Makoto Nomura

Makoto Nomura

Makoto Nomura is a composer and pianist who pursues unique forms of collaborative composing by reaching out to the communities to involve people with no former experience in music, such as groups of the elderly, children or female victims of domestic violence, and make them his partners in improvisation. In February of 2012 he released a work titled “Makoto Nomura’s Old People’s Home Remix #2 Documentary Opera ‘Dango for the Revival’” created in collaboration with the elderly at the Sakura-En special-care home for the elderly in Yokohama that he has been visiting regularly for the past 12 years. Borrowing the theme of “recovery” from the conditions in the wake of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Nomura interviewed the home’s elderly who had lived through the harsh years of recovery after World War II. The work synchronized music inspired by the voices, the monologues, words and gestures of the elderly in these interviews and video footage of the interviews, with Nomura performing the music live at the performances.
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