te to te – hand and hand
„Te“ is hand in Japanese.
Except when I am playing the piano, I don’t normally observe the movement of my hands and fingers. For this video I made various different choreographies of my hands.
If you start paying attention to each finger, you can see it as if it has its own “personality”.
Play – my “pianist’s” hands perform on screen without music.
Makiko Nishikaze is based in Berlin, Germany.
Makiko Nishikaze
b.1968 in Wakayama, Japan.
Composer, Pianist, Media Artist, Performer. Based in Berlin.
She studied composition in Japan, California and Berlin and is currently a lecturor at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Faculty of Media. Though her background is music, some of her video works do not have sound, in order to persue the theme „Can we hear with our eyes?“