Gaku Kurokawa: Listening to Stone

Workshops by Gaku Kurokawa, a biennale artist.   This workshop involves participants making their own small wooden mallets and then heading out into the city to make sounds. As you walk around the city, you gently touch things that catch our eye with your mallets and listen carefully to the sounds you make. Let’s enjoy together the fun, mystery, and joy of touching things we encounter in the city with the tools we have made ourselves and listening to the sounds that result. The creation of the wooden mallets will involve only simple tasks, requiring no specialized knowledge or experience. After making the wooden mallets, we will walk with Mr. Kurokawa and listen to the sounds around us. The mallets you create can be taken home with you.   Notes Children under elementary school age must be accompanied by a guardian. This event includes a walk (approx. 1 hour) after the production, from Etoile Kaito Living Building to Kamiya Ice Shop. Please prepare an additional fare of ¥180 for transportation from Bakuroyokoyama Station to Iwamotocho Station. If a typhoon is approaching or rainfall of more than 30mm per hour is forecast on the day of the event, we will inform you of the decision to hold or cancel the event by the day before.