shakuhachi

• “Many wore head coverings to be anonymous -- the Japanese concept of ma or nothingness -- and they began to play the "non-music" of shakuhachi, which is filled with so much nothingness.”

  Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute

• “Later, the 1926 film "A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeiji)," is conjured from the distant history of Japanese silent cinema, with a live score performed by the chamber quintet Ensemble N_JP, featuring shakuhachi master Akikazu Nakamura.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Cinematic Diet Loaded With Preservatives

• “The film's otherworldly shakuhachi score sets a tone that is jarred by shocking eruptions of violence.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Cinematic Diet Loaded With Preservatives

• “The single set — three white cubes flanked by a pair of shadow screens — minimal props and costumes, and Ms. McCagg's eerie white masks presented a nearly blank slate, lightly decorated with spare brush strokes: a modified flute that evoked the Japanese shakuhachi; a haunting, six-string fretted acoustic bass guitar that sounded variously like a koto or an oud; a sighing harmonium; intermittent percussion.”

  The Wall Street Journal: He Crosses Borders

• “A recent gathering featured James Nyoraku Schlefer, a noted shakuhachi grand master -- which means he plays the Japanese bamboo flute.”

  Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute

• “During the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), the traditional shakuhachi music was banned and the flute itself was demoted from a spiritual tool to a mere musical instrument.”

  Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute

• “The traditional music for shakuhachi, known as honkyoku, has been the music of Zen meditation for over 1,000 years.”

  Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute

• “He is one of three shakuhachi teachers in New York City and is also the artistic director for Kyo Shin An Arts in Brooklyn.”

  Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute

• “The playing of the shakuhachi is said to inspire a Zen state of self-awareness and spiritual enlightenment.”

  Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Forty-One

• “Her musician father, who played the shakuhachi, or bamboo flute, was her musical muse.”

  Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Forty-One

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