Mieko Shiomi | An Incidental Story on the Day of the Solar Eclipse #1 #2 #3

Mieko Shiomi

An Incidental Story on the Day of the Solar Eclipse #1 #2 #3

Cologne, Germany: Edition Hundertmark, 1998

19 x 27 x 2.5 cm.

Edition of 30 signed and numbered copies

Hundertmark’s Box number 154 consists of a signed and numbered audio cassette (released in a larger edition of 400, including these 30), a colour photograph of the performance signed and numbered, four text pages and a score. 

The 51 minute cassette was recorded during The Kobe International Modern Music Festival, November 2nd, 1997. The performers include Shiomi, Christophe Charles, Narrator Jerry Gordon, Saxophonist Eiji Hirata, pianist Keiko Fujishima and Soprano Megumi Hashiramoto. 

"There are many other transmedia pieces, but the most extreme example is a series I began with a book locked with a key, submitted to the Book Object exhibition [see below]. This is one volume out of three. The content is a short story in English that unfolds while a pianist plays from Bach’s Partitas. Each sentence begins with a word that starts with the first letter of a dance form contained in the music. Later this became a two-dimensional work. It grew into a chamber music piece, An Incidental Story on the Day of a Solar Eclipse, via a simple performance that consists of narration, piano, soprano, saxophone, a performer, and environmental sounds from speakers."

- Mieko Shiomi, 2013