Hiroshi Murakami × Meerkat-girl Collaboration Performance

Sound poetry for the old bathhouse space in BUoY's basement.


He's like that, too. Someone called him "performance monkey."

Is this liquid like water, I always feel like I'm drowning

Is it words like water, or is it everyday life like words

Oh no, oh no, I really can't get my footing

This is the sound of my heart. My pulse is getting more and more erratic

Is this liquid water, or do I always feel like I'm drowning?

Is it words like water, or is it everyday life like words?

You all see me drowning there, don't you?

I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe

The poem spoken during the actual performance was more ad-libbed. There was no water in the bathtub, but I wanted my words to project my emotions while adjusting the sound equipment, so I hastily hung the cloth I had brought and projected my face on it. I had an image of a liquid, so I made the cloth bend.

I made an algorithmic composition by referring to a genetic algorithm. This program changes the sound by influencing the external input sound. It can be seen as learning, depending on how you look at it. The human words and voice are continually bombarded with the sequences created by the program. The machine continues to operate without emotion. I would like to ask what is a human being.

Sound Poetry for the bathtub dialogue 2022.3.26

Sound Poetry for the bathtub dialogue 2022 March 26th コラボパフォーマンス 

Performance shooting / Bannai Hidenari & Ma Raven

 Performance editing / Ma Raven & Bannai Hidenari

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Sound Poetry for the bathtub

Hashimoto Rokka solo performance
"improvisation / expanding dissonance" 2022.3.26

The artist sought to express beauty in dissonance. The sounds produced by synthesizers are near atonal and have few specific note sequences. On the other hand, the acoustic piano made extensive use of sequential progressions based on whole-tone scales and chromatic scales. The interplay between the two instruments produces sounds without artifice, like natural phenomena. The wind and rain were used as sounds to express the dazzling changes of nature. The mixing of tones changes depending on where you listen to it, and no one is listening to the same sound, which is oriented toward the absolutely unbridgeable distance between people.


インプロビゼーション/不協和音の拡大

Photography: Ma Raven
Videography: Bannai Hidenari 

Copyright Hashimoto Rokka, Ham Tamago Sandwich March 2022

improvisation / expanding dissonance

Stephan・Elliot・ Perez × Meerkat-girl ×Hiroshi Murakami

＃００１　開闢-Opening-

Impro No title 001

Laughing Dancing Guts 60min (HAMTAMA war) feat. Hiroshi Murakami

Hanaguts, the incarnation of laughter and flowers, danced while laughing for an hour.

Hiroshi Murakami sang and danced with all of his emotions exposed.

ちびがっつ LAUGHING DANCING GUTS 60MIN (HAMTAMA WAR) FEAT. 村上裕

Stephan・E・ Perez × Cat-o'-nine-tails COLLABORATION PERFORMANCE

My contribution to this piece was inspired by the book "Why Buddhism is True" by Robert Wright. Below are two passages from the book. 

[...]. Your mind is much calmer than usual, and you are viewing its contents much more objectively than usual. And some contents of your consciousness that you normally think of yourself as generating seem to be getting generated by something other than you. More than once I've heard a meditation teacher say, "Thoughts think themselves."

Mindfulness meditation [...] can let you experience your feelings-anger, love, sorrow, joy-with new sensitivity, seeing their texture, even feeling their texture, as never before.

(By "I just woke up" I don't mean getting out of bed- but starting up, a comeback! And, uh... yeah. Where did I just get back from? Or maybe I'm not back, but I'm still out? Hmm... HMMMMM??! WHICH ONE IS IT?!?!? I'M... EVERYONE-------!!!! EVERYONE--------!!

Where is the border between me and everyone?  I am... I am...  anyway, the important thing is to just be myself. This is not me having a complex and being in denial about my evil "multiple personalities". I can't become sane. I used to think I wasn't bothering anyone, but I'm done with that. I'm done. I think I'll save the rest of my kindness for later)

猫尾ステフェンパフォーマンス　昼

猫尾ステフェンパフォーマンス 夜

Stephan・E・ Perez  ,  Cat-o'-nine-tails

NO SEIKEI

stephan e perez × Meerkat-girl Collaboration Performance

「Resistance to the Abyss, The Dog in the Rock」

{This is conceptual art intended for a live medium and installation}. 

In an episode from the Greek myth of Sisyphus Tartarus, Albert Camus uses the words "absurd man" and "absurd creation", and says: "There is only one truly philosophical question: suicide. It is about suicide. He used it as a metaphor for the idea that "repeating the same action over and over again can only lead to the same result in the end". Michel Foucault argued that the "human punishment" of our time, the psychological punishment, is more problematic than the physical punishment and torture of modernity. It is not just the legal system, but all groups in modern society are subject to the same structures of surveillance, power and brainwashing. 

If you were plunged into an abyss, would you make an effort to get out of it, even if it deprived you of the ability to think? A wild animal without a high level of civilisation may not be able to use 

the structures and systems we have created. It means that a man cannot pass through the gap of a big rock, only a small animal can. When we imitate what already exists, the masks 

that we may have put on our own faces gradually adhere to our skin, and by the time we feel the itch, we have forgotten that we are even wearing them. If the warmth of the puppy soothes you 

and you want to hold it, pull off the mask and show it to the animal in the flesh, even if it hurts. Otherwise, the animal will be frightened. They live in absurdity.

奈落への抵抗、岩の中の犬

奈落への抵抗、岩の中の犬 (with movie)

ぬいぐるみを抱きしめて、感触を味わいなさい Serre une peluche dans tes bras et vérifie sa texture. 

子犬に触って、毛並みを整えなさい 

Touche le chiot et arrange sa fourrure. 

向こう側は見えないようにできている 

Tu ne peux pas voir ce qu'il y a de l'autre côté. 

きれいな海や空が向こう側にはある 

Il y a une mer et un ciel magnifiques de l'autre côté.

Seule une créature plus petite qu'un homme peut passer à travers la roche. 

Seules les créatures plus petites qu'un homme 

犬は外と中の行き来を可能にする 

Un masque attaché à un morceau de chair 

犬は仮面をつけていても、血の匂いで下に肉があることをわかってい るMême avec le masque, le chien peut sentir le sang et savoir qu'il y a de la viande en dessous. 

Les rochers et les peluches sont le chaos 

しかし、なんど岩を運んでも、また転げ落ちてくる 

Mais peu importe combien de fois je porte le rocher, il retombe toujours. 

人びとの意志がよりよく服従へと向かう 

L’homme a tendance à s'attacher à la majorité 

岩の向こう側に見える海は、嘘かもしれない 

La mer de l'autre côté du rocher est peut-être un mensonge. 

Nous avons besoin d'un espace de dialogue 

Le chien permet d’entrer et de sortir. 

父親にばれるまえに、犬を殺そう 

Je vais tuer le chien avant que mon père ne l'apprenne. 

Le chien peut être obéissant ou rebelle. 

犬の瞳をみて、話しかけなさい 

Regarde le chien dans les yeux et parle-lui. 

“私も岩の中にいるかもしれない” 

"Je pourrais aussi bien être dans le rocher." 

Grits(Stephan・Elliot・ Perez × Meerkat-girl)

Performance shooting /editing Ma Raven ,Meerkat-girl

Resistance to the Abyss, The Dog in the Rock

Nakamura Midoriko /solo performance「日々の反芻〜生きること〜」2021.12.4. sat

I started doing yoga. Sun worship is the most basic pose of them all.

My faith in the sun is growing every day.

My faith in the sun is growing every day because I feel better when I bathe in the sun. Sunbathing is an important part of good health in life.

Think about Islam. Muslims pray five times a day.

I used to think it was a lot of work and wonder why we had to do so many prayers, but that was a ridiculous idea.

I was convinced that the act of praying every day is very good for your health, not to mention your faith in God.

In yoga, there is a pose called the moon pose.

In yoga, there is a pose called the moon pose, because when we live on the earth with gravity, our internal organs go downwards.

By turning the body upside down, the internal organs are brought back to their original position.

When I pray, I put my head on the floor and do the prayer again and again.

By moving the body in this way, we work the muscles and improve the circulation of blood in the body, leading to a healthy body.

So is the health of the mind. When there is faith in God, when there is something to believe in, the state of the mind improves.

The necessary elements for life become sufficient.

Food needs land. Grains and vegetables come from the land and are taken into the body of the organism.

For vegetables to grow, they need the sun.

That's why I do sun worship and consume salad.

If I eat salad seriously, I am serious about life above all.

I used to want to be a tree. To be a tree is to be part of nature.

Therefore, when I die, I want my body to be buried in the earth by a tree, so that I can become a tree.

Then I think I will become a tree and my body will live in this world for thousands of years.

It is born from the earth, it takes water, it is exposed to the sun and it grows. In winter, it withers, and in spring it puts on leaves again.

So we want to return to the soil and maybe become a vegetable.

We do it again and again, and then we grow up.

I can only see one year ahead in my life now. I was worried about that.

But when I look at the tree, it makes me think that I can just let the time go by. They eat by instinct, they take in sunlight and they live on.

As long as there is no disease. The environment.

There is no need to blame yourself for anything.

As long as I remember the joy and gratitude of living and don't lick life, as long as I live what I want to do with energy and enthusiasm, I'll be fine, even if I'm having a hard time now, I think.

日々の反芻〜生きること〜

Ruminating on the days

NEKO'O × Meerkat-girl COLLABORATION happening PERFORMANCE 「train,coffee,substitution」2021,12,4,Sat.

電車、コーヒー、入れ替わり

train,coffee,substitution

Namasu Yoshihide　SOLO PERFORMANCE「音響詩」

Acoustic poetry / kinship structure is absolute karma. Because the contradiction of kinship is poetry, poetry is the absolute origin of art.

生須芳英　音響詩　2021.12.4 sat

音響詩 Sound Poetry 001

Human facsimile   This is a collaborative performance by Hiroshi Murakami and Meerkat-girl (the core members and initiators of Hamtama)   Performance idea by Meerkat-girl   The content of the performance was simply human photography.

 Using the exact same media (in this case, a huge cloth, two colors of ink, and a long brush), the two artists will work in separate locations, one projecting live (in this case, FACETIME) only the movements of the other's body onto a huge screen, while the other watches the screen, imitates the movements, and sends a drawing.   This time, Murakami forwarded the designs to Meerkat-girl. Without knowing what kind of design to send, they improvise and create a design for each other.   Communication in the Internet society has changed greatly in many aspects, such as quality and quantity of information, compared to the time when the Internet did not exist. Furthermore, with the advent of the Corona era, the live system has become indispensable to people. As the information society accelerated with the existence of the Internet, humans, the beings who created the Internet, faced a variety of events in the exchange of information. For example, in an online conference, the world is in a state of flux. For example, in online meetings, participants from all over the world can exchange documents instantaneously on data with screen sharing functions, and information is exchanged smoothly and quickly. In some countries, for example, information exists on the Internet in a state where it has been censored, deleted, or altered by the governing state. For example, the atmosphere and the subtle facial expressions of the interlocutors, which can only be conveyed face-to-face, are not reflected on the broadcast screen, sometimes leading to great misunderstandings between the two parties.  Among the viewers of this performance, there are those who think that the design was transmitted more than they imagined. Others may feel that the recipient's movements were not quite as good as they had imagined, and that the designs were different. Value and the way we perceive things will always reflect the individuality of each person. The way we perceive human telegraphic photography will make our individuality in the information society appear to the viewer.  

第０回ハムたま　Hiroshi Murakami 村上 裕 × Meerkat-girl 「 Human facsimile 」2021.6.20 sun

HUMAN FACSIMILE Dialogue 2021 June 20th コラボパフォーマンス 

 Performance Paint Design Idea/ Hiroshi Murakami

Hamtama's first event

Human facsimile

Meerkat-girl solo performance「Humans pretend to be animals, animals pretend to be humans. 」2021.6.20 sun

Throughout our long history, humans have tried to break away from being animals.  This was in order to gain the dignity of being human as a social animal.  Since then, our civilization has progressed, and in Japan in particular, starvation has become a rare occurrence, and a society has emerged where individuals can make various choices in their lives.  

Johan Huizinga, the author of Homo Ludens, defined “ human beings as beings who play”.  This is a state in which there is an infinite number of options for “game”. Before the invention of civilization with airplanes and the Internet, individuals probably had 24 hours a day. But now, people have a new kind of time that goes beyond the original 24 hours. 

Working with clients around the world via online meetings. A subscription movie service that is a worldwide hit. Food delivery from a restaurant cooked by a foreigner. Real-time coverage of European League football games.

 Things that used to be a part of our lives now at the center, and everything revolves around them. From now on, being online and being cosmopolitan will be automatically or unconsciously forced upon individuals. The new place of time created by the human being will depart from the 24-hour  day of the individual. Where does one find one's own personal time? If we find our personal time in the artificially created time, the time as an "animal" that we once tried to get rid of may become our "personal time”, or it may not. Something 

artificial that looks like nature. Interacting with a dog. Hugging someone’s naked body. The moment you fall asleep and lose consciousness. 

In a society where "game" is prevalent, the social existence of "human" is forced on the individual. In order to gain individuality, we desperately search for time as "animals. Will the human being, the individual, collapse if he or she is unable to acquire it? If it collapses, will we return to being animals? Or, if the individual collapses, will he or she  not become an animal and continue to be a human being who has lost his or her individuality? It is not despair, but rather the fact that everyone is already practicing this unconsciously, and perhaps even the time we believed we were animals can only be perceived in the sense that it was formed in a human society.  

第０回ハムたま　Meerkat-girl 「人間が動物のふりをする、動物が人間のふりをする Night .ver」2021.6.20 sun

第０回ハムたま　Meerkat-girl 「人間が動物のふりをする、動物が人間のふりをする Afternoon .ver」2021.6.20 sun

Performance cast/ Miyuki Kawaoka, Beck Nuritov ,Nuts (Kazuma Yamamoto)

 Performance shooting /editing Ma Raven (Video in Performance) 

 Sound effect (a part of video) Interactive Realism_ Procedural Audio Demo By Stephan • E· Perez 

Humans pretend to be animals, animals pretend to be humans.

Hiroshi Murakami solo performance　2021.6.20 sun

You are me, I am you, and you can change everything. I believe that expression changes everything. And yet, we continue to live. You are me, I am you, just people who were not chosen by luck and disappeared. To do this, I need to express myself. Say what you want to say. Do what you want to do. Live with that courage.You are me, I am you. I just choose to live desperately. 

I always imagine people's lives as they pass by. Would you die bemoaning your life, or would you struggle to resist and survive? I imagine it all the time.

You are me, I am you. What would you do if you were born into this world as a monster to be discriminated against ? Life will create great karma before you know it. 

Not everyone can be born into the life they wanted to be born into. 

Still, I admire those who continue to live. 

(There are two major streams in history: performance art and performing.In this performance, while including elements of the performing arts, such as computer music performance, costumes, and dance, I sincerely gave meaning to each expression and gave a concept to the whole, aiming to create a new "art'' that synthesizes and integrates. ")

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improvisation / expanding dissonance

＃００１　開闢-Opening-

Impro No title 001

Laughing Dancing Guts 60min (HAMTAMA war) feat. Hiroshi Murakami

NO SEIKEI

Resistance to the Abyss, The Dog in the Rock

Ruminating on the days

train,coffee,substitution

音響詩 Sound Poetry 001

Hamtama's first event

Human facsimile

Humans pretend to be animals, animals pretend to be humans.

Hiroshi Murakami solo 2021.6.20 sun

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Sound Poetry for the bathtub

improvisation / expanding dissonance

＃００１ 開闢-Opening-

Impro No title 001

Laughing Dancing Guts 60min (HAMTAMA war) feat. Hiroshi Murakami

NO SEIKEI

Resistance to the Abyss, The Dog in the Rock

Ruminating on the days

train,coffee,substitution

音響詩 Sound Poetry 001

Hamtama's first event

Human facsimile

Humans pretend to be animals, animals pretend to be humans.

Hiroshi Murakami solo 2021.6.20 sun

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