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The Idea Behind Pairing a Bookbinding Workshop with the Live Show
This live show doubled as the launch of an archive book capturing the Contact album tour. Rather than showcasing a collection of completed books, the venue featured a makeshift bookbinding workshop where participants could create their own books before and after the performance.
The archive book played a key role in the journey leading up to this live event. Katsunobu Yoshida of Yoshikatsu Seisakusho — the studio behind the book’s production — is a collector, designer, and printer based in Oe Town, Yamagata. Kakudo first connected with Yoshikatsu Seisakusho through a corporate prototyping project*, and decided to partner with them to create new merchandise for the Contact tour. In October 2024, she spent time at their studio in Oe Town during a production retreat to work on these goods. This collaboration with Yoshikatsu Seisakusho and the ties to Yamagata naturally evolved into the creation of the archive book, leading up to the Contact × Yamagata event.
Yoshikatsu Seisakusho participated in Kokuyo’s Yokoku Institute project called “GRASP: Prototyping a ‘Collective Research Method’,” producing the animation Digest The World: Another Organ, with sound direction and music by Kakudo.
Running just a little behind schedule, the five musicians took the stage once again. The live show began with “i o e o,” the same song they had rehearsed earlier. The delicate plucking of guitar, upright bass, and cello pizzicato slowly filled the Gijō Hall, gradually immersing the space in the world of Contact.
