28/04/2026
"Ohayo Parasite" (2024) is an expanded version of Chatori Shimizu’s original work, newly layered with electronics. The video, filmed at a bulky waste disposal facility and aboard a boat on the Seto Inland Sea, overlays two seemingly different scenes—disposal and movement—within a single sense of time. Objects are discarded, while the sea carries them onward into the sensibility of another place. The work musically illuminates this circulation and the movement of what remains.
In this version, I participated by creating an electronic remix based on the existing musical materials. Since first meeting Chatori in Taiwan two years ago, we have continued our artistic exchange, and this collaboration became an occasion for different memories and experiences of place to meet within a shared sound world. I myself worked for a garbage-cleaning company in Kyoto around the period before and during the pandemic, so the visual setting of this work resonates with me as more than mere imagery. The waste-processing facility is not an abstract symbol, but a site where labor, time, and the weight of leftover material are densely condensed.
Ultimately, "Ohayo Parasite" is a work about what has been discarded, what continues to survive, and the sensation of beings that attach themselves to new environments and transform there. Through the combination of shō, electronics, video, and space, the piece exists both as a completed work and as something like an open score, awaiting further realization in future performances.
2 likes. "Ohayo Parasite (2024) for kinetically-enhanced drum kit and two wind instruments / Chatori Shimizu"