MUSICAL WORKS

KOBAYASHI Yota

2009

Kakusei

Birth Y: 1980 Birth C: JAPAN Gender: Male

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: Tape

Duration: 12:08

Instruments: 6 channels fixed media

Media: http://www.programsounds.net/kakusei.html

Prog. notes: Kakusei (Japanese for "Awakening") is an acousmatic rendering of a dream, and the self-realizations that follow from the act of awakening. The dream world consists of two primary settings: the first is associated with aspects of ritual, with recurring horn-calls announcing new, fragmented states; the second setting is subaquatic, with traces of the ritual horns now submerged and distorted. At this point there is a noticeable reduction of event density, and the events themselves become viscous, moving with dream-like slowness. Through this darkness emerge the beginnings of self-realization, which gradually strengthen by way of an extended crescendo that finally culminates with a sudden snap back to consciousness - or perhaps it is merely another hallway to yet another dream....

Editor: M.B.

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