A march for a brass band
The work took second place in the wind music department of Sasagawa prize, 1985
A peace for mixed chorus with words by Hiroshi Kawasaki
The work won the third place of the chorus music department of Sasagawa prize, 1988
The work won the prize of 14th International Competition of electroacustic, analogic and digital music, 1993.
Comment:
We, moderns, lose ourselves in our busy modern life.
We wish to recover our native selves.
Who take this wish in advance of us are persons who are called "psychosis",
I think, because they are free from common ideas and common senses and
carry their self-realization out through the freedom. That is, because
they are not infected with social derangement and keep their individuality,
they return to human nativeness. In this way, the paradox, that mental
derangement goes to normalcy, holds good. Behavior as their own rhythm
may give us primitive human pleasant sensation.
The whole work is monophonic to give expression to simplicity.
It is performed on a synthesizer, controlled by a computer through
MIDI. Each pitch of each tone is controlled on a cent (1/100 semitone).
It is apparently complicated, but according to essence of human, the uncertainty
of pitch is natural, because a man can never sing a tone on same pitch
again.
Computer: | EPSON PC-286LE |
Adapter from computer to MIDI: | Musical Plan RS-232C MIDI OUT Adapter |
Synthesizer: | YAMAHA SY77 |
Computer program: | Composer's own work on Turbo C++ |
A Suite for mixed chorus and a piano with words by Osamu Yazawa.
Won the first prize of general field of chorus suite department of public contest for composition on poetries of Osamu Yazawa, 1995.
Gave the first public performance on November 3, 1996 at Main Hall of ARCADIA Culture Hall Mitsuke, Mitsuke, Niigata, by Arcadia Mixed Chorus, accompanied on piano by Yoko Kaneko, conducted by Yosuke Funabashi