Japanese Music 3

Introduction to the Japanese avant-garde art with emphasis on the Sogetsu Art Movement, which is crucial for the further development of Japanese music as well as other arts.
Characteristics of the Sogetsu Art Movement; the students learn about the works which were created at the Sogetsu Art Center, the main venue of the Sogetsu Art Movement: film music, graphic scores, and »happenings«, etc., all done in collaboration with today famous Japanese artist such as composer Toru Takemitsu, director of the Center and film director Hiroshi Teshigahara, playwright Kobo Abe, cartoonist Yoji Kuri, graphic designer Kohei Sugiura itd.

Tsurumi, Shunsuke. Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980. Routledge, 2010. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&AN=34311… 

Hrvatin, Klara. 2023. “The Collaboration behind Takemitsu’s Film Music for Otoshiana (1962).” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 54, no. 1 (2023): 87–106. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48732225. 

2021. “Exception to Toru Takemitsu’s Oeuvre: Theater Piece Blue Aurora.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 52 (1): 133–46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27032561. 

2018. Sogetsu Art Center’s Invitation Letters to International Composers. Musicological annual LIV/1: 59-74. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.54.1.59-73 

2018. Prostorje kot kulturni proizvod : refleksija na današnje prostorje japonskega avantgardnega gibanja v šestdesetih letih dvajsetega stoletja. Azijske študije 6 (1): 119-136. https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/7513/7428  

2017. Ko bom velik, bom umetnik : eksperimetalni peskovnik japonske avantgarde. Azijske študije 5 (21): 243-269. https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/7050/0 

2016. ‘Sanjski grad vsakega umetnika’ – Japonski avantgardni center v 60. letih 20. stoletja. Azijske študije 4 (2): 183–201. https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/6357/6686