Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Tomoe Shizune
Yook Keun Byung

Landscape on the Way to Sleep

(Office Tomoe Co., Ltd., TMDV-TY01) (Japan) (DVD)

DVD: NTSC; region free; color; language options (Japanese, Korean, English)

Landscape on the Way to Sleep (Art Music Video)

  1. Theme (4:10)
    Actor: Kim Keun Joong
    Actress: Kim Bo Na

  2. Trio (5:55)
    Actor: Kim Keun Joong
    Actress: Kim A Rang

  3. Guitar Theme (3:30)
    Actor: Kim Keun Joong
    Actress: Kim A Rang
Produced by Butoh Dance Company Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo
Supervised by Yook Keun Byung
Camera directed by Yook Keun Byung and Kim Byung Ho
Memorial Camera by Mun Suck Ju
Edited by Yook Keun Byung
Music by Tomoe Shizune (1, 3) and Kim Dae Hwan, Motoharu Yoshizawa, and Tomoe Shizune (2)
Photography by Choi U Yual
Lighting by Hong Chang Jae
Makeup by Kim Han Young
Costumes by Ju Bin and Kim Han Young
Sound recording by Tomoe Studio, Uzumii Amano, and Leon Brown
Sound mixed by Toshiyuki Takahashi

Butoh performance "Landscape on the Way to Sleep with Yook Keun Byung" (29:10)

Filmed at Kirin Plaza, Osaka, 1994
Butoh dance by Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo
Live improvised music by Kim Dae Hwan (percussion), Motoharu Yoshizawa (contrabass), and Tomoe Shizune (guitar)
Interview of Yook Keun Byung
Reading of "A Gaze of a Wind," a poem by Tomoe Shizune (reading in Japanese by Yoko Ashikawa; dance by Tomoe Shizune)
Photo slide show

Choreography and composition by Tomoe Shizune
Sound mixed by Leon Brown
Sound operated by Sanae Kagaya
Lighting design by Tomoe Shizune
Photos by Koji Fukunaga, Toshifumi Kino, and Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo
Camera by Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo

"Rennyo-sho," Butoh dance piece by Tomoe Shizune (26:46)

Filmed at the amphitheater of the Opera de Lyon, France, 1995
Butoh dance by Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo
Composed, choreographed, and directed by Tomoe Shizune

DVD production
Editing directed by Uzumi Amano and Tomoe Shizune
Sound editing by Tomoe Shizune
Sound editing supported by Mito
Manuscript editing by Shoko and Tomoe Shizune
Korean translation by Han Sung Rea
English translation by Amy McCaleb

Poem "A Gaze of a Wind"
Written by Tomoe Shizune
Reading by Yoko Ashikawa
Korean translation by Han Sung Rea
English translation by Junko Sakaba

Haiku calligraphy
Written by Koui Nagata
Korean translation by Han Sung Rea
English translation by Amy McCaleb

Jacket design by Sanae Kagaya
DVD booklet production by Sanae Kagaya and Satahiko Irisawa
DVD menu design by Uzumi Amano, Yoko Ashikawa, and Tomoe Shizune

Includes a trilingual (Japanese, Korean, and English) 20-page booklet with the poem "A Gaze of a Wind" by Tomoe Shizune, an interview of Yook Keun Byung by Tomoe Shizune, notes, and a sketch by Yook Keun Byung

Released in March 2012