{"id":1274,"date":"2017-11-08T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2017-11-09T01:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T01:55:25","slug":"frank-serafine-michael-wilson-howard-sapper-journey-inside-creation-kitaros-kojiki-universe-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/08\/frank-serafine-michael-wilson-howard-sapper-journey-inside-creation-kitaros-kojiki-universe-world-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Serafine, Michael Wilson, Howard Sapper journey inside the creation of Kitaro\u2019s Kojiki and The Universe World Tour 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tn-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2952\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tn-10.jpg\" alt=\"tn-10\" width=\"88\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Hepworth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1506485097342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1244\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1506485097342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1506485097342.jpg 640w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1506485097342-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 11\/8\/17\/&#8211;<strong>Frank<\/strong>: I\u2019m speaking\u00a0 with,\u00a0 <strong>Michael Wilson\u00a0 Producer\u00a0 and Howard Sapper Tour Director<\/strong> ,\u00a0 discussing\u00a0 the creation of Kitaro&#8217;s KOJIKI &amp; THE UNIVERSE 2017\u00a0 world tour.<\/p>\n<p>Howard: My name\u2019s <strong>Howard Sapper<\/strong>, and I\u2019ve been working with Kitaro off and on since 1987, since 1999 in a I\u2019m very excited about this tour. It\u2019s called Kitaro\u2019s Kojiki and The Universe, and it\u2019s a very intimate presentation for Kitaro.<\/p>\n<p>It has less technology in terms of light, and sound, and musicians than his normal tour. We thought to create a two-part show that, as the first side is a deep journey of the soul using a Bhutan dancer, two Taiko drummers, himself, another keyboardist, and a wonderful violinist from New York. And, the show opens with a 18 by 8 foot mask\u00a0 exact same mask that the dancer\u2019s learn.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the stage is 90%-95% dark, and the audience is drawn into the experience through the dancer of this inner journey of the soul. It features some of Kitaro\u2019s most popular and-, and well-known songs, and set to this particular environment where the music is an accompaniment to the visual and the spiritual journey that the dancer takes you on.<\/p>\n<p>The second segment of the show is the outer journey. The Kitaro uses imagery that he collaborated with University of Tokyo, NASA and Hubbell Space Telescope to create a re-creation of the Koziki\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, so\u2026and Michael, you can augment this with your knowledge of the music technology, anything, as soon as I\u2019m finished with this.<\/p>\n<p>So, the first part is a deep inner journey of the soul using the Bhutan dancers, the Taiko drummers, Kitaro, his other keyboardist, and-, and-, and this wonderful new violinist we\u2019re using from New York named Blaney.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Kitaro - Koi (preview from &quot;Kojiki and The Universe&quot;)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBCZ7jAGfhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This takes you down deep into that personal experience that we all have if we\u2019re doing any self-exploration.<\/p>\n<p>The second half is the outer journey, where Kitaro uses the imagery of Hubbell Space Telescope, NASA imagery, and some simulation that was created with\u00a0 or University of Tokyo astrophysics\u2019 department, and that takes you from the Big Bang Theory\u2026Big Bang \u2013 excuse me \u2013 all the way to a hundred years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Seven songs from the, Grammy-nominated record, Kojiki, and it\u2019s set to the mythology of Kojiki, which is the Japanese creation ideology. It\u2019s beautifully set. Kitaro has perfectly orchestrated his music with imagery that they\u2019ve created together, and it takes you on this journey.<\/p>\n<p>The audience from both the first set and the second, from my experiences, with this very deeply emotional mood and transformed by this experience. And Kitaro is very happy at this time in the world where we are, to be able to present a show with this depth, and meaning, and this raw level of emotional intimacy using his amazing music and this imagery in this dance to bring forth the message that he wants to create at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Michael, can you augment that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mask2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1248\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mask2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mask2-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mask2-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mask2-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mask2-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mask2-1-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 you know, traditional Japanese kind of crossover fusion, uh, and then when you get\u2026you know, that\u2019s beautiful, and-, and you just basically project, uh, one of those masks up on the-, up on the screen, which is really cool, but when you get to the, uh, the Hubbell stuff, that\u2019s-, that\u2019s really what I\u2019m kind of\u2026what I\u2019m interested in\u2026is knowing, you know, what is the resolution\u2026what is that? A 4K, uh, resolution from Hubbell?<\/p>\n<p>And, also, something that I was kinda curious about is did you-, did you enhance, uh, any of that footage, because it seems like, uh, time lapse to me? Uh, is-, is there some animation that goes into that, or some time lapse,, on part of, \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 NASA\u2019s actual capturing of-, of that, of all of those, , galaxies? , it just-, it just seems like animated\u2026it-, to me it looks like animation it\u2019s so good.<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, I mean, it\u2019s actually, well, as with any of the images that are produced from, , either \u2026some of the ground-based, on data collectors and space based telescopes, like Hubbell\u2026there was actually a number of satellites that are utilized. Some of them are-, were put up, uh, by, uh, Japan, and they are just focusing on looking at the corona of the sun, alone. And that\u2019s what they do 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>And,a lot of that information comes back as data, as opposed to images and it has to be, um, uh, processed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m curious about that. Like, how would you-, how would you turn data into animation?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s something that they add-, that the Department of Astrophysics, that\u2019s where the,\u00a0 NASA and all these, uh, um, scientific organizations, , institutions, that\u2019s what they do.<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s a little bit beyond me-, beyond me. But what happens, there are-, the movie, uh, that\u2019s created has, uh, both-, it\u2019s based on stills, as well as, uh, video footage that\u2019s created from-, from the instruments<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0 So this is looped to-, it lasts on screen longer, but, you know, all the-, all, I mean everything that we see, whether it\u2019s from-, from-, from the Mars probes,\u00a0 or any of the telescopes, have-, had a certain amount of processing to make it so it makes sense to us.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, obviously, there\u2019s-, there\u2019s images that are snapped, that are just photos, but just like in your digital camera, it\u2019s zeros and ones that have to be re-in, you know, reprocessed so they look like images to us. But, I don\u2019t-, I\u2019m not clear about whether,\u00a0 that\u2019s actual animation created. I think it\u2019s mostly looping, and piecing together, uh, the, uh, the information that\u2019s\u2026whether it\u2019s images or moving pictures-, moving-, video, that\u2019s-, it\u2019s pieced together.<\/p>\n<p>And the work of the filmmaker, that\u2019s what\u2019s it\u2019s about, is about getting the timing right, getting the-, the energy right to co-in-, it to-, to work with the Kojiki, the actual musical piece, which was created before in-, the film was.<\/p>\n<p>Howard: Clearly the Big Bang stuff was not captured on video at that time<\/p>\n<p>Michael:: Correct.<\/p>\n<p>Howard: projection going back billions-, yeah, billions of years, or whatever it is. But, this-, that\u2019s simulation. So that\u2019s-, that\u2019s a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Frank:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And-, and that\u2019s being simulated\u2026uh, uh, who-, who are you getting the footage from, actual\u2026? I know that there\u2019s probably\u2026it ripples through some of the agencies, including NASA and who knows who else, but who do you directly get those images from?<\/p>\n<p>Howard:the film was created by-,\u00a0 the director of the-,\u00a0 observatories at the-, at\u00a0 Kyona University.<\/p>\n<p>He created the film, and-, and as it gets into my hands, I\u2019m the producer-, I\u2019m the production manager, and I oversee putting the show on, uh, in each city. Uh, we-, we were given the content as a complete film which is very similar to the one that you-, you can purchase, , on Blu-ray disk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: Okay, so-, so you\u2019re getting, uh, like, 4K\u2026is it 4K resolution?<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0\u00a0 the max Blu Ray is. We don\u2019t-, we don\u2019t step it up beyond what the highest resolution of Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I see.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0\u00a0 Some of \u2018em are higher res than others, as you can see, but\u00a0 those images are-, are blocked off on the, ah, outside because the, um, uh, the resolution\u2019s not as high on some of them<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: So really-, these are kind of man-made renderings of what the interpretation of the data is coming back at, and it\u2019s interpreted by one of the science, uh, groups that you\u2019re working with in order to-, to actually bring it into a visual medium?<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0 Some of them are, and some of them are-, are more direct-, are more, uh, just, direct, uh, uh, uh, imagines that-, that were provided. But, yes. Some of their-,\u00a0 the animation of the things that, uh, the Big Bang, and other-, and some of the interspersed, uh, images\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yes, deep space images<\/p>\n<p>Howard :\u2026but,\u00a0 it\u2019s a mixture of, , interpretation and actual real footage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Because a lot of that stuff is moving and ah, and I was sorta wondering, like, \u201cWell, if it\u2019s moving, there\u2019s no way that you could get a time lapse of, you know\u2026it probably takes centuries or millenniums to, uh, to actually, you know, do a time lapse of that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0 Well, I know that there\u2019s at least one of those, and it says it on the-, in the film, there\u2019s one of those, uh, uh, satellites that\u2019s looking at the\u00a0 it doesn\u2019t do-, it does it for, like I said, every day, all day, for years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: Oh, wow. That\u2019s cool. That\u2019s cool. Yeah, that\u2019s really great, so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Yeah,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u2026just another-, another interesting thing, uh, and, uh, this probably comes down to the way that you\u2019re,\u00a0 working with those visuals., I noticed that, like, Kitaro is playing a lot of this music live, which is probably written music, and probably right down to the-, right down to the bar and beat. So, it\u2019s timed according to his playing, but it is live. He\u2019s playing live. So there is a little bit of, probably, some improv, or there might be a little bit of, uh, time difference between, uh, uh, the visuals and what he is playing.<\/p>\n<p>So , what I\u2019m getting at is how\u2026I notice that there\u2019s a lot of transitional,\u00a0 moments where,\u00a0 you know, you\u2019ll be in a galaxy and you\u2019ll be spinning and then Kitaro will just bring the music down, and there will be a pause, and then the next section will start.<\/p>\n<p>Are you actually, in real time, editing this, or\u2026how are you synchronizing these visuals so perfectly with what Kitaro\u2019s doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Wilson Producer Kitaro&#8217;s KOJIKI &amp; THE UNIVERSE 2017\u00a0 world tour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the film, as it\u2019s available commercially, has the complete mix in it, and that\u2019s, um, uh, uh, prod-, a produced piece, and obviously the timing doesn\u2019t change. For the purposes of the performance, we have\u2026basically we took the-, a very-, all\u00a0 the same material, and we created a\u2026it\u2019s called a minus mix, so we\u2019ve removed some of the key parts that Kitaro played, as well as some key parts that, , our violinist plays, and-some other,\u00a0 parts in it that, uh, our second keyboardist plays, and everything else is the same. So there\u2019s a basic-, there\u2019s a basic levels, uh, um, uh, music, uh, that\u2019s attached to the video that doesn\u2019t change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: Oh, I see. So, let-, let me just interject really quickly. So, um, you\u2019re actually playing back, uh, tracks that-, that-, that-, that are record-, pre-recorded correctly.\u00a0 I &#8216;m right with that?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: You\u2019ve pre-recorded some music so that the-, all the musicians are, basically, cued to the pre-recorded music and they play along to that. Is that right?<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Correct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: Very good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eddie-Sung-1024x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1256\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eddie-Sung-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eddie-Sung-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eddie-Sung-1024x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eddie-Sung-1024x1024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eddie-Sung-1024x1024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eddie-Sung-1024x1024-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael: Correct. But-, but Kitaro\u2019s , signature melodies,\u00a0 as well as the, , signature melodies played by other musicians\u2026those are played live, and there is a certain, within the framework of the timing of the film, there is opportunity for some improvisation, uh, but, uh, in-, not necessarily improve, like, uh, you know, that-, that you might be familiar with, like a jazz improve, but there\u2019s-, there\u2019s-, to take into account, , emotions in the moment, and the relationship between the musicians on stage, which is also very important to Kitaro. It\u2019s that-, there\u2019s that intimate musical relationship, so there\u2019s a little bit of room in there, but as far as timing goes, once the films starts, they better stay on time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: I get it. I get it. So, really, there\u2019s no editing , or switching, or fading on your side, on the visual side. You push a button and it starts playing, both the visuals that are slaved with some of the parts of the music that cue the-, the live players to be in-sync with everything.<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Exactly. \u2026we don\u2019t have a drummer on stage,\u00a0 we don\u2019t-, there\u2019s not a-, there\u2019s not really a drum-, there\u2019s no drum kit, but, yes, it says if we\u2019re playing, with, a backing band that\u2019s been pre-recorded. Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:Yeah, that\u2019s really cool. So, that\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 if you were to play the track-, if you were to play the track without the live performance, it would not make sense. It\u2019s incomplete without the live performance, and that\u2019s sort of important to know\u2026that there\u2019s, um, you know, a fairly high percentage of live content that\u2019s in the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yes. And- it\u2019s really kind of shredded down to a basic, maybe, one instrument of some sort just in order to cue, uh, everybody with the visual effects, uh, and-, and then-, then they know exactly where to come in. And if they give-, if they\u2019re off a little bit, they gotta make sure that they catch up with the pre-recorded, uh, instrument that\u2019s being played.<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Yes, and on stage, you know, Kitaro\u2019s our-, leader, so they-, they are not watching the film, they\u2019re-, they\u2019re,\u00a0 connecting with Kitaro onstage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: He\u2019s conducting. I notice he\u2019s conducting a lot of that material.<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Yes, , that\u2019s-, that\u2019s been, as has always been his way, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 getting to the technical, uh, parts of the show, what kind of projectors are you using for, uh, for this?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 They\u2019re-, fairly standard commercial projectors. We\u2019ve got a Chri-, a 7000 lumen Christie projector that we\u2019ll be traveling with on this West Coast run. If, uh, the venue has, uh, an appropriate projector, uh, for their room that\u2019s, uh, strong enough to give us the-, the-, the large image and the resolution that we want, then we\u2019ll use that one, but we\u2019ll be traveling with a-, a 7000 lumen Christie projector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kitaro-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1255\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kitaro-2017-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kitaro-2017-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kitaro-2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kitaro-2017-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kitaro-2017-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kitaro-2017.jpg 1811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: can you tell us a little bit about your background? I\u2019m just kinda interested in knowing, uh, how you-, how you kind of evolved your career in being able to do something, like, so interesting like this.<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Well, I\u2019ve been involved with my business\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0 Before Michael answers that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 Go ahead, Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0 I want to qualify it. The mask imagery is not projected, it is hung, and<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Yeah, and there actually have<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: Oh, really. The mask, uh, so that\u2019s a real mask?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 It\u2019s a paint-, it\u2019s a real-, it\u2019s a physical\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Howard: It\u2019s a painting.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2026um, hanging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: I get it. And is there any\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael: It\u2019s not actually a mask; it\u2019s a painting of a mask.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 is it lit at all?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 It\u2019s-, it\u2019s lit enough so we can see it. Yes, obviously. It\u2019s a<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 mask, so the back-, back- background\u2026 back-, background.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0\u00a0 The mask is that the dancer\u2019s still well lit and the mask is. That\u2019s pretty much what you get in the first stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Are you back light-, lighting it, or is it lit from the front?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 No, it\u2019s lit from the front.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: I see. Okay, cool.<\/p>\n<p>Howard: And now please return to that question, but I just wanted to make sure that you were aware that we weren\u2019t projecting the mask.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 So, um, uh, Michael, are you-, are you out of the film industry, or the music video? I mean, what-, what is your background?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 I\u2019m in the music-, I\u2019m in the music industry. I\u2019ve been a sound engineer, uh, for 26 years, and, uh, and as, with everybody in the business, your career is\u00a0 and you-, you accumulate more skills and-, and also tasks, so, um, I\u2019ve been Kitaro\u2019s production manager, overseeing sound, stage, lights, crew, uh, uh, logistics and things, for, um, uh, almost 9 years now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/banner250x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1257\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/banner250x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/banner250x400.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/banner250x400-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: Oh, that\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 So are-, are you also mixing the sound, or you have a sound mix\u2026what are you doing? Uh, are you actually, uh, are you on a headset directing, or are you actually hands-on?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 actually, this tour will be the first tour in nine years that I\u2019m not-, I\u2019m not mixing. Um, I\u2019m gonna be just working, uh, making the arrangements from home. Uh, but, typically, I, uh, historically I\u2019ve been a sound mixing, sound engineer, so\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: I too have mixed sound as a engineer and performer<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0 we are all on radios, we coordinate timing, uh, Kitaro usually looks at somebody with just a, an-, a look on the eye, and that\u2019s when it\u2019s time to start\u2026uh, hit \u2018play\u2019 so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>And the timing\u2026we work out the timing to where there\u2019s not, doesn\u2019t need to be a whole lot of conversation about-, about things, uh, but we have, uh, the crew has radios and we can talk to each other about certain things that need to happen, or if there\u2019s issues that popup. But, it\u2019s-, it\u2019s, uh, it\u2019s-, we\u2019ve got it kinda coordinated to where once it goes, it\u2019s, you know, we\u2019re-, we\u2019re in the live situation, and Kitaro\u2019s gonna be, uh, directing.<\/p>\n<p>And, usually the things that, uh, cause us to change course, or make decisions, have to do with technical glitches, to say if they come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 So you took the-, the-, this material that you got form Hubbell, uh, and you-, you edited it. How did you-, how-, look, can you-, can you tell me a little bit about the editing process? Did you use Premiere? Did you use Avid? Uh, what-, what were the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 Actually\u00a0 I cannot tell you about the editing process, because it was not-, we did not-, I did not edit it. It was, um, I believe that was the Professor\u00a0 uh, from Kita-, [phonetic] Kyoto University that did it. So, we were presented with-, I was present-, you know, Kitaro is-, is a-, colleague of Kitaro\u2019s so we-, they were obviously in communication, uh, because he\u2019s edited it, um, to coordinate specifically, with a piece of work, a piece of music that Kitaro\u2019s created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank:\u00a0<\/strong> Oh, good, so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael: I get it at the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: So, interesting\u2026 Kitaro\u2026these are-, these are pieces that Kitaro has-, he\u2019s already written this music, not necessarily for the visual effects? He just wrote\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 Visual, edited it&#8230;yes, the visuals were edited to coordinate with-, with, uh, Kojiki. You know, Kojiki is, uh, um, is a Japanese myth about the origin of the universe, so there\u2019s a certain storyline that is older than all of us\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, very old soul<\/p>\n<p>Michael: you know. It\u2019s one of the oldest myths of creation that-, that we know of, uh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael: \u2026that\u2019s,\u00a0 ingrained in people, uh, that grew up with it, so\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: Oh, that\u2019s really cool. So-, so Kitaro actually, uh, collaborated, let\u2019s say. Uh, did he see the visual effects, uh, before he started writing the music, or did he write the music and then the artist came along and actually, uh, put the visuals to his music?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a little bit of back and forth. The music was, uh, uh, an album that was, uh, created by, you know, created by Kitaro, and then when the film-, when the film came out, which was based on each of the-, each of the songs, to the tracks that Kitaro made, uh, they, uh, made a new mix based on some, uh, using, uh, elements of live performance with a-, with an orchestra\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank: <\/strong>Yes, Live is best<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 \u2026for the, uh, for the commercial release, so you see-, you hear elements of music that was performed since-, at, you know, uh, since the, uh, the original album was created, and that\u2019s how they created their minus mix.<\/p>\n<p>We multi-track recorded a number of the performances over the last couple of years, and-, and during those performances of all of Kitaro\u2019s work, there were songs from the Kojiki album, and those are the ones that they wrote down and created this minus-mix for the live performance, but they also used that to create the, uh, the sound track for the commercially available film.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0 This record was originally-, this record was originally recorded in 1990 at Sky Ranch at, uh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael:So the album\u00a0 has been around for quite awhile, and, uh, you know\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Howard\u2026I know 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Michael:You mean the undertaking to coordinate the music-, with the-, the images with the music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 So-,\u00a0 he came out with this album in 1990, and then-, and then, um, he\u2019s probably come out with other albums that passed that, right?<\/p>\n<p>Howard: Well, Kitaro\u2019s got, you know, 40-plus albums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 So he took a look at -, the work that he did in 1990, which this artist from-, from NASA, or whoever the, uh, the render of the material, then he-, the artist put together an edit to his music from 1990, and then Kitaro went back in, and did he actually re-mix it, or did he recompose-, did he actually re-record music specifically\u00a0 for this tour?<\/p>\n<p>Michael: That&#8217;s very interest-, that\u2019s a very good question. It\u2019s a little bit of chicken, and what came first\u2026chicken or the egg? So, I\u2019m not sure, I think that the-, the album was an inspiration for Professor, and then once he started working, compiling images, I\u2019m sure there was a little bit of coordination what-, to how-, how to make it work. I\u2019m not sure if there was.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0\u00a0 They\u00a0 collaborated in that process, Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 The final edit,\u00a0 you know, it needs to be massaged the-, timing-wise with the music, so-, so it required, working together very closely on that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 It\u2019s really nice work. I really enjoyed it. And,\u00a0 I look forward to seeing you guys in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:If you wanted information that you can add, it\u2019s Kitaro\u2019s had 24 studio records, 8 live records, 14 soundtracks to films that he\u2019s compels to, and 42 compilation records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wow. That\u2019s really amazing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Has he been nominated\u2026.?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Has he been nominated for anything?<\/p>\n<p>Howard; Sixteen Grammys. He\u2019s won a Grammy, and he won a Golden Globenfor <em>Heaven and Earth<\/em>, the Oliver Stone film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, very nice. Very nice. Okay. Uh, that\u2019s really great. So, where are you-, where are you guys playing in Los Angeles?<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0\u00a0 Michael, you got it, or you want me [indecipherable] [00:27:20]?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 Yeah, we\u2019re playing at, uh, Emmanuel Presbyterian on Wilshire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank: <\/strong>And what day is that?<\/p>\n<p>Michael: That\u2019s the 17<sup>th<\/sup>. of November.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:It\u2019s Saturday, the-, Friday the 17<sup>th<\/sup>. And San Diego, at the Garfield Theater, [indecipherable] [00:27:38] Garfield Theater on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> , and then we go to San Francisco and we\u2019re playing in Grace Cathedral on the 18<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s really good.<\/p>\n<p>Howard:\u00a0 On the 19<sup>th<\/sup> we\u2019re in Healdsburg at the Raven, and we end the tour after Thanksgiving in Seattle, and Portland, Portland and Seattle on November 30<sup>th<\/sup> and on December 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He chose to be most of these West Coast venues in 8] sacred place. They\u2019re-, like this church,\u00a0 in LA\u2019s beautiful live] you see it about 8 to 10 times a year for special concerts, and, of course, the Grace in San Francisco has a long, uh, magical musical history, along with everything else that\u2019s happened at Grace Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>And our last day in Seattle is in a gorgeous room called the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. It\u2019s a 1200 seating\u2019 room that\u2019s state-of-the-art. It just does everything from major speakers to music presentations, We\u2019re very excited about what we\u2019ll be able to accomplish in that room as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>:\u00a0 if you wouldn\u2019t mind, when I come to see you guys in LA, if I could, uh, maybe, get a, , on-video interviews with you guys. Are you gonna be in Los Angeles?<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about<\/p>\n<p>Howard: Michael won\u2019t be. I will be, but we\u2019re hoping to-, , from my conversation with you and Gayle to see if we can get a couple Kitaro with you, , previous to this.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re gonna be in San Diego on the 14<sup>th<\/sup>, Michael? Is that when we\u2019re gonna get down there?<\/p>\n<p>Michael: San Diego\u2026we\u2019ll arrive the evening of the 14<sup>th<\/sup>, and then<\/p>\n<p>Michael:\u00a0 the team will be rehearsing all day.<\/p>\n<p>Howard: rehearsing, yeah, and then a day of dress rehearsing. And there are gonna be some interviews on those two days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank<\/strong>: I would like to thank Howard Sapper\u00a0 and Michael Wilson\u00a0 for there insight and time, look forward to the concert in Los Angeles November 17th<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domomusicgroup.com\/kitaro\/\">https:\/\/www.domomusicgroup.com\/kitaro\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"><b><span lang=\"EN\">Kitaro\u2019s Magnificent Music and Film Production \u201cKojiki and the Universe\u201d Tour Comes to California and the Pacific Northwest<\/span><\/b><b><u><span lang=\"EN\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/u><\/b><b><u><\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN\">Combining The Live Music Of<i> <\/i>Kitaro<i> <\/i>With A Visually Moving Astronomical Experience<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\">\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0Kitaro brings a totally unique audio\/visual experience to California with his upcoming <i>\u201cKojiki and The Universe\u201d<\/i> tour beginning November 16 and culminating December 1, 2017.\u00a0 Tour stops include San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Healdsburg, Portland and Seattle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoBodyText\"><span lang=\"EN\">Presenting\u00a0a totally unique visual experience, the presentation of <i>\u201cKojiki and The Universe\u201d<\/i> merges Kitaro\u2019s <\/span>music for the show (his most notable songs as well as songs from <i>\u201cKojiki\u201d, <\/i>his 1990 Grammy Nominated album) with <span lang=\"EN\">dynamic space-age photographic scenes of the Universe.\u00a0The awesome visuals feature\u00a0time-lapse images, expertly intertwined with real-time films provided by, and in cooperation with, NASA and Kyoto University.\u00a0 Watch the <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">tour trailer <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/UniverseTour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> (Here:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/UniverseTour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/UniverseTour<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN\">\u201cKojiki and The Universe\u201d<\/span><\/i> <span lang=\"EN\">was created by Kitaro in collaboration with Astronomy\u00a0Professor Kazunari Shibata.\u00a0 The entire production of Kojiki and the Universe was developed using modern\u00a0film editing techniques, as well as state-of-the-art hardware and software.\u00a0\u00a0In Japanese mythology, Kojiki is a story closely related to evolution of the universe. It describes the origin of Heaven, Earth and the creation of the Gods.\u00a0Utilizing\u00a0Kitaro\u2019s\u00a0album as the soundtrack, \u201cKojiki and The Universe\u201d is a\u00a0chronicle of astronomical research as well as a\u00a0beautiful introduction to modern astronomy for everyone.\u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\">Here\u2019s an example of one of the scenes<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2z3bw3x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2z3bw3x<\/a>) from the show.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">All California tour dates include the KITARO VIP EXPERIENCE ticket purchase option which provides guests with Gold<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Circle seating; an intimate, in-person post-concert reception with Kitaro, a personally autographed copy of his<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/KitaroDVD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cKojiki And The Universe\u201d DVD<\/a><\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\"> (<\/span><b><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/KitaroDVD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/KitaroDVD<\/a>)<\/b><b> <\/b><span lang=\"EN\">as well as his most recent CD album release, <i>\u201cSacred<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN\">Journey Of Ku-Kai Volume 5\u201d<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\"> and a tour poster. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Having received Grammy nominations for volumes 1-4, <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">\u201c<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/KitaroNewAlbum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai Volume 5<\/a><\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN\"> (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/KitaroNewAlbum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/KitaroNewAlbum<\/a>) <span lang=\"EN\">is presented by Kitaro\u2019s long-time label, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domomusicgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Domo Music Group<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.domomusicgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.domomusicgroup.com\/<\/a>). \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">The Ku-Kai series concept arose after the global events on the fateful day of September 11, 2001. Kitaro was traveling on a jet from Japan to Los Angeles when the transcontinental flight was diverted to Hawaii for 5 days due to the tragedy. It was during this time of disbelief and uncertainty that Kitaro envisioned the Ku-Kai series as a means of uniting the world through music embracing his frequently referenced universal message of peace.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">The Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai series is an earthly voyage that transports the listener to the eighty-eight sacred temples located on Shikoku Island in Japan, ancestral home of the beloved Buddhist holy man Ku-kai. The music, which pays homage to the true to life excursion made over 1100 years ago on Shikoku Island endures to this day. Each track on the album revolves around the unique bell sound from the individual temples, using actual sampling and Kitaro\u2019s inspired musical interpretations and distillations of their essences.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><b><u><span lang=\"EN\">2017 CA Tour Dates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Venue\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Link to Tickets<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv3757234466MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Thursday, Nov. 16\u00a0\u00a0 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