{"id":4344,"date":"2016-09-19T16:33:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:33:46","slug":"recording-session-for-cross-transit-by-yoshie-abe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20160919_4344.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Recording Session for &#8216;Cross Transit'&#8221; by Yoshie Abe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20160919_4344.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20160919_4344.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Recording Session for &#8216;Cross Transit'&#8221; by Yoshie Abe\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Recording Session for &#8220;Cross Transit&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8625.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10943 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8625-680x453.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Mariko Omi\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRecently I was given the opportunity to take part in the recording of music for a contemporary dance production called &#8220;Cross Transit.&#8221; The music director\u00a0Hiroaki Yokoyama came all the way to Sado for the recording with me! Mr. Yokoyama is such a talented person who has provided music to so many different artists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8626.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10944 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8626-680x454.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Mariko Omi\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These photos show our recording sessions at Kodo Village in the rehearsal hall. Most of the Kodo members are away on tour, so I was lucky to have the whole space to myself for this recording.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8608.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10941 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8608-340x454.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Mariko Omi\" width=\"340\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We layered my vocals to create depth, recorded my voice doing sound effects and animal sounds, and I spoke lines from a script. It was unlike any recording I have ever done before and it was&#8230; interesting! I look forward to seeing how it will turn out with the touch of Mr. Yokoyama&#8217;s magic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8616.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10942 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_8616-340x454.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Mariko Omi\" width=\"340\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI hope you will all go\u00a0along to see the performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Cross Transit<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akikokitamura.com\/crosstransit\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.akikokitamura.com\/crosstransit\/en\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/yoshieabe_en.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10685 size-full alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/yoshieabe_s.jpg\" alt=\"yoshieabe_s\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hiroaki Yokoyama,\u00a0Sound Director<\/strong> (Profile courtesy of Cross Transit website)<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Texas, U.S.A. and spent his childhood in the Netherlands.<br \/>\nDuring university, he toured with many artists as an assisting member and composed music for TV commercials, films, and animations.<br \/>\nHe composes, arranges, and produces music for many artists including YUKI, MISIA, JUJU, Yuko Ando, and Kaera Kimura.<br \/>\nHe has toured and played for Noriyuki Makihara, miwa, and Gen Hoshino on keyboard.<br \/>\nHe currently is a member of Rendez-vous Band directed by Keiichi Sokabe and L.E.D.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording Session for &#8220;Cross Transit&#8221; Recently I was given the opportunity to take part in the recording of music for a contemporary dance production called &#8220;Cross Transit.&#8221; The music director\u00a0Hiroaki Yokoyama came all the way to Sado for the recording with me! Mr. Yokoyama is such a talented person who has provided music to so many different artists. These photos show our recording sessions at Kodo Village in the rehearsal hall. Most of the Kodo members are away on tour, so I was lucky to have the whole space to myself for this recording. We layered my vocals to create depth, recorded my voice doing sound effects and animal sounds, &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20160919_4344.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,23,111,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}