Yosuke Yamashita Plays Burning Piano

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Apr 2 2008 Published in: Art Tags: , , ,

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On March 8, pianist Yosuke Yamashita wearing fireproof suit recreated an old performance by playing an improvised jazz piece on a burning piano. He played for 10 minutes until the flame kill the piano.

Yosuke Yamashita was reproducing the performance he did for a short film by Japanese director Kiyoshi Awazu in 1973.