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Rating: 6.5 stars

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NWI avant garde noise electronics Japan musicians

All movies seen on 04/02/2014

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We Don't Care About Music Anyway (2009)

Directed by Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz

Documentary | Music

Overview

From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classical instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness.  While introducing some of the greatest musicians of this scene, “We Don’t Care About Music Anyway…” offers a kaleidoscopic view of Tokyo, confronting music and noise, sound and image, reality and representation, documentary and fiction.

Length 80 minutes

Actors

Hiromichi Sakamoto | Otomo Yoshihide | Tomoko Shimazaki | Ken Takehisa | Fuyuki Yamakawa

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

The doc really stands out when it pairs the experimental sounds it’s documenting with shots of Tokyo that we normally don’t see, mainly garbage dumps, desolate, litter strewn seashore and abandoned buildings. It falls down the most when focusing on the artists themselves sitting around a table and talking about their music, which felt pretentious and out of place.

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