The two works on this album, “Drop E” and “descending”, are instrumental works with electronics objectively, but they did not intended to playing in a concert in the first place. The idea of writing several scores for the solo instrument for recording only, recording them, and using recordings to make electro-acoustic pieces has probably been around for a few years.
It should noted that this work conceived from the beginning as a “recording art” rather than a reproduction of already existing musical work. Just as a photograph is not a painting and a play is not a film, this is something different from the music played in a concert, even though it based on instrumental music. For example, the physical modelling of a piano is not a pastiche of real piano, but must be set up to be hard to apply to a real piano. Free from the constraints of live performance, the concept gained more freedom.
Takumi Ikeda, composition & electronics
Tomoki Tai, violoncello* & viola da gamba**
