2020S "Ryuichi Sakamoto | Art Box Project 2020"
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A video showing the contents of the box one by one.
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It begins by breaking.
For over 30 years, I’ve wanted to make music that can be presented and experienced as an art object.
There used to be all sorts of rules that made it impossible to realize, but the time has finally come.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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The embodiment of Ryuichi Sakamoto's wishes is the Complete Art Box "2020S", available as a strictly limited production of 300 boxes.
The box contains a total of 7 analog records with music produced and released by Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2020. It also includes a new song written based on one of the themes of this work, "Fragments of Memory", together with a pottery fragment used in the piece.
This commemorative work signifies the year 2020, which was full of changes, and summarizes his world-wide musical activities in providing music for various areas such as cinema, drama, commercial, documentaries, and solo exhibitions.
The box design uses a special wooden design with the motif of "Hako", which represents the world of the work, and has a structure that can display the enclosed pieces of pottery. Along with the analog record that Ryuichi Sakamoto loves, we will provide an experience that mobilizes the feeling of seeing, listening, and touching. Sakamoto's long-standing dream of being both a musical work and an art work has been realized.
Artist Name: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: 2020S
Product No.: RZZ1-77186~92 (12-inch × 5 discs + 7-inch × 2 discs)
Price: 200,000 yen (without tax)
Release Date: 2021/3/30
・Analog Disc (12-inch × 5 discs + 7-inch × 2 discs) white vinyl
・BOX specifications / Wooden 凵(Box) with special specifications凵
Material:[Main body] Paulownia (FSC certified material from Morotsuka Village, Miyazaki Prefecture, where more trees forest is located)
[Attached porcelain stand] Brass (Niigata Tsubamesanjo)
Size:w335mm x d335mm x h175mm
Shipping box size:Approx. w465mm x d460mm x h350mm
Weight:Approx. 12 kg (including shipping box)
・Pottery fragment art object
Ryuichi Sakamoto hand-painted pottery plates produced by the ceramic artist, Shingo Oka, then broke the plates. The sounds of the breaking plates were sampled to write this new song. The “Pottery fragment art object” is a fragment of the pottery used for this piece.
・Booklet
Prologue
Correspondence between Shinichi Fukuoka and Ryuichi Sakamoto
A Dialogue with Biologist Shinichi Fukuoka
2020 Diary Poem Ryuichi Sakamoto
・Signed and edition numbered by Ryuichi Sakamoto
commmons