Draft:Tomoko Mukaiyama

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Tomoko Mukaiyama, Japanese-Dutch pianist, artist and director is known for her multimedia performances in which she embarks on a sensory adventure together with her audience. Different disciplines, their forms and styles, are used on an equal basis. Recurring themes in her work are gender inequality and the relationship with our natural environment, often elaborated from the possibilities and frictions of a local situation [1]. Her work is performed in mainstream art centers such as the Lincoln Center New York [2], the Paris Opera [3] and museums [4], but also via online platforms or on streets and squares, in private homes, in the dunes of Terschelling and at the fish market of Seto (JP).

Biography

Tomoko was born in Shingu in the prefecture Wakayama, Japan.[5].  Tomoko has lived in Amsterdam since the early 1990s, she is the widow of photographer and writer Philip Mechanicus, who died in 2005. Together they had a daughter, Kiriko[6].

Tomoko studied piano at the Musashino Music College in Tokyo, at the University of Indiana (Bloomington School of Music) and at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. She took private lessons in improvisation with pianist and composer Micha Mengelberg. Since 2020 she has been taking private lessons in electronic composition with the composer Yannis Kyriakides.

In the 1990s, Tomoko presented herself as a pianist in the Dutch and international ensemble and recital culture[7].  Through her playing, choice of repertoire, the dresses she wears and her interaction with the audience, it becomes clear that for her every concert is, always already, a multimedia expression for a multi-sensory, unrepeatable experience.  Based on this idea, she inspires many composers and premieres their work (including Karen Tanaka, Alexander Raskatov [8], Frederic Rzewski, Louis Andriessen [9], Maxim Shalygin [10]).

Artistic development

As a pianist, Tomoko is developing into an artist and director and is steadily building her own oeuvre [11]. She examines structures and conventions of the recital and asks herself what they do and can do in the creative process (For you, 2005). She finds new possibilities to integrate spatiality within a concert through the use of objects, images and light. She abolishes the classical difference between composer, performer and audience; in each of her works their relationship is redefined. Tomoko thus creates a comprehensive and open artistic form that gives her the freedom to combine music, architecture, dance, film, visual arts, photography and fashion with social themes. She uses dramaturgical-musical techniques to bring together the social and artistic and to get a grip on the resonance between different disciplines and the role they play in creating the musical en narrative line of a performance (pianist [12], 2019; KUMANO [13], 2021; SADO [14], 2023).

To express her ideas about multimedia performance in all its diversity, Tomoko uses the concepts of installation-performance and music-cinema.

In an installation-performance, the spatial element becomes important. The performances are, as it were, designed ethical-aesthetic worlds. Here the audience is part of the scenography (the thematic, musical, visual and spatial elements that form a performance). Ethical questions (about our relationship with each other and with an environment) and aesthetic questions (about what we observe and what affects us) go together (wasted [15], 2009; Nocturne [16], 2011; figurante [17], 2023).

Music-cinema are multimedia performances via livestream. It is a form of performance in which the creation of music, sound, images and film are performed as much as possible in real time to preserve the tension and creative indeterminacy of the live performance (A live Vol. 1 [18], 2020; TWO – in transit Hara Museum [19], 2021).

Tomoko gives concerts, produces installation-performances, films and music-cinema streams. The openness of the artistic form of her work is affirmed in collaborations with very diverse artists, such as Marina Abramović [20], Merzbow, Jiří Kylián [21], Michael Gordon [22] and Toyo Ito [23]. Her deep involvement with gender inequality and women in the arts has led to the start of projects and debates in which she has an advisory role. In close consultation with professionals and scientists, she investigates artistic, (music-) technological and philosophical aspects of her work. Tomoko works with partners in the Netherlands, Japan, Mexico and Colombia.

Awards

In 1991 Tomoko won the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Award [24]and in 1993 she received the Muramatsu Prize for outstanding musical talent. In 2014 she received the Dioraphte dance prize for the production Shirokuro[25]. In 2017 she received the Japan Dance Forum Award [26] for the production La Mode and HOME.

Organisations

In 2007, the Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation (TMF) was founded. Through the foundation, Tomoko produces multimedia performances independently or in collaborations. The foundation is supported by, among others, the Performing Arts Fund NL.

The Multus Foundation (MF) was founded in 2015 for performances in Japan. MF is supported by various Japanese government agencies.

In 2020, Culture All Nippon (CAN) was founded by Tomoko in collaboration with Hiroko Tsuboi-Friedman, UNESCO associate in the field of artistic expression and diversity. CAN is a network organization with the aim of promoting the arts in Japan by supporting artists and arts policy through organizing meetings, lectures and discussions[27]

External links

official website

“Virtuoze pianiste uit Japan winnares van het Gaudeamus Concours.” NRC 25-02-1991. Geraadpleegd op 05-06-2024 in Delpher https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=KBNRC01:000030379:mpeg21:a0096

Philip Mechanicus “Niets om aan te trekken.” NRC 20-03-1993. Geraadpleegd op 05-06-2024 in Delpher https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=KBNRC01:000030699:mpeg21:a0183

Sander van Maas “Wat is een luisteraar: Reflectie, interpellatie en dorsaliteit in hedendaagse muziek.” Universiteit Utrecht, oratie gehouden op 03-11-2009. Geraadpleegd op 05-06-2024 in https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/faculteit-geesteswetenschappen/onderzoek/oraties-en-redes

References

  1. ^ "15 questions | Interview | Tomoko Mukaiyama | Origin = Femininity". www.15questions.net. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  2. ^ Review: With ‘Tao,’ Philharmonic Dives Deeper Into Andriessen https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/arts/music/review-new-york-philharmonic.html
  3. ^ Jiří Kylián programme, Palais Garnier, Paris — review https://www.ft.com/content/8c57d9f6-b6f2-11e6-961e-a1acd97f622d
  4. ^ https://www.haramuseum.or.jp/en/hara/event/1016/ https://www.npoklassiek.nl/klassiek/vrije-geluiden/9ada8fa4-f4c3-4dc9-8d08-3df5b7db6452/tomoko-mukaiyama-in-het-van-gogh-museum https://www.foam.org/events/daisuke-yokota-x-tomoko-mukaiyama https://virtualshoemuseum.com/videos/tomoko-mukaiyama-shoes/ https://moak.jp/en/event/performing_arts/mukaiyamatomoko_home.html
  5. ^ The city of Shingu is located at the mouth of the Kumano River. Kumano is also the name of the surrounding area, known for its overwhelming nature, countless holy places, temples and pilgrimage routes from pre-modern Japan. It plays a major role in Tomoko's love for nature and ritual and is a source of inspiration for the 2021 performance of the same name.
  6. ^ The CD En Blanc et Noir (2009) is a publication that consists of unpublished photos by Philip Mechanicus and a CD with the improvisation Sonic Tapestry by Tomoko. In the work SuperT-market Art Walk, Tomoko collaborates with her daughter, the filmmaker, director and writer Kiriko Mechanicus.
  7. ^ See, Elmer Schönberger, ed. (1996). Shhh! New ensembles for new music. Amsterdam: International Theater and Film Books. Tomoko was part of a vibrant and innovative music culture.
  8. ^ Het Parool End and Beginning, met muziek van twee eigenzinnige Russische componisten https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/end-and-beginning-met-muziek-van-twee-eigenzinnige-russische-componisten~b24836c5/?referrer=https://www.google.com/
  9. ^ Review: With ‘Tao,’ Philharmonic Dives Deeper Into Andriessen https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/arts/music/review-new-york-philharmonic.html
  10. ^ "Avondconcert: Wereldpremière Delirium van Maxim Shalygin - 16 april 2023 - NPO Klassiek Gemist".
  11. ^ Meet Tomoko Mukaiyama, a Badass Pianist Upending the Traditional Composer-Musician Hierarchy in Symphonic Musichttps://www.thestranger.com/music/2016/05/12/24078699/meet-tomoko-mukaiyama-a-badass-pianist-upending-the-traditional-composer-musician-hierarchy-in-symphonic-music
  12. ^ Fondation d'entreprise Hermès (2020-04-11). EXHIBITIONS | Tomoko Mukaiyama, "Pianist" at Le Forum, Tokyo. Retrieved 2024-06-25 – via YouTube.
  13. ^ Kumano, un voyage musical en images https://www.journal-laterrasse.fr/kumano-un-voyage-musical-en-images-2006-2276/?fbclid=IwAR1FoCeM0Q4hPhC2pvu5DQs7jv0ojhbR2xs8tUraqKYCvclssO1pKBzzuyo
  14. ^ NOORDERZON 2023 – SADO Japans poppentheater met een duister randje https://theater050.nl/blog/japans-poppentheater-met-een-duister-randje
  15. ^ "Wasted 向井山朋子".
  16. ^ "Nocturne – Holland Festival".
  17. ^ 向井山朋子の《figurante》に見た夢あるいは現実──アーティスト、片山真理が語る https://artnewsjapan.com/article/1404
  18. ^ Christenhusz, Joep (3 May 2020). "Een uitgekiend precisiemechaniek". NRC.
  19. ^ 舞台は閉館直前の原美術館。向井山朋子とレニエ・ファン・ブルムレンによる音楽短編映画が配信 https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/news/exhibition/23219
  20. ^ https://assets.vangoghmuseum.nl/ce62d013-ac35-4d3f-8ec8-92f90e3f7a88/Jaarverslag-2005-Van-Gogh-Museum?c=efab5db68f68517147feddd0a827ea9812f0102c61e88a11aad190c6161d6419
  21. ^ https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/nieuwe-generatie-danst-jiri-kylian-alsof-ze-nooit-anders-heeft-gedaan~bd256c10/
  22. ^ Become Ocean // The Unchanging Sea performed Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra + pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama https://cantaloupemusic.com/tours/become-ocean-unchanging-sea-performed-rotterdam-philharmonic-orchestra-pianist-tomoko
  23. ^ 巨大意志下的柔軟《魔時尚La Mode》 https://pareviews.ncafroc.org.tw/comments/f5c2ff00-71d0-4e78-b29b-9286364b43ac
  24. ^ "A Fragmentary Journey Through Gaudeamus History by Henk Heuvelmans".
  25. ^ Tomoko received this prize in collaboration with the choreographer Nicole Beutler. https://www.theaterkrant.nl/nieuws/nbprojects-wint-dioraphte-dansprijs-met-shirokuro/
  26. ^ "JaDaFo".
  27. ^ March 4, 2023 CAN organised a round table discussion in Tokyo with the title “Creation, Womanhood, Motherhood.” Invited were, among others, Femke Halsema, mayor of Amsterdam and Satoko Kishimoto, mayor of Suginami, Tokyo.
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