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Marginal Consort (Japan)

Showing on January 20, 2019

Playing at Performance Works

PHOTO: KAZUYUKI FUNAKI

These four musicians come with enough instruments for an orchestra; some are acoustic, some are electronic, and quite a few are of the artists’ own invention. For three hours they make ambient, heavily manipulated music, far apart and fully independent of each other. It’s a sonic adventure, with the audience as liberated as the performers. Listeners are free to sit, lie down or move around as they see fit—in fact, changes in position are encouraged, because different positions in the space can bring radically different experiences.

From their first show in 1997 until quite recently, Marginal Consort performed only once a year; for them, lack of rehearsal equals freedom from constraint. Few artists are as resistant to definition as these ones; boundaries and categories mean nothing to them, and when they play, it’s as totally liberated musicians. This evening is, quite literally, a once in a lifetime experience: the music has never been played before and it will never be played again.

[The music of Marginal Consort] raises important questions about the whole project of improvisation: the relationships between the musicians and the definition of musicality. —The Japan Times 

PHOTO: CHRIS PERRY

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Artist Bio

Marginal Consort (Japan)

In 1997, Kazuo Imai founded Marginal Consort with the late Yasushi Ozawa and current members Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii and Masami Tada in their native Japan. All former students of experimental musician Takehisa Kosugi, these players have assimilated many influences and disciplines into their practice, including performance art, science and photography.

Venue

Performance Works

1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver

Showtimes

January 20
180 minutes, no intermission

2PM

Tickets

Single tickets $39
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Credits

PERFORMERS Kazuo Imai, Masami Tada, Kei Shii, Tomonao Koshikawa MANAGER Keiko Higuchi

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