Violinの宮嶋哉行とPianoの下村美佐による即興演奏を中心としたネオクラシカルデュオ。1999年にNaked music (裸の音楽)を目指し結成され関西を中心に活動する。2002年にミュンヘン在住の映像作家、茂木綾子によるTHISの生活や活動を撮影したドキュメンタリー映画「風にきく」がスイス・ニヨン国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭にて特別賞を受賞。それを受けてドイツ・スイスに2度目のツアーをし高い評価を受ける。2003年にもドイツの映画監督ThomasRiedelsheimerによるEvelyn Glennie(マリンバ奏者、グラミー賞受賞)のドキュメンタリー映画にもセッションで出演するなど、京都を中心にダンスや絵画、その他の新鋭音楽家達とコラボレーションを繰り広げている。これまでに5枚のCD-R作品を発表し海外でも高い評価を受けているが今回が初の全国発売のCDとなる。
Misa Shimomura is a Japanese pianist, composer and improviser. For the past fifteen years her work has centred on free improvisation and the contemporary art scene. From 1999 to 2006 she was a pianist in the Kyoto neo-classical duo THIS=MISAxSAIKOU together with the violinist and improviser Saikou Miyajima in the Mie Prefecture of Japan. During this period she began improvising herself and presenting her own solo piano concerts.
Since then she has been in contact with many other artists including the film makers Werner Penzel (Cinenomad) and Ayako Mogi; the contemporary dancer Maki Morishita; the painter Mikolaj Polinski; the sound artist Atsushi Nishijima; the musicians Balts Nill and also with Kyogen performers (Japanese traditional theatre), with DJs and with poets. As a pianist she performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach and John Cage. Each new interaction has opened new doors in her acoustic education: her interests now include the physiology of sound perception, the relationship between physical space and acoustics and experiments with new musical instruments.
In October 2010 Shimomura moved to Germany where she has performed and exhibited in many places including B-flat, Berlin (November, 2010); BR2 radio "hr! spiel! art mix" in Munich (July, 2011); the Emerson Gallery, Berlin (January, 2012) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Gruppenanalyse und Gruppenpsychotherapie (June, 2012).
(2021年 5月 2日 16時 57分 追加)
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