Kumiko Okamura
Kumiko Self — An Event Score
Kumiko enters left stage, carrying a tape recorder. She stops near centre
stage and presses the 'play' button. The audience hears her recorded voice
telling, in third person, how Kumiko Okamura learned piano as a child: "...One
day, when she saw a cat walk over the keys of a piano, touching and playing
them, she stopped learning the piano, and started recording on tape...
" The tape reaches its end. Kumiko presses 'stop', looks around and
listens.
Instruments are scattered all over the stage. She rewinds the tape and hits the 'record' button. Focussing on an inner image, she picks up and works with whatever instruments or materials are at hand to make the music come closest to that inner image. In an act of straight doing, she uses anything from voice, keyboard, drums, field recordings, acoustic or electric guitar, toys and voice instruments, alongside any other existing sound.
Kumiko performs without a mission, and in no specific
genre. There are neither conscious influences nor obvious sources of inspiration.
The performance can be very wild or sensitive and delicate. It may sound
optimistic or pessimistic and move into unexplored territory. It might value
simplicity over complexity, and shifts the emphasis from what an artist
'makes' to the artist's creative practice, personality and actions. Kumiko
starts playing, and continues with the flux until she finishes, presses
the 'stop' button and exits right stage.
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Listen to Kumiko Okamura
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(Album) MDDA [Free MP3: Intervall-audio, 2007] |01| Untitled
1 |02| Untitled 2 |
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(Album) Volvo – volvo live
|01| Unborn
|02| Moving on |
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(Album) Sauce 75 [Tape: Menu 06, 2000] |01| Track
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