EXHIBITIONS
Sound-walk
Venue
Ueno/Okachimachi Area
①Toeizan Kan'ei-ji Temple Kompon Chu-do
1-14-11 Uenosakuragi, Taito-ku
②Benten-do Temple
2-1 Ueno Park, Taito-ku
③Around Matsuzakaya Ueno
3-29 Ueno, Taito-ku
Kanda/Akihabara Area
④Around Suehirocho Station
3-7 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku
Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area
⑤Around Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.
1-15-15 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku
Yaesu/Kyobashi Area
⑥Around the Kyobashi Saiku
(Artizon Museum/TODA BUILDING)
1-7-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku
Date
Free
Reference image: An Encouragement of Dawdling; “o to da te” and “no zo mi,” 2018–2019
Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Akio Suzuki, known as a pioneer of sound art in Japan, has pursued the relationship between sound and space since the 1960s, developing “self-study events,” performances, and installations both domestically and internationally. For this festival, we are presenting o to da te, a representative project focusing specifically on “listening” within Suzuki’s wide-ranging activities, at six locations across Tokyo.
o to da te is a project where participants, like in the “nodate” tea ceremony held outdoors, can open their senses by listening carefully as they get a sense of the scenery at designated points. Each point was discovered by Suzuki himself as he explored the city, seeking out locations where unique environmental sounds and reverberations could be heard.
At these selected points, markers are installed featuring a form readable as both feet standing together and ears listening. Participants visit these points using a map, which includes places like an ancient tree facing a historic temple precinct or areas surrounding bustling streets lined with museums and galleries. Standing quietly alone on a mark switches on your auditory awareness, allowing you to listen intently to the sounds present in each moment. There, all of us become active as both listeners and composers, as we spend time in this engaged state.
Special Support: Ishibashi Foundation
Courtesy of Beethoven Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn / Photo by Meike Boeschemeyer
Sound artist. Born in 1941. Since his infamous Throwing Objects Down a Staircase event at Nagoya Station in 1963 and the self study events which followed, where he explored the processes of “projection” and “following” in the natural world, Suzuki has pursued listening as a practice. In the 1970s he created and began performing on a number of original instruments, including the echo instrument Analapos. In 1988 he performed his piece Space in the Sun, which involved purifying his ears for twenty four hours in nature on the meridian line that runs through Amino, Kyoto. In 1996, he began his “oto da te” project where he seeks out echo points in the urban environment. Has performed and exhibited at many venues and music festivals around the world, including Documenta8 (Germany,1987), the British Museum (2002), Musée Zadkine (France, 2004), Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany, 2018), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo(Tokyo, 2019), etc.
Ueno/Okachimachi Area
Kanda/Akihabara Area
Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area
Yaesu/Kyobashi Area
①Toeizan Kan'ei-ji Temple Kompon Chu-do
②Benten-do Temple
③Around Matsuzakaya Ueno
④Around Suehirocho Station
⑤Around Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.
⑥Around the Kyobashi Saiku
(Artizon Museum/TODA BUILDING)
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