Pakkyōne é um boneco vestido com roupas esfarrapadas, alfinetes de segurança e farrapos encontrados numa pequena casa de campo abandonada. Não é capaz de falar, mas expressa-se numa linguagem estranha, feita de grafemas sonoros e inclinações de cabeça. As suas cordas vocais, cosidas com fio e folhas de hortelã embebidas em resina, raspam o ar e frequentemente ficam obstruídas.

A partir de uma árvore oca, esculpiu uma cítara perfurada e montou estranhos quinquilharias batendo pedra, cobre e chumbo fundido. Construído sem rosto nem olhos, por vezes usa máscaras de várias formas para observar o mundo e evitar tropeçar.

Pakkyōne é uma obra torta de Valerio Mirone, fazedor de ruído e cantor.

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pakkyōne is a puppet dressed with tattered clothing, safety pins and rags found in a small abandoned farmhouse. It is not capable of talking but speaks an odd language, made of sound graphemes and head tilts. His vocal cords, stitched together with twine and resin-soaked mint leaves, scrape the air and often become engulfed. From a hollow tree he carved a perforated zither and assembled bizarre knick-knacks by beating stone, copper and molten lead. Built without face and eyes, it sometimes borrows masks of various shapes in order to observe the world and avoid tripping.

Pakkyōne is a crooked work by Valerio Mirone, noisemaker and singer.

Valerio Mirone – Multi-instrumentalist and scholar of throat singing and overtone singing, in the past he has performed as an actor and a composer for the Teatro del Baglio di Villafrati (Italy), for which he recorded a triple album dedicated to the novel “Horcynus Orca” by sicilian master novelist Stefano d’Arrigo; Japanese language teacher in high schools, member of Lelio Giannetto’s Contemporary Sounds Unity ensemble, and external collaborator at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo and Curva Minore cultural association for contemporary music. Currently works as a translator, musician and performer: Utveggi (Italian prog-rock band with 4 albums and a tour in Japan), pakkyōne (an album and a European tour in 2023), Monogatari and Wadi Ensemble of the Merz Foundation are some of the projects he’s part of.