ヒュー・ホッパー＆ユミ・ハラ・コークウェル幻の2008年日本ツアー限定DVD-R「Live in London」99枚限定、ナンバー入り。
2007年11月のデビューライブと2008年2月のイースト・ロンドン大学でのデモ演奏を収録。ＨＵＭＩのスリリングな即興演奏画像をお楽しみ下さい。ＰＡＬですので日本ではコンピューターでご覧下さい。日本国内住所向け送込み2000円
Geoff Leigh & Yumi Hara with Chris Cutler and John Greaves at the Avantgarde Festival, Schiphorst, Germany, 30 August 2009, described by Jean-Herve Peron as Not Henry Cow.
Geoff Leigh & Yumi Hara 'Five Pine Trees of Seki', at Drones Club at The others, London, 15 May 2009
Geoff Leigh & Yumi Hara 'At the Temple Gate (Drones Version)', at Drones Club at The others, London, 15 May 2009
Yumi Hara Cawkwell 'Hopeful Impressions of Happiness' at The 100 Club, London, Dec 2008
Live at the Union Chapel, London, 13 March 2007. 'I Talk to the Wind', semi-improvised performance based on King Crimson's track from 'In the Court of the Crimson King', written by Ian McDonald & Peter Sinfield. I accompanied myself on the organ.
'The Shape of a Haze (Egasumi)'
HUMI at Club Integral, 1 Nov 2007
'Wind That Divides the Wild Field (Nowaki)'
Hugh Hopper & Yumi Hara Cawkwell at Club Integral, 1 Nov 2007
Yumi Hara Cawkwell studied medicine in Japan and practised as a psychiatrist for eight years before moving to the UK in 1993. In 1999, she graduated in music from City University in London with a first-class honours degree, and has completed her PhD in composition at City University under Rhian Samuel in 2005.
She has received a number of awards including a prize in the Continuum Ensemble Improvisation Competition, Sculpted Sound competition and the British Medical Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology Fanfare Competition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. She has been nominated as a finalist for the British Composer Awards 2006 in solo and duo category.
Her music has been performed by, among others, PianoCircus, Ensemble Bash, OKEANOS, Jane Chapman, Kate Ryder, Michael Bonaventure and Trio Japan in concerts and festivals in the UK and Japan. She has led voice improvisation workshops for the Yokohama Boys and Girls Chorus at the ISCM World Music Days in 2001.
She regularly gives improvised performances as a solo vocalist (with electronics), is active as a DJ, and since 1996, has been a member of the performance-art girlband Frank Chickens. She is Lecturer in Music at University of East London.
Yumi also enjoys taking pictures and videos. Please see Yumi MySpace at www.myspace.com/yumimyspace for pictures.
Please click on Steve Howe Trio and Steve Howe in My Friends section: the main picture of Steve Howe Trio is taken by Yumi as well as all live pictures and videos. The first picture in the slide show in Steve Howe MySpace is also hers. They appear in www.stevehowe.com too.
Also there are three live shots by Yumi at Chris Braide's (The Producers) MySpace.
Current projects as performer:
Geoff Leigh & Yumi Hara (Geoff Leigh: flute, sax, voice, electronics, Yumi Hara: voice, keys)
Album 'Upstream' out now from MOONJUNE
作曲家、キーボード奏者、ヴォーカリスト、インプロヴァイザー、イースト・ロンドン大学講師。2006年英国作曲家賞ファイナリスト。2008年ジャズステーションポール、キーボード部門第4位。筑波大学卒業後、精神科医として勤務の後、1993年に英国に渡る。1999年、ロンドンのシティ大学音楽学部を首席で卒業（アコースティックおよびエレクトロアコースティック作曲、演奏（ピアノ）、民族音楽等を学んだ後、同大学院にてリアン・サミュエルに師事、作曲の博士号を取得。 DNA 構造解明50周年記念ファンファーレ作曲コンペティション1位をはじめとして、受賞多数。作品はこれまで英国と日本を中心に、ピアノ・サーカスなど英国を代表するコンテンポラリー・アンサンブルによって演奏されている。「ISCM 世界音楽の日々2001横浜大会・日本現代音楽協会新世紀音楽祭こどもみらい 2001」における横浜少年少女合唱団との声による即興ワークショップ、ロンドンの少年犯罪更正センターでのミュージック・テクノロジー・ワークショップ、音楽におけるアイデンティティー、竹田の子守唄、イタコの口頭伝承についての学会発表を行うなどその活動は多岐にわたる。2007年9月、愛知県主催の国際芸術祭シンポジウムにパネラーとして招聘された。ジェフ・リー（元ヘンリー・カウ）との新ＣＤアルバム「Ｕｐｓｔｒｅａｍ（遡行）」が今夏リリースされ、6-7月には日本ツアーを行う。エキストラとして、ダ・ヴィンチ・コードなど、映画、コマーシャルに多数出演。マクドナルドの紙コップ、紙袋のモデルとしておなじみ。
www.yumiharacawkwell.co.uk
www.myspace.com/yumiharacawkwell
Hello there! We appreciate your playing a lot, both solo and in collaborations. ThanX For Your Friendship addition. We wish you wonderful kraut-punkish vibes Shimmering Mah No 1 – New release for free download at Clinical Archives and Internet Archive Go and get it Love & Space JP http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=joxfield%20projex
Yumi_san thanks so much for your friendship again.. It was so fantasitic time at Ekoda live show in Tokyo... hope you are doing well... and great & creative life... please take care....again...
Just saw the sad news about Hugh, and posted a little blog aiming our friends to the Wikipedia article about him. Best wishes to you and to Hugh's family & friends!
