Show & Tell: Ami Yamasaki – Love Letter

Show & Tell is a live music series providing a chamber-music like setting for the performance and discussion of mostly acoustic music, primarily of international origin, including traditional music, classical, jazz, "new" music, and multi-disciplinary collaborations.

Ami asks the world, “What is the material of the world?” “How the world consists?” with her voice and sound. For her, these questions are the love letter to the world.

Ami Yamasaki is a vocalist, director and creator of physical theater works, films and art installations from Tokyo, Japan. A seeker of primitive vocalization, mystery, and movement, she performs frequently at the temples and shrines of Japan.

In this performance, she tries to seek the relationship between humans and the world. She makes music by over dubbing with her voice the sound from various things and movements, layering the vibrations to create different textures, cross-currents and whirlpools of sound. In that process new relations arise between the sounds, and the meaning of each sound is transformed. This phenomenon is an attempt to discover “how the world consists.” In addition, this is also a love letter for all the people who lost something in the world, not only for Japan.