#KENJI KIHARA

[trevlad-sounds]

The Great Sunrise

20.05.2023

David Cordero The Great Sadness

Kenji Kihara Ray of Hope (short ver.) Bubble Golden Rod and the Hairy Wookie Rmz 432 Hz Flickering Satellite Joseph Shabason Westmeath Sonna One Most Memorable Geotic Simplehearted

Slow Dancing Society By Your Side hissquiet Inextricably Bound Any Colour You Like Our Saturday Satellite Almanacs Green Cathedral Jogging House Fires HC Clifford Sails Polypores Slow Fruiting

Oneohtrix Point Never Ouroboros Nakayama Munetoshi pulse Matthew Bourne Somewhere I Have Never Travelled Motionfield Injection 7 Casino Versus Japan Hello You Stellardrone Cosmic Sunrise

[hokuto-yuasa-journal]

Hayama Ambient 038

[tomoyoo]

Manga, books and authors mentioned in A Drunken Dream and Other Stories

I wrote the english names that were used in the book. Honestly the way I organized this gave me a headache but I hope it's useful <3 See more for the list of authors that were mentioned briefly.

Manga mentioned in the interview Mama’s Violin - Tetsuya Chiba Tomboy Angel - Mitsuteru Yokoyama Shinsengumi; Astro Boy - Osamu Tezuka Harp of the Stars; Hello, Teacher; The White Troika - Hideko Mizuno Mist, Roses and Stars - Shotaro Ishitani The Boy from Dartmoor - Nanae Sasaya In the Sunroom; The Song of the Wind and the Trees - Keiko Takemiya You Can Hear the Rain; Birth - Yumiko Oshima Norakuro - Suiho Tagawa The Rose of Versailles - Riyoko Ikeda

Mentioned in Rachel Thorn's essay Fuichin-san - Toshiko Ueda Tomorrow’s Joe - Tetsuya Chiba Eyes of Ice - Nanae Sasaya Aim for the Ace! - Sumika Yamamoto Toward the Terra; Fly Me to the Moon! - Keiko Takemiya Banana Bread Pudding; F-Shiki Ranmaru - Yumiko Oshima Two in a White Room; Arabesque; The Son of Heaven in the Land of the Rising Sun; Terpsichore - Ryoko Yamagishi Mari and Shingo; A Staff and Wings - Toshie Kihara

Books The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Shank’s Mare - Ikku Jippensha The Currents of Space - Isaac Asimov The Generative Enterprise Revisited - Noam Chomsky Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran

There's notes at the end giving more context for these authors but I don't have it in me rn.

Interview: Miyako Maki Masako Watanabe Kazuo Umezu Sanpei Shirato Mineko Yamada Ryoko Yamagishi Jun Morita Yasuko Sakata Akiko Hatsu Shio Satoh Aiko Itoh Machiko Satonaka

Essay: Yoshiko Nishitani Minori Kimura Mineko Yamada Akira Mochizuki Sato Tomoe

Book authors: Kenji Miyazawa Jean Stratton-Porter Robert Heinlein Ryotaro Shiba Sawako Ariyoshi Herman Hesse Ray Bradbury Jean Cocteau Kenichiro Mogi

[rygk]

SOLD OUT!!-キャンセル待ち受付中-

『帰省する音楽』 -絵と音の即興演奏会-

［日時］2023.8.11(金祝) open 14:30 / start 15:00 ［会場］稲毛海岸cafeどんぐりの木(千葉市美浜区高洲1-16-46) ［ライブペインティング］矢野ミチル ［演奏］宮内優里、小畑亮吾 ［チケット］¥3,000(＋1D)※小中学生¥1,500/未就学児無料 ［詳細&予約］sold out!!キャンセル待ち受付中

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［小畑亮吾］

音楽家/ヴァイオリン弾き/シンガーソングライター ヴァイオリン一梃弾き語り。リアルタイムサンプリングを用いたプレイを得意とするストリングストロニカ音楽家。 映像や絵画、舞台、植物といった様々な分野とのコラボレーションやインプロビゼーションなど全環境型パフォーマンスを行う。 また、自身を再生装置とした時報インスタレーション『夕刻のヴァイオリン弾き』を各地で行い生演奏に触れる場を拡張し続けている。

【すみだ向島EXPO】【ととのう温泉美術館】などの芸術祭での時報演奏の他、山形県大石田町では防災無線を使った実際の町の時報音楽も手がける。 平野絢士監督のファッションフィルム【LEPUS CORNUTUS】などの音楽、カナダのAliison Mooreのニューメディアアート【向島ジオラマ】での即興演奏、上野の森美術館で行われた【THE WORLD OF UKIYO-E】の空間サウンドデザインなども担当した。 http://goomi.jp/rygk/

［ 宮内優里］

音楽作家。1983年生まれ。千葉県八街市在住。2006年にRallye LabelよりCDデビュー。生楽器の演奏とプログラミングを織り交ぜた、有機的な電子音楽の制作を得意とする。最新作は2023年リリースの「Instruments 2」。ライブ演奏では即興での多重録音によるパフォーマンスを行う。WORLD HAPPINESS、FUJI ROCK FESTIVALなどにも出演。近年はBGM演奏という形の活動もしており、全国の美術館、図書館または書店など、様々な場所で演奏をしている。自身の活動以外では、映画「岬のマヨイガ」(監督：川面真也 / CV：芦田愛菜ほか / 原作：柏葉幸子)、映画「リトル・フォレスト」(監督：森淳一 / 出演：橋本愛ほか / 原作：五十嵐大介)などの映画音楽をはじめ、NHK・Eテレ「あおきいろ」、「Ｑ～こどものための哲学」や、ドラマ・舞台・CMなどの音楽や空間BGMの設計など、様々な形で音楽制作・楽曲提供を行っている。KENJI KIHARAとの音楽プロジェクト「BGM LAB.」や、映像作家・川嶋鉄工所との映像制作ユニット「MIYAGAWATEC」などでも活動中。 https://miyauchiyuri.com/

［矢野ミチル］

無意識下のイメージを描き続ける蠍座の画家。茅ヶ崎に生まれ、2014年に東京から瀬戸内の因島に移住する。自動筆記画集「色を歩く」や「夢意識のオラクルカード」を出版。N-qia、CLOUD NI9E、キスミワコ、ふらむきりん など数多くのアルバムアートワークを担当する。屋号はアトリエ可視光線。 www.yanomichiru.net

[inner--islands]

Kenji Kihara "Slow Slope Sleeps" Digital II072 (2020) Bandcamp / Stream

[xerophile]

Kenji Kihara – Scenes of Scapes (2018)

inner islands

[voidplus-jp]

「POP-UP “ARTIST RUNNING” #8 ジョエル・カークハム “Ground Swell” by Goya Curtain」 2023.8.11（Fri）― 8.13（Sun）

void+eavesでは、8月11日(祝・金)から13日(日)まで、「POP-UP “ARTIST RUNNING” #8 ジョエル・カークハム “Ground Swell” by Goya Curtain」を開催いたします。

POP-UP “ARTIST RUNNING”は、2020年よりvoid+eavesがアーティスト・ラン・スペースやプロジェクトを継続的に紹介してきたシリーズ企画です。8回目の最終回となる今回はGoya Curtain（ゴーヤ・カーテン）を紹介します。Goya Curtainは、ニュージランドからやって きたアーティストのジョエル・カークハムとビョーン・ハウトマンによって、2016年に非営利のアートスペースとして中目黒のアパートの一室から始まり、その後、池袋に移転�� 現在は下高井戸で活動を続けています。彼らが活動する日本固有のアパートの六畳一間の和室は、��規模ながら箱庭的な小宇宙として、国内外のアーティストたちの作品展示に空間的な遊びを与え、それ自体がインスタレーションのコンセプトの一端を担うことも少なくありません。今回はそのGoya Curtainのディレクターであり自身もアーティストであるジョエル・カークハムの展示を行います。近年は、レシートや紙ナプキンといった日常生活の中で出会う紙媒体を支持体に幾何学的なドローイングを描くカークハムの新作を含む、国内では未発表のアッサンブラージュ作品なども展示される予定です。

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＜開催概要＞ タイトル：「POP-UP “ARTIST RUNNING” #8 ジョエル・カークハム “Ground Swell” by Goya Curtain」 会期：2023年8月11日（金/祝日）- 8月13日（日）12:00~18:00 会場：void+eaves （東京都港区南青山3-16-14, 1F） ディレクション：杉原寛 キュレーション：兼平彦太郎 お問合せ：info@voidplus.jp

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＜アーティスト・プロフィール＞

ジョエル・カークハム　（JOEL VIVIAN KIRKHAM） Adjunct Professor at Temple University, Japan Campus Director of Goya Curtain Project Space, Tokyo (www.goyacurtain.com)

主な個展 2022 Comings and Goings, Denys Watkins + Joel Kirkham (Two-person Exhibition), Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand 2021 Urban Rocks, SAPC Gallery (Online Solo Exhibition) 2018       Yusuke Kihara + Joel Kirkham (Two-person Exhibition), Caves Gallery, Melbourne So on and so forth (Solo Exhibition), Goya Curtain, Tokyo

主なグループ展 2022       Accumulations (Platform for Shared Praxis #5), Curated by Jesse Hogan, Aoyama Meguro Gallery, Tokyo Platform for Shared Praxis #4, Curated by Jesse Hogan, Caves Gallery, Melbourne Social Life, Stella Corkery, Catherine Dale, Joel Kirkham, Kenji Ide, Knulp Gallery, Sydney 2021 Encapsulated, Curated by Christopher L G Hill, Caves Gallery, Melbourne 2019 Japanese Positions, Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen + Atsuo Hukuda, Raum2810, Bonn, Germany 2018 Platform for Shared Praxis #3, Curated by Jesse Hogan, Toride Tokyo University of the Arts Museum

キュレーションをした主な展示

2023 Turtle, Christopher L G Hill, Goya Curtain, Tokyo Track, Dash, Stroke, André Piguet, Magnus Frederik Clausen, Yusuke Muroi and Yu Nishimura, Curated by Christopher L G Hill + Joel Kirkham, Goya Curtain, Tokyo 2022 Patrick Lundberg,     ∙∙ ∙∙, Goya Curtain, Tokyo 2021 Social Life, Stella Corkery, Catherine Dale, Joel Kirkham, Kenji Ide, Knulp Gallery, Sydney Kenji Ide, Banana Moon, Watermelon Sun, Goya Curtain, Tokyo 2020 Anoushka Akel, (Red Legs) Hot Head, Goya Curtain, Tokyo Soshi Matsunobe, 松延総司, Goya Curtain, Tokyo 2019 Camilla Steinum, Transaction, Goya Curtain, Tokyo AXES, Dylan Batty, Mitchel Cumming, Maria Smit, Alex Gawronski, Shane Haseman, Goya Curtain, Tokyo 2018 Matt Hinkley, Attach an updated drawing, as the numbers have changed in the room. Also rotate the rooms so they are sitting this way., Goya Curtain, Tokyo Stella Corkery, I’ve Seen Sunny Days, Goya Curtain, Tokyo

インタビュー

2020 An Interview with Joel Kirkham of Tokyo’s Goya Curtain Project Space, By Catherine Dale, Contemporary HUM (https://contemporaryhum.com/writing/an-interview-with-joel-kirkham/ )

[chishiru61]

Dec.2022

春が呼んでる/Pii YULE/Amiina Quicksand/Bialystocks for you who are the wronged/Kathryn joseph ★from dusk to the sun(-Light years Ⅲ- THE NORTH FACE Sphere M/N) ★歌声は風に乗って/矢舟テツロ―トリオと仮谷せいら ★SUPER TERRA2000(Live)/the brilliant green abracadabra/abracadabra rainbow music/ghost orchard Air Guitar/Sobs 3/キリンジ Around the Christmas Tree/Ignasi Terraza・Randy Greer ★10の足跡/湯川潮音 Highlight/蒼山幸子 Movements/Natalie Evans ★メトロパルス/CAPSULE Forever Live Sessions/Men I Trust 万祝/SAKA-SAMA ★Shapes&Time/Lullatone ★ピース2022/ふぇのたす きらめき、いま、見えるでしょ？/リルネード L.S./lyrical school ★(エン)/RYUTist ★Komorebi 木漏れ日/David Cordero, KENJI KIHARA How the Light Felt/Smut ★Vessel/Frankie Cosmos ★Next Thing ＋ Fir Me In/Frankie Cosmos ★World record/TWEEDEES First Snowfall/Bob Mete

[musicmakesyousmart]

David Cordero & Kenji Kihara - Komorebi 木漏れ日

Home Normal

2022

[inner-islands]

“Scenes of Scapes” by Kenji Kihara

Now available on 12″ vinyl LP for the first time! This is a limited run of 111 copies. Orders will be shipping out by early May.

[trevlad-sounds]

Mixtape 327 “Superimposed Forest”

2023-06-21

Slow Ambient Drift

Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom. https://www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/

Matthewdavid-Perpetuity-00:00

KENJI KIHARA-Flow in the Back-04:28

Tayus-Agnostic-07:35

Lori Scacco-Strange Cities-10:23

Philippe Brown-Serenade of the Techno Mystics-14:48

Jogging House-Dancer-16:56

Scanner-Entrance to Listening Forest-20:10

Suzanne Ciani-The Third Wave - Love In The Waves-24:41

Future Children-Cotard's Delusion-29:21

John Haughey-Seamounts-30:34

tadoma-Attic Excavation-32:51

Hiroshi Ebina-Having Superimposed Possibilites-35:24

[nicocoisanerd]

New month, new episode out of my Into the Night show! Click the picture to stream a healthy dose of bright ambient music.

Tracklist:

Lowercase Noises - I'm Afraid Anymore

Mary Lattimore - Hello From the Edge of the World (Kjartan Holm Remix)

Lights Out Asia - All is Quiet in the Valley

Daniel Lanois - Forest City

Frakkur - PP7

Endless Melancholy - These Gloomy Days

Kenji Kihara - Inner Light

Anthéne - etc.

Jónsi & Alex & The Wordless Orchestra - Atlas Song

Jim Guthrie - With Sword and Shield

Ludvig Cimbrelius - Beloved

Eternell - Frequency (Ascend)

Daniel Land - White Squall

Bjorn Rohde - Intentionally Gone

Halftribe - For the Summer, or Forever

Mogwai - Kids Will Be Skeletons

[inner--islands]

Interview with Kenji Kihara (September 2018)

1. What are some recent inspirations?

The bugs’ voices are swapped, inspired by changes in the season.

2. How often do you make field recordings?

One or two times a week. The house is surrounded by mountains and the ocean, and I am recording there.

3. Have you always lived in Horiuchi? What role does that landscape play in your music?

I always live in “Hayama”. (Horiuchi is the name of a small parcel, “Hayama” is suitable) Hayama is a place where nature and the town coexist well. It brings harmony of the mind.

4. You post a lot of pictures online of the same places from day to day. Do you feel very connected to the subtle changes of your home as it moves through the seasons?

Yes. I think that it is also importantly related to change of mind.

5. Do you feel like your music dialogues with the work any other musicians in particular and their approach to sound?

Yes. I feel like a music dialogue. My music has no sound of my own. When working with other musicians, It will be completed in a form closely resembling the sounds of other musicians.

6. Do you feel like self-expression is a part of your art? Or is the art more about serving a particular purpose or functionality?

My music is not for self expression. I am making music that creates the atmosphere of the place and something that makes me feel something. For example, I make music like fragrance. To keep harmony with nature.

7. Why do you make music? What can music do for you that other art forms can not?

Since childhood I was a child interested in sound. The sound taught me every natural thing. The music I make is not to express myself, It is a thing to make the space there better, or just what is there just with nature. Occasionally, Wind Chime sounds in the wind, and the leaves of the trees rub against it, and it expresses such sounds with music. I express expressing the creation of space through music production.

8. Do you improvise much while recording? If so, how much is improvised and how much is composed before recording?

Yes. Basically I do improvisation when I record. Then rebuild what you recorded.

9. You also record music as Sphontik and with BGM LAB. How do you see the releases under your own name as different from these other projects? Do you feel like you can explore certain sounds under your own name That you can not with the other projects?

Yes. Kenji Kihara is mainly composed of electronic and ambient music, and sphontik mainly produces sampled music. Kenji Kihara makes more deep music. sphontik is music that contains dance elements. BGM LAB. Co-written with yuri miyauchi, it is separate from the production by Kenji Kihara.

10. Words of wisdom you like to recall in times of need?

“listen to the sound of the earth turning” A word that makes me reconfirm that I am part of nature.

Inner Islands recently released Kenji’s Scenes of Scapes album on cassette and digitally. The album is available from our Bandcamp page.