今回のセシさんの作品ではArduinoというプロトタイピング用のオープンソースプラットフォームを使用します。2ヶ月という期間で日本のあらゆる場所を訪ね、文化を知り、クオリティの高い作品制作を行うには、テクニカルサポートがどうしても必要になります。そこで、今回は通称ガンディーこと鈴木雄貴さんに参加していただくことにしました。ガンディーは京都精華大学のプロダクトデザイン学科卒業後、情報科学芸術大学院大学（IAMAS）でフィジカルコンピューティングについて学び、現在は京都の北に位置するインタラクションデザイン会社で働いています。科学と芸術といった異なる領域、京都の若い才能とアーティストの接点となることも、このプロジェクトが提供できる一つの価値です。写真はプロトタイピングに向けたミーティング後の一枚＠IN THE GREEN（個人的にはブルーチーズのピザがおすすめ）
I got up after almost no sleep, and working all night on my Sound project, I feel a bit down not getting my project to work, and walk to the nearest cafe to get breakfast. Just around the corner of Anewal Gallery there is a small cafe, an old woman welcomes my warmly! She speaks no english at all, and i only know a few japanese words, but somehow I manage to order food. It turns out to be a great meal! And my mood is up again, also because the lady is so lovely and trying to talk to…
I am Building /Prototyping The (Interactive) Sound Installation from Scratch, So Started with Building the Speakers. Still a lot to do!! Keep you posted!
Doing an ARTIST IN RESIDENCE // EXHIBITION@ Anewal Gallery Staying @ this beautiful 120 year old Traditional Japanese Machiya House in Kyoto, Japan from 20-6 till 20-7 2014! Have been busy working on my project: “The Soul of Kyoto”Trying to capture the city in sound, and use it in my Interactive Sound Installation that will be Exhibited 18-19-20-7-2014 @Anewal.More updates on this project in Kyoto, Japan here soon! Keep you posted!
In a machiya the zashiki (or guest room) is the room to receive your guests. The machiya where we live in has a very nice zashiki, which we use as the actual living, and hang out when we have guests. When we met the owner, mister Yoneda, he told us the tokonoma (the alcove) in this zashiki is made of wood from Yakushima. Yakushima has been my dream destination since child hood and in 2009 I was able to visit this magical island with huge cedar trees. Yakushima is inhibited by sea turtles and is the inspiration of the forest…
Cafe bibliotic HELLO! is a to a cafe converted machiya. They opened up the place which shows the wooden structure of the original building nicely.Another original detail is the elevated wooden floor. A good place to have a coffee, some cake and browse through one of the books. Visit Isjah’s main blog: http://isjah.com/cafe-bibliotic-hello/
Yesterday we visited Nijo castle. It dates from 1626 and has a superb garden by the landscape architect and tea master Kobori Enshu. Visit Isjah’s main blog: http://isjah.com/nijo-castle/
In Kyoto you can see these buckets everywhere. Kyoto is a city of traditions and of keeping traditions as well. One of the traditions is keeping a bucket filled with water outside your house. In case of fire, the whole neighbourhood would gather the buckets to put the fire out. Which makes a lot of sense: if a fire hit somewhere it would spread rapidly due to the closeness of the wooden structures. To this day, these buckets can still be found in front of houses, temples, etc. Sometimes you’ll spot the bucket next to the fire extinguisher. Visit Isjah’s main…
You can’t go to Japan without experiencing tea culture. Last Friday we escaped Kyoto and went off the grid toObubu Tea Farms. This farm is located in Wazuka, a rural area 50 minutes by train from Kyoto. We’ve tasted some marvellous teas and, a bit ‘tea drunk’ walked through the surreal landscape of tea bushes mixed with rice plantations. Amidst very old and traditional farms Obubu is considered a very young farm, which started in 2004 by Akihiro Kita and Yasuharu Matsumoto. They call their farm a ‘agricultural social venture’ with a mission to spread tea culture around the world….
Staying in a kyo-machiya (an old traditional townhouse) is an unique way to experience Kyoto. These pre-WWII townhouses housed craftsman or merchants. This double function (working & living) is reflected in the lay out of the machiya’s. This means that in the front of the house the goods were displayed or sold, and in the back you’ll find the living and the storage room or workshop. In between you’ll find a small garden and along the side the kitchen. Machiya’s are traditionally made from wood (the columns), earth (the walls) and paper (sliding doors) and therefore involve a lot of different…
