{"id":1383614,"date":"2022-12-06T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/1383614\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:00:21","slug":"ryuichi-sakamoto-playing-the-piano-2022-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/1383614\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 &#8211;  message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZhzpwR19UN4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRyuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022<\/p>\n<p>On December 11, 2022, Ryuichi Sakamoto\u2019s solo piano concert will be streamed to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, with a difference of one day\u2014in other words, on December 12, 2020\u2014 Sakamoto played a solo piano concert when the world was in search of light within the dark tunnel of the coronavirus pandemic. He played from a studio in Tokyo with no audience present. The performance was live-streamed but was not archived for future release.<br \/>\n\u3000<br \/>\nThis means that on December 11, Sakamoto will be returning for the first time in two years to show us \u201cSakamoto in performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What we will watch and listen to on this day is carefully recorded footage of Sakamoto performing a few pieces of music each day over the course of a week. It will be thoughtfully edited into a solo piano concert to be streamed on December 11.<\/p>\n<p>Sakamoto says, \u201cI don\u2019t have the energy to do live concerts\u2026 This might be the last time that you will see me perform in this manner.\u201d Perhaps he has accepted and sat with the reality that he is currently unable to do things that he once used to. Planting himself firmly on the ground of this new reality necessitated by his physical condition, Sakamoto seems to have found a new drive and positivity. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, this concert will better showcase his new musical horizons than ever before for the following reasons: <\/p>\n<p>Firstly, they used the legendary 509 Studio in NHK. Sakamoto does not hesitate in calling this studio located inside NHK Broadcasting Center in Shibuya, Tokyo, \u201cThe best in Japan.\u201d Plenty of time was given to record his performance in this space. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, key crew members were brought in from New York on this occasion as part of the film production team. They filmed Sakamoto\u2019s performance with the intention of not only streaming the footage but to put together a concert film to be released in theaters in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of these circumstances would have become a reality if Sakamoto happened to have the energy to do a live concert.<\/p>\n<p>The streamed version will be about 60 minutes of his performance at the 509 Studio.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, 109 Cinemas\u2019 Premium Sound Theater \u201cSAION\u201d will be screening it twice. There, I am sure that you will be able to enjoy Ryuichi Sakamoto\u2019s performance in highest-quality sound. <\/p>\n<p>Text by Masafumi Suzuki<\/p>\n<p>Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022<br \/>\nFirst stream date(JST)<br \/>\nSunday, December 11, 2022, 12:00 p.m. (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Streaming schedule<br \/>\n(1) Sunday, December 11, 2022, 12:00 (JST)<br \/>\n(2) Sunday, December 11, 2022, 18:00 (JST)<br \/>\n(3) Sunday, December 11, 2022, 24:00 (JST)<br \/>\n(4) Monday, December 12, 2022, 06:00 (JST)<br \/>\nYou may view each of the performance streams with a single streaming ticket.<br \/>\nEach session is of the same performance content.<\/p>\n<p>Host<br \/>\ncommmons \/ Kab Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 Special Site<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/special.musicslash.jp\/sakamoto2022\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 On December 11, 2022, Ryuichi Sakamoto\u2019s solo piano concert will be s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1383615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[53],"tags":[534287,107354],"class_list":{"0":"post-1383614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-ryuichisakamoto","9":"tag-107354"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}