Voice and the expanded body - yet simultaneously grabbing / gathering her body from the inside - expanded and gathered
listening - silence - Skin as sensory listening organ - ears outside, in the corners of the room, down in her hips - move your ears - hear the sounds and respond. Sound as vibration, lives on in the space - ghosts are sound vibrations.
Hands, body - vacuum in chest - she hits under her collarbone to activate the vacuum - twists neck, turns head, twists hips - all to change sound and respond - to reach the end wall or wooden beam.
Responding to resonance - if she hears a '2' she responds with a '2' but this can be made out of '1+1', 0+2, 1/2+1.5 etc
Shamanic element - re-enchantment of space - the space / room starts to sing - to commune - acting upon as being acted upon - otherworldly - where is the sound coming from?
Acute sensitivity responsiveness subtly honesty humility openness wild present timeless human/non-human - energy
Ami Yamasaki sings the sounds of brooks, birds, trees and waterfalls. An experimental vocalist and cross-disciplinary artist from Tokyo, she creates live acoustic performances, installations and films.
About
Ami’s work explores a fundamental question: ‘How does the world construct itself?’ For her, this question is a love letter to the natural world and to life itself, more vital than any answer. She sings as she works at each site and the patterns she creates are a direct response to the acoustic feedback she receives. She sings, and listens, and ‘little by little, the space begins to make its own music’.
Ami sings with a technique called echo-location. She has performed in various contexts, including galleries where she has sung in duets with paintings and with audience members.
Recent performances and exhibitions include Winter solstice concert (2018, Enoura observatory founded by Hiroshi Sugimoto), Sounds to Summon the Japanese Gods (2016, Japan Society of New York), Signs of Voices (2016, Kyoto Art Center, Japan), Setouchi Triennale 2019 (Japan), and Sonic City 2013 Liquid Architecture (2013, RMIT, Australia).
Ami presented at TEDx Tokyo in 2016 and has been awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (2017) and the Asian Fellowship at the Asia Center of Japan Foundation (2018).
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