METHOD NO. 20 (MARCH 1, 2003)
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Poem, Method Music (Methodicist Manifesto)." Publishers are three
Japanese artists, Hideki Nakazawa, a (visual) artist, Shigeru Matsui, a
poet, and Masahiro Miwa, a composer. You can read the three manifestos
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This issue, METHOD NO. 20, carries a text by Masahiro Miwa and a web
piece by Hideki Nakazawa, and word and info by the three Methodicists.
>>>METHODICIST'S TEXT OF THIS MONTH:
About the Name And Concept from "A Definition of Reverse-Simulation
Music Founded on the Three Aspects of Music"
by Masahiro Miwa, composer
Reverse-simulation music is a general term for specific phenomena,
that can include acoustic events, born of intentional human actions. An
important characteristic of reverse-simulation music is that human
actions are carried out according to sequences resulting from iterative
calculations.
Reverse-simulation music was imagined as music of the kind that
perhaps had been once performed by the ancients or by primitive tribes
... or music that could have been performed by them (which we refer to
as "music that could have been"). At the same time, however, it is an
experiment in new music depending mainly on computer simulation-based
trials. Reverse-simulation music does not necessarily depend on
existing social structures related to music such as the distinction
between concerts, composers, performers and audience.
Furthermore, traditional music often conceals the origins and
underlying regulations of the sounds performed with notions of the
intuitive and spiritual. Reverse-simulation music, on the other hand,
rather seeks to expose them through the use of the aspect of "rule-based
generation" (logical computations); and, adding to it two other aspects
of "interpretation" and "naming," it defines itself through the concept
of those three "aspects."
The three aspects of music referred to in this definition can also
be applied to musical styles other than reverse-simulation, as they are
presented as a new conceptual point of view on the music of mankind.
However, requirements presented here like the use of iterative processes
are specific only to reverse-simulation music.
This experiment seeks to reverse the usual conception of computer
simulations. Rather than modelling within a computer space the various
phenomena of the world based on the laws of physics, phenomena that have
been verified within a computer space are modelled in the real world,
hence the name, reverse-simulation. This designation also alludes to
the modelling of "music that could have been," in other words the
recreation in the real world of events that likely did not actually take
place.
>>>METHODICIST'S WEB PIECE OF THIS MONTH:
Letter-Coordinates-Type Painting No. 4 of 106 Letters by 53 Lines
by Hideki Nakazawa, artist
http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/method/work020.html
"Letter-Coordinates-Type Painting No. 1" and "No. 2," made in 1997, were
my starting point as a fine artist. Actually, one of the reasons why I
drafted the Methodicist Manifesto in 2000 was to explain those pieces.
Yes, I used monochrome letters instead of colored dots, thus those
pieces were not visual poems. My idea has tended to deny even a grid
since 2001, because I noticed that a painting was mere a set of dots
which need not be fixed any longer. But this latest piece, "No. 4," is
different. It obeyed a grid again in order to synthesize dots, which
resulted in the use of dots larger and more irregular.
>>>METHODICISTS' WORD & INFO OF THIS MONTH:
Hideki Nakazawa, artist:
nakazawa@aloalo.co.jp http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/
- METHOD NIGHT VOL. 3 by Hideki Nakazawa:
Presentation of "Digital Clay" and the Latest Method Paintings.
Begins at 7 pm on Friday, March 21, 2003. Admission free.
ISCP #610, 6th Floor of 323 West 39th Street, New York NY 10018
COME AND WITNESS TODAY'S TRUE RADICALISM. ..."Digital Clay [Nendo]" is
the world's first 3D-BITMAP (!) software which I invented as a part of
my patents in 1996. I will also exhibit my latest Method Paintings on
paper and will have a talk on them, accompanied by a small party.
Digital Clay: http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/old/nendo/zindex.html
- Text "NY, Something Like Ecole de Paris" appeared in a SAP News Letter.
I wrote a text on the New York's art scene in Japanese monthly published
by Saizon Art Program. I intended ridicule in this title at least two
thirds. The content of this text complements my other text, "Against
This Spoiled Age," appeard in METHOD No. 18.
- Group exhibition "VOCA 2003," March 14-30 at Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo.
My piece "41193 Yen Which Consists of 19235 Coins (Money Amount No. 24)"
won the premium prize. VOCA: http://www.ueno-mori.org/tenji/voca/
- Open Studio to the Public: 3-6 pm, March 10-14 at ISCP #610, NYC.
Some of the participants of ISCP, International Studio and Curatorial
Program, will self-manage their open studios each individually during
these days. I am one of them. No appointment needed.
About the Open Studios: http://www.edit.ne.jp/~suzuki/open/
- "THANK YOU ART 2003" at Ise Cultural Foundation (555 Broadway, NYC),
12 noon-6pm, March 4-8. A one-week portfolio and small work viewing,
featuring some artists, as part of "THANK YOU ART 2003."
BTW, I myself am also participating in "THANK YOU ART 2003" individually,
discounting my former product "Cassette on Modern Art History."
THANK YOU ART 2003: http://www.39art.com/2003/list2003-e.htm
Shigeru Matsui, poet:
shigeru@td5.so-net.ne.jp http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/methodpoem/
- "Pure Poem" has reached 4,000 lines in March, 2003, that started on
the course of writing since 2001. I have written "Pure Poem" with
"Quantum Poem" every 5 days since 2002. Recently I am feeling not that
the identity of mine writes "Pure Poem," but that the identity of "Pure
Poem" may make me live. Because nucleotide sequence itself is the
purest poem.
- Group Exhibition "POESIE VISUELLE JAPONAISE (5)":
from March 1 to 17, 2003, at Galerie Satellite, Paris.
- Contributed a poem to a music concert, "ABSOLUTE-MIX Presents PitchWeb
Vol. 1, Chizuru Mitsuhashi + CATHEDORAL," produced by Tomoko Yazawa.
Begins at 7:30 p.m. on March 13, 2003, at KITAZAWA TOWN HALL, Tokyo.
http://www.conversation.co.jp/concert/ampw1.html
- Concert "Based on 'Pure Poem' and 'Quantum Poem'" by Shigeru Matsui:
on Saturday, March 29, 2003, at WINDS CAFE, Tokyo.
Performers: Reisu Sakai, Akito Takimoto, Shigeru Matsui.
Reisu Sakai will sing, Akito Takimoto will dance, and Shigeru Matsui
will do nothing. Premiered performance of music and dance by 'Quantum
Poem.' WINDS CAFE: http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~mal/Cafe/
- Performance "READING" on April 5, 2003, at Usagigoya, Tokyo.
http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/methodpoem/Reading.html
Masahiro Miwa, composer:
mmiwa@iamas.ac.jp http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~mmiwa/
- Finally I completed a text on my concept about an algorithmic
composition called "A Definition of Reverse-Simulation Music Founded on
the Three Aspects of Music" as version 1.0. It took me very long time,
not only to make the text but also to analyze the activities of myself
since I was a student. The latest works such as "Matarisama," "Tuda-
Shiki" and "Muramatsu-Gear" (please see the issue #14, #15 and #19)
inspired me to get my thoughts thus in shape. And I believe and hope
that the subject is not limited just to my personal aesthetic question
about the creation in our modern society.
What is written in this issue is only the beginning of the text, so I
will soon open the complete one to the public ... maybe as the first
issue of "Off-Line Separate Volume of 'METHOD.'"
- March 14 and 16: A revised version of the "Muramatsu-Gear" will be
performed in Hiroshima and Kyoto by different groups of young Japanese
people!
- March 23: A new piece for 6 robots will be performed during "DSP off-
summer school 2003" at XEBEC Hall, Kobe. http://dspss.iamas.ac.jp/
- 25 to 27 March: I will give a lecture titled "Die Suche nach einer
neuen akustischen Kunst im modernen Japan" during "Japanisch-Deutsch
Forum der Freunde des DAAD 2003" at Yamanaka-ko, Yamanashi.
Group "METHOD":
http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/method/
- Preparing to publish a series "Off-Line Separate Volumes of 'METHOD.'"
The first one will be Miwa's "A Definition of Reverse-Simulation Music
Founded on the Three Aspects of Music."
- Volunteer assistants wanted to help our activities.
>>>POSTSCRIPT:
The next issue, NO. 21, will be published on April 1, carrying a text
by Hideki Nakazawa and a web piece by Shigeru Matsui. There are two
versions of this bulletin; one is only in English which you are reading
right now, the other is accompanied by Japanese translation which we can
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(C) Hideki Nakazawa, Shigeru Matsui, Masahiro Miwa, 2003