Music Show & Tell: Ami Yamasaki — Energy
8 – 9:30PM
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents MUSIC SHOW & TELL: Ami Yamasaki — Energy. The performance “ENERGY” by Ami Yamasaki is the voice, sounds and visual arts that she made with her friends in Tokyo, inspired by the conversations with her friends about the earthquake and their ordinary life.
Tokyo didn’t experience catastrophic damage like Fukushima or the Pacific Ocean coast part of the Tohoku area. However, it is afflicted by fear of the health hazard caused by the release of nuclear radiation. For the people who lived in Tokyo, their existence and way of life were shaken by the overwhelming energy of the nuclear power plant and its radiation. Then, in individual daily life, they face the problem to which people had turned their eyes away long: “what is the quality of life? How can the individuals make a solidarity?” Ami found the title “ENERGY” from their conversations.
MUSIC SHOW & TELL is a live music series providing a chamber-music like setting for the performance and discussion of mostly acoustic music, primarily of international origin, including traditional music, classical, jazz, “new” music, and multi-disciplinary collaborations.
“I am caught by nobody and run through.” This is an image that I live. I want to exist as energy for itself what it runs through. I always finally think, “It is a problem of energy.” The important thing is that you have overwhelmed energy to the others or not. It’s not a problem of ethics or morality. I don’t change anything before or after happened the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident on March 11, 2011 in Japan or September 11 attacks, 2001 in the U.S. I don’t want to say anything to present to the people my thinking or thought through my creation and performance. I just want to present my own “ENERGY” that I can present. I’ve not been changed before and after the earthquake at all. To keep creating something I can believe it beautiful has been my decision.
Under this article of faith, I never say the word “innocent people” nor want to become a victim easily. I am a part of world like a mesh of the net. If this mesh can run faster to somewhere else, world will change some how. Sounds like crazy but I believe my thinking.
— Ami Yamasaki
Ami Yamasaki is a vocalist, director and creator of physical theater works, films and art installations from Tokyo, Japan. A seeker of primitive vocalization, mystery, and movement, she performs frequently at the temples and shrines of Japan. Ami asks the world, “What is the material of the world?” “How the world consists?” with her voice and sound. For her, these questions are the love letter to the world. She seeks the relationship between humans and the world.
She makes music by over dubbing with her voice the sound from various things and movements, layering the vibrations to create different textures, cross-currents and whirlpools of sound. In that process new relations arise between the sounds, and the meaning of each sound is transformed.