Later, he abandons conventional instruments altogether and generates sound from a cluster of modernist sculptures, bowing a curved set of chiming metal rods before teasing out ghostly squeals by scraping microphones across a sheet of glass. At one point in this performance, he leans into the guts of his piano and plucks pizzicato notes from the interior strings with what looks like a chopstick. These somber sentiments have inescapable extra weight in this context, given the composer's own recent brush with serious illness.Sakamoto's solo album have always leaned more toward the avant-garde sonics of John Cage or Terry Riley than his more conventionally melodic, accessible film scores. His professorial appearance is as formal and impeccably tailored as the music his expression furrowed, his silver swoop of hair swishing gently as he bows in concentration. Beyond further festival berths, it should find eventually find a natural home on home-viewing formats.Playing solo in front of a select, hushed, reverential audience, Sakamoto alternates between grand piano, vintage synthesizer keyboard and laptop computer.

Clearly pitched primarily at fans, Schible's film has just premiered at the Berlinale, where the 66-year-old Sakamoto is serving on the international jury.

Director Stephen Nomura Schible was on hand to capture the performance for this crisp concert film, which serves as a companion piece to Coda, his recent documentary profile of Sakamoto.Live at the Park Avenue Armory is a straight audiovisual record of the concert, low on frills but shot with the kind of forensically crisp production polish that this absorbing, immersive, intricate music deserves. The album, async, was conceived around the time the Oscar-winning avant-classical composer was undergoing radiology treatment for throat cancer, which may explain why much of it is preoccupied with themes of mortality and finite time. Premiere performance of his first new nonsoundtrack album in eight years at the Veterans Room of the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The Oscar-winning Japanese composer performs his latest album live in Stephen Nomura Schible's intimate concert film.In April 2017, Ryuichi Sakamoto gave a live U.S.

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