Festival Organisers and Partners
Curated and produced by mu:arts and International Noh Project Committee, Tokyo in partnership with Kings Place, Japan Foundation and the Noh Theatre Research Institute, Hosei University.
Leon Michener is a truly original pianist, known as the architect of the Klavikon system (a combination of amplification, feedback and analogue processing), in which he sculpts the feedback from the amplified piano soundboard.
In this unique encounter, he will improvise on acoustic and processed piano, and clavichord, and with flautist Yukihiro Isso and drummer Mitsuhiro Kakihara, applying the space between the piano and the listeners as an ascetic counterpoint to the Noh musicians.
As Michener explains:
‘Creating something from nothing, using only the empty space between piano and speaker, and merely guiding the flow of sound like water, this way and that, trying to gently direct the undetectable, seemed to offer a perfect response to classical Noh theatre, with its concepts of ‘Ma’, the ‘empty space’ filled with potential’.
Curated and produced by mu:arts and International Noh Project Committee, Tokyo in partnership with Kings Place, Japan Foundation and the Noh Theatre Research Institute, Hosei University.
Arts Council England, Arts Council Tokyo, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and Yakult.