Let's express Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 through photos and sign language!
Visible Music Photo Session
Pre-event of the 200th Anniversary of Beethoven’s No.9.
RESERVATION REQUIRED
2023.5.4
12:00―
2023.5.4
13:00―
2023.5.4
15:00―
2023.5.4
16:00―
NTT WEST Sanjo Collaboration Plaza
Let’s capture your own and only “Ode to Joy" in a photo wearing a special gloves with LED light. You can experience a photo session by Mariko Tagashira that transcends music and photography.
*The photographs of “Ode to Joy” taken at the photo session will be exhibited in Vienna next year in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the first performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No9.
About the project:
“Visible An die Freude” will show you Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 as you have never seen before! This unique photo exhibition visualizes music through the movements of sign language interpreted by deaf performers of the White Hands Chorus NIPPON.
The children of the White Hands Chorus NIPPON translated the lyrics of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” into sign language and performed with the highly acclaimed Bach Collegium Japan on December 21st, 2021 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. Artist Mariko Tagashira took photographs of the members of the White Hands Chorus NIPPON wearing white gloves with LED lights in fingertips, in a dark room. The traces of the light shown in photographs demonstrate the dynamism of the 9th Symphony performed through sign-language.
This project will provide deep understanding of Beethoven’s message which transcends all barriers of society and bring “Joy” for a much wider range of people around the world. 2024 is the 200th Anniversary of its world premiere. “Visible An die Freude” exhibition will be presented in Vienna to celebrate Beethoven’s message; “All people, let us sing together!”
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Important Notice
May 4th, 2023 12:00-/13:00-/15:00-/16:00-
12 Person per session
Time you need: 30min approximately
Fee: 2500yen/ person
* You will wear a special gloves with LED light and Mariko Tagashira will take a light- painting photograph in a dark room.
* You can bring home your own postcard-sized photograph taken by Mariko Tagashira!
Lecturer
Mariko Tagashira (Photographer)
Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima.
Her career started in 2005 with major works for Japan Post, Suntory and universities, along with commissions for portraits of politicians, artists and business executives.
She finds inspiration in people’s energy facing difficulties. Her artwork projects the energy of fighting spirit.
“Visible An die Freude” was awarded“SDGs Iwasa Artistic Prize” in October, 2022 by Iwasa Foundation
The White Hands Chorus NIPPON
The White Hands Chorus is an inclusive choir started in 1995 in Venezuela, the
home of "El Sistema". In Japan, the chorus was founded in 2017 by the El Sistema
Connect and is sponsored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. The group is
composed by two parts: a gestural one that sings with sign-language-based
corporal expression and a voice group that sings in chorus.
More than half of the members are deaf, hard of hearing, visually impaired,
developmentally disabled or using wheel chairs.
The rehearsals are conducted by professional musicians and actors such as Erika Colon, soprano singer, and Tetsuya Izaki, the founder of the Deaf Theater
Company in Japan. There are approximately 100 participants from Tokyo, Kyoto and Okinawa. In 2021, they performed the most beloved Beethoven’s symphony No.9 together with Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo, with much acclaim.
