MUSICAL WORKS

KOBAYASHI Yota

2006

Reminiscence

Birth Y: 1980 Birth C: JAPAN Gender: Male

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: Tape

Duration: 05:15

Instruments: 2 channels fixed media

Publisher: Cache 2006 (http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/pep_011/)

Media: http://www.electrocd.com/en/oeuvres/select/?id=20787

Prog. notes: As opposed to the real soundscape that surrounds us, Reminiscence articulates the soundscape residing in my memory. I recalled experiences from a job in a huge warehouse where I could constantly hear sounds of machinery in neighbouring factories. Even the smallest sounds, however, were audible inside of the large reverberant warehouse. After the other workers went home, I was not only intimidated by the emptiness that juxtaposes the overwhelming machinery sounds but also always entertained, as if I were the protagonist of the soundscape. The soundscape in my memory has been transformed into a distorted “imaginary landscape” over the years. Here I used sound objects that directly refer to the real world but used an acousmatic approach to make anonymous sounds suggest the soundscape while leaving the syntax of the composition mimicking the real world.

Reception: http://cec.sonus.ca/jttp/2006/

Editor: M.B.

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