Online Symposium Meta-Xenakis Global Symposium Japan-leg
October 1, 2022 8:00 – 16:00 in Japan Time UTC 23:00 previous day – 7:00
hosted by Meta-Xenakis Japan Team at Nagoya City University
Session 1 Moderator: MIZUNO, Mikako SHIMAZU, Takehito – The future of creation and education seen through“UPIC” SQUIBBS, Ron – Xenakis’s Free Stochastic Music Program as an Aid to Analysis Presentation HIGASHIKAWA, Ai – Construction of Sound Synthesis and the Notion of Timbre in the Electroacoustic Music of Pierre Boulez in the 1950s
Session 2 Moderator: KAKINUMA, Toshie MIZUNO, Mikako – Hibiki-Hana-Ma and Japanese team for Tekkhokan TAKAKU, Satoru – Stimulating the Janus — Iannis Xenakis, Japanese composers and architects MIYAMOTO, Yasuko & MIZUNO, Mikako – Xenakis in Japan — productive performances and text reception
Session 3 Moderator: TAKAKU, Satoru SUZUKI, Yoshihisa – report of the UPISketch Workshop in Japan ZANNOS, Iannis & IKEDA, Takumi – Live Coding Games: Extending lannis Xenakis’s Musical Game Strategies IKEDA, Takumi & ZANNOS, Iannis – Phoenix and Albatross: A Telematic Live Coding performance based on Xenakis Musical Strategy Compositions
Session 4 Moderator: MATSUMIYA, Keita LIEBERMANN, David J. – Listening to Architecture FURUKAWA, Kiyoshi + FUJII, Haruyuki + HAMANO, Takayuki – “ARCHITECTURE DREAMS MUSIC”
Tracklist
1-3. Delimiter (2021) for piano
4. Duo (2021) for guitar and piano, with video-score
5. Canon (2021) for guitar, with video-score with embedded soundtrack
6-8. Trio (2021) with video-score
2021年5月24日、Ftarriにて録音
録音・マスタリング・装画・作文:池田拓実
Design and translation by Cathy Fishman
This CD documents a series of works that I call “Musical Procedure.” In composers’ usual works, the sounds to be performed are written in a score; but in these pieces the procedures (which could also be called programs, algorithms or specification sheets) for shaping music, such as performance methods and the general ideas of the works, are written as concisely as possible, and the type of sound to be produced is left largely to the performers.
The score is merely an arrangement of tools for creating music, and the musicians are always the subjects who produce the music. They are expected not just to execute what is written down, but to use what is written to create their own music. The result can be likened to an ants’ nest or a beehive constructed in a procedural way without a blueprint.
Fumi Endo: uplight piano
Kokichi Yanagisawa: electric guitar
Takumi Ikeda: electric percussion, drain hose, etc.
All compositions by Takumi Ikeda
Recorded at Ftarri without an audience, May 24, 2021
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Takumi Ikeda
Artwork and notes by Takumi Ikeda
Design and translation by Cathy Fishman
ftarricl-663 (Ftarri Classical)
Released February 27, 2022