Jo Ha Kyū

from silence to chaos. from collapse to creation.
an extraordinary power passes between two states of being.
the essence of the story is the quest for a musical universe by a wizard cellist.

Among the many fascinating aspects of Japan, it is the very vitality of its culture that stands out.
Whereas everywhere in the world, traditions fade before cultural globalization, Japan’s ancestral colours overshadow modernity in a unique way.That peculiar intensity is to be found at every level of Japanese avant-garde music, which uses that unmistakably rough sonority deeply engraved into this country’s most traditional form of musical writing. When listening to avant-garde music pieces, one easily detects to what extent they belong to traditional Japanese music, how it has lived on under that form.