[
Watanabe Takashi ]
Watanabe
Takashi from Osaka commits his work to avantgardistic
performance groups, and films on the one hand, incidently
he produces music for stage plays. On the other hand he
does also work for the really big ones − he delivered
the background music for commercials on Toyota’s ‘Lexus’,
for the japanese cosmetic company POLA, and also for Mitsubishi
Building Tech Services, Canon Marketing Japan, as well
as for Procter & Gamble whereby he has developed to
being an artist not to be thought away from the advertising
industry.
Watanabe Takashi is a 21st century avant-classic musician
adroitly shifting between the over- and the underground.
By way of his unique talent in editing classical music
he creates a new musical genre one may call futuristic
modern classical music. Counting on experimental execution
wherewith pieces of elegance and grace bluntly reminding
of a dancing Pina Bausch come into being, Watanabe Takashi
is doing to classical music what Can and Neu! did to rock
music.
Watanabe is not only about classic or electronic music,
but an arrant new type of both. Leaving itself channelled
candidly and full of curiousity by the musical pieces
the audience is forming as multifariously and progressively
as his music itself.
