artist:Masanori Ikeda, Yasuko Iba, Mizue Ogiso, Chisato Saito, Mieko Shiomi, mamoru, Masataka Maruyama, Midori Mitamura, Rocca SPIELE, Yasuko Watanabe

2012.11.23 - 2013.2.24
photo: Motoyuki Shitamichi

artist statement from the exhibition catalogue > click here

etude no.13 ice

table music with 30 ice cubes and glass jars
2012

The instruction on the fridge says,

"Please follow the instruction and
play the music by yourself"

and

"Hang an ice gently with your hands
Listen to the drops that the ice makes "

etude no.38 paper and water

recycling music with a paper towel
a glass cup, and a spoon of melted ice (water)
2013

The instruction on a callendar says

"Take a sheet of paper towel
Scrunch it into a cup

Pour a spoon of water onto it
Cover your ear with the cup

LISTEN
to the paper absorbing water"

etude no.29 plastic bottles + no.18 plastic bag (Wind Suite) 

couch music with a fan, plastic bottles, and the plastic bag (including the purchased products), 2013

The bookcover of the book on a couch says "Turn on the fan. setting: gentle wind, face turning ".
The fan turn its face, gently blowing the bottles, making various drone from different kinds of bottle, almost like a misty choral. The plastic bag gives ambigious rhythm to it.

etude no.11 hanger

variation with a fan, a wire, and 50 hangers, 2012

"Turn on the fan. setting: gentle wind, face turning"
"Listen to the hangers touching each other"