Tag ‘Digital Media’
Radio Appearances in Hakata & Osaka
Kodo members appeared on these radio programmes recently: “Hawks Hana no Oendan” on RKB Radio in Hakata on Oct. 22 and “Wakako Takeda’s Pitatto” on ABC Radio in Osaka on Oct. 23.
Masayuki Sakamoto, Mariko Omi, Shogo Komatsuzaki & Kosuke Urushikubo appeared on “Hawks Hana no Oendan” on RKB Radio. They all enjoyed talking with the hosts about our brand new production, “Eternity.”
Masayuki Sakamoto, Yosuke Kusa and Jun Jidai appeared on “Wakako Takeda’s Pitatto” on ABC Radio and gave a live performance. It featured a collaboration with the radio show hosts. They all had so much fun together that the producers let it run over time!
“Kodo One Earth Tour: Eternity”
http://www.kodo.or.jp/news/20141120oet_en.html
Nov. 20 (Thu) Amusement Sado, Sado Is., Niigata
Nov. 30 (Sun) City Hall Plaza “Aore Nagaoka,” Nagaoka, Niigata
– “Heartbeat Project” Special Version –
Dec. 2 (Tue) Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Dec. 4 (Thu) Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater Concert Hall, Nagoya, Aichi
Dec. 6 (Sat) & 7 (Sun) NHK Osaka Hall, Osaka City
Dec. 10 (Wed) Okayama Civic Hall, Okayama City
Dec. 12 (Fri) Ueno Gakuen Hall, Hiroshima City
Dec. 15 (Mon) & 16 (Tue) Hakataza Theater, Fukuoka City
Dec. 19 (Fri) – 23 (Tue/Public Hol.) Bunkyo Civic Hall, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo
Dec. 25 (Thu) Niigata Prefectural Civic Center, Niigata City
“Appearance on Hiroshima TV” by Narumi Matsuda
Mariko Omi, Yosuke Kusa and Kosuke Urushikubo visited Hiroshima TV on Oct. 21. They announced the Hiroshima performance of our new “Kodo One Earth Tour: Eternity” production on Dec. 12 and performed live on programme “Terebi Ha.” It will be our first performance in Hiroshima City in two years. We hope you are looking forward to it, we certainly are!
You can watch the footage of our appearance on the Hiroshima TV website. Please take a look!
http://www.htv.jp/event/
Kodo One Earth Tour 2014: Eternity
Dec. 12 (Fri), 2014 Ueno Gakuen Hall, Hiroshima City
http://www.kodo.or.jp/oet/20141212a_en.html
“Collaborate with Kodo Via WholeWorldBand” by Kodo PR Team
Our new piece Open Doors (composed by Yosuke Oda & Masayuki Sakamoto) is now available on WholeWorldBand, a new iPad and iPhone application providing a global musical collaboration service.
Founded by multi-award-winner video director Kevin Godley (10cc), WholeWorldBand is an exciting new iPad and iPhone application that allows anyone to to take part in making music and videos that can be shared and enjoyed worldwide.
Here’s an example of a collaboration with Kodo using this app:
Your collaboration with us could be playing a guitar, clapping your hands, adding film footage to our piece, or of course jamming with us on taiko drums!
We hope you’ll join us on WholeWorldBand and bring all kinds of ideas to collaborate with us! We’re looking forward to seeing and hearing what you come up with!
WholeWorldBand（iTunes Store）
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id627910123
*The app is free and it’s free to watch the performances on it. If you download the app, then search for “Kodo,” you will find our new piece “Open Doors”
WholeWorldBand Official Website http://wholeworldband.com
“Collaborate with Kodo Using WholeWorldBand” by Kodo PR Team
Our new piece Open Doors (composed by Yosuke Oda & Masayuki Sakamoto) is now available on WholeWorldBand, a new iPad and iPhone application providing a global musical collaboration service.
Founded by multi-award-winner video director Kevin Godley (10cc), WholeWorldBand is an exciting new iPad and iPhone app that allows anyone to to take part in making music and videos that can be shared and enjoyed worldwide. WWB enables musicians around the world to collaborate in music and vision – interacting with each other, their fans and a new audience. Everyone from famous professionals to complete beginners can work together to create songs and visuals using just the camera and microphone in their iOS device.”
WWB already has a number of successful musicians uploading tracks to the app for you to play with – from established artists like Ronnie Wood, Stewart Copeland, David Gray, to the new and exciting Lisa Hannigan, Passenger, Kill It Kid and many more. Using the app is like entering a virtual recording studio. Just pick a recording session & contribute a vocal, instrumental, visual or anything else that you feel like adding… or you can simply build and mix your own custom videos, you don’t even have to be a musician! Once that’s done it can be turned into a multi-channel video that can be shared via YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud.
WholeWorldBand Official Website
http://wholeworldband.com
WholeWorldBand asked us to participate in this project, so we composed a new piece especially for it entitled Open Doors. It was recorded during our European tour on Feb. 23, 2014, at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland.
The app is free and it’s free to watch the performances on it. If you download the app, then search for “Kodo,” you can watch our video. We hope you’ll try this app if you have an iPhone or iPad. Also, we hope you’ll use this app to make your own collaboration with Kodo. We’re looking forward to hearing what people come up with!
WholeWorldBand（iTunes Store）
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id627910123
“Kodo ‘Honoka’ [Live] Digital Version Now on Sale” by Kodo PR Team
This live recording from DVD “Kodo Honoka” is available exclusively for online purchase as a digital download.
See here for details: http://www.kodo.or.jp/news/20140607honoka_live_en.html
You can take this live album wherever you go on your smart phone. It also features the original recording of “Tomorrow” as a bonus track, which was the encore piece for the stage performance.
We hope you’ll enjoy our current tour “Mystery” live at the theater, the new DVD of our last production “Legend” at home, and this digital download of “Kodo 30th Anniversary One Earth Tour 2011” on your mobile devices. The “Legend” DVD goes on sale on June 21 at our “Mystery” performance in Asakusa, Tokyo.
Artistic Director Tamasaburo Bando’s Second Production “Kodo One Earth Tour 2014: Mystery”
http://www.kodo.or.jp/news/20140510oet_en.html
Kodo DVD “Legend” – On sale June 21, 2014
http://www.kodo.or.jp/news/20140621dvdlegend_en.html