The connection of hearts and minds created by music
SAN Murata |
TEDxYouth@Kumamoto
• December 2022
サン村田 : 音楽で生み出す、心の繋がり
1968年からカナダに渡り、画家/デザイナーとして活動しつつ、50歳よりジャズバイオリンを始める。 カナダの世界的ミュージシャンとの共演や多数のジャズフェスに出演し、毎年日本でも演奏を行っていたサン村田。
2020年、来日していたタイミングで新型コロナウイルスが流行し、カナダへ帰国できなくなってしまう。日本で生活をしていく中で、日本の同調圧力や個人を尊重しない風土に違和感を感じるようになった。
日本でもジャズ音楽の演奏活動を続けながら、次第に、人と人とが本当に理解し合うためには音楽が必要だと気付く。
音楽は、国、言語、文化、性別に囚われず、人と人とが互いを理解しあうことのできる共通言語である。
心から手を通じて感情が直接表現されるその音には、言葉を頼らずとも感じることの出来るなにかがあると信じ、演奏を行う。
MURATA San :
The connection of hearts and minds created by music
He moved to Canada in 1968 and started playing jazz violin at the age of 50 while working as a painter/designer. MURATA San performed with world-class musicians in the Canadian jazz world and at numerous jazz festivals and performed in Japan every year.
In 2020, at the same time, he was visiting Japan, a new type of coronavirus broke out and he was unable to return to Canada. While living in Japan, he began to feel uncomfortable with the Japanese culture of peer pressure and lack of respect for the individual.
While continuing to perform jazz music in Japan, he gradually realized that music is necessary for people to truly understand each other.
Music is a common language that allows people to understand each other regardless of country, language, culture, or gender.
He performs with the belief that there is something in the sound that can be felt without relying on words, as emotions are expressed directly from the heart through the hands.
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