Entrevistas

1. The origin of name Kishi Bashi

2. His Shin-Issei parents

3. On being Japanese and American

4. On his songfilm Omoiyari

5. The reason for creating the songflim Omoiyari

6. On music

Bashi,Kishi

(n. 1975) Músico y compositor

On being Japanese and American

I speak Japanese and I go to Japan a lot so I kind of identify both as Japanese and then American and I’m still trying to figure out this, what it is to be Japanese American.

I definitely see myself as different, cause my upbringing is different than west coast Japanese Americans, but there’s a commonality in that, like the history really affects me, probably in a very similar way.

I never felt…either I masked it very well, in that whatever prejudices were around me, but I had friends and I…since I played music, music is a very kind of colorblind art form I think. So…a lot of art is.

identidad japoneses japonés-americanos música

Fecha: August 21, 2018

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Sharon Yamato

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Kaoru Ishibashi, quien se presenta como Kishi Bashi, es un músico y compositor, nacido en Seattle, Washington que creció en Norfolk, Virginia. Asistió al Berklee College of Music y se convirtió en un reconocido violinista.

Su proyecto fílmico, Omoiyari (Empatía), lo llevó a lugares tales como Manzanar, Tule Lake, al Museo Nacional Japonés Americano y a Japón para aprender sobre los japoneses americanos y sobre la historia japonesa de la Segunda Guerra. Omoiyari explora cómo la empatía, y la falta de ella, ha jugado un rol crucial en la búsqueda moderna por la igualdad social. (Marzo 2019)