"Wandering Immigrant" - Poem by Morio Hayashida - Music by Tomi Kunisaki - Issei Poetry Project скачать в хорошем качестве

"Wandering Immigrant" - Poem by Morio Hayashida - Music by Tomi Kunisaki - Issei Poetry Project

In 1928, Morio Hayashida of Los Angeles published a Japanese-language poetry collection, "Where to Go." Ninety-five years later, in this video musician Tomi Kunisaki sets Hayashida's poem "Wandering Immigrant (Hōro no imin)" to music, an original composition performed and recorded on the stage of JACCC's Aratani Theatre. Tomi Kunisaki's Artist Statement: "From the perspective of a yonsei who never knew her issei ancestors, Hōro no Imin is a window into the inner world of Morio Hayashida, who, like her great-grandparents, left Japan to build a life in Los Angeles. Moments of contemplative stillness, quietude and wonder, solitude and longing, are portrayed sonically in sparse textures of a single voice and glockenspiel. Contrasting harmonic colors punctuate oscillations between realities imagined and remembered, all set to an evolving timescape. The main theme’s rhythmic palindrome of two-three-four-four-three-two cycles through the future-facing flow of time—toward nisei-sansei-yonsei—and ebbs in retrospect, reaching back across generations. As the text transports listeners to a winter night’s introspection, the music invites reflection on ancestral wanderings past and future." --- The Issei Poetry Project’s goal is to recover the Japanese-language literature of Los Angeles’ Issei (first-generation) writers and educate the public about their significant creative contributions through translation, interpretation, and publication. It is an effort to preserve and translate an archival collection of poetry and literature written by Issei between the wars. Much of this work was thought lost due to the war and incarceration camps. It gives direct access to the feelings and thoughts of the first generation writing during a period of intense US anti-Asian politics and the Great Depression. The Los Angeles Issei Poetry project is supported, in part, by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission, California Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. For more about the Issei Poetry Project: https://jaccc.org/issei-poetry-project/