2008-08-31

松下 進

ARTISTトップへ
イラスト、デザイン、音楽…といった多才さと、人間味あふれる性格
が常に人を魅了するアーチスト。夢とこだわりの実現に歩み続けてきました。

時には駄洒落を飛ばしながら!




はじめまして、イラストレーターの松下進です。僕は1950年(昭和25年)2月6日に東京中野に生まれました。現在55歳になります。プロのイラストレーターとして『絵』を描き始めたのが23歳からですので、かれこれ32年間プロとして仕事を続けている事になります。長くやっているというよりも時が過ぎるのは何て早いんだろう…と感じています!両 親の証言によると、いわゆる物心が着いた頃には『絵』を描いていたらしいです。

そして自分の記憶に在る『絵』を描いていた事を辿ると、家の前に在った 石畳の舗道いっぱいに蝋石で描いた『作品』?!を通行人に踏まれる のが嫌で機嫌が悪くなっていたのを思い出します。迷惑な話ですよね。

幼 年期の頃から他人と同じようなモノを与えられたりするのが大嫌いで兄とお揃いの服を母親が買ってきても絶対に着る事は無かったし、幼稚園で制服を着せられる事が嫌で登園拒否?にもなっていたなんて事もありました。 誤解されたく無いし、両親の名誉に掛けても言っておきますが、決して甘やかされて育った訳でもありませんし、しつけには とても厳しい両親でした。でも今に して思えば子供の個性をとても尊 重してくれる両親だったんですね!

特に父は映画が大好きで、洋画のSFX を駆使した様なものや怪奇映 画、ディズニーのアニメーション映画、そしてミュージカル映画といわゆ るエンターテインメント性の高い映画に幼い僕を休日の時 には頻繁に 連れて行ってくれました。家に帰ってから映画のパンフレットを見ながら 『絵』を描くのが楽しみでした。僕の作品のアイディアはその頃強烈に印象 に残った沢山の映画から生まれていると思います。

そんな趣味が仕事になり同じ様な感性を持った仲間達が集い会社と なったのがSusumu Matsushita Enterpriseです! みんな幸運と幸福に感謝しています!

今、とくに力を入れていることは、趣味として大好きな『音楽』と『絵』の 融合!
『音楽』を聴いて浮かんで来る『絵』、『絵』を観て流れて来る『音楽』
ライフワークですね!


松下進 お気に入りの一作

作品名: "Seven Seas Holdings" Poster
制作年月: 2005年7月
カテゴリ: ポスター

以 前から考えていた『絵』と『音楽』のコラボレーション。 理解あるクライアントとの出会いによって初めて実現でき た記念碑的作品です! The Glenn Miller Orchestra 不滅の名作 "A String of Pearls"『真珠の首飾り』を聴い た時にインスピレーションが湧いて描いた作品です。 今後、自分自身の作品テーマとして『絵』と『音楽』を描き 続けて いくつもりです!




http://naomigrace.way-nifty.com/

2008-08-30

Brad Mehldau













http://www.imnworld.com/bradmehldau
http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/brad-mehldau

Biography


“Universally admired as one of the most adventurous pianists to arrive on the jazz scene in years.” - The Los Angeles Times

“Inside the music of Brad Mehldau is a conflict among rock, jazz and classical personalities. Ultimately, though, the pianist has figured a way to integrate all three pretty seamlessly.” - The Philadelphia Enquirer

“The elliptical lines, volatile rhythmic figures and unexpected bursts of color and dissonance… prove that Mehldau writes as cleverly as he plays.” – The Chicago Tribune

“Mehldau achieves an almost spiritual resonance, chords echoing like amens.” – Time Magazine

Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle and Places might be called “concept” albums. They are made up exclusively of original material and have central themes that hover over the compositions. Other Mehldau recordings include Largo, a collaborative effort with the innovative musician and producer Jon Brion, and Anything Goes—a trio outing with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy.

His first record for Nonesuch, Brad Mehldau Live in Tokyo, was released in September 2004. After ten rewarding years with Rossy playing in Mehldau’s regular trio, drummer Jeff Ballard joined the band in 2005. The label released its first album from the Brad Mehldau Trio—Day is Done—on September 27, 2005. The critically acclaimed double live trio recording entitled Brad Mehldau Trio Live was released on March 25th, 2008 (Nonesuch).

Mehldau’s musical personality forms a dichotomy. He is first and foremost an improviser, and greatly cherishes the surprise and wonder that can occur from a spontaneous musical idea that is expressed directly, in real time. But he also has a deep fascination for the formal architecture of music, and it informs everything he plays. In his most inspired playing, the actual structure of his musical thought serves as an expressive device. As he plays, he listens to how ideas unwind, and the order in which they reveal themselves. Each tune has a strongly felt narrative arch, whether it expresses itself in a beginning, an end, or something left intentionally open-ended. The two sides of Mehldau’s personality—the improviser and the formalist—play off each other, and the effect is often something like controlled chaos.

Mehldau has performed around the world at a steady pace since the mid-1990s, with his trio and as a solo pianist. His performances convey a wide range of expression. There is often an intellectual rigor to the continuous process of abstraction that may take place on a given tune, and a certain density of information. That could be followed by a stripped down, emotionally direct ballad. Mehldau favors juxtaposing extremes. He has attracted a sizeable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience in his performance.

In addition to his trio and solo projects, Mehldau has worked with a number of great jazz musicians, including a rewarding gig with saxophonist Joshua Redman’s band for two years, recordings and concerts with Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Lee Konitz, and recording as a sideman with the likes of the late Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, John Scofield, and Charles Lloyd. For more than a decade, he has collaborated with several musicians and peers whom he respects greatly, including the guitarists Peter Bernstein and Kurt RosenwinkelMark Turner. Mehldau also has played on a number of recordings outside of the jazz idiom, like Willie Nelson’s Teatro and singer-songwriter Joe Henry’s Scar. His music has appeared in several movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and Wim Wender’s Million Dollar Hotel. He also composed an original soundtrack for the French film, Ma Femme Est Une Actrice. Mehldau recently composed two new works commissioned by Carnegie Hall for voice and piano, The Blue Estuaries and The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, which were performed in the spring of 2005 with the acclaimed classical soprano, Renee Fleming. These songs were recorded with Fleming and released in 2006 on the Love Sublime record; simultaneously, Nonesuch released an album of Mehldau’s jazz compositions for trio entitled House on Hill. In March 2007 Mehldau debuted the piano concerto "The Brady Bunch Variations for piano and orchestra" at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris with Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France. In early 2008 London's Wigmore Hall
and tenor saxophonist announced that Brad Mehldau will curate an annual four-concert jazz series at the prestigious hall during its 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons, with Mehldau appearing in at least two of the four annual concerts.

2008-08-27

櫻井正毅


世界が認めるギター製作の第一人者。1967年上智大学電気電子工学科を卒業後、河野ギター製作所に入社。1988年には、第4回パリ国際ギター製作コン クールで金メダルを獲得する。スペインから輸入した年輪の細かい良質な木材を使用し、木材の質に併せてギターの命でもある表面版の厚みを100分の1ミリ 単位で調整、ギターの音の科学的な解析を試みより理想の音を出すため追求し続けている。
http://www.jump.co.jp/bs-i/chojin/archive/126.html

HUIS TEN BOSCH 8/24-27 w/RIO