Video: Burning piano performance
19 Mar 2008
On March 8, pianist Yosuke Yamashita donned a fireproof suit and played a burning piano on a beach in Ishikawa prefecture. The improvised jazz performance went for about 10 minutes until the flames rendered the piano silent. This video shows a few excerpts.
Yamashita’s performance was a reenactment of a similar one he gave in 1973, which was made into a short film by Japanese director Kiyoshi Awazu. You can see the complete 1973 performance on Awazu’s website.
[Source: Sankei]
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the picture is quite amazing but the video lacks of an “final explosion” ;-)
the only thing that comes to mind is…why would he do that XD
kinda funny stuff :)
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Does he realize that if he’d turned the little grand upwind, he could have played longer….
Great Balls of Fire! Where is Jerry Lee Lewis when we need him?!? (Jerry Lee woulda skipped the suit, natch).
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Like the song from the Blood Brothers - “Burn Piano Island”!!
That is … weird ;)
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What a complete waste of good wood and materials…:( I think its a load of crap doing such a stupid meaningless thing. He could have made someone very happy with that piano. Like me for instance.
I do not like this man at all.
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Ahhh, what an artist.
See, if people like that suddenly disappeared, the world would miss nothing.
I’m not sure what the point of having him to play a burning piano ? just material wasting….
I hate seeing instruments being destroyed. The chances are this guy is just a not very good pianist and he wishes he could be as good as the top pianists so to try and get more publicity he does shit stunts like this. Wanker. He should just give up. Only the best can make it as a professional pianist and he isn’t one of them.
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