Coda is a musical term for the a motif marking the end of a movement or piece. It is an appropriate name for a documentary on the late musician Ryuichi Sakamoto who had connections to Portland Art presenters and culturalists.
"Within the first few minutes of Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Sakamoto plays a decayed piano drowned by the 3.11 tsunami; wide helicopter takes show burgeoning activist movements demanding the denuclearization of Japan and the world; and a live rendition of Sakamoto’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is shown – his solemn, frenetic plea for the end of war and violence. Coda delivers a quiet biography of Sakamoto’s eclectic career, interwoven with footage of the birth of his 2017 record async, and serves as an elegiac meditation on the asynchronicity of modern society with nature, the sublimity of sound, and Sakamoto’s own mortality after being diagnosed with cancer."
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