Discover Top Posts Tagged with #joji yuasa

Joji Yuasa

Nadja VII

#joji yuasa #experimental music #ambient

Joji Yuasa

- Music for "A Poet's Life" (Piano: Aki Takahashi)

1974

#joji yuasa #aki takahashi #高橋アキ #湯浅譲二 #川本喜八郎 #a poet's life #詩人の生涯 #kihachiro kawamoto #shijin no shôgai #shijin no shogai #1974 #animation #japanese film #modern music

Joji Yuasa

- Triplicity For Contrabass

1970

Contrabass: Masahiko Tanaka

This work is realized by a single performer superimposed over the recording of two other double bass parts. The “live” player produces a series of sound effects on a small set of percussions and the score per se is not exactly pictorial but rather uses graphic notation with some parts being improvised by the performer. Because the time framework and method of performance are indicated in great detail, there are very few elements of the piece that would completely differ between one performer and another. As for the method of performance, the player not only draws the bow across the strings but hits the body of the instrument following precise indications from the score, both in terms of where on the double bass he has to hit and whether he uses the tip of the finger, a fingernail or the palm of his hand. He plays the tam tams with the bow and towards the end of the piece, he has to, “Make a brief statement about something in which [he/she] is very much interested in today. [He/she has to] phrase it as a question and play each syllable of the words.” In this work, Yuasa hints again at Zen thought: "According to Suzuki (Daisetsu), Zen is thinking of acquiring seeing and hearing consciousness but one has to liberate oneself from every prejudice, of one’s deformed lenses, and look at things with the virgin eyes of a newborn baby. For that reason, I treated the double bass differently introducing new, unused techniques of sound production on the request of an American player [Donald Palma], adopting many performance aspects and largely leaving aside traditional ones."

Luciana Galliano - The Music of Joji Yuasa (2012)

#joji yuasa #湯浅譲二 #modern music #experimental music #masahiko tanaka #田中雅彦 #Triplicity For Contrabass #double bass