Turn a Story Inside Out — For Listeners / 2013

6 performers listen to the famous pop song ‘Christmas Eve’ by Tatsuro Yamashita, Japanese pop singer and songwriter, through headphones and accompany this pre-recorded sound with their own musical instruments, drum set, a guitar, voice, a clarinet, percussions, a keyboard. It is inaudible for listeners which sound sources performers are listening to, so it would be imagine only through their accompanied sounds.

The duration: 5min
Materials: a pre-recorded audio source and 6 musical instruments
The first performance was on the 23rd of May, 2013 at Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo.

6名の演奏者が山下達郎の「クリスマス・イブ」の音源をヘッドフォンで聴きながら、各々の楽器(ドラムセット、ギター、声、クラリネット、打楽器、キーボード)で伴奏をつけていく。観客には演奏者が何の音を聞いているかは明らかにされず、彼らの奏でる音を通して想像される。

長さ:5分
素材:事前録音音源、6種類の楽器
2013年5月23日、Gallery Objective Correlative(四谷、東京)にて初演。