Workshop
by Satoko Inoue & Yuji Itoh
In this project, Satoko Inoue and Yuji Itoh have commissioned 21 Japanese composers to write a piece on the condition that they use extended piano techniques, and organized three-days concert for performing all 21 pieces.
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Program A
January 17 2021,
Ryogoku-Monten Hall, Tokyo
KINOSHITA Masamichi : song of anonymous Ⅲ
Ten Goto : forest of things
Takahiro Kuroda : Fragment for prepared piano
Satoshi Tanaka : Silent Pulse
Toshiya Watanabe : Crossing Gazes Ⅱ
Mari Takano : Marginal for prepared piano and SuperCollider
(SuperCollider: Mari Takano electronics: Hideaki Isobe)
Fumio Tamura : flower
Piano: Satoko Inoue (works of Kuroda, Tanaka, Watanabe, Tamura)
Akiko Fujita（works of KINOSHITA, Goto, Takano
Program B
January 23 2021
Ryogoku-Monten Hall, Tokyo
Tetsuya Yamamoto : Couleurs suspendues
Motoharu Kawashima : Vibra-pfone
Sachiyo Tsurumi : SUMO HANON Vol.2
Masanobu Shinoda : ATONALUMORI for Piano and 3 players
Taizo Hida : of rain
Yohan Kim : a embodied “piano” for 1 piano and 3 voices
Hiroyuki Yamamoto : Canon of Relativity
Piano: Satoko Inoue (works of T.Yamamoto, Shinoda, Hida, Kim)
Shizuka Kuretani (works of Kawashima, Tsurumi, Shinoda, Kim, H.Yamamoto)
Masanobu Shinoda (works of Shinoda, Kim)
Program C
January 24 2021
Ryogoku-Monten Hall, Tokyo
Haruyuki Suzuki : Rebound
Kazuo Nakano : Invisible
Akira Ito : Exercices de Style pour Piano
Yoshifumi Tanaka : attack, decay, resonance for piano
Takeo Hoshiya : Platycodon
Yuka Shibuya : Found Overtone
Yuji Itoh : The forest of Echo ～ for piano with simultaneous
"preparation" and 3 small speakers
Piano: Satoko Inoue (works of Nakano, Ito, Hoshiya, Shibuya, Itoh)
Masanobu Shinoda (works of Suzuki, Nakano, Tanaka)
This three years project is managed by Yuji Itoh(composer), Satoko Inoue(pianist), Susumu Syono(musicologist) and Yaeko Kurosaki(director of Ryogoku-Monten Hall.)
In Japan, there are very few halls in where the pianist can play – for example – John Cage’s “Sonata and Interlude” with its preparation without refusing by the hall (piano) manager.
In such a situation, Yaeko Kurosaki who is the director of Ryogoku-Monten Hall, a rare hall that the pianist can play with extended piano technics including “preparation” through the long years ’contribution by the pianist Satoko Inoue, gathered above 3 members and started this three years project supported by Arts Council Tokyo.
Co-operating by the composer, pianist, musicologist and the hall director, we’ll try to researching the situation of the hall in Japan, researching the musical works with extended piano technics for making its archive, making the workshop series for understanding the extended piano technics, making symposium and finally we’ll try to make the new protocol around the performance of extended piano technics and managing the piano, that can be shared by all the person in musical scene.
In this project, “nothing but music”(Yuji Itoh and Satoko Inoue) is mainly in charge of the workshop series.
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