#moriyama-san

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[oliveheard]

Moriyama-San, 2017

[justgot1]

I’m watching a sort-of documentary called Moriyama-san about the guy who owns an architecturally iconic house in the Tokyo burbs that he commissioned to replace the house he grew up in, the only place he’s ever lived. He’s never even left Tokyo.

The architect built, instead of a singular house, a complex of ten tiny buildings of mixed use, of which Moriyama occupies four and he rents five of them out as wee studios.

This enables him to not work and instead live an incredibly minimal lifestyle of listening to avant-garde “noise” music, watching obscure films, and reading voraciously.

I mean. I wouldn’t call his life the dream exactly—but it’s a dream, and one I am a sucker for. I know I couldn’t do it for long but man it sounds nice for a while.

[thejaymo]

MORIYAMA-SAN

One week in the extraordinary-ordinary life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and music enlightened amateur who lives in one of the most famous contemporary Japanese architecture, the Moriyama house, built in Tokyo in 2005 by PritzkerPrize winner Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA). Introduced in the intimacy of this experimental microcosm which redefines completely the common sense of domestic life, Ila Bêka recounts in a very spontaneous and personal way the unique personality of the owner: a urban hermit living in a small archipelago of peace and contemplation in the heart of Tokyo. From noise music to experimental movies, the film let us enter into the ramification of the Mr. Moriyama’s free spirit. Moriyama-San, the first film about noise music, acrobatic reading, silent movies, fireworks and Japanese architecture!

[vivawunderbar]

Moriyama-San by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

[the-bot-that-thought]

Thinking Back to Moriyama-San

 I think I finally get him. When I first watch Moriyama-San, I thought he was pretty cool. But I didn’t think he was that cool. Some parts were actually quite boring. After watching the documentary, I did want to make a point to try and listen to noise music. I haven’t been able to really try it out until a week ago. After listening to noise music for a week I feel… different. It is kind of funny to say that. But it’s true. Music in general is very powerful. It is something that can unite us, separate us, make us fall in love and invigorate our memories. While listening to noise music, it made me feel many different things. Some of the music I listened to made me feel scared. I was confused. I tried understanding it, but it was hard to comprehend. There was no beat. No rhythm, no poetic stanzas. The closest thing that I’ve ever experienced to this was when I heard the song called Revolution 9 by the Beatles. The first time I heard that song was back when I was in middle school. I remember listening to it with my older brother, and it really freaked me out. I would have bad dreams about it because the sounds were so unfamiliar. Part of it was because it was backwards. The sounds were going in ways that they normally don’t.

My father and mother believed that music is something that touches your soul and can change you. They never wanted me listening to music with inappropriate words, or excessive yelling. They would call it garbage and say that it is not good for me. I remember one day, my older brothers listening to rap, and my Father heard them. He got so mad that he threw out all of their music. Nowadays it isn’t as bad. My parents have loosened up a bit. But I think they were semi right by the fact that music does touch your soul. It can change you, your mind, and thoughts.

 Thinking back to Moriyama-San, his music isn’t calming nor is it exciting. It is but noise. I guess that is why it is called noise music. While listening, I noticed how random and inconsistent it was. It was hard to listen to at times. After listening to it for a while, I discovered that there is something that I can count on for consistency–the fact that it is randomized. Sometimes things that seem to have no order, and are so chaotic… the chaos itself is something that can be counted on for constancy. It is very paradoxical. I think that that is where the beauty of noise music lies. As for Moriyama-San, I think his work with noise music is part of the reason he is the way he is today. He has this carefree attitude towards life. (He sleeps on a hard wood floor for crying out loud!) He finds beauty in the small things, and most of all, he finds beauty in the chaos of life. I think I get him a little more now. It just took me a little bit.

[yuuki-o]

At the heart of the exhibition is an ambitious and unprecedented full-size recreation of the Moriyama House (2005) by Pritzker-prize winning architect Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) – considered to be one of the most important houses of the 21st century.

In a radical decomposition of the conventional house, this building consists of ten individual units, separated by an exterior garden – soon to be reconstructed in our Art Gallery space, intertwined within our Brutalist architecture. You’ll be able to weave in and out to explore the fully furnished units and garden, imagining how it might be to live there. Each room will be furnished with hundreds of objects including books, music and films to recreate the world of the house’s owner, Yasuo Moriyama. More than a mere architectural model, this 1:1 recreation forms a portrait of Moriyama – a reclusive collector who has never left Japan.

西澤立衛　自作について「森山邸」 http://www.tozai-as.or.jp/mytech/05/05_ryuei03.html

[demon-king-satan]

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