1
Reversible Destiny (Main Theme)
2
In Memory of Helen Keller
3
Architectural Body
4
Requiem for not to die
5
Dreaming
6
The mechanism of meaning (with Madeline Gins)
7
Reversible Destiny (Rhodes Piano version)
8
Mistake (with Madeline Gins)
9
Another Texture 1
10
Another Texture 2
11
Numbers
12
Shadow Boxing
13
Reversible Destiny (Piano Solo version)
14
drill 4
15
Landing Sites
16
Bioscleave House
17
Children who won't die
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All Produced, Composed by Keiichiro Shibuya (ATAK)
Piano, Rhodes, Noise and Computer Programming by Keiichiro Shibuya (ATAK)
Voice by Tr.6, 8 by Madeline Gins
Recorded by Takashi Ikegami (Tokyo University)
Recorded for Piano and Rhodes on Tr.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 17 by Yoshiyuki Kanamori (Oasis sound design inc.)
Mastered by Kimken (kimken studio)
Art works by Shusaku Arakawa "Bonjour Picasso" 1973
Designed by Ryoji Tanaka (ATAK, Semitransparent Design)
Printed by Graph
©Madeline Gins, courtesy of ABRF, Inc.
Tr. 15
Landing Sites Madeline Gins and Arakawa
Were nothing being apportioned out, no world could form. What is being apportioned out, no one is able to say. That which is being apportioned out is in the process of landing. To be apportioned out involves being cognizant of sites.To be cognizant of a site amounts to having greeted it in some manner or to having in some way landed on it. There is that which gets apportioned out as the world. There is an apportioning out that can register and an apportioning out that happens more indeterminately.A systematic approximating of how things are apportioned out should be possible.
The body is sited. As that which initiates pointing, selecting, electing, determining, and considering, it may be said to originate (read co-originate) all sites. Organism - person - environment consists of sites and would - be sites. An organism - person,
a sited body, lives as one site that is composed of many sites. One can, for example, consider one's arms and legs to be part of a single site (the body) or elect them to be two sites (an upper - appendages realm and a lower - appendages one) or four (two upper and two lower appendages) or twenty - four or more sites (two arms having a total of ten fingers, and two legs with ten toes in all).
Text quoted from: "Architectural Body", Madeline Gins and Arakawa (2002, The University of Alabama Press)
Keiichiro Shibuya (b. 1973) is a Japanese composer, musician, and artist. His work encompasses cutting-edge electronic music, piano solos, operas, film scores, and sound installations. Through his music compositions and collaboration with artists and scientists, he challenges the boundaries between humans, technology, and life and death. In 2002, he founded the music label ATAK, working across live performance and recorded music. In 2021, he composed the opera Super Angels, commissioned by the New National Theatre Tokyo, which brought together an android, opera singers, chorus, ballet dancers, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2022, he presented MIRROR, a new Android Opera in collaboration with Buddhist chanting and a local UAE orchestra, at the Dubai Expo. In June 2023, a 70-minute full version premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with a Tokyo performance scheduled for June 2024. In April 2024, he presented his sound installation Abstract Music at the Lexus exhibition for Milan Design Week. He has also composed numerous film scores, including the music for the film Midnight Swan (2020), directed by Eiji Uchida and starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, for which he won the 75th Mainichi Film Concours Music Award and the 30th Japan Film Critics Award for Best Film Score. In 2022, he composed the score for xxxHOLiC (directed by Mika Ninagawa) and provided the music for the short film KAGUYA BY GUCCI. Through his works, he continues to explore the boundaries of technology, life, and death.
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