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During this 45-minute online classic guitar session, I invite you to take part in an age-old Japanese Shinto custom called “Naorai”.
Naorai is a banquet held after Shinto festivals and ceremonies, and originally had the purpose of breaking the fast to going back to normal day-to-day life by eating and drinking together.
I believe we can virtually recreate the spirit of Naorai by substituting music for food and sharing our own sounds.
After introducing ourselves to each other, you can indulge yourself in the sounds of the 19th-century guitar as I play widely-known guitar masterpieces, as well as a Japanese nursery rhyme.
At the end of the session, I’ll wear a Noh mask and improvise a song, which you are welcome to join me and jam out together.
It doesn’t even have to be a musical instrument, play whatever and however you feel like playing; If the action of grinding coffee beans makes you focus, that’s the instrument for you.
So, let’s share live music together!
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Duration: 45 minutes
Starts: Tokyo, Japan
Trip Category: Classes & Workshops >> Music Classes
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During this 45-minute online classic guitar session, I invite you to take part in an age-old Japanese Shinto custom called “Naorai”.
Naorai is a banquet held after Shinto festivals and ceremonies, and originally had the purpose of breaking the fast to going back to normal day-to-day life by eating and drinking together.
I believe we can virtually recreate the spirit of Naorai by substituting music for food and sharing our own sounds.
After introducing ourselves to each other, you can indulge yourself in the sounds of the 19th-century guitar as I play widely-known guitar masterpieces, as well as a Japanese nursery rhyme.
At the end of the session, I’ll wear a Noh mask and improvise a song, which you are welcome to join me and jam out together.
It doesn’t even have to be a musical instrument, play whatever and however you feel like playing; If the action of grinding coffee beans makes you focus, that’s the instrument for you.
So, let’s share live music together!
Itinerary
This is an online experience, please join us from your cozy place.
I’m a classic guitarist, specializing in improvised playing. I majored in classic guitar in a New York college, and while I was there, I got fascinated by creative music therapy which utilized sounds in a spontaneous, impromptu way to treat the elderly and autistic kids. It gave me an epiphany that human intuition to “identify” something —I call this “minashi”— is essential to improvisation. Since then, I’ve been on a journey to find “minashi” inside myself and perceive my own physical existence.
India, Turkey, Cambodia or Japanese remote islands; wherever I went, I brought my 19th-century guitar with me to “connect” with locals through improvised guitar performances. Today, to discover what it means to “truly connect” with people, I continue my journey and provide places for people to take part together in spontaneous musical sessions.
First, let me introduce myself, and the concept of this gathering, Then, I will pick and playing songs for you, between the songs I will explain the meaning of the songs.
For guitar lovers, or join for your anniversary, or a gift for yourself or someone important for you.
