved in close relationship with one another. Examples from the early 20th century include Kandinsky, who aimed for a synthesis of the arts in which works evoked various senses, and Klee, who sought to visualize music with symbolic precision. The rich realm of sensibility and expanded expression made possible by crossing hearing and vision were investigated in more experimental forms by John Cage and others in the 60s. Now, with the development of digital technology, images are decomposed into pixels and processed as symbols and numerical values, and sound is composed visually on PC displays: art and music are converging even in their creative processes. A generation of creators treating video, images, and sound equally on a single computer attempts diverse expressions through a more closely integrated sense that might be called “new synesthesia.” With musician Ryuichi Sakamoto as general adviser, this exhibition introduces diverse works arising from the intersection and coordination of these two forms of expression, questioning the fundamental meaning of seeing and listening in “our time.” Ryuichi Sakamoto collaborates with Seigen Ono, who creates some of the world's foremost sound designs, and Shiro Takatani, 1 of Dumb Type's founding members, exhibiting 2 new installations. Don't miss silence spins, inspired by Japanese tearooms and listening to an infinite universe from a small space, and collapsed, using 2 pianos and lasers. Presents works previously unseen in Japan by internationally active contemporary artists. Introduces many internationally diverse expressions, including Florian Hecker's three-dimensional sound installations and Christine Ödlund's scores and music generated from plants' danger signals. Through Kandinsky’s and Klee’s paintings and graphic scores by John Cage and Toru Takemitsu, among others, it introduces how artists and musicians have explored relationships between music and visual art from historical as well as contemporary perspectives. What is the Tokyo Culture Creation Project? The Tokyo Culture Creation Project is a project implemented by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture in collaboration with arts and cultural organizations, arts NPOs, and others toward realizing “Tokyo as a global city of cultural creation.” By forming cultural-creation hubs throughout Tokyo and providing creative experiences for children and young people, it establishes an environment in which many people actively participate in creating new culture, while creating and communicating new Tokyo culture to the world through international festivals and other initiatives. https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/exhibitions/138/

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