Frances Morgan - Sight and Sound
"A stunning new British documentary”
Jasper Sharp - Writer and film curator, Midnight Eye
"A mysterious and compelling meditation on sound, song, story, ritual,
performance, nature, tradition and Japanese Buddhism."
Gaetano Kazuo Maida - Executive Director, Buddhist Film Foundation, Inc.
KanZeOn ReIndications: Preview Mix
Please listen below for a sampler of some of the submissions received so far for this ReIndications project involving a number of artists remixing the soundtrack of the film.
Centuries old traditional religious sounds from Japan reinterpreted in latest musical styles…Not the sort of thing you hear every day?
KanZeOn ReIndications Audio Project Sampler Wav by KanZeOnReIndications
"attaining Buddhahood in a single sound"
“in working with Japanese performers I often feel that they think discovering sounds more significant than expressing by sounds. While words like ma and sawari have actual technical meanings, at the same time they convey a metaphysical aesthetic. I think that as a people who developed the concept of “attaining Buddhahood in a single sound” (Ichion Jobutsu), the Japanese found more meaning in listening to the innate quality of sound rather than in using sound as a means of expression. To them natural sound or noise was not a resource for personal expression but a reflection of the world.”
Toru Takemitsu, Confronting Silence, p.56
A musical motorbike
KanZeOn: Edit Production Stills
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| a net for catching a film fish |
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| the drawing board |
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| all sounds to be processed by the dragon sampler |
Film finished…Blog re-starts
"The rhythm of sliding doors"
William Malm, Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music, p.42
KanZeOn ReIndications 4: DJ Ta2mi & IamOmni
As a DJ, producer and beat-boxer, Tatsumi will also be involved in the ReIndications project remixing the film’s soundtrack, providing a backing track for his friend, Los Angeles based rapper IamOmni.
Having met Tatsumi during a tour of Japan, IamOmni is about to release his 6th album in a career that has taken him all the way around the world, performing with Fatlip and Blackalicious, and recently working in the studio with Tricky.
You can get a sample of their combined talents below with Tatsumi cutting up Omni’s track American African…
Just something magical…
Something unbelievable for April Fools Day…
"Music is a gift of the gods"
“The custom of imposing a ban of secrecy on the teaching and learning of music was based on the religious idea that music is a gift of the gods”
Shigeo Kishibe, The Traditional Music of Japan, p.15Club Pyramid
Exactly as it says in the title – a club that is a pyramid, perfectly located with wonderful views across the port of Misumi in Southern Japan, with an underlying feeling of being on some kind of space-ship.
You can see some more cosmic pictures on the club’s website.
We were fortunate enough to be able to film at this amazing venue for the performance of DJ Ta2mi. Unsurprisingly, the unusual shape of the building creates some interesting acoustic effects, which perhaps became clearest at the end of the night after the DJ’d music had finished and we found ourselves marvelling at the huge sounds made by drumming on whatever was around us – luckily the camera was still rolling…Once again, make sure the volume is turned up for the following video clip because it is the sound that’s the important thing.
