2nd Kyoto University-Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium [Music] Masahiro Miwa
July 11-12, 2015
2nd Kyoto University-Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium
[Music]
Masahiro Miwa
Dean and Professor, IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences)
Composer
Title of Presentation
“New Religious Music –The Potential of the Arts in Electricity Civilization”
Religious music, which is frequently contrasted with secular music, has been also referred to as church music in the West and the concept of musical composition itself derives from the history of music for religious purposes. Although artistic music had evolved as an alternative to church music since the Baroque period and succeeded religious music, I feel that in fact the history of its composition has ended in modern society in the face of music transmitted by media. Under such circumstances, I am currently attempting to reinterpret my works as religious music in a broader sense. Although such an attempt of mine is not attributable to any particular religious belief, I wish to redefine the meaning of human arts, which have always existed throughout our history, as one form of religious pursuits in essence, and hopefully, to become a successor to such endeavours. In other words, the arts (music) for me no longer concern cultural issues but they are a losing gamble for the survival of our humanity.
In this regard, we must not forget that today we all live in unprecedented circumstances. This means the human world based on highly sophisticated technologies—an environment “which exists on the premise that electricity continues to be provided at all times without fail while thinking about our responsibilities and the future of our children directly leads to the efforts for ‘further development of technologies. *’” I decided to define such a world simply as “electricity civilization.”
In the lecture, I will try to explain my activities as pursuits for the potential of the arts in electricity civilization as defined above over composition/music. Specifically, I will talk about two scopes of my composition activities that seem completely different: those related to “reverse simulation music” and “the Formant Brothers” or my creative unit with Nobuyasu Sakonda. As an example of the former which is known as algorithmic composition, I would like to introduce a piano piece automatically generated by a self-feedback system. For the latter, I hope to present a religious piece by G.B. Pergolesi performed by artificial singing utilizing a MIDI accordion as a practical example of contemplation over synthesized voices and their subjects.
*From “Chubu Denryoku Geijutsu Sengen” (2009)
[Collaborators for Prof. Miwa's lecture]
Reisiu Sakai (Soprano singer)
Eugene Okano (Full-time Lecturer, Department of Piano, SHOBI College of Music)
Nobuyasu Sakonda(Professor, Department of Visual Media, School of Media and Design, Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences. / Musician / Media Artist)
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In Tokyo, These Trains Jingle All the Way
While most train stations alert passengers with basic dings and dongs, metro riders in Japan are treated to uniquely crafted melodies. Minoru Mukaiya is the mastermind behind these jingles—he’s made around 200 distinct chimes for over 110 stations. For Minoru, there’s no greater joy than bringing a little bit of music to millions across Japan every day.
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Alice in Wonderland in China by Howard Chang at San Francisco Public Library
Chess, playing cards, day-school and imperial measures are among the concepts that Howard Chang interpreted for the annotated Chinese version of Alice in Wonderland. This lecture was part of the Spring 2017 Meeting of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and the closing event for SFPL's The Illustrated Alice: The Imagining of Wonderland exhibit:
10x10 American Photobooks (Archive)
10x10 American Photobooks seeks funding for its publication. This campaign will receive all of the funds contributed by Wed 03 April, 2013:
10x10 is going to Tokyo in 2013! 10x10 is taking 100 contemporary American photobooks to Tokyo this year and we need to create a catalogue. We're looking for backers to help fund the publication production -- an experimental and creative project in its own right.
What's 10x10 American Photobooks?
Ten specialists from the photobook community are each selecting 10 contemporary American photobooks they consider to be influential. These 100 books will be displayed in the 10x10 American Photobooks exhibit at the Tokyo Institute of Photography for a 4-week run in September 2013. The 10x10 project makes photobooks accessible to the international bibliographic community and builds upon the success of the first 10x10 event, which exhibited Japanese post-war photobooks in NYC in 2012.
Can't get to Tokyo?
You don't have to! That's why we're producing a catalogue in collaboration with bookdummypress. The publication is a way for you to experience the entire 10x10 project, even if you can't jet over to Tokyo to see it. The stylish and inventive Japanese manga design-inspired edition will be released with the opening of the September 2013 Tokyo reading room. The bilingual Japanese-English publication will present illustrated selection lists from all the specialists, along with essays (not previously published) on American photobook culture by noted artists, writers, publishers, curators and bibliophiles. The 10x10 American Photobooks catalogue will provide the full 10x10 experience. Support our publication, and spread the photobook love to all our community!
Here are the specialists selecting the books for the reading room:
1. Shannon Michael Cane / Printed Matter
2. Lindsey Castillo, Rebecca O'Keefe, and Grant Willing / The Camera Club of New York
3. Bruno Ceschel / Self Publish Be Happy
4. Christina Labey / Conveyor Arts
5. Larissa LeClair / Indie Photobook Library
6. Leigh Ledare / Photographer
7. Harper Levine and John Gossage / Harper's Books and Loosestrife Editions
8. David Senior / Museum of Modern Art Library Bibliographer
9. David Solo / Photobook Collector
10. Alec Soth and Brad Zellar / Little Brown Mushroom
The 10x10 American Photobooks Team: Matthew Carson
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Russet Lederman and
Olga Yatskevich
(co-organizers)
Shiori Kawasaki and
Victor Sira
(Publishers and book designers / bookdummypress)
Mathieu Asselin and Jeff Gutterman
(Multimedia, technical and editorial support)
The project is sponsored by the International Center of Photography Library, the Tokyo Institute of Photography, and the Photobook Facebook Group.
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Kamakura Temples; Neuropsychiatric Institute; Tokyo Harbor & Street Scenes
Slate: 21Apr68 Kamakura.
CU car w/ young Japanese driver & UCLA decal in window.
18:11:32 Pan from large Buddha statue to tourists & families on concrete courtyard. MCU American boy taking picture. CUs Buddha; w/ & w/o flowers in foreground.
18:11:54 Group of Japanese students in uniforms taking notes, looking at statue; other students arriving.
18:12:17 CU corner of ornate temple (?), tilt down to other temple buildings. LS of tourists & others up & down steps from temple.
18:12:47 Inside of drab concrete wall surrounding concrete building w/ barred windows. CU of window, tulips outside. CU window, tulips & tilt up to window.
18:13:32 CU plaque in Japanese & English: National Yokohama Juvenile Classification Home.
18:13:42 MS entrance; exterior.
18:13:55 CU direction sign w/ arrow: Neuropsychiatirc Institute, UCLA hospital. Pan to nine or ten story large building under construction. Repeat, people walking. LS; tilt up nearly completed building.
18:14:27 CU sign: Psychiatry / Neurology / Outpatient; and number 740.
18:14:34 CU magazine cover: This Week In Tokyo, April 15, 1968.
18:14:40 Slate: 20Apr68 Tokyo.
18:14:42 Crane unloading large freighter at dock; various ships from across water from crane unloading pallets. CU Japanese flag on ship; men watching unloading. Man painting name on ship. Barges of sand unloaded, bagged & men putting on conveyor belt, carrying. Russian / Soviet flag on ship in CU.
18:16:20 Small truck up to front of building; seen thru metal grill of gate.
18:16:39 Japanese woman & two children waiting for traffic to cross street; store fronts, shoppers, MCU.
18:17:28 Moving shot past stalls w/ tarps covering, alongside canal or dock area. Small workers houses built under elevated highway. Woman along narrow street of shops, signs, bar, pedestrians. Housing under railroad overpass, washing hanging on line. Man pounding nails out of wood.
18:19:09 Window display w/ food on plates w/ prices. Crowded sidewalk of shoppers past handheld camera.
CU movie poster; office workers & others past camera, various buildings behind as they leave subway. Tilt down circular building w/ signs. View of pedestrians entering subway past camera. MS Japanese cameraman.
18:21:04 CU pedestrians crossing street; cars, bicycle etc in working class neighborhood; store fronts w/ food, fruit. Car w/ advertising sign on top; wide street w/ traffic. CU signs, banners.
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Early Modern Globalization Through a Jesuit Prism
José Casanova argues that the Jesuits were the first corporate group in history to think and to act globally. In the early modern era, Jesuits functioned as pioneer globalizers, making substantial contributions to the growth of connectivity and global consciousness around the world. This lecture examined the external and internal opportunity structures which made it possible for a Catholic missionary and teaching order such as the Society of Jesus to play such a prominent role as cultural brokers between East and West and North and South in the first phase of globalization. Their global way of proceeding, however, became so controversial that at the end, enemies and friends conspired in their eventual suppression. Looking at the Jesuits through the prism of globalization and at globalization through a Jesuit prism offers the opportunity to rethink some of the origins and characteristics of our contemporary global age.
Speaker Biography: José Casanova is a professor in the department of sociology at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs focusing on globalization, religion and the secular.
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The Tasks of History Education for a New East Asia in a Globalized World II
The Northeast Asian History Foundation, which leads Korea's education on East Asian history, believes that a high quality education in the history of East Asia, one with vision and historical introspection, is extremely important. It is difficult to produce an alternative discourse for the future and the peace of East Asia without new understandings regarding regional history.
The session will provide a forum for a straightforward and serious discussion of the philosophy, contents, and methodology of education in East Asian history, and of the East Asian discourses. The participants will also have the opportunity to learn from the experiences of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Germany, which contributes to historical reconciliation and to establish new understandings of Europe through research and cooperation.
The Foundation is especially interested in initiating education in East Asian history and developing new understandings of East Asia and practical methodologies. The primary objective of the Foundation and of this session is to explore future directions for understanding in East Asia and history education in this globalized world by reviewing the experiences of knowledge exchange in East Asia and sharing a vision for the future beyond a nation-centric view of history
■ Moderator
MIYAJIMA, Hiroshi (Professor, Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University)
■ Roundtable Discussion
FUMA, Susumu (Professor, Kyoto University)
WADA, Haruki (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
WANG, Xin Sheng (Professor, Peking University)
CHEN, Wen Shou (Professor, Beijing Union University and Researcher Taiwan Institute)
Eckhardt FUCHS (Deputy Director, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research)
BAE, Young Dae (Senior Staff Writer(journalist), Manager of Book Critic Team, JoongAng Ilbo)
OH Byungsoo (Research Fellow, Northeast Asian History Foundation)
■ Rapporteur
KIM, Jeonghyun (Research Fellow, Northeast Asian History Foundation)
Japanese war crimes | Wikipedia audio article
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War crimes of the Empire of Japan occurred in many Asia-Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. These incidents have been described as an Asian Holocaust. Some war crimes were committed by military personnel from the Empire of Japan in the late 19th century, although most took place during the first part of the Shōwa Era, the name given to the reign of Emperor Hirohito, until the surrender of the Empire of Japan in 1945.
The war crimes involved the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy under Emperor Hirohito and were responsible for the deaths of millions. Historical estimates of the number of deaths ranges between 3 and 14 million civilians and prisoners of war through massacre, human experimentation, starvation, and forced labor that was either directly perpetrated or condoned by the Japanese military and government. Some Japanese soldiers have admitted to committing these crimes. Airmen of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service were not included as war criminals because there was no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law that prohibited the unlawful conduct of aerial warfare either before or during World War II. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service took part in conducting chemical and biological attacks on enemy nationals during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II and the use of such weapons in warfare were generally prohibited by international agreements signed by Japan, including the Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907), which banned the use of poison or poisoned weapons in warfare.Since the 1950s, senior Japanese Government officials have issued numerous apologies for the country's war crimes. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that the country acknowledges its role in causing tremendous damage and suffering during World War II, especially in regard to the IJA entrance into Nanjing during which Japanese soldiers killed a large number of non-combatants and engaged in looting and rape. That being said, some members of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Japanese government such as former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi and current Prime Minister Shinzō Abe have prayed at the Yasukuni Shrine, which includes convicted Class A war criminals in its honored war dead. Some Japanese history textbooks only offer brief references to the various war crimes, and members of the Liberal Democratic Party have denied some of the atrocities such as government involvement in abducting women to serve as comfort women (sex slaves). Allied authorities found that Koreans and Taiwanese serving in the forces of the Empire of Japan also committed war crimes, in addition to Japanese military and civil personnel.
Korean Judo University (This is Why They WIN!)
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Judo in the Korean school system is the key component to their success in the sport. I've showcased the different levels of school training and in this video I take it all full circle and show the university programs.
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Special Collections
Special Collections - Interview with Carlene (Tanigoshi) Tinker volunteer with the Henry Madden Library at FRESNO STATE. Newsletters from the Japanese Americans at the Granada Internment Camp are now online because of her efforts.Carlene (Tanigoshi) Tinker shares Internment Camp Newspapers with the Henry Madden Library - Special Collections from back in 1942. Japanese Americans recorded in a newsletter the happenings at the time of World War II and are now available online. Granada Pioneer newsletter was made available because of Carlene's respect for her family and all those who lived in the internment camps during the war.
Chiba Prefecture
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Volunteer Voices from ARI
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Molefi Kete Asante - I,Too by Langston Hughes
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante has published 83 books, among the most recent are The Dramatic Genius of Charles Fuller, African American Traditions, Facing South to Africa, The History of Africa 2nd Edition, As I Run Toward Africa, The African American People, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait, An Afrocentric Manifesto, Encyclopedia of African Religion, co-edited with Ama Mazama, Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, Handbook of Black Studies, co-edited with Maulana Karenga, Encyclopedia of Black Studies, co-edited with Ama Mazama, Race, Rhetoric, and Identity: The Architecton of Soul, Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation, Ancient Egyptian Philosophers, Scattered to the Wind, and 100 Greatest African Americans. Asante’s high school text, African American History: Journey of Liberation, 2nd Edition, is used in more than 400 schools throughout North America.
Asante has been recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans. He is honored as a History Maker with an archival interview in the US Library of Congress. In the 1990s, Black Issues in Higher Education recognized him as one of the most influential leaders in the decade. Molefi Kete Asante graduated from Oklahoma Christian College in 1964. He completed his M.A. at Pepperdine University in 1965. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA at the age of 26 in 1968 and was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1969 he was the co-founder with Robert Singleton of the Journal of Black Studies. Asante directed UCLA’s Center for Afro American Studies from 1969 to 1973. He chaired the Communication Department at SUNY-Buffalo from 1973-1980. He worked in Zimbabwe as a trainer of journalists from 1980 to 1982. In the Fall of 1984 Dr. Asante became chair of the African American Studies Program at Temple University where he created the first Ph.D. Program in African American Studies in 1987. He has directed more than 140 Ph.D. dissertations. He has written more than 550 articles and essays for journals, books and magazines and is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity.
Asante was born in Valdosta, Ga., one of sixteen children. He is a poet, dramatist, and a painter. His work on African culture and philosophy and African American education has been cited by journals such as the Matices, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Communication, American Scholar, Daedalus, Western Journal of Black Studies, and Africaological Perspectives. The Utne Reader called him one of the “100 Leading Thinkers” in America. In 2001, Transition Magazine reported “Asante may be the most important professor in Black America.” He has appeared on Nightline, Nighttalk, BET, Macnell Lehrer News Hour, Today Show, the Tony Brown Show, Night Watch, Like It Is and 60 Minutes and more than one hundred local and international television shows. He has appeared in several movies including 500 Years Later, The Faces of Evil, and The Black Candle. In 2002 he received the distinguished Douglas Ehninger Award for Rhetorical Scholarship from the National Communication Association. The African Union cited him as one of the twelve top scholars of African descent when it invited him to give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in 2004. He was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University in 2004. In April 2014 he was invited to give a speech at the UN’s General Assembly on Peace in Africa. In 2014 he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Japan Black Studies Association’s 60th conference in Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Asante holds more than 100 awards for scholarship and teaching including the Fulbright, honorary doctorates from three universities, and is a guest professor at Zhejiang University and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa.
In 1995 he was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Peasah, Kyidomhene of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana. In 2012 he was given the title of Wanadoo of Gao in the court of the Amiru Hassimi Maiga of Songhoy. Dr. Asante has been or is presently a consultant for a dozen school districts. He was the Chair of the United States Commission for FESMAN III for three years. Asante was elected in September, 2009, by the Council of African Intellectuals as the Chair for the Diaspora Intellectuals in support of the United States of Africa. Dr. Molefi Asante believes it is not enough to know; one must act to humanize the world.
National Library of Japan | Wikipedia audio article
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National Library of Japan
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The National Diet Library (NDL) (国立国会図書館, Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan) is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the National Diet of Japan (国会, Kokkai) in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to the United States Library of Congress.
The National Diet Library (NDL) consists of two main facilities in Tokyo and Kyoto, and several other branch libraries throughout Japan.
The Glory Song - dated 1905 - Charles M. Alexander
The Glory Song dated 1905 sung by Charles M. Alexander.
Charles McCallon Alexander (1867–1920) a native of East Tennessee, was a popular nineteenth-century gospel singer who worked the evangelistic circuit for many years. Over the course of his ministry, he toured with R. A. Torrey and John Wilbur Chapman, most notably. In 1904, Alexander married Helen Cadbury, daughter of the Cadbury Chocolate Company president. She toured with him on the evangelistic circuit as a women's worker. Together they spread The Pocket Testament League around the world.
Alexander's early Christian influence came from his mother, who was in the habit of reading Dwight L. Moody sermons to the family every night around the fireplace. At an 1880 revival, a thirteen-year-old Charlie Alexander committed to the Christian faith. He attended Moody Bible Institute from 1892 to 1894,[1] after which time he toured with the M. B. Williams revival campaign. In 1902, he joined Dr. R. A. Torrey's Australian tour.
In 1907, Alexander joined forces with evangelist John Wilbur Chapman to launch the Chapman-Alexander Simultaneous Campaign. The duo assembled an impressive team of evangelists and songleaders and took to the streets. The first joint campaign was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 12 to April 19, 1908. They partitioned the city into 42 sections covered by 21 evangelist-musicians teams. They spent three weeks on each half of the city, resulting in approximately 8000 conversions. It was at a similar Chapman-Alexander event eight years later in North Carolina that the legendary King James Only proponent D O Fuller committed to the Christian faith.
Chapman's biography reports, The first Chapman-Alexander worldwide campaign left Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 26, 1909, and returned November 26. Stops along the way included: Melbourne, Sydney, Ipswich, Brisbane, Adelaide, Ballarat, Bendigo, and Townsville in Australia; Manila in the Philippines; Hong Kong, Kowloon, Canton, Shanghai, Hankow, Peking and Tientsin in China; Seoul, Korea; Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo, and Yokohama in Japan.[2]
By the end of 1910, Chapman's mass evangelism technique was losing favor in evangelistic circles, and Chapman and Alexander were back to large meeting revivals by 1912. The final Chapman-Alexander revival tour was conducted January 6 to February 13, 1918. After the conclusion of that crusade, Alexander retired to England, where he lived out the remaining two years of his life. He died in 1920 in Birmingham, England and was interred in Lodge Hill Cemetery.
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James Polshek, 1980
James Polshek interviewed by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, for the television program American Architecture Now, 1980. This program is part of the Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University. To view similar videos from the Archive on YouTube, visit the Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive Playlist: For further information, visit the collection guide:
Louise Turner, Teaching Museum Trainee (costume and textiles)
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Conservation & Exhibition Planning: Material Testing for Design, Display, & Packing - Session 7
This two-day conference is an opportunity for exhibition designers, mount makers, registrars, collection managers, conservators, and scientists to explore the challenges of how materials are selected for use with art objects.
The planning for appropriate collection care before, during, and after display is dependent on accessing reliable information about the materials we use. The production of fabrics, painted surfaces, mounts, foams, and board materials facilitate the creative display of art objects. Understanding how these materials will react with artworks over time is a fundamentally challenging, but necessary, undertaking.
This conference will convey practical considerations that facilitate and benefit collection care in museum exhibition workflows, and how they impact staff across departments. Presentations will focus on designing exhibitions and fabricating display furniture; strategic approaches to collection care during the exhibition implementation process; designing storage environments; conservation work spaces; interpretation and sharing of analytical results from Oddy testing and alternatives to the Oddy test; and monitoring how materials change over time.
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Cartoon Library & Museum: Predicting the Future
The Billy Ireland Library & Museum houses the world's largest collection of comic strip tear sheets and clippings. It also is home to unique, original art and manuscript materials.
C2CC Care of Dolls
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